Sales Are Too Slow Jun 2025 -

[fasyonet]

Hello everyone, how are you doing? I see many sellers are facing slow sales right now—it’s really difficult, especially when you have to pay for warehouse rent and other expenses.

In my case, I have almost 1,000 listings and only get less than 17 sales per day -  these are low value items. Before I used to get 150 sales daily, so this is a big problem.

Because of this, I am thinking of canceling my monthly subscription and keeping only 200 listings to save money.

Thank you.

[4_bathrooms]

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@fasyonet wrote:

Because of this, I am thinking of canceling my monthly subscription and keeping only 200 listings to save money.

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What shop subscription level do you have? With the number of listings you have the best/cheapest subscription level would be a featured shop subscription. You would still need a basic shop subscription even with 200 listings as without a shop subscription you pay a listing fee for every item. The number of listings where a shop subscription becomes the more economically viable option is as follows:

• Basic shop: 90 listings: 90 x 30p = £27.00
• Featured shop: 140 listings: (140 - 90) x 10p = £50 (£77 - £27 = £50)
• Anchor shop: 8,700 listings (8,700 - 1,500) x 5p = £360.00 (£437.00 - £77.00 = £360.00)

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@fasyonet wrote:

In my case, I have almost 1,000 listings and only get less than 17 sales per day -  these are low value items. Before I used to get 150 sales daily, so this is a big problem.

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This is why I don't envy business sellers who have put all their eggs in eBay's basket.

[plantsandsucculents]

It seems to me that they are trying to kill off ebay.

As a private Seller people are not going to pay the supplement and now only Simple Delivery can be chosen which makes more money for ebay and costs more for the buyer because sellers usually have better postage rates or absorb some of the postage cost.  For low value items it is unfeasible. MAYBE THE BRAINS AT EBAY WILL WORK THIS OUT EVENTUALLY BUT IN THE MEANTIME THEY WILL LOSE MANY LOYAL PRIVATE SELLERS.

[cobwebcottage]

Maybe the brains at Ebay will also work out the business seller trading on private accounts.

That would improve the seller experience and give them more confidence to buy.

[katjapedro2008]

I'm a private seller - now this new protection fee increases my price. I have sold 1 item this June, it's a joke!

Also a lot of costumers go on holiday and save for their pocket money, usually it gets better end of September bc they all spend their money on the summer holiday.

[jonatjonatjonat]

You aren't a private seller though are you? Unless you consider that mother earth has gifted you the plants and quails eggs.

[thepillenwerfer]

As a Private Seller I haven't noticed any difference to any time since I've been using e-Bay: some things sell first try, some need a few attempts and a few prove utterly worthless, or worth less than the postage.  The Buyer Protection Fee can be off-set by my selling at lower prices, ie the amount I want rather than the amount I want plus e-Bay Seller Fees.

As a Buyer the fee doesn't bother me if the total doesn't exceed what I'm happy to pay for that particular thing.

I don't buy as much from businesses on e-Bay as I used to as more companies have got there own e-commerce sites which tend to be cheaper, especially as regards postage costs.  We all know there's no such thing as "Free Postage" and buying several items from an e-Bay Seller with "Free" postage costs more than from a company who charge a fee per order.  There's also no incentive to see what else a Seller is offering that may be worth having as one is committed to paying for a delivery in any case.