eBay Displays Amount Seller Sold in Their eBay Store

by: lessthanthreerecords

I just noticed that today too, and I have no clue what it's referencing.  Mine says "13K Sold".  That's considerably more than I've made in the last month in dollars, but considerably less than I've made in the past year.  It's tough to believe I've sold that many items... but maybe I have, since I started selling years ago?  I don't know, I don't think it's that high even counting from day one.

Then again, just today, I saw a fee breakdown on eBay that said, "$13.84 x 100% = $4.85", so maybe math isn't their strong suit?

by: Disgruntled_Seller

Just what states and other concerns need to "easily" gather data for sales and such. Not that they can't get it anyway, but now it is right there on the billboard. Morons trying to justify their cubical space!

by: Disgruntled_Seller

Oh, and while you are at it eBay, just post my Social Security and FEI number too along with my bank account and routing number.  

by: Bob V2

The number it gives for me is very close to the total number of items I've sold since I started on eBay.

by: Smallseller

It happened to me too. Why?? It is nobody's business. I am not a better or worse seller based on the number of items or $ amount that I sold. I am not less trustworthy. Maybe I sell fewer items, but I sell at a higher price point.  

by: Buster

I agree it's the number of items sold since ithe beginning

by: COVID-19

Wait a minute! Does Amazon do this? If it does, you can bet eBay merely copied the idea.

Come on, people. You know the rule by now: What Big Bro Amazon does, little bro eBay will follow.

by: UB

It is the total number of transactions in your store since Day 1 of selling.

by: little monkey

the number shown in my store is roughly the number of items i have sold since i opened my eBay store

by: pace306

You can’t have a customers email or phone number, but eBay can DOX you for all the world to see…..

Another eBay mafioso criminal act.

by: kevindsm

Not sure why eBay felt the world needed to know how many or how much a store sold.  It reminds me of the old McDonalds signs showing x number have been served.  eBay needs to rollback this change.

by: Weirdbooks

I don't think the number is everything sold on your store.  It is everything sold starting on some unknown arbitrary date that eBay chose.  I have sold over 1500 items in the last 12 months, but this store name has been selling since Sep, 2000.   I'm pretty sure I've sold over 7K items in 21+ years.

by: Snapped

Another unannounced and unclear busywork whitewashing of window trim.  

Another meaningless ‘metric’ with at best, questionable accuracy.

Another day on the bay…

Seems that if they want to post baseball-card back stats, they could flesh it out a bit though.  Sell-thru?  Returns?  Unpaids?  INRs?  Number of coerced claim capitulations?  Most ‘geographically’ serviced?  How ‘bout by ‘type’ - auction, BIN, offer, outright theft?  

Maybe all that’s even TMI for eBay’s transparency tolerance.  

by: glassjunkie

This is definitely not dollar amount. It's items sold. What timeframe this pertains to, I have no idea...but I can with 100% certainly tell you it's not dollars. If it is, they have some serious accounting problems on their hands.

by: DTSM

Not that I like this unannounced change, but buyers have always had the ability to see your sold items through search by selecting 'Completed Items'.  It's not an invasion of privacy. It is eBay's house and they can show what your activity level is which I believe is their intent. eBay should make it clear what the number is though. They can fix the problem by adding the words 'Lifetime Items Sold' next to the number so buyers do not think this is a dollar amount.

by: Rexford

For those who were fretting about the IRS.........how easy eBay made it for them to see what you've sold.

Give to Caesar what is Caesar's anyone?   Always a good idea to pay taxes on what you earn.

by: I Must be Crazy

It looks to be the count of total items sold from day one.

Somebody somewhere at eBay must think this means something? There better be a good reason because someone spent a lot of time placing that figure there. I know for a fact there are other more pressing programming issues that could be addressed.

by: pace306

Sure “they can do what they want”, but should they?

Should they unannounced ?

Did your partner ask/tell you beforehand?

I guess sellers should put a number or so about eBay in each listing …. How much in dollars eBay has stolen from you? How many eBay execs went to jail this year? How many (fake) Vero interactions you have had?

More useless trash from the morons in San Jose

PSSST idiot eBay people - it’s Xmas time - concentrate on SALES, not garbage like this!

by: Ric

If sellers allow this to continue with our making loud and serious objections, the next thing they will add is a count of how many items the store has taken in returns..How many cancellations, etc....

Every time I read something like this about eBay, it makes me happy I stopped both buying and selling on this train wreck of a site.

by: Mighty Mouse

Our store page is now showing "items sold" and not just "sold" after the K amount.  What a big difference a missing word makes.  LOL