2026 - How are sales for you guys? | Selling

rdemaree · 2026-03-08T19:48:00.705000Z

So far 2026 has been a pretty bad year for sales. I am around 70% less in sales vs this time last year. I feel like it will eventually level out to be better than that but these are bad signs for things to come. If I had to guess by end of year it will be 30-50% less sales than last year, so 60-75% less sales than 2024 (a normal year under normal leaders). The tariffs got struck down by the US supreme court and the temporary tariffs trump put into place will expire in July so those are good signs but I think the damage is done. Ebay is still forcing a minimum 2% on ALL promoted listings no matter who buys them (lets not split hairs, this is what they are doing. Ebay is still keeping the misleading warning message on ALL listings going to the USA about tariffs that arent using the X3 more expensive and X3 slower EIS program. Trump is threatening the end of CUSMA (I do have doubts he will do this but optically it is a bad look for commoners). Trumps war in Iran is causing instability, worries of the future and gas prices to spike throughout the west. I lost nearly 1/3 of my sales last year vs 2024 and I predict 2026 will be even worse. As I type this I am getting close to being at risk of losing my Top-Rated Seller status and predict that by summer time I will have lost it. For clarity- I have added many new products, run a different sale every month, have better/ photos and descriptions than before, have multiple new entry level products, am ery clear and accomadating about the new tariff changes etc. I am doing everything humanly possible a business would do to shore up sales and still in the negative. Makes me wonder how bad idbe tanking if I didn't do all of the things ive done to shore up sales. I'd be 75%-90% down in sales perhaps??? Is this the end for international small business e-commerce? or at the very least the beginning of a long running decline in international small business e-commerce? How are you guys faring and what are your predictions?

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