Only a private seller of collectables which tend to be erratic at the best of times.
BUT.
Over the years I've come to recognise an annual cycle that recurs most years.
After Christmas and into New Year a bounce as people spend money gifts and money put aside for the holidays that they didn't spend.
End of Jan. into Feb. usually dead as people pay off their credit cards, winter fuel bills bite.
March to the beginning of the Summer holidays -- 'normal'
School holiday period, very few.
Schools re-open sales back to 'normal' but slowing down as Autumn leads into the run-up to Christmas and almost no sales.
So no, sales this year are worse than other years. My sales almost stopped in April, May and June, when they should be at their best and most regular. Absolutely nothing during the holiday period, when they would normally be quiet, but not non-existent.
September normally sees sales increasing, becoming regular again, but this year not one sale so far. Even on ebid I haven't had a period of four and a half months with only one sale since before Covid and the lock-downs.
I'm not hopeful that there will be any improvement this year, given that there's only about six weeks left before the run-up to Christmas gets under way and we'll be having another Austerity, tax raising budget again in October.
