Who pulled the plug on ebay Canada?

[coolvintage2011]

I started in March this year, trying to re=learn all the rules and particularly what has changed since I last sold on ebay (2011) and I have tried to read as many blogs as possible to pick up pointers and do what is suggested; I have bought a store; I have increased my listings slowly but steadily, and I have tried hard to make my photos professional, I have bought things to improve my pics, I have worked hard on descriptions;

Several blogs suggested putting in  specific titles and arrange the items according to the category. So I did this

Several blogs suggested that ebay automatically puts in keywords, but you should look at them and try to change them, so I did that too. In fact for about the whole month of May I had almost no sales, and then I found a real mess in the key words. So I changed them too.

Here are the results;

I have had No sales at all since 19 May. (almost an entire month, and I have 83 listings.)

I have had, since I re-started in March, 10 sales, and three of them were no payment.

I really would like to know what I am doing wrong and if it is at all possible to make any money on ebay Canada?

[mcrlmn]

I've been selling for about 7 months with steady increases until mid April.

Dec '14

Jan '15

Feb '15

Mar '15

Apr '15

May '15

Jun '15

      43              44            55          100             30            23          16       

Coincidentally, I opened a basic store in mid April because I was going on vacation for the last 10 days of April and felt the best way to deal with my 100 listings was to close the store during that time.

Since May 1st sales have diminished substantially from it's previous trend.

Views are also dramatically down; though not as concerning to me,

I think traffic for my items has diminished relative to the Spring/Summer season.

I can't accept that opening a store or a short vacation has any bearing the slow sales since May 01.

This is only a hobby for me, and I so I'll ride it out.

I'm quite positive sales will improve in due course.

The increase in packaging was starting to get tedious anyway. So I'm enjoying the moment.