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.

[footybitz-posters]

We need private sellers to sell stuff to fund the purchases, hitting them hard by saying "we dont want you" just diverts them to another platform

[leelee1625]

You can look at that in a different way, Maybe they are finding your products cheaper as private sellers with no fees or businesses posing a private sellers with no fees are simply under cutting you? 

Or the fact The UK is in an absloute mess and everything is so expensive might be why people look and watch an item but are not committing to the purchase.

Having private sellers is fine if genuinely doing what private sellers do which is sell a few items, its not ok when eBay allows them to do 300 items per month for free 

[custom-giftsuk]

Probably a combination of all of those things as other sites are similarly struggling.