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2nd-time-around-jewelry · ‎11-23-2020

I have had consistant sales since March of this year 2020. But after I was switched over to Managed Payments at the beginning of this month November, things have drastically changed. Since then I have had large gaps of no sales. Had 5 days with no sales, then a few days with sales. Now I have gone over a week with not one sale.

I have well over 1000 items listed. I regularly list some new items almost each day. I use promoted listings (1%) on my higher priced items & accept offers. I used to have lots of watchers to send offers to daily. That has dwindled too. I am slowly adding item specifics to some of my listings, even though these are just recommended & not manditory. This also should be the time of year that people do a lot of buying with Black Friday.

Has anyone else seen a big drop in sales since switching to Managed Payments? I have heard other people from the US & UK complain about it too.

widgetc · ‎11-28-2020

For me:

default Best Match but don't use it much

usually use Lowest Price plus Shipping.

auctions always About to close Auctions

sometimes buy it now newly listed to grab a bargain before it is snapped up by someone else

As for MP I sell a lot in USD and so am avoiding joining

But my neighbor who sells a lot of yard sale and junk store items used to spend most of her earnings back on eBay but since in MP no longer does because in her bank account it seems more like "real money" than it did in Paypal.

2nd-time-around-jewelry · ‎12-02-2020

That is good advice. I have been listing some new items almost every day. I have also ended older listings & relisted them as sell similar. In spite of that I just checked my performance levels & was shocked to see that it said that my active listings have dropped 14%. How is that even possible? I have also added more item specifics than previously & my listing impressions has also dropped. I've had 2 sales in over 2 weeks. Very strange.

2nd-time-around-jewelry · ‎12-04-2020

Since November 16th I have had only 3 sales. This is unheard of for me. Been listing items almost everyday. I also use promoted listings & best offers. Checked my performance level & it said my active listings have dropped by 25% & continue to drop each day despite my constant listing. What is going on? If anything my active listings percentage should be increasing.

ricarmic · ‎12-04-2020

I would call the help folks or invoke "Tyler" to look into the active listings count glitch?

As well, if it is not you (or a glitch), it could be "everyone else"....

What I do when this happens is look at:

-how crowded your category is

-how predominantly your competitors (I assume you watch some of them) come up ahead of you

-check competitors /categories to see how much they are selling

-if competitors are selling more than you, see what they are doing and try experiments with your stuff to emulate their "best practices"

-they might be putting more into their promoted listings % than you

-they might have more multi item listings than you

-other stuff....

PS although I'm in a different "world" (stamps) than you, my sales volumes, despite all my "tricks" I'm using at full blast, are back to where they were pre-covid, about half of what they were 3 weeks ago. For sure "black friday" season has traditionally been bad for me relatively speaking (I don't put anything on sale) so I'm not worrying till another couple weeks go by and I'll continue to run/list as much as I can in the meantime!