Ebay is a community of buyers and seller but, more importantly, sellers who are buyers, and vice versa.
When sales slump, so do purchases.
Whenever possible, I like to use the balance of my paypal account from selling to assist in purchasing so as to disrupt my other finances as little as possible. It should also be noted that now payapl is accepted more places so my purchases are spread thinner with different merchants whereas they once were almost always ebay-related merchants.
But this is a slow time of year in general, I find. Valentines Day is over and Easter is still mostly about chocolate and not expensive gift-giving, to my mind. Sales will ramp up again in summer.
Plus, stores are getting new stock both online and brick-and-mortar so it really is a good time of year to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE and go shop places. And postage in the USA was recently increased so that is a tough pill to swallow for some people.
And then there is also the general consumer behaviour when things seem uncertain due to low oil prices here, and political turmoil south of the border. When all the news seems bad, it makes people want to hold on to their hard-earned dough, not splurge.
Unless it's LEGO. We could be starving here and I'd probably still be buying it for the kids. And myself. My retirement plans include living in a van built of LEGO down by the river.
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