Ebay Sales Down

[jamcas997]

August so far is best month this year and first time since July of 2023 to be over 3k for a month.

[f2tornado]

Sure seems like sales are brisk. Raw and graded both moving nicely. My last graded Pokémon order sold out the fastest ever. About 2/3 of my sports card slabs sold within two weeks. It helps a lot were Aaron Judge. A bit of a lull now without new inventory for a while aside from random singles I find at card shows.

[rwperu34]

I just sold a big leaguer his own cards....

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by rwperu34

I just sold a big leaguer his own cards....

Thats always fun. I've done it a bunch and it always cool seeing who is snatching up their own stuff. As well as family members.

[Breesus85]

Originally Posted by rwperu34

I just sold a big leaguer his own cards....

Had this happen a few times, it’s pretty neat to know the card is going to the player.

[Bosoxfan5990]

Originally Posted by rwperu34

I just sold a big leaguer his own cards....

A couple years back I had a career minor leaguer make an offer on one of his cards and never pay

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by Bosoxfan5990

A couple years back I had a career minor leaguer make an offer on one of his cards and never pay

That's why he never made it to the show. He was only putting in partial effort. You should have pointed that out to him.

[auctionjmm]

Dante Nori has been buying his own cards and having them mailed directly to the stadium. At least he's a 1st Rd pick who has a decent chance to make the show.

[jamcas997]

Originally Posted by auctionjmm

Dante Nori has been buying his own cards and having them mailed directly to the stadium. At least he's a 1st Rd pick who has a decent chance to make the show.

Must be buying Donruss

[stlcardinals70]

That IS a cool thing! I've sold to family members several times, but just like week sold a player his own card for the first time. I first noticed the name was the same, and then that the shipping address was the Rays stadium.

Originally Posted by rwperu34

I just sold a big leaguer his own cards....

[jamcas997]

Originally Posted by jamcas997

August so far is best month this year and first time since July of 2023 to be over 3k for a month.

August is still going strong over 4k with 8 days left. August is now the highest month since March of 2023 and second highest since July 2022. It is like EBAY turned the switch back on.

[IndySportsCards]

Sales are picking up for me this month. They were way down all summer, it was a rough summer, but for some reason people are spending more money this month.

[rwperu34]

It's time for a little experiment.

Round 1: I have doubled the price on all of my cards and am offering Buy 1 Get 1 Free.

[ggxarmy]

Has anyone besides onemillioncubs been able to sell on eBay Live? They seem to be relatively difficult for approvals. I really don't want to sell on Whatnot just to get approved on eBay Live. I sold live on Facebook, but thats forever ago at this point. Its not like I am a new eBay account either, been actively selling for 24 years. So just kind of frustrating.

[rwperu34]

Originally Posted by rwperu34

It's time for a little experiment.

Round 1: I have doubled the price on all of my cards and am offering Buy 1 Get 1 Free.

Let's call this experiment a massive failure. In the first 24 hours I sold one card, a $3 card that used to be listed at $1.50. I added best offer for the second 24 hours and made zero sales with zero offers. I am back to normal now.

[mwash1983]

eBay market really going to take a hit now on cards shipped internationally with the tariff increase. Hockey market might have to have people smuggle suitcases of cards across the boarder to avoid that tariff.

[smanzari]

Originally Posted by ggxarmy

Has anyone besides onemillioncubs been able to sell on eBay Live? They seem to be relatively difficult for approvals. I really don't want to sell on Whatnot just to get approved on eBay Live. I sold live on Facebook, but thats forever ago at this point. Its not like I am a new eBay account either, been actively selling for 24 years. So just kind of frustrating.

I tried a year or so ago, when I was streaming weekly on WhatNot and was declined because I don't do social networks (personal or business)

[beauspencer]

Has anyone besides onemillioncubs been able to sell on eBay Live? They seem to be relatively difficult for approvals. I really don't want to sell on Whatnot just to get approved on eBay Live. I sold live on Facebook, but thats forever ago at this point. Its not like I am a new eBay account either, been actively selling for 24 years. So just kind of frustrating.

A little background on this. I had applied multiple times in the past. Until this past spring, eBay was not doing anything with its live platform. They essentially launched it in beta two years ago and didn't touch it.

They have spent a ton of money to improve it, with still many improvements yet to come. It's still clunky from both a buyer and seller standpoint. For that reason, they are being very selective with who gets on.

Right now they are recruiting experienced live sellers with a social media following to "kick it off." Ebay continues to onboard more sellers, and once they get the kinks worked out it will be expanded to other sellers. It's a very smart decision to handle it the way they are. It would be an absolute disaster if they just let anybody sell on the platform while the finished product isn't ready.

[rwperu34]

August was another solid month for me, selling 20.4% of my daily average listed inventory. It ended with a wimper though, with my worst week since December, 2022. September is off to a very slow start as well.

[fungi2510]

September has started off terrible for me. I think it mostly has to do with no new inventory listed. I have been averaging between 800 and 1500 a month for two years now. I will be lucky to get to $500 the way it is going. Glad I have some cards on the way.

[jamcas997]

Since 2011 my Totals. After August 2022 I was going down hill and this year looked to be another 2024, but with a few good purchases and buying low numbered sports stuff in bulk the last 6 months I have seen a nice turn around. I am slowly pressing to 4k in listings and still looking to move to Fujitsu Scanner and new laptop by December to increase my inventory.


2011 $51,442
2012 $38,287
2013 $38,757
2014 $22,654
2015 $25,755
2016 $21,230
2017 $44,654
2018 $35,235
2019 $23,836
2020 $58,003
2021 $58,040
2022 $43,867
2023 $34,510
2024 $16,807
2025 $16,731

[timber63401]

Anyone having problems getting views on your auctions. I'm a super small fry and haven't exactly bee posting 52 Mantles on there but have had more auctions end the last 6 weeks or so with 0 views then I ever have.

[jamcas997]

Originally Posted by timber63401

Anyone having problems getting views on your auctions. I'm a super small fry and haven't exactly bee posting 52 Mantles on there but have had more auctions end the last 6 weeks or so with 0 views then I ever have.

To begin with auctions SUCK and when most see and auction starting at basically a BIN Price they stay away.

I would say either list as BIN or start your auctions at 99 cents which is most of the time a losing proposition so go with a fair BIN price.

[thenightman]

Originally Posted by timber63401

Anyone having problems getting views on your auctions. I'm a super small fry and haven't exactly bee posting 52 Mantles on there but have had more auctions end the last 6 weeks or so with 0 views then I ever have.

It depends on what you're posting. What do you have up for auction?

[timber63401]

Originally Posted by thenightman

It depends on what you're posting. What do you have up for auction?

Well like I said nothing huge but I never have nothing huge. A few things that has went 7 days with 0 views in the last month. Aaron Judge Base Lot, Ohtani Base Lot, A lot of Space Jams Funko Pops, a 1972 Topps Nolan Ryan. Some went on to sell after a relisting but I feel like those type of things should get views even if they don't sell but maybe Im wrong.