If my experience is typical, as described here, then I am not surprised that so many are declaring a sharp downturn in sales. I am a private seller, I sold items to fund my collecting interests, so what I made on ebay I spent on ebay. My private seller income has dried-up so my spending has dried-up including spending on business sellers. It may be only coincidence but it comes on the back of a rapid series of changes ebay introduced for private sellers and I suspect ultimately it's the BPF that has discouraged sales alongside the delayed access to funds of sales that has hampered the cash flow. It seems pretty logical that a price hike (BPF) will make items less appealing to buy and hampering access to cash will mean people feeling less able to buy.
But it may be coincidence and there will be those, as always, bucking the trend. However, it seems that initially private sellers were moaning about poor sales and now we have business sellers declaring a downturn so there must be a cause somewhere?
But don't worry - ebay won't tolerate this for long and will correct things for the benefit of themselves, which means us; our success is their success.
