Sales have dropped last 10 days - I cant figure out why and am I alone?

[eyeofrafinds]

Hi everyone,

I’m a relatively new seller with a general store on eBay. Since last Friday, my daily and weekly sales have dropped quite drastically. Traffic and impressions are down a little, but not by much. People are still viewing my listings—just not converting into sales. I run a general 2-3%, and do sales events from time to time. After fees and postage I do run on tight margins, even tho I have good relations with my supliers and some of the stock is aquired extremley cheap, but not all.  My listings are as optimized as I can make them, Im no expert but i read and learn where i can, and my prices are competitive.

I’m just wondering if other sellers are seeing the same trend, where sales suddenly go dead for no apparent reason? I own all my stock and have invested quite a lot, so it’s definitely making me a bit uneasy if this is just how things go sometimes.

[heroes-assemble-comics]

I have been on ebay for over 25 years and seasonality around Sept and Oct is usually poor for a number of reasons - customers paying off credit cards from summer hols, saving for Xmas etc. Everything is more pronounced now due to inflation, tariffs, budget expectation, you name it. Ebay have also responded very poorly to the US tariff changes from August and have failed to offer PDDP pre-paid shipping to handle the tariffs and put up banners on every UK listing to the US saying that "buyers will have to pay customs fees on this listing". This is NOT the case, as many sectors are tariff free, or selling goods that originated from the US and are free from tariffs. It also says they have to pay them to the carrier which is also NOT the case if you use Royal Mail to ship to the US.  This misleading banner is killing my business and does not apply to me but I can't even speak to anyone at ebay regarding this. Ebay need to wake up and get this resolved as it's now 2 months on and they still DON'T have a solution and have NOT openly communicated this to UK sellers. It's a disgrace! I'm looking to use other specialist platforms to get away from this mess...  

[vintage-emporium-jedburgh]

Over 25 years ago we had a vat exemption status we sold so much to the USA

With an app that had  pins showing all the locations we had sold to on a worldwide

map

today were lucky to ship to the next city

[notchrissblood]

Ebays AI wrongly flagged one of my lustings as a policy violation for "enabling infringement". Its a video game that has the word Jailbreak in the title but obviously nothing to do with enabling infringement. Still, its been flagged anyway and my sales have dropped to zero. Well done Ebay.