Just about to lose Top Seller after I don't know how many years

I was hoping for a pick up for Christmas as I usually have but it doesn't seem to be going to happen this year. Managing to keep Top Seller but am probably going to lose the heightened listing allowance as it expires the week after Christmas which is always dead. I'm not willing/able to pay high volume listing fees so next year is really going to suck...

I think it could be a tough Christmas this year, sales seem to be down everywhere. I think a lot of people are struggling and cutting back right now. Added to the fact that Trade Me seems to be a declining platform, I think it's going to be much quieter than usual on here for a lot of sellers.

Trade Me really should do something about the sell through rate and the listing allowance. It's easy to get into a downward spiral where sales fall, your stats get worse, you have to list less, so sales falls again... and around and around it goes. It's in no-one's best interest for it to work the way it currently does.

Trade Me really should do something about the sell through rate and the listing allowance. It's easy to get into a downward spiral where sales fall, your stats get worse, you have to list less, so sales falls again... and around and around it goes. It's in no-one's best interest for it to work the way it currently does.

I appreciate that they extend Top Seller over Christmas but without also extending the listing allowance it's rather a moot point for me and I still end up working over Christmas trying to make things still work at the roughest time of the year.  I've pointed this out but alas like most things it falls on deaf ears. 

I lost TS awhile ago.  Sales have been erratic for many months now.  Last week was alright for sales, but this week is dismal so far.  I dare say everyone is watching their spending in these tough times.

lol just coming back to after 1-2 years off selling on trademe with a new account , reading all the post about low sales and getting hard to sale on tm , make me wonder if it’s worth for us to comeback ? lol

Sales have been declining for months now, it's up and down week to week but the overall trajectory is down.

Products that used to sell well just don't anymore, regardless of the price. And I've priced some of them below cost price and far below competitors. No joy.

Still have Top Seller status but now exceeding the listing allowance every month. Just started cutting back on listings for the really cheap items so as to stop paying the excess listing charge. Trade Me is definitely going downhill... their fees go up, but the service doesn't get any better!

On the plus side, websites are still doing pretty well.

Same thing! Im retired and sell secondhand items as an interest and for beer money. I had to list as a Trader due to "consistent listing" from books thru to antiques and was making on aveage $300 in sales a week. WAS! Over the last few months sales have taken a downward spiral, often not even getting one view on many items, and now averaging $50-$60 a week. Barely worth the time and effort of going through the process of listing now. BUT I have now started taking the same items down to the local auction rooms (in CHCH)  and virtually everything goes each week. Higher commission and have to sell more bulk lots than when on TM but much less work and average sales of $200+ a week now. Funny how the world revloves. The auction rooms nearly went under due to TM but then decided to go online with their own website and are now booming, while TM is going downhill. 

Since posting this I just barely scraped in with keeping TS status, at least for now.  But sales are dismal so far this year, absolutely dismal. In the last 6 weeks, I had one week 20% of what would middle of last year have been normal, and it's not particularly an outlier.   

As the above, even stuff that used to sell really well, I can't give away even at less than cost  on Trade Me anymore.

I don't know if it's people not finding it, not wanting it, not being here, not being able to see local sellers for the of chinese and drop-shippers, my listings being demoted in favour of trade me stores' listings, or what.

It's tough.

My listing allowance has collapsed, I paid some high volume listing fees to get everything listed for a week again, but it made no difference, maybe I'll try again but just feels like setting fire to $20 bills at this point.

The Site Stats say it all: at 10:30pm on Wednesday night - over 8 million items being looked over by just under 9,500 people.

It’s been the worst for sales I have had in over 8-10 years . Scary times. Maybe Temu or just no money out there is my thoughts

I did eventually lose Top Seller but somehow managed to scrape back in last week.

With Aliexpress and Temu getting products to your door in 7-10 days generally now it makes it really hard to compete, you can offer the best service around, but when the cusomer can get it at less cost and just that 5-8 days longer wait... yeah, I think they are happy to wait for the not-so-slow-boat-from-china.

Ive basically given up selling collectibles on TM now. Lucky to sell a couple of items a week this year. Ive gone back to the old school auctions (which are now selling online) and doing well. Example: a 1950s horse racing game i couldnt get a bid on with TM after 4 weeks at $20 reserve went for $55 at auction first night. Higher commission paid but stock moving and no photots or writing required ;)

We are now at the point where blowing out stock at cost or near to cost, just to get it gone. But, the view rates these days are at the lowest we have seen them, the sell through rates even lower still. Meanwhile the Aramax man is complaining about the ever increasing TEMU deliveries they are struggling to keep up with. Time to throw in the towel, these foreign sites flooding the NZ market can not be competed with. The only way they can be dealt with is at a legislative level, cant see anything being done about that anytime soon.