No Ebay sales for over a month, very slow this year

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I'm a personal seller and I currently have twenty items listed - mainly clothes and a couple of other things.

I always list everything as Buy It Now and just let them sit there, and they sell whenever.

This time last year I was selling two or three items per month. This year, practically nothing. My last sale was six weeks ago, and the one before must've been about six weeks before that. I do get views and watchers but I think people just watch things for fun. It feels like the whole place is practically dead. I used to have best offers deactivated, but I've reintroduced it to some of my listings (with a minimum offer thing) but not received any offers.

Before anyone says it, I'm on Facebook selling groups and nothing ever sells there either. As has been mentioned before, there's a lot of discussion and questions but very little actual buying or selling going on.

I think people just like window shopping.

yeah I know, but they still suggest it every frigging time which you can't turn off! The others stuff has to be via the desktop. I used to love the app, it was quick and easy, but along with sales dwindling as OP said, the whole place is becoming a too painful to bother with for much longer.

£3 postage+99p would be 40p in Ebay fees, 56p in paypal fees. 3p profit. At least Michelle shouldn't be out of pocket by selling the bikini.

3p profit, yeah how wonderful

So what it basically boils down to is:

Buyers want something for nothing these days.

EBay increases their fees so sellers increase their prices to make up for it.

Buyers aren't interested at that price.

Ebay pressure sellers to sell at rock bottom prices with free postage.

Sellers realise they'll barely scrape a profit at those prices. For a while they won't budge, then they give up and give all the clothes to a charity shop anyway because it's not worth selling anything for 3p profit.

Charity shops, having increased their prices in recent years, then sell the items at the same prices as Ebay anyway.

I wouldn’t buy any clothes on eBay
Sales are so good these days
I got some lovely autumn dresses from outfit, which closed down at york retail outlet, monks cross
I was getting several dresses a week for £5 to £10 each
All Dorothy Perkins, top shop etc
Couldn’t go wrong..took them home to try and took them back to change sizes
I only buy specific items off eBay now. Clothes aren’t worth the hassle
Certain bags I like etc
Two of my biggest items were caravans from preloved

OMG! Would you believe I have just sold something!

I hadn't even made any changes yet - but maybe the Universe was listening

Interestingly, it was one of my most newly-added items - I think I listed it only a couple of weeks ago and it had a very low viewing count. This has made me even more interested in relisting most of my stuff very soon.

Yay! Hope this marks the start of an upward turn for you.

Nah, it's probably just a coincidence

I have sold stuff on eBay since it was US only and had a Uk account for years with 10,000 feedback. You used to have to send cash in USD to pay for items.

It is dead. I no longer buy anything as it is full of new tat and impossible to find anything. Selling is dead as well- if I list and sell anything it goes abroad.

I no longer even bother to log on and look