Why Are My eBay Sales so slow!? Did eBay algorithm changes cause a dip?

what's up fellow eBay sellers welcome to today's video where we're going to talk about the decrease in sales a lot of people I've been seeing this week why it's happening what's going on what we know and don't know about it and at the end I'll talk about my cells where they've been and what I'm gonna do about it so just to recap what's been going on today is Thursday the 26th of April early at last week early last calendar week some of my friends were coming out saying you know I've seen a decrease in sales and you know it's just a couple of people here and they're my sales were fine so I didn't think much about it you know that happens from time to time a decrease in sales then it goes back up but then on Friday I think it was a 20th of April in the afternoon I started to see my sales started to slow down and definitely on Saturday I saw my cells slow down even more and I started talking to a lot of people seeing the same pattern a really slow day on the 21st of April 22nd was the same thing a very slow day so a lot of us are trying to figure out what is going on here and I'll tell you what I do know I've done a lot of research on this talk to a lot of people called eBay about a hundred times asking them questions about this and so this is what I do know about the situation first thing is that I do know it's impacting all kinds of sellers I've talked to you a lot of drop shippers I've talked to people who buy stuff from thrift stores and then resell them on eBay and even some wholesalers who are all saying the same thing I'm seeing a big dip in sales since Friday night or Saturday the second thing I have noticed is that it doesn't matter if you are a top-rated seller or not eBay recently said they're making a change they're going to prioritize more top rated sellers so I thought maybe they started to do it already and start to rank those people higher but from what I've heard speaking to people who are top rate seller and actually I've scanned people's accounts who are top rated sellers and I haven't seen that their sales are doing better than mine I've seen that their sales have also gone down during time period the third thing I know is that doesn't matter what source you're listing from so I see people listing from Amazon Walmart Home Depot Kmart all of them have seen a dip in sales regardless of the source the fourth thing I've noticed is that the price doesn't matter I see people who sell their items almost at a break-even point and just get money on cash back and they're ranking on like the second or third page when there's people who have items the same items for sale with the same or similar titles for a higher price being listed on the first page and if you think about that makes absolutely no sense why would somebody with a similar title for the same product with what's more expensive they should be ranked later but these people are being ranked on the first page so really makes no sense why that's happening and it seems like price doesn't really pay too much into factor these past couple of days when traditionally it should and it always has before the fifth thing I've noticed about this past week is that feedback doesn't matter it's not discriminating against people with bad feedback or even subpar feedback myself I have very good feedback I've seen other stores that I've scan with very good feedback and they've seen dip and sales and there are people that are ranked higher than me for products that I'm selling cheaper that I have very similar if not the same title as them and their feedback is worse than mine so they should not be ranked higher than me but they are and along the same lines this new change isn't that isn't discriminating based on defects on accounts my account has no defects and yet it's still being affected by this whatever change is that's going on now I do know that eBay is making some big changes right now to their cataloguing system because they are moving into a more product catalog based system like Amazon is but that's slowly being rolled out right now it's only affecting a very few number of categories my one of the items in this categories any Amazon product like a Kindle for instance it's nothing I've checked the categories it's nothing I'm selling or a lot of other drop shippers are selling so that shouldn't be affecting us yet I would imagine I would it would make sense if down the line as they add more items to that catalog if we saw a change in sales then I would believe that's the reason for it but it doesn't make sense for it to be happening now like this some other random things I looked into is that eBay's quarter one report just came out their sales for the first

quarter everything was on track for them they didn't have any surprises it wasn't like they had a really bad first quarter and now they're trying to mix things up in order to make up for it no their sales were exactly what they expected four quarter one and the other random thing I noticed was that today they ran a flash sale and they used to not do this very often these flash sales which is basically like a site-wide sale that they have like 15% off they were used to rarely do it but they've been amping it up and doing a lot more of those and then just another one today and usually when one of those happens all of us see a huge increase in sales and today that just didn't happen which is makes it even more unusual so that's everything that I do know about the situation and based on all of that you know one of the other things is that I've called eBay several times asking them what's going on and I always get a representative who says nothing they look at my account and they blame it on one thing or another or saying that's a seasonality thing but that just can't be true I know that we can reasonably assume that this isn't just a seasonal dip because the dip happened too quickly and too suddenly if it had been a slow decline that might make sense but this happened too quickly and too suddenly to just be a seasonal just being affected by a change in seasons also most of the products I sell aren't really seasonal they're that cell all year long so it doesn't really make that doesn't really make too much sense either so based on all that we can kind of assume that eBay changed something and they're not telling us what it is and they're not even telling their representatives what it is it's something they're keeping secret for all we know they went in and they're making changes to their cataloging system and they mess something up and don't even realize it but you know this is gonna make a lot of sellers very upset because you know they've been doing eBay one way that they've been playing the game correctly for years you know eBay makes a change not really telling us what's going on we don't even know how to play the game anymore so I think it's gonna make a lot of sellers upset unless you Bay fixes it and brings things back to the way they work now there are a lot of rumors going around about what what's going on one of the rumors I heard is that on the 19th April 19th which was on a Thursday so that kind of like the day before this started happening eBay made some changes to some of their categories and that might have affected sales I don't know if that's true and I do know that some people had saw their sales being lowered before that before the 19th so I don't know if that could be true again that's just a rumor I heard I've also heard some rumors that while some well a lot of people sales have gone down some people's sales have gone way up since then now I've only heard that a friend of a friend this has happened to I haven't talked to anyone directly who has seen an increase in sales if this is happening to somebody I would love to talk to you but I completely understand if you don't want to tell us what you're doing right but I would like to at least know that some people are getting the sells obviously someone must be getting the sales because the sales have to be going to someone else and if they're not coming to us right and the last thing that I've heard is that every few years eBay just does this they make some change and it messes up the algorithm where they really try to change the you know experiment with some stuff and there's a huge dip in sales but after a couple of weeks or even a couple of days or a few days those sales go back and everything goes back to the way it was so what's happening with my account like many other people I have seen a dip in sales worse was Saturday that was the 21st I saw about a 50% dip in sales sunday was a little bit better every day is like since then overall though looking at the big picture things aren't really that bad for me I'm still making more money on eBay than I am at my full-time job and based on that it's actually pretty nice to know that even when things are at the worst they've been for me in a really long time they're still really good and it's still pretty sustainable or really sustainable for me so that I'm happy with I guess is a silver lining here so for now what I'm gonna do is nothing and that's really hard for me to do I want to take action I want to learn what's going on and experiment with different things to see if they affect my sales but I think the smarter thing to do is to wait a little bit and see if eBay you know corrects the course and brings things back to the way they were so if I

make too many changes and then eBay brings it back to the way it was then I'll have to bring I'll have to switch my store back to the way it was again I think the smarter thing is just to keep doing what I'm doing what I've been doing for over a year that's been working very consistently for me and just wait and see at least for a little bit what happens on eBay and then if in another week or so things don't change then I'm going to start experimenting to see how I can get the sales back up to where they were now of course take you guys along with me as I do that and do the experiments to let you guys know what I'm doing so we can all learn through this together and help each other figure out what's going on in eBay so if you guys have any theories of your own or any insights about why this might be happening make sure to leave them in the comments of this video I'm really eager to hear what other people have to say about it what other people are discovering how this is affecting other people's sales I would love to hear from you as well about that and if you found some value I this make sure to give the video a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you want updates on what's happening in real time as I create videos about them otherwise guys thanks so much for watching the video and I'll see you guys next time