@cumos55 wrote:
I have recently moved to Auctiva.... by necessity... my Turboilister died.
On Auctiva I have learned to put my text to the left... and my photos to the right.... in those situations where I have many photos to put in a listing....
These are two very interesting comments, 'cumos'. First, I have seen many sellers complaining about Turbolister's functionality. I had been considering switching to Turbolister from Auctiva (which I've used for many years and like very much), simply to save a little money. However, it seems this would not be a wise move, at least at this point.
I've been using the left/right layout on many of my Auctiva listings for years strictly for design purposes, but had no idea this would facilitate viewing on mobile devices. Thank you for mentioning this! I'll use it more often now.
I feel there is really little enough help from eBay in checking our listings for optimum mobile viewing that any such tips are extremely useful. I wish eBay would come up with a "mobile checker" of some sort that would allow a seller to view a proposed listing as it would be seen on a typical mobile phone device, before it gets uploaded to the site.
As for sales, all my recent changes (such as moving about a third of my listings to .com) have resulted in no positive results. In fact, sales continue to decline overall. Looking at the trend of the last few months, it's clear to me that there are extraneous influences at work.
Whether these are largely a result of eBay itself (e.g. constant site issues, glitches, freezes, etc., combined with the apparent inability of eBay to leave the site alone for any reasonable length of time), or whether there are outside factors at work (general economic slowdown, changing buying habits, plethora of other shopping sites, etc.), would take a whole army of analysts to determine.
One thing however is obvious to me: eBay's own "landing page" advertising is targeting buyers of new, mass-produced goods, particularly in tech and fashion. It stands to reason that the more big retailers there are of such products and the more eBay can attract such buyers, the fewer buyers there will be who come here looking for the unusual, unique, vintage or OOAK item. And as those buyers drop away, so do a lot of sellers of such items, meaning less variety to attract sellers, and on and on.
Having kept a close eye on U.S. competitors in a couple of categories in the vintage/OOAK realm over several years, I can say that many familiar and long-time, experienced sellers have gone. Now, selling such items feels a bit like being relegated to the back corridor of a large mall, where everybody first heads for the major retail stores.
This is not to exonerate eBay itself from the many ill-conceived, poorly thought out (and even outright stupid) policies and changes it has introduced since 2012, in a rush to satisfy its shareholders' need for quick profits. To compound the problem, in my view, through short sighted decision-making eBay practically threw away some important opportunities, which other online sites have taken up with alacrity.
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