Very Strange Sales since last Week?

[bare_bright]

Has anything Changed on eBay.ca Site? Normally 95% of my sales are to the USA and For the last 7 or More Days it's the other way around?

Did I block out us Buyers somehow? All I know it's very very Slow, is anybody else having this probling lately?

Anyhelp would be Welcome:)

[tea_past_times]

Yeah Girl Power!!!!

Wait, I'm a man. But you know, selling china for a living, most of the people I deal with are women. One of the fringe benefits I guess.(For me) Much better than being a proctologist I think!!

-PHIL

[ameroindustries]

Rockyeb220:
Making stuff hardly pays your competing against China and India . Better to get them to make it for you . Unless you like to work for little / no pay 😄

[bare_bright]

Think it all depends on what one will make, I was looking at these small RC aircraft parts and there selling like crazy & at a great price yet, I can Spin those of on the lathe no problem, all i need is the specs, so I was Planning on ordering a few parts and machine them myself, am I missing something? sure looks good to me anyway:)

even with the crazy Shipping fees from China I can easlly make nice profit and Ship at a normal cost!

[canadabeltbuckles]

Sorry about that tea_past_times, (Phil), I didn't realize you were male. Funny how assumptions can get you into trouble... 😞

I have learned from this experience...

Hope I don't make the same mistake twice...

From now on, my posts will be bi-sexual, no wait, that's not right either... Oh dear...

Well, I will try and make them more 'politically correct'...

Anyhow, my sales were up yesterday, I sold two (2) items... 🙂

[westernstargifts]

it's like a big chain dept. store closed next door for you

rockyeb...That is EXACTLY what it is like. Copper bracelets aren't exactly a hot item though. And jewellery in general is not an easy market to compete in on eBay.

You have a nice day too!

Judy

[bare_bright]

I believe it, I have been looking around and it seems small machined part for rc cars, planes etc. sell a lot and at a great price, I ordered a few parts and will have the material analyzed and draw up a cad file and turn a few hundred out, and i'll take it from there!

I always felt if one can make there own product there better off, plus it would be manufactured in North America, seems these days so much comes from China and India just to name a few

[bare_bright]

I think I found the problem why nearly all my sales were canada only, b4 I always had a few listing in the USA site and had many sales from the us, I noticed all my listings now were ebay.ca only

This morning I done a listing on ebay.com and noticed a lot of hits on it.

it's possible eBay reset the search engines to each country, also noticed I have had no sales from the UK when normally get 20% from there.

Time will tell:) Time Tells All!

[dipmicro]

Rockey, would you know how to design tiny small CNC machine? I mean mechanically, I could source the steppers and design electronics into it.

I imagine it as a letter sized X-Y table where you attach a Dremmel. It must have a Z axis as well as it would be very practical to control the depth of engraving.

Just the plans to build DYI CNC sell for $28 here on eBay, the DYI kits sell for hundreeds.

I could really use something like this to add value to my services, but cannot find an out-of-box solution that would fit my budget.

Roman

[bare_bright]

Hi, Can Make anything, But to make the first one Thats where the heavy cost & Time come in, it would be a good Project but at the moment my hands are really full, I'll sure keep it in mind Though

Thanks:)

[dipmicro]

Well, it's just an idea and I blurted it out. There are already DYI machines like that already, most just come as plans.

Hell, I don't want to buy a plan, I want an IKEA style precision CNC machine, that comes in a box with tutorial and all them nice pictures, calibration procedure, user manual, whole 9 yards.

And I want this to cost few bucks - IKEA style 🙂

Well ... can you tell I am IKEA customer ? :))))

[westernstargifts]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!..........IKEA...............:-D

[bare_bright]

can you give me a link to the drawing list or a link for what exactly your looking for.

thanks

[dipmicro]

Something to give you and idea:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/29/how-to-build-your-own-cnc-machine-part-1/

http://www.sherline.com/images/5000pic.jpg

[bare_bright]

Thanks, very Interesting I'll check it out

[whoscloset]

eBay has implemented the Best Match system. I noticed last week that Canadian sellers are getting preferential placement on .ca. It could very well be that American sellers are getting the same preferential treatment on the .com site and that your items just aren't showing up on the first 5 pages of search.

I suggest you go to .com and do some checking on the search results of your keywords.

[westernstargifts]

Thanks for the info Monique. I will check it out myself on .com.

Judy