How are your views/ sales faring in 2025? Predictions? | Selling

rdemaree · 2025-10-25T00:36:47.355000Z

How are your views and sales doing this year so far? I am down 24% in sales vs the same period last year and have't sold anything in 14 days now to any country. I looked at my views for months during this year and October seems to have taken what looks like a flat plateau downwards in views vs prior months. This is bad news for Q4. I wonder if this has anything to do with the EIS program and maybe ebay pushing listings down that dont want to use their EIS $99999 shipping fee program? Is ebay intentionally trying to strongarm Canadian sellers into using the EIS program by hiding our listings and putting the false advertising blue banner on our listings? Also I have taken a look at my view count for september - october last year vs this year and my viewership for those 2 months have been cut literally in half by the numbers. I made a switch from .com to .ca back in March but I dont see how that would account for that drastic of a drop in views. What makes this even more concerning is I have made and listed more products and made my listings more polished this year vs last year and I also have been running month long themed 25% off sales on select products every month of the year and still have seen a dramatic loss of views and sales both this year. There literally is no winning. June 2025 was my worst month in my entire time as a full time seller on ebay since fall 2019. I sold like $250 worth of stuff for the entire month. June is usally a mid level month for me, not amazing not terrible and it wasnt only bad it was my worst month in business ever. Things arent looking good for ecommerce in Canada. I am planning on downsizing the batch sizes of the handmade paint that I sell and also sourcing less antique art supplies in addition to probably needing to find a part time job because I dont think things are going to improve anytime soon and ebay/ canada post arent helping much it seems. Going forward I am going to anticipate that sales will be 25-40% less than normal and act accordingly. I am going to try and get my product in physical stores in Canada when time allows but finding a side hustle/ part time job looks like it will have to be the main priority for now. I initially figured by the end of this year I would be looking at 15-35% less in sales vs last year and if this slow October and recent trump rhetoric are any indicators it will likely be closer to the 35% rather than 15%. Currently sitting at 24% so it has the opportunity to swing in either direction or I guess could flatline at that but if I had to bet it ends up being 30-35% less in sales by the end of the year vs last year and next year could be 10-15% less than this year even. Hope im wrong. I feel like if CUSMA goes away sales would drop 50-75% and by that point in time this would basically be a side income and id need to seek full time employment elsewhere but hoping it doesnt get to that point. I am curious to hear how your views/ sales are doing this year vs last year and what you have done about it and what your predictions are?

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