I QUIT Listing on eBay for 4 Months... Heres What Happened

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I Quit Listing on Ebay for 4 Months… Here’s What Happened.

I quit selling on eBay for 4 months! I didn’t list a single new item.. So:
What happened to my sales?
What did I learn?
Will I start listing on ebay again? Or Is eBay a thing of the past?

We’re going to go over those questions, and a few other things in this video, so stay tuned to the end to find out what happened when I quit ebay for 4 months..

I haven’t listed anything on my eBay store since June… What happens when you stop listing on eBay for 5 months? Do you eBay sales decrease? Do they increase? Well, I can only tell you what happened to me…

But first, let’s talk about
Why?
1. I’m currently attempting to build another business and It was imperative that I spend as much focused energy on it as I could, even if it meant my eBay sales suffered.
2. Health. I was burned out, had been dealing with some health concerns and just didn’t feel like it
3. Took some time to re-evaluate my business and see if reselling/ebay was what I wanted to continue doing. If you want a video on my thought process there, let me know in the comments.

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So, let’s get into it! But first, a couple caveats..

1. I did have a few items that were “re-listed” during that 5 months because they were returns and/or cancellations, so I did resist those. But I didn’t actually sit down and list anything new.
2. I did end & re-list 10 items in August as a test to see if it would increase my ebay sales at all…. It didn’t. All 10 are still unsold.

Ebay Account stats since I stopped listing on June 24th.
236 Active Listings
Listings as of today: 151
Sales in June - 38 - $2551.32 - ASV: $67.14
Sales in July - 22 - $1290.64 - ASV: $58.66
Sales in Aug - 10 - $555.40 - ASV: $55.54
Sales in Sept - 9 - $491.55 - ASV: $54.61
Sales in Oct - 6 - $419.69 - ASV: $69.94

Some observations
First 2 months I did absolutely nothing. Sales decreased massively, pretty obvious.

Last 2 months, I updated pricing ~once a week, and sent offers to watchers. I noticed that when I updated pricing, almost immediately I would get more watchers, indicating that just a small change would make eBay bump your listings.


What I re-discovered:
1. eBay is NOT a passive income stream, at least the way that I operate on the platform. Essentially you’re only as good as the last listing you upload, and you stop making money very shortly after you stop listing.
2. IF I intend to keep selling on eBay, I need to hire a helper and start outsourcing some of my tasks. I am the bottleneck in my business.
3. An exit strategy is a weak point for my business right now. If there were suddenly a reason that I had to walk away quickly, I would be forced to liquidate at a huge discount to get out from under all of my inventory.