How are people sales so far this August?

[second-to-nature]

Curious if its a specific or generalized lul.

[mrdutch1001]

a big fat 0, nadda,nothing,zippo, zilch..., but much of that may be contributed to the fact that I deleted shipping to the USA...

[flipistics]

Very slow start to the month for me, after a pretty good second half of July. A lot of the stuff I sell aren't really summer type items though.

[reallynicestamps]

August is always a poor month for sales, but this weekend was only two sales (on different accounts) and both were cancelled before payment.

Sigh.

My strong period is normally Boxing Day to March, and in 2024 that continued through to late June.

I noticed that my international sales have increased as have my domestic (Canada) sales, but my US sales are way down.

[100milehowie]

ZERO. This is a first for me. I offer an assortment of items and ship mostly to the US. This summer has been disapointing. I'm thinking that American buyers are wary of uncertain tarrifs due and Canadian buyers are exercising frugality in light of possible tough times ahead. I don't know. I find it difficult to get enthused about listing more items while I feel so  discouraged. I am wavering between quitting ebay and waiting out this inactive time.

[38e_avenue]

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@100milehowie wrote:

I'm thinking that American buyers are wary of uncertain tarrifs due and Canadian buyers are exercising frugality in light of possible tough times ahead. 

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I can't confirm your supposition. August was always slow, so is this year, too. Not better nor worse...

75% of orders go to the USA, 25% go to International/Canada - as usual. 

[silverpinups]

June through August are always slow... I had a pretty good June (over 2,000 usd in sales), July was very bad with 2 sales and August is off to a good start with 5 sales. I sent offers on 180 items at 22% off asking price that inspired those sales. 

Many collectors pull back in the summer months and focus on family and holidays. There should be a pickup later in September but I'll wait and see if TACO follows through with his de minimis threat. 

[videotimeplus]

It's been one of our better months so far this year in terms of amount of items sold, August 5 has been the only day this month with no sale. May and June were quite miserable for us though from all the tariff and CP uncertainty.