@goodibags wrote:😁Also, I always want to know what's going on, just can't help it. Especially when they're messing with MY listings.
Everyone wants to know why something is happening, trust me, nobody hates the not knowing more than me.
I'm just trying to point out the pitfalls of latching onto a cause, because it's human nature to want to tie everything up neatly.
Like I said, the one thing that is consistent on these boards is that there's always a group of people at any given time seeing slow sales, and the temptation is always there to hunt for a cause for what's happening.
Even the OP of this post appears to have pretty much recovered to normal pre 4th sales activity.
This sort of time of year is usually a bit slow for me and last year specifically hit an awful patch, and felt like hitting a brick wall for a while, and I was desperate to find something to attribute it to. I came to the boards and saw a "sales dead january" topic and went in there and it just contributed to my feeling of doom. So much speculation and people insisting it was this or that thing ebay had done, that ebay was over etc.
But then March and April were both exceptional and new records.... and over time I've realised that there's always threads about slow sales, it's a continual and ongoing thing.
Things are a bit slower for me at the moment, too, but not quite as bad as last year and not nearly as bad as last August!
There are people saying vinted and etsy etc are going a bit slow at the moment, too. But then other people say things are going good. It's hard to reconcile such opposing viewpoints.
I'm just used to some ups and downs by now, ever since that "cassini" search engine came in, I have found sales patterns tend to be less uniform.
There's always a steady trickle, but there seems to be peaks and troughs now whereas before that the sales charts would be more uniform and steady. The end result tends to be the same, but how it gets there seems to always be changing. The enquiries have been less consistent since that time, too. I might go months and months with multiple daily messages then suddenly there will be several days with no sales OR messages but it has always changed again, so far.
It's an emotional rollercoaster, and as many times I've lived through slow scary patches, only to go on to have great spells, you still never totally get used to it, the paranoia always creeps in.
So many times I've found myself with no orders to send out, no messages coming in etc. But then other times, I curse ebay for throwing so many sales and messages at me in such a short space of time and struggle to keep up!
Past experience has taught me that things will pick up again, but it doesn't stop things getting a bit nervous and I understand the desire to know what's happening so there's something that can be worked on to fix it, but it can be a slippery slope.
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