eBay

sin-n-dex · ‎03-05-2025

So last night I purchased a store subscription and put up 14 listings on eBay.ca on the new store. Sold 4 things. One is a repeat buyer (on my dot com store), another was a regular I messaged to let her know of where listings are being put up (she's on my list of people who want to be notified when certain things are posted, I batch post stuff that interests particular customers). So that was a nice start to the new store.

My dot com store has been very quite (but in the past half hour or so a customer from Montreal who is a repeat buyer has made some purchases). From US customers, very quiet. Everyone knows I'm in Canada, it's no secret. I think people are afraid of the tariffs and there is lots of misinformation being spread around. The one guy who bid on my auctions ending Sunday (which I posted yesterday) is a tax attorney, he was asking me about tariffs, if they would affect his bidding. (I'm glad when people ask, gives me a chance to explain how I ship).

So while I have Canadian customers being in Canada and all... the US customers have been pretty quiet.

Wondered if it might be a side effect of putting the store on away made and coming back sooner than originally planned. It was set for away mode until Saturday (since I didn't know how long I'd be gone), it's possible people saw this and just went away for a bit.

C.

mrdutch1001 · ‎03-05-2025

To be honest, I don't believe it is realistic to gauge sales based on that criteria...I often put my self on "Time Away" and it rarely has any affect one way or another....

I also believe it is too soon to guage the affect of the tariff war on USA sales...

We are at a time of year, when many factors can come into play for the movement of items, and/or lack of sales..

tryubik-useonlyasdirected · ‎03-10-2025

It's been a few days since you posted, have you noticed any change in sales?

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎03-10-2025

@tryubik-useonlyasdirected wrote:
It's been a few days since you posted, have you noticed any change in sales?

It's picked up a bit since, so it was probably just a lull.

But I have noticed a distinct lack of Canadians buying from my dot com account. I have had some Canadian sales on my the eBay.Ca account I set up this past week, and they are customers from the other store (so they knew me already). I'm thinking I will be selling to the US on my dot com account, and to Canada on my dot ca account. It won't matter who's allowed to buy, this is just likely how it will work out when I look at the numbers.

C.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎03-10-2025

@sapphyres-designer-jewellery wrote:
@tryubik-useonlyasdirected wrote:
It's been a few days since you posted, have you noticed any change in sales?
It's picked up a bit since, so it was probably just a lull.

But I have noticed a distinct lack of Canadians buying from my dot com account. I have had some Canadian sales on my the eBay.Ca account I set up this past week, and they are customers from the other store (so they knew me already). I'm thinking I will be selling to the US on my dot com account, and to Canada on my dot ca account. It won't matter who's allowed to buy, this is just likely how it will work out when I look at the numbers.

C.

Oops, I kinda posted with the wrong account... I've been trying to use the other account for the forum, but it's getting complicated to be logging in and out all the time depending on whether or not I want to be in the forum, or listing stuff.

C.

38e_avenue · ‎03-10-2025

@sapphyres-designer-jewellery wrote:
Oops, I kinda posted with the wrong account... I've been trying to use the other account for the forum, but it's getting complicated to be logging in and out all the time depending on whether or not I want to be in the forum, or listing stuff.

There is a rule you should follow - every of your accounts should be associated with another browser: eg. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, AVG, Safari, etc. It's what I am doing.

tryubik-useonlyasdirected · ‎03-11-2025

This works. Also different colour containers in firefox works as well.

This lull is unusual for me, but it's not unprecedented.

Would love my Canadian customers back, they have dwindled since the eBay switch to USD on com and CA on ca. Oddly my funds were always USD and the same price comparison but now for whatever reason the Canadians come arond less. Our sales were always US heavy but it was always nice to keep it in the Country. Would love to know where they go to shop these days?

valuestore · ‎03-11-2025

My US store sales dropped by half, Canadian store sales doubled. Not sure of the cause, but the timing seems to suggest it's tariff related. Is what it is.

38e_avenue · ‎03-11-2025

My US sales are stable, but several packages are stuck at Indianapolis USPS hub since 4 weeks.

I am tired with opening a new search request every few days 😕

Every morning I hope I will get another notification like this one:

sin-n-dex · ‎03-11-2025

@38e_avenue wrote:
@sapphyres-designer-jewellery wrote:
Oops, I kinda posted with the wrong account... I've been trying to use the other account for the forum, but it's getting complicated to be logging in and out all the time depending on whether or not I want to be in the forum, or listing stuff.

There is a rule you should follow - every of your accounts should be associated with another browser: eg. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, AVG, Safari, etc. It's what I am doing.

I'm not very tech, but I do have two browsers. I set up my eBay Canada account on Edge so I can post. I want to use FireFox for doing my listings (so need to stay logged in to the account that I'm making listings on).

It wasn't a secret what the other account was, the banner for the store is the same as on the dot com site, but I added "in Canada" to the banner. Since I'm the registered owner of both accounts (and both user names are registered in Canada to me), I figured it was OK to link the accounts. So far it's all my customers on dot com (that live in Canada) that are finding my dot ca listings. I have some auctions running right now and there's three unique bidders on 45 of them right now. We'll see how it ends. I don't imagine I'll pick up too many new customers on dot.ca since it's a small niche market for a lot of what I sell, but we'll see later on.

C.

reallynicestamps · ‎03-11-2025

I thought sales were off this weekend, but when I got back from the postbox, I had more orders and I normally don't get orders on Mondays and Tuesdays.

And this is the first weekend I had no Canadian sales at all. The majority were US and one UK.

Anecdote is not data.

Any way.

The shortest period to decide if sales are normal is 30 days.

And the shortest period to decide what the rhythm of sales is would be three years.