Comments on: eBay Grew Sales 1 Percent in First Quarter 2024 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/05/01/ebay-grew-sales-1-percent-in-first-quarter-2024/ Ecommerce Industry News Thu, 02 May 2024 15:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: mazelgirl https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/05/01/ebay-grew-sales-1-percent-in-first-quarter-2024/#comment-10591 Thu, 02 May 2024 15:50:02 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=230744#comment-10591 The solution is simple — and I know that eBay monitors Ina so here goes….

Stop effing with the search functions. Channel your inner Meg Whitman and go back to listing the items in the order they are sent in.

You have no idea what a best match is. Why would you think the people you most likely pay a lot of money to mess up the search functions know more than your buyers?

I buy a lot on eBay and my last two search experiences were such a frustrating disaster that I bought the items on Walmart.com and Poshmark.

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By: mazelgirl https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/05/01/ebay-grew-sales-1-percent-in-first-quarter-2024/#comment-10590 Thu, 02 May 2024 15:42:24 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=230744#comment-10590 eBay I know you have people monitoring Ina’s columns so someone will see this. STOP messing around with search. You have no idea what the best match is for everyone–give your buyers some credit for being able to know what they want without your interference. It does NOT help–it is INTERFERENCE.

Just post things in the order they will end and let the chips fall. Do this and your and your sellers’ sales will increase.

You’ve tried and the “select sellers” you seem to push aren’t helping you grow Chanel your inner Meg Whitman and go back to the basics. Lay off the people who are messing with search and put the money into customer service.

My last two searches–and I buy a lot on eBay–were such disastrous experiences that I ended up buying the products on walmart.com. The experts who set up your search functions seem to think they know more than I do about what I’m looking for. They don’t. I can’t be alone which is why your growth is abysmal.

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By: PACE306 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/05/01/ebay-grew-sales-1-percent-in-first-quarter-2024/#comment-10589 Thu, 02 May 2024 12:41:39 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=230744#comment-10589 @none 🙂 %100000000 right!

Just imagine the late night book cooking in San Jose, needed to get to that “%1”.

The games are failing. Fix your platform, lay off another %20 of unneeded staff, lower your take, stop fighting your sellers. And that’s just for starters

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By: None Such https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/05/01/ebay-grew-sales-1-percent-in-first-quarter-2024/#comment-10588 Thu, 02 May 2024 04:15:58 +0000 https://www.ecommercebytes.com/?p=230744#comment-10588 “Our Q1 results highlight the resilience of our marketplace and business model amid persistent challenges in the global economy.”

Lipstick on a pig. Promoted listing ad revenue again saved the day, keeps the dividend plays coming. Actual sales of items, not so much. Number of buyers flat, back where it was in 2018. Alarm bells going off. Long term prospects don’t look encouraging.

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