Where Have All The Buyers Gone?

[thebarterersdog]

Had a buyer complain to me about all the changes eBay keeps making recently and how things aren't working on the site (as if I can do anything about them lol). Do you think this has anything to do with why sales seem to have taken a nose dive? I'm beginning to wonder if eBay has lost a lot of buyers lately. There just doesn't seem to be the traffic that used to be on the site. This has been the worse week for us here; now, is it because of the switch to Canadian $$ on .ca or just a coincidence?

[pierrelebel]

"All the more reason to switch to .com."

???

I fail to see the logic here.  Think about it.

What does eBay not advertising in Canada has to do with the site where a Canadian eBay seller lists?

[pierrelebel]

"I liked this Canada Post/eBay commercial so much I bookmarked it."

I am glad you saw and liked it.  I never did.

[lucitabby]

Yes, we could do with a few like this!!

I liked this Canada Post/eBay commercial so much I bookmarked it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjJ2dIuB2y4

[jersey..authentix]

Pierre wrote;What does eBay not advertising in Canada has to do with the site where a Canadian eBay seller lists?

Your cherry picking my post for your above statement. Below you wrote;

"eBay is an American business owned largely by Americans for the benefit of American sellers servicing the American marketplace."

Where then I responded; " all the more reason to switch to .com"

[jersey..authentix]

Well good to know other companies are doing Ebay commercials for Ebay. Still nothing to do with buyers and only to do with sellers.

[bargainbookscanada]

Never.

eBay is an American business owned largely by Americans for the benefit of American sellers servicing the American marketplace.

We all know that.  Let's accept it.

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Not completely true.  Kijiji is owned by Ebay and Kijiji is advertised quite heavily in the GTA.

Ebay does not advertise anymore because it does not want it's old model of smaller retailers selling to invidiual customers. 

[pjcdn2005]

I saw an eBay commercial on TV last night. They were talking about it on a .com board so I likely saw it on an American channel.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-P2MqSvn4k

[femmefan1946]

More than one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcAbXJh4vjk

I hate that woman. 'Business Coach'?  Would you take any advice from her?

Daddy bought her an apartment and mummy pays her credit card bills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugTFZI9bbsI

And this one is so staged!

Interesting to see that while there are very few hits, the comments have been disabled.

[jersey..authentix]

haven't seen any personally, but puts a smile on my face to see Ebay trying to interest buyers to the site. Unfortunately we are talking .com. What this does for .ca , I dont know. I have been advocating that it makes more and more sense for me anyways to switch to .com.

Listing in USD currency has shown better interest in my listings and better profit overall. Many sellers say that your listing show up is USD anyways and thats true but when you open the listing it then shows CDN currency. Not wanting to sound like a broken record but this throws some buyers into confusion. A 100 dollar USD listing shows up as $125 CDN.

I still am on the fence about the whole thing but leaning to go. Ebay Canada should just leave things as is. Go do a commercial or something.