The Sooner You Realize You Are Not In Control of Your eBay Sales The Better Off You Will Be
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- This pretty much applies to every reselling platform out there that utilizes AI, algorithms and a management approach that puts shareholders ahead of sellers (you know the one who actually build platforms). This does not apply to FCMP or Craigslist which actually shows peoples what they are searching for.
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Jeff you still speak what you feel instead of putting out excess content just to skim views for max ad revenue.
I think part of this of course is when resellers reach monetization of RUclips. It takes stress off of them when they realize they can make x amount by just making an extra live or video.
Most say they will never change but the change is always evident. I haven't noticed that with you. I'm kind of sick of most content from others.
The easiest path is not always the best way.
Keep it up! Never change.
thanks my friend. this made my evening. comments like this are fuel for me to keep going with youtube. you never change too!
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The amount of times I heard "it's your items" and I just laugh. Now I'm finally going back up and selling 60-80 a day instead of 17-30, those people have vanished.
I get a chuckle out of the Ebay apologists. I've been doing this for a long time. I sell stuff people want. When my store gets visibility, I sell a lot. But my store gets very little. Now, those stores that are doing well really need to be grateful. Ebay could switch it up anytime they feel like it. :)
preach!
I keep saying since promoted sales have been restricted! Not many people understand this but I used to have a 20% sell through rate then after promoted it went to 2% so they would rather stop growth by grifting off promoted than let the site run free from promoted and profit from final value fees from increased sales plus the growth will be there! Buyers are sellers too and eBay got rid of thousands of sellers! They used to give coupons and free listings if you remember! No now!
20yrs a seller... the last 3wks were the worst in memory.
Wow 20 years? I’m 3 years in and yes the last 3 weeks have got me borderline depressed
@@deejayaxel1860 It took a hard turn about 10yrs ago and never recovered. It doesn't make any sense.
Even though my store is larger than it was last year, my sales from 1/1/24-6/1/24 compared to last year are down 43%. Thanks Ebay.
It was before I found out that the algorithm had changed, but when I'd suddenly get a bunch of sales, I'd say to myself, "oh ebay turned on my store!" Lol
100% this is how it always was prior to the pandemic prior to even April 2023 but for me it was at least consistent the switch was turned on and then off then on then off but April 2023 SOMETHING definitely happened and the Switch control was like put in hyper drive so to say meaning they were turning it off alot more then they use to as of April 2023 so i always knew eBay controlled sales 100% meaning they controlled how many you get NOT who buys your items again you cant have items people want one day and none the next day specially with a 15-20k store its mathematically IMPOSSIBLE Unless there is 100% control
@@bennystratton7734you think I’m might be their servers are to overloaded and can’t handle it all. Could be. Strange, odd , and dumb from EBay
It's the worst I've ever seen it on the platform. That's dating back to 2007. Between the site crashes, the glitches, and slow sales what's it worth? We are in the midst of a huge downturn in the economy coupled with high credit card debt. To be honest. Summer slowdown and people are broke! It's almost like the perfect storm
I need a burner store , my flagship store been taking shots left and right from low feedback buyers ,I’m feel like I’m dealing with Walmart return customers.
that's rough. how old is your main store
So today I’m having an awesome sales day. Cha Chings all day long. I totally expect tomorrow to be slow. That isn’t normal. It’s discouraging. It’s all about visibility and how much your items get on any given day.
same. i got up to 10 sales today with 2 hrs to go. wide range of items. glad you are doing well too.
100% its always been switch on and switch off but since April 2023 it seems to me at least that ebay has turned it off more then they have left it on. so the on off thing has been going on for me the last 2 decades we use to call it rolling blackouts on the ebay forms but prior to April 2023 i could live with a few days of being off because when it was on the flood gates were open and month to month it was consistent i mean it is still consistent for me month to month but nothing like it was pre April 2023
actually i have had the best sales month i have had in a long time this May, April was pretty good too and i had 3 0 days in April and 3 in march and 2 in may i can only hope this is how summer is going to go but not holding my breath and why i really stopped sourcing since Jan i sourced for the last 10 years HARDCORE i have at least 2 full storage units of items that are my back stock i was sourcing for this point like James my great reselling life is now doing he is going through his entire back stock pulling things from storage i made the new years resolution this was the year i stop sourcing with the thought i have to source to because i need inventory i think i went out like 5 times in the last 5 months i have a huge back stock of items i took pictures of (there in folders on my PC) but just never got around to listing them (i did organize them in to my bins) so now working through those folder by folder my goal is to do one folder a week i have 50 or so folders of 1000ish pictures each item having at least 2 pictures so that is a max of 500 items per folder x about 50 folders so yea i have enough items to list for the next year so i was able to save up a lot of what i netted over the last 5 months for the summer slow down i am lucky though my wife works outside the home so its how i have been able to reinvest in inventory over the last 10 years well further back from then but hardcore the last 10 years what my wife makes pays our hosuehold bills but now that im not buying stock just listing it lol what i had planned 10 years ago is working being able to list sell package and rinse and repeat and not have to worry about going out and sourcing since i already that for the last 10 years i now can source from my folders and my storage units im serious its like treasure hunting all over again im cropping photos and i totally forgot i purchased this item or that item or im like im glad i let this sit in there for 10 years its now wroth such and such. i hope to be at 20k by dec in time for the holiday rush. i look at how crazy prices are and I'm so glad i did what i did for 10 years and i was sourcing from all avenues local non local Online you name it i was doing it and building that back stock for this very movement so i will never have to source (or need to source ill only source if i want to) ever again or at least for the next 10 to 20 years
I've had Mt ebay store for 21 years. My sales have been non existent recently
it's tough out there for sure.
Hi Jeff - I blame a LOT of this on people like The Auction Professor! They see his videos where he's telling the whole world he's buying van loads of items for literally pennies and selling the items for 25.00 - 1000.00 each so they think everyone is doing the same thing - so they figure shit, let's charge these Worthless eaters 20 - 50% in fees because they're still going to make millions of dollars!
I have found that ebay don’t care about amount of items, they put the cap in the amount of money we will receiving each Wednesday.
Nonsense. I cash out daily and it is a swing between 300-1000.
I also started getting that feeling during May. I think my sales are down 40-50% from my average month previous in the year.
Same, and my items have improved as far as quality
@@deejayaxel1860 actually, I also improved my quality and frequency of posts in May compared to previous months.
100% with you…. Exactly my thoughts first 5 min…. Listening to less and less RUclipsrs.
glad you are still here julie!
@@hayfro hanging there 🧗🏻♀️
Tomorrow I’m making my first marketplace sale! Thanks for the inspiration.
They want everything for free. No offense, but best wishes!
I disagree. some want deals. others just pay what you ask. know your items value, know your bottom line and stick to it. never be afraid to walk way. I try to take the you win some you lose some and it all averages out. creating flow in our business is so important. there is no doubt that money is tight now, not just on ecommerce but local. but that also means we should be able to source cheaper as people often need cash.
My Facebook marketplace has been blocked. It's a bug hitting 1000s of people. Be careful placing too much reliance on any platforms that don't value your business.
@@hayfro first sale complete! Thanks for all your advice. Love your channel ❤️
@@AxeMonkey558 great! I have someone on their way to buy a small painting. i love my locals.
I don't understand the odd sales bursts either. It's happening regularly to me too with just listing my personal items as an online yard sale, so thought I would share. I am either selling so much I can barely fit it in my mailbox and need to go to PO or nothing. This has repeated over and over. I don't expect lots of sales with many non-high STR rate items, but that makes the bursts of sales make even less sense. (BTW higher sales are not falling on traditional paydays either). Ebay may very well be giving items more visibility on some kind of rotation. I am noticing too, some of my older items listed at a similar time will all of a sudden start selling. Not sure if someone with a large store would be able to track this and remember like I can...This is the weirdest one from this month: Two vintage sweaters, same brand and similar styles, listed on the same day 9 months ago, just sold to two different buyers within an hour of each other. What are the odds of that?
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that is odd.
Its a terrible case of Im alright Jack...shame really where is the community in that??
GREAT VIDEO Jeff :). Keeping it Real, love it. Some very valid and on point comments made today. Stay strong my friend.
Example 1 sale/day for 3days... then 5 totally unrelated sales in 3hrs.🤷🏻♂🤷🏻♂
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I'm very familiar with this scenario. It's been like this for me for more than a year now.
I have multiple ebay stores and what I notice that if you are clothing reseller, they are not effected by ebay glitch. I sell different types of items and my clothing ebay store, I'm up 30% in sale while other stores (not clothing items) are all down (5%~35%). If you sell collectible item, I think ebay throttle those listing
I agree
Interesting I am a clothing seller and also up 30% from last year
a year ago i'd be triggered by that (mostly because I know it to be true) but now I'm like "meh" and just keep doing my thing. i'm so dreading listing the clothing that I have. one good thing is it's easy to ship.
I'm having the opposite thing with my store. I'm a clothing seller but I recently started listing a lot of my own anime items to get the clutter out of my house. And they are flying out of my store! It doesn't seem to have a cap. I guess we'll see as I've been collecting for over 15 years so I have enough of this stuff to list for months to years. For most of my anime stuff there are very few US sellers listing the same items (mainly JP sellers as competitors). So it may be different than other collectibles categories. I think having these fast selling items is boosting my clothing items too but I also ran a store category markdown sale for my clothing and that seems to be helping those. My clothing sales haven't been up that much this year, at least not more than I would expect for the amount of time I put into listing those and also sourcing more.
@@mayakoyama9130 way to go maya. thanks for sharing
FYI... It's possible to pay a PayPal invoice without having a PayPal account. You just pay with a regular credit card.
maybe, but I didn't want to make things difficult and creating a listing was the path of least resistance.
you can pay a PayPal invoice as a guest no account needed just like on ebay you can pay for an ebay item as a guest you don't need an ebay account
We all know who they are !!!!
Looks like the marketing of Maria's art on Craigslist was inspired by ebay. Your listing states $1 art but none of the art is $1. Some are hundreds of dollars.
it's because there are so many pieces it's easier to list it like that.
I'll just go make a coffee and put this on while I pack order. So I just had a sale of a bit over $800 for multiple items to one buyer. Largest sale I have had with multiple items value wise by a hundred or so.Items that had been listed for between 5 and 2 years with 2 that were listed in the last week. It's crazy , I don't know if people can see them all the time or not. Store fees also just came out. So probably a quiet week coming up.
what did you sell?
@@hayfro It was blu rays and dvds , 16 items, some limited editions, steelbooks, out of print titles, rare stuff from Mondo macabro, Vinegar syndrome ect. I stock a lot of obscure movie titles. I like to sell things that I enjoy.
yes ebay has made it almost nearly impossible for buyers to combine items into one order .....why do you ask its very simple ebays 3 pillars of revenue as they stated in multiple quarterly earnings calls to there shareholders are one Managed payments, Promoted listings and Ebay International shipping program. SO why would they limit or make it as hard as possible for buyers to combine items into on order because as you stated you sold 100 items i use to get orders like that every other day but if ebay made buyers buy those 100 items you sold separately they make .40 per transaction so what is .40 x 100 $40 what is .40 x 1 transaction of 100 items .40 see how much money ebay is losing on that sale you just got this is why EBAY has made it almost impossible for buyers to order more then one item......this is not anything new it has been like this since they took over payments from PayPal they took over payments in 2019 so they have had since 2019 to train buyers to pay for each item separately i feel this is another reason they ahve lost alot of buyers because buyers that were accustomed to being able to combine items into one order and now having to purchase each item separately and then ask sellers for a refund on the additional shipping NO buyers should NOT have to do that and its why they are leaving the site after tinkering with things i found a work around to allow my buyers to easily combine items into one order screw ebay i could care less if ebay is making $40 on 100 items sold or .40 on 100 items sold
@@stanstanley 100% those odd things are always a Sure bet eventually they will sell that is the thing the people that are all about HIGH STR are ones that have no patience to wait for the sale they are in the mindset they have to have a QUICK sale yes its nice to have quick sales but if your listing everyday and you have been donig this more then 5 or 10 years (25 full time here) its just a numbers things no matter how long the STR is if you have been listing things for 25 years things will always be selling its like a hamster wheel this is the biggest thing its how much patience you have to wait for the sale of that PARTICULAR item
ill give an example say you list 10 per day for 1 year so that is 365 x 10 which = 3650 items for the year so lets just say each item has a 1 year STR (12 month) so the items on day 1 you listed should in theory either have already sold or should sell by the first day of the next year and then the 10 you listed on the second day of the prior year should have already sold or sell by the 2nd day of the new year and so on and so on as long as your consistent in listing YOU WILL ALWAYS have items sell or close to it might have a Goose egg of a day hear or there STR has nothing to do about it its is 100% a numbers game
Hate this form eBay. Could it be their servers can’t handle it all, so they switch off and on randomly to prevent a complete site collapse. Weird why would they prevent more sales. Only thing that makes sense to me, schizophrenic site getting to me 👎🏽
Do a video about selling on hip
I literally have the same kind of bar chart pattern for my sales. It spikes up and then it's like eBay says, "okay you have had enough sales for a while. Well let some other people get some sales now." Like I said here before, eBay is a very woke company 16:29
if you are a successful RUclipsr, and cross list....its because it isn't wise to rely on one platform to resell... or make content on for that matter. Diversification is key in the modern reselling and content game :)
100% my friend, but it didn't use to be that way until this year. Obviously that's a blanket statement and some RUclips resellers were early adopters of cross listing but never has it been so apparent this year with eBay in particular.
2nd!
Sales are up 53% over last year. The key, we will see the growth in the second half against last year's great sales.
i was thinking same thing with these ebay you tubers they only care about themself and they tool for ebay -i stopped watching all them this channel and arenavision about the only ones thats real
carl over at ebaylife is good. darth thrifter is great too. very down to earth likeable guys.
I stopped watching most as well, especially the 'huge' ones lol. You basically have to figure this stuff out yourself. Watching some of these guys is like a mom- and -pop shop downtown watching videos of how Walmart operates. It makes no sense and it's just discouraging.
100% instead of not watching i have devoted my time to SPEAK out against there NONSENSE and hope to help others not listen to there Falsehoods and lies i really feel for the viewers of many of the YTers that get sucked into there alleged advice when i know as a 25 year full time reseller on both ebay and amazon and many other platforms my own website selling outside of ebay in person that the info there giving will eventually HURT there viewers who are sellers and business owners so my goal is to help stop the possible hurting of there viewers they actually can careless if there nonsense advice hurts others all they care about is views and watch time which to them = $$$$ its really disgusting
@@hayfro i watched ebay content on yt for over 20 years back in day there was a guy the ebay pirate he made great vid try looking for old vid worth a watch
First!
If Trump gets back in...then there's hope. If not, we are screwed!
Let's hope Elon buy s ebay... maybe it would get 'fixed'
Keep dreaming! if he gets anywhere near white house the world ids over was we know it! He needs to be put in the BIG HOUSE not the White house!
So if your theory is correct then if you listed brand new iphones for $50 your sales would be limited and you'd only sell a few a day. Not the case. Ebay puts eyeballs on things that sell fast and are priced right. 90 day sell though is not fast. 1 day, 2 days is fast. List items in high demand and you will sell
Ridiculous argument. So, you're saying Ebay is going to show high priced purses, shoes, smart phones and gold bars to someone looking for an antique watch. Ebay had been doing fantastic for 25 years selling these so called, lower sell-through rate items.
The only way your argument holds water is if suddenly, every collector and purveyor of goods besides high end items, stopped buying altogether.
You know it's bs and we know its bs.
@Ace-ff3cq that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying ebay is going to give traffic to items with the highest chance of converting. List items that sell through fast and items sell. The old standard of a 90 day sell through being acceptable is dead. My sell through goal is 5-7 days. 2 weeks is decent and a month for me is an old listing.
If you sell a Scooby Doo lunch box, you will get traffic from people who search “Scooby Doo lunch box.” That will not be as many people as who search “Pokémon video game.” Sell through rate doesn’t matter.
@@colewilliams767 well you are still wrong. It is eBay matching buyer intent. Not all buyers are looking for your fast sell through wonderful stuff. It is up to sellers to use keywords that match buyer intent. Period. Guessing keywords and using description words is over. Some brands will always sell faster than others. Some sellers don’t have sources for all brands. We sell what we can get.
@@colewilliams767 Try listing 5 brand new lululemon shorts all in slightly different shades of blue,...after a few days some of the shorts will get 50 views, and the others will get 0 views,....so that makes me think that they won't let you sell so many iPhones,....in fact ebay has admitted this...based on their growth responsibility program