rostaf
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posted on January 7, 2003 04:59:27 PM new
Hi,
is anyone finding the sales on eBAy really slow or what?
jeeze its like its dead..
does anyone have that link to show the number of listings on eBAy it would be worth a look?
Thanks!!
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ihula
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posted on January 7, 2003 05:15:18 PM new
Mine are slow too - I have about 200 listed and bids on about 30 items...I don't have any ending tonight, though.
Here's a link to the auction counts
http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?EIND
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lindajean
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posted on January 7, 2003 09:02:20 PM new
They were great last week for FLD day, but came to a screeching halt this week with only 5 bids on 90 items.
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lindajean
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posted on January 7, 2003 09:02:42 PM new
I still have 2 days to go so am keeping my fingers crossed.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on January 7, 2003 09:03:11 PM new
Sales on eBay are always slow for somebody. It's the law of averages.
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LuckyGiftsandTreasures
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posted on January 7, 2003 10:42:47 PM new
It will pick up next week
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rarriffle
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posted on January 8, 2003 01:21:04 AM new
glad to know it's not just my sales not getting bids....I thought maybe everyone went on vacation at one time.
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stopwhining
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posted on January 8, 2003 06:47:44 AM new
i can only speak for myself-my property tax and association fee are coming due.
aome folks have to face the cc statement from the xmas shopping spree.
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fleecies
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posted on January 8, 2003 09:13:10 AM new
One of my categories, all of my items have bids; the other is dead. Guess it just depends on the category. Now if bidders would just get over the "10% of wholesale" mentality. Sigh.
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aqmay
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posted on January 8, 2003 11:00:45 AM new
yes, mine are also slow,next month will be better but we have a 99.9 % chance we will be at war ,and a war will not help ebay; unless you sell grenade launchers...........
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stopwhining
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posted on January 8, 2003 01:44:49 PM new
how about those leftover y2k foodpacks,get those at below wholesale ??
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USMarines
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posted on January 9, 2003 06:34:40 PM new
From rostaf
is anyone finding the sales on eBAy really slow or what?
eBay appears to be slow, most of the categories I examined have few bids, the ones that have bids mostly have one or two bids.
The number of listings is still around 8.7 Million and the number of unique visitors remains around 14.5 Million with the number of visits at 64.8 Million. Click here: eBay Traffic
We all know that the listing activity is produced by sellers. Is the traffic of 64.8 Million visits, just sellers listing and checking on their listings? There seems to be a small number of active buyers or are buyers just sellers bottom fishing for good deals to restocking their inventory by buying from each other?
That is the question!
[ edited by USMarines on Jan 9, 2003 06:35 PM ]
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Damariscotta
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posted on January 10, 2003 01:32:16 PM new
For new merchandise, I don't know how ebay sellers can compete with the stores. The stores are marking down like mad to move stuff. And even then, most people walk by.
I was in Walmart the other day. Boxes of glass Christmas ornaments were clearance sale priced at .45 (box of 10 - 14 depending on size).
As I was debating whether to bother buying some (you break some each year), other people looked, then decided not to buy. I picked up one box because I figured I was wasting more than .45 of my time debating the purchase.
I can remember other years when stores were sold out of these by Christmas at 4 - 6 dollars a box!
The markdowns before Christmas were steep - and I get flyers every day in the mail promising more and more sales at the department stores. It makes me wonder just how much stuff the market can absorb.
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wwwphentensportscom
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posted on January 10, 2003 01:34:47 PM new
My sales were good early in the month, over the past few days things have slowed. I am going on Vacation next week so i am slowing closing out my auctions and not relisting so I can relax with-out eBay worries.
[ edited by wwwphentensportscom on Jan 10, 2003 01:36 PM ]
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on January 10, 2003 03:59:16 PM new
I think a lot of people are going to be kicking themselves by the end of the year for not having bought more in the post-Christmas sales.
We were in a Home Depot-type place the other day. They had lidded plastic storage boxes full of lightbulbs...and these bulb "organizers" were marked down to $5.95. I priced the components individually and came up with a total near $20. So I bought one organizer. My partner scoffed, "What do you need that for?"
We went back the next night for something else and (heh-heh) the bulb boxes had been disassembled and the individual components set out for sale at the regular prices.
"Gee," he said, "I should have gotten one too."
I'm buying stuff that I know I'll need eventually or that is quality and won't go bad from sitting in storage. Bad economic times never last.
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