Since Aug 29, have you sold anything?

[musicyouneed]

Since Aug 29, have you sold anything?  I was on time away for a few days but back on now for a couple of days and nothing, no Canadian or US sales.  

How about you?

[john_koenig99]

Nada. Zero sales. And the number of views of my listings are appalling. The lowest average I've ever seen, since I started selling. 

[mrdutch1001]

Getting views on my other selling site but really and truly not expecting much until after this initial chaos passes..

[raanana]

As for most,sales are down.Not listing now anything,that might be sold to USA and require tracked packages.Will wait and see how everything works.

[montrealcycleparts]

No. I am on "vacation" boys and I plan to be for a little while.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@john_koenig99 wrote:

Nada. Zero sales. And the number of views of my listings are appalling. The lowest average I've ever seen, since I started selling. 

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My new normal since turning off US shipping Aug. 25. I Canada sale in 7 days.

Unsure when filter for Canada/USA/UK was added or if it was always there. In the past I believe traffic was combined as a total. (Note: Screenshots above are on a PC. In speaking with another seller who checked using app they are seeing Promotional Offsite traffic numbers and they have never promoted as a standard practice in any way shape or form. 

[chicweb]

Sales are slower, but what I see is the Impressions vs views.

Views are taking a hit. Impressions seems relatively the same. This is caused by the change I made for the USA and using UPS United States exclusively at the moment.

With promoted listing, I still get the Impressions but not the views (people won't click with that high of a shipping). But that's to be expected.

Still have sales tho, just less than normal, because of the loss of the USA market.

[dinomitesales]

Sales and views way down since excluding USA early last week. Randomly sold 3 items to Canadians on August 30th, but nothing since then.

Slowly updating listings to once again include USA along with increased shipping rates. Haven't really been listing much new stuff either, which is probably not helping the 'algorithm'. Kinda depressed about all this to be honest - it's hard to be productive these days.

[ae_purveyors]

Made 2 sales all of August. One to Canada with free letter post. One to the USA that I sent Canada Post on August 22 and arrived in the USA on Aug 28, but was made in the USA so no tariffs applied. I have turned off sales to the USA after eBay shut off CP - US shipping. Even my letter mail stuff because I don’t need any headaches/troubles over a $3 car air freshener.

A whole $40 in gross sales. I can pay my cell phone bill this month hehe.

[sapphyres-designer-jewellery]

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@continuum_goods_company wrote:

How are you handling the certificate of origin for all these used goods?

I tried doing some test shipping labels with chitchats, but havent had any luck getting it to be error free. 

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My items have tariffs, I tell Stallion the manufacturer and create an SKU and use that to create the shipment.

C.

[flipistics]

From August 29th through today I've had 12 sales. I'm only selling to Canada atm and only list on dot ca. That's 12 total counting the sales from all 3 stores.

[shallow_karl]

I would just like to stress, charges must be understood by Americans.

1.  Taxes.  You have to pay them and have for about five years online now.

2.  Brokerage:  ANY time you order an item, cross-border, using UPS or Fedex BASE ground shipping, you pay brokerage and it has nothing to do with duty.  It is a fixed ($15-$60 or so) charge on any shipment.  Want to avoid it?  Get the item shipped UPS or Fedex higher level shipping by AIR.  No brokerage.

3. Duties.  These have recently been added but what I've found using Zonos and CanPost/USPS is that items MADE in the U.S. being shipped back there do not incur any duties.  Duties themselves vary country to country.  BUT, not everything is dutied.  Aluminum, steel 35% or so.   Most other things?  10-15%.

[recyclagest-bruno]

I just removed all the messages about (Free shipping for the USA), it's certain that sales will drop, but at least I'll focus on other markets, too bad for the USA. We'll see what the future has in store for us.

Denis

[recyclagest-bruno]

I just removed all the messages about (Free shipping for the USA), it's certain that sales will drop, but at least I'll focus on other markets, too bad for the USA. We'll see what the future has in store for us.

Denis

[33nhl]

Some 1800 to 2000 items have no views past 3 months.
I use to sell a few cards 2 to 5 hokey cards or a set to usa buyer.
Now with not fully understanding if sports cards made in the USA buyght by USA buyer but gets shipped from Candaa if there is tarriffs involved, seems some say yes some say no and im stuck in middle with not fully knowing thus i stopped offering shipping to USA until i see it on paper that there us no tarrifs if item is made in the USA buyt dont matter if being shipped from Canada.

[raanana]

Sherp decline in sales ((.US buyers dont risk to buy from international buyers as they have message on  top of each auction page,that there are tariffs whould be added even on  tariff free items as stamps and postcards.Ebay doing really poor job now,it is a mess,they're loose a lot in revenues without international sellers.Since 29 got only one buyer from USA and few international.

[musicyouneed]

Only had 2 sales on my other ID and one on this ID all to Canada.  Other than that no views either.  This is bad.  Normally I sell about 8 to 10 per week and 50% of that to US buyers.  I'll just keep trucking along.

[byto253]

Until that banner craziness is gone, hard to see it getting a lot better.  Of course that will correspond with the EIS program.....

[rdemaree]

Only 1 thing to the USA since August 29th, 1 to Mexico and 1 to Canada.

I ship anywhere where there is money to be made. Trying to grow Canadian and International base tbh 

[easoss]

But vintage hockey cards are made in Canada and would have a tariff on them. This is a mess for sure. I'm finding more interest in local card shows for buying as online traffic hates postage charges taxes etc. At a show it's cash all the way.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:

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@john_koenig99 wrote:

Nada. Zero sales. And the number of views of my listings are appalling. The lowest average I've ever seen, since I started selling. 

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My new normal since turning off US shipping Aug. 25. I Canada sale in 7 days.

Unsure when filter for Canada/USA/UK was added or if it was always there. In the past I believe traffic was combined as a total. (Note: Screenshots above are on a PC. In speaking with another seller who checked using app they are seeing Promotional Offsite traffic numbers and they have never promoted as a standard practice in any way shape or form. 

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If someone that still sells on dot com (to USA/Canada/Intl) wouldn't mind sharing their current traffic report please. Below are my most recent reports. I turned off US shipping on August 25. In the past I saw traffic from UK. Now, no longer seeing any.  Makes one wonder how much actual traffic is dot com vs dot ca vs UK. I've had 5 Canadian sales this month. Last month was 7 US/1 German/8 Canada sales. 

For anyone else that has turned off US shipping and lists on dot ca only, have you seen a similar drop in traffic?

For anyone else that is still is still selling to the USA on ca the other contributing factor is MOST LIKELY to drop in sales is that inaccurate warning message causing sellers grief and scaring potenial buyers away. 

Canada:

USA

UK