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Over seventeen years selling on eBay. Over 106,000 transactions.
So far sales are more or less even (~14%) for each day of the week. On the long term average, there is no noticeable increase or decrease on weekends or holidays in the number or value of daily transactions.
@sylviebee wrote:
I find that on eBay it's feast or famine and there is no explanation for the fluctuations that I can see.
I agree. What happens this year or this month is completely different than last year or last month. Back to school September sales are terrific one year and crickets the next.
After a slow summer in 2014, I had the best October in my 9 years of selling (on both selling accounts) ... about 55 items which is a lot for me. This October, after another slow summer, my sales were the lowest ever ... again on both selling accounts (a total of 10).
Just when you think that you should start selling a different product altogether, sales pick up.
Like cumos said, I'm always looking to add relevant items, and I'm consistently reviewing titles, pictures and descriptions to make sure they are attractive, descriptive and competitively priced.
It's discouraging, I know, but that`s the sales game. Plus it doesn`t help when there are major glitches. Was it Saturday night (or Friday?), that both eBay and PayPal were non-functional. Sellers couldn't list and, more importantly, buyers couldn't purchase. It wreaked havoc on sellers who had hundreds of auctions ending in that 2 to 3 hour period.
Anyway, musicyouneed, keep your chin up! And I'll keep both of mine up 
@jt-libra wrote:I should have added that eBay is so slow today, it's actually painful.
I have three browsers open, jumping back and forth from one to another, and it's taking about 30 minutes to relist each item. The bulk editor isn't working with "system error" messages. Honestly, in the last two hours, I've managed to relist 4 items.
That's another thing that has been extremely annoying -- actually on and off for a few months now. I find eBay excruciating slow, jerky, unresponsive and really quite infuriating to try to work with at times.
This has led to me to wonder whether buyers are getting fed up too. Honestly, there are so many other online buying sites that scroll quickly and smoothly, provide better (and faster) search results, and quicker access as one clicks through to other pages.
I really can't account for the unprecedented "dead zone" I'm currently in. The summer was unusually slow, then in September I saw a sudden rush of sales. Since then there has been virtually no activity (which is extremely odd for me, since the autumn has for years been my busiest season).
I know I'm a very small store in comparison to some, but what is frustrating is that I'm listing more than twice the number of items as last year, new types of items as well, yet selling a quarter of what was the norm a year ago. If maintaining 100% FB, no defects, TRS (US & Global), offering free shipping, running discount sales, and listing more items and variety than ever isn't doing the trick, then I'm out of ideas....
"actually on and off for a few months now. I find eBay excruciating slow, jerky, unresponsive and really quite infuriating to try to work with at times. "
Somehow, I do not have any of those problems. Could the slowness be location related? Have you checked with your internet provider?
Anyone else experiencing the same problems?
"I can only conclude the problem is within eBay itself."
Frankly that conclusion is the problem
If it were correct everyone without exception would have those slowness problems. I definitely do not (I use desktop).
If it is not your computer or your operating system, the problem of slowness to specific sites can often be identified to the internet provider routers. Next time it happens, once you identify eBay is slow and other sites work fine (including your internet provider website) you should contact your provider and have them take a look at the problem.
@rose-dee wrote:
@pierrelebel wrote:
Somehow, I do not have any of those problems. Could the slowness be location related? Have you checked with your internet provider?
I doubt it's location-related. I'm semi-rural, but certainly not in a remote area. There is excellent high-speed internet service here, and I have none of these frustrating problems on other sites anyway. I've experimented with three different browsers. The issues don't change, but of them all, the problems are worst with IE.
I should add that it's not the same level of dysfunction on eBay every single day, nor is it always exactly the same problem. Occasionally there's a good run of a few days or a couple of weeks where things seem to work as they should. However there are also frequent "clumps" of days where extreme slowness and jerky function is a big issue, especially in trying to work with Selling Manager. Perhaps there's a lot of backroom work going on with SM at the moment in eBay's attempt to replace it with the new Hub come February.
My laptop is less than a year old, so I don't think I can blame the slow functioning on an antiquated computer. I can only conclude the problem is within eBay itself. There are days lately that it's been so bad I've just thrown my hands up and given up trying to work with my listings.
When I have time to go and get a snack and a fresh cup of tea, come back to my computer and find the page I'm attempting to work on still hasn't settled, there are some real problems. As I said, I have no such issues on any other site.
rose-dee, you've summed up very nicely the issues I too am experiencing and the frequency with which they occur. I use a desktop, laptop and iPad, all of which are fairly new and which I ensure are always up to date. I don't travel to strange sites 
nor do I download from sketchy or potentially harmfurl websites.
I would never contact my internet provider, MTS Allstream, as Pierre suggests, because I know the first question they would ask is -- are you having issues with any other website -- which I am not.
Sellers across this country have complained about these types of issues and these individuals are using countless different providers so, like you, I am of the belief that it's an eBay website problem.
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