Downward Trend in Sales- October 2025

[kh-567867]

Hello everyone, how are you doing?

There has been a downward trend in our sales from start of last week . We have a business account and everything has been normal up unitil last week. We are slowly going away from ebay platform due to fees structure but I find it really difficult that some days our payouts have gone to less than £10. 

We have checked everything on our account but still struggling to understand as why there is been this downward trend. 

Hope I am not missing something. 

[971397id]

ebays search not giving useful results doesn't help and to top it off, currently the app doesn't let me buy things.

also the quality of sellers has gone down hill, never had so many niggly problems or sellers just straight up lying about stock and items.

ebay is becoming a chore to use

[palletr_82]

Yet you haven't a single item listed to this account!!

[messier44000]

Yes, I keep giving replies on this same topic, but it keeps working for me.

Your type of product , unless you have done so already are ready made for you-tube videos / demos 

with a link to buy.

Just typed on you-tube "Key features of" followed by one of your lap tops have had 1000s of views.

Only takes one from 1000s to buy from you.

I know its finding time to do a quick few minutes video with a link to buy.

This weekend alone at one of my public open days, 3 of my customers said they bought from me 

after watching my YT demos. These were sales of £179, £265 and £699. That was just 2 days.

Costs nothing to try.

Oh, before any trolls through my listings looking for the above sales, you wont find them.

This is all at my face to face open days. eBay is now just for PAYG oddments 

[moonc3r432]

I've only been on ebay two years and I have definatly noticed a dip this year!! I know people aren't spending money because they want to save up. It's getting tougher selling online. I don't have a 9 to 5, this is me trying to find my feet lol 

[beano_comic_x]

My sales have halved from a couple of months ago, given I have over 9000 listings and an anchor store I'm not sure I can justify it any more, i'll wait until after Xmas to make a decision

[buy-smart-guy]

I have been considering adding videos, and even doing YouTube 'how to' style videos. 

It has been a bit crazy starting out, going from full-time to self-employed. So finding time has been difficult, mostly focused on loading as much onto my Ebay as possible. 

Hoping now to find more of a rhythm and add a bit of quality like you say. 

On the sales front. Not sure about everyone else, but had a little upturn but still down from previous months. I'm hoping with most people (in the UK) being paid either last Friday or last day of the month, and those both being on the 28th this month. AKA Black Friday, that there will be a sudden dramatic upturn for everyone. 

[wycombe1]

Sales have been dire for me. But this is not only on here as the same is happening on several other non UK sites that I sell on. It seems to a a combination of things that other posters have already enumerated in their replies. The recent postal hikes have not helped and with me Brexit makes a deeper and deeper bite into my profits as more and more overseas Post Offices start charging handling fees and VAT on small shipments to EU destinations. And Trump's tariffs have kyboshed much of the US market.

[jonatjonatjonat]

Do note that if you are buying the items you are listing in order to sell (not just having a clearout from your house) you should be on a business seller account.

Only going on this due to the fact you state you are self employed.

[mawels_87]

As a buyer I've turned to buying Click and Collect items 99% of the time. I think more and more people want this service so that items don't get delivered in the dustbin, or delivery at someone else's address. Im finding though only about one pacent of sellers on eBay have Click and Collect turned on. This limits my buying greatly. Last month I had to raze with eBay team that even though Click and Collect was turned on by some sellers it didn't work if I made an offer where payment would taken straight away if the buyer excepted. That didn't work for some weeks but now is working again. 

As I say about 99% of eBay sellers seem to have Click and Collect turned off. The strange thing is on the Vinted site 99% of sellers have Click and Collect turned on. It's now becoming a no brainer to buy from Vinted. Vinted is getting better every day, and the numbers of different categories being added are growing too.

[jonatjonatjonat]

I think you can tell, very much from this forum that the sellers on ebay are to an extent set in their ways and do not like change. 'I put a stamp on it and take it to the post office - what could be simpler?!' for example.

ebay are obviously foisting a lot of changes on sellers they don't like - so even if something positive comes along like Delivery to a Collection Point - sellers simply won't turn it on because they don't like being told what to do, or believe it will involve QR codes or needing a printer.

[mawels_87]

Sellers are losing out as Inpost Lockers are popping up all over the place. My local Click and Collect shop has fast growing numbers of parcels and packaging turning up as buyers are turning to this as a safer delivery alternative.  Vinted buyers and sellers are on the increase as buying and delivery is cheaper, and all so much simpler than eBay.  

[jonatjonatjonat]

Oh I know - but if someone just likes to stick a stamp on an envelope and take it to the post office - it doesn't matter what the buyers as a collective want...that to them is a simple delivery experience.

Vinted has sellers who are happier to go along with things like QR codes etc.

[moonlight-rhapsody]

"sellers on ebay are to an extent set in their ways and do not like change."

This charge crops up from time to time, and as ever it completely misses the point so yet again I will clarify that it is not change in itself that many people object to, it is change for the WORSE that people don't like.

[jonatjonatjonat]

Some maybe. Some just dislike any change.

collect from a locker or collection point is not possible via stamp on letter and off to the post office. As pointed out. Most Vinted sellers want to offer collection point delivery, which isn’t the case on eBay.

A reasonable percentage of the issue will be because there are sellers here that don’t want to do things differently and certainly won’t entertain any courier other than Royal Mail.

[honeymonster007]

Not sure it has anything to do stubborn sellers, with Simple Delivery Evri are the only courier that offer delivery to a collection point. 

[jonatjonatjonat]

To be fair if that is the case. Part of that is on eBay. I know on Vinted you can do InPost locker collection (for example)

though I have no issue with Evri (no more than any other courier and I include Royal Mail in that)

[mawels_87]

Vinted offer cheaper delivery if it going to a collection point. eBay doesn't.

[jonatjonatjonat]

EBay do at least sometimes.

one of my simple delivery listings states save up to 15% with click and collect.

Dont argue though that vinteds setup is better in this regard

[gjalp]

It depends on what you are selling. What I sell goes as a letter with a stamp on it. It can go in a mailbox. No way am I ever going to do click and collect with a letter. id also not send a small padded envelope via click and collect either. I did that once, it got lost at the collection point. These are small and easily lost.

[5216elisabeth]

I think one of the main things that puts sellers off Click & Collect on eBay is the lack of protection for sellers.  EBay do not now count the item as delivered until the buyer has collected it (it used to be when it was delivered to the collection point).  If something goes wrong or it gets lost at the collection point or the buyer doesn't collect it then the seller is likely to lose both the money and the item.