Amazon sales at 10-20% of expected amount
Hi
Has anyone noticed a massive drop in sales over the past month? We sell clothing and the beginning of winter always has a massive increase but we are only doing 10-20% per day compared to the last 10 years.
We turned off Invoice by Amazon as it was not registering zero rated sales (we sell thousands of safety boots that are VAT exempt) and was causing extra work for our accounts department - sales dropped immediately we did this so we then turned on after a couple of days - sales stayed low and we haven't sold any orders on the invoice by Amazon side so don't know if that has triggered something within Amazon?
We have recently lost half of our listings as inactive because Amazon have put arbitrary minimum / maximum prices against our SKU's which deactivated thousands of listings- we have rectified this manually and now have approx 26000 live SKU's with about half winning the buy box - sales are still well down - we are down well over six figures in the last month!
I've seen various discussions regarding the above, but no one has a definitive answer to what's going on and how to solve it before I have to gamble on a consultant knowing how to fix it - I'm desperate as this month is by far the biggest of the year. Sales on ebay and our website remain strong, so cannot put it down to credit crunch/difficult budget etc
Regards
Chris
26 replies
Seller_Fg2fqaWOnEtha
Nope, you can't go back. I am actually fairly busy although most sales are from a few products, so that means there are still buyers. I am also developing other ideas. I am not saying it to boast, just to let you know it's not all doom and gloom, there are still opportunities, although it's definitely harder, but we are tougher. I am not that far behind you in age and there is no way I go back PAYE.
Seller_K0MZK93UT63M5
Yes a massive drop for me. I'd usually sell a couple of items a day on average, but over the last few weeks all I've had is tumbleweed. Don't understand it at all as it's never been this bad in all the years I've been selling on here 😔
Seller_Jn1C4OLxhZFPv
We are also 70% down, we think its cost-of-living but no idea what to do.
Seller_d8WfbEccuaGMc
Hi all,
I have noticed worryingly low sales too, particularly for November.
Do we suspect there is an Amazon-wide issue currently?
This should be our busiest period and its currently one of the quietest periods of our entire year.
Seller_PU8ypkNZEJU9p
Just following on from above. We usually do between £200-£300 a Day on Amazon. Was expecting us to be way over £1k a day by now especially with about 100 extra items on with the Calendars etc. But we are literally down to under £100 a day.
No idea what is happening
Seller_0AG9i8qKfX9Eu
Definitely Temu etc are effecting , the government needs to do something as they are breaking uk businesses and they are chinese
Seller_veIbCeHZmUw1v
I'm going to write to my MP and complain that the firms outside the EU don't pay VAT on British online sales below £120 - I bet nothing will happen - it's easier to tax small businesses to extinction!
Seller_Pa8tecf0ZuacK
Our sales reduced because we got annoyed with instant imm full Refund for any reason by Amazon to buyers even when we have done nothing wrong. so nilled stocks of hi value items. We send 3kg Garmentworth £150 via dpd £10 & then pay £10 return costs so £20 loss : Its not sustainable. IE we pay carriages both ways so buyer can try on> (wear few days & send back) .,Very strange: Amazon themselves do not sell/offer similar for thier own goods.
Seller_Pa8tecf0ZuacK
We may restate stocks in Jan> Current returns rate went from 20% to 50%
workwear is safe until China starts selling dirtectly via Temu. then many importers will lose
