Fewer sales than usual?

[ragdollemma]

I've sold stuff on eBay on and off for years. In the last couple of months, quite a lot of stuff that I would have expected to sell well, just hasn't. Especially adult clothes and jewellery. Fewer offers than I'd have expected, and surprisingly low ones on quite expensive brands.

Gadgets mostly sold as quickly as usual, and toy and sports stuff went at the start of the summer.

Are other people finding this? Or buying less themselves? Is it fear about Brexit?

August is terrible time to sell! Every yr.
July only slightly better.
Unless you're selling school stuff; I sold buckets of school uniform in July.

Demand Picks up September onwards (pre Xmas) & stays high until early mid January when there is a crash in demand again.

Summer is usually slow for us although ironically we have done better than some years so I don't think there is that much Brexit effect.

Ebay are an absolute pain though for changing their systems so it is worth checking you are doing your listings according to the latest requirements so you stay up the page rankings e.g. for clothes they now want you to put in lots of specifications. Not sure whether clothes and jewellery are categories where lots of vendors take out the advert fees as this may push you down the page rankings if you do not (I refuse to advertise but may have impacted sales). The other thing is to check how your listings appear on mobile phones - ours looked awful until I realised and modified my listings - they reckon 50% of sales are through mobiles so worth getting this right.

I agree with the ups and downs being the same time each year.

I will say that I have lost patience after about 18 years of having to ask sellers for measurements of clothing and sizes of handbags which has saved me a lot of money as I simply don't bother any more, I just go to another listing or wait until there is one with a proper description.

Lazy sellers will sell a lot less than ones that bother with the listings and put measurements in, instead of ' Dress, size 12, worn once'.