eBay UK now more popular than Amazon

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1. Is this because EVERYONE had to visit eBay.co.uk to change their password?

2. True enough, well done up until March 2014! Our ebay sales plummeted mid-March (strangely around the time of the Spring seller update?!) and only got worse after May 21st (password announcement day)- very interested to know what those figures show for ebay traffic and sales.

3. its march 2013 to march 2014 data. So password change did not really effect it.

   Our sales have been up and down. They have not returned to our peak/pre-recession level.

   Really the stats would have to be compared to previous years to get any sort of info from it regarding sales.

4. I am confused. If I visit ebay to check on any Sales or to list or relist any items does that show up as a Visitor. So if there is say a Free Listing Weekend and possibly thousands, tens of thousands of Private Sellers are busy listing their 100 Free Items does that show up as thousands, tens of thousands of visitors even though they are there to sell rather than buy.

   I know in my case I may be checking on my Sales or listing I may very well have a browse as well in which case I may bid for something which I may ultimately Win.

   However do the figures quoted above differentiate between Selling Visits, Buying Visits or Visits where both Buying and Selling might take place?

5. It is interesting. EBay do encourage sellers more than Amazon, so you could deduce that Amazon has more buyers.
   Ebay’s mobile app is streets ahead of Amazon’s. On the Ebay app I can do almost as much as on pc, I barely scratch the surface with Amazon.
   That said Amazon sales are soaring and eBay sales continue to tumble. The only statistic I can rely on is my own sales figures.

6. The minimum order spend of £10.00 (to qualify for free delivery), which was introduced by Amazon UK in July 2013, will have had the most impact – and pushed those buyers looking for ‘value’ (known as cheapscate poundshop types)- back towards Ebay.

7. I had always thought that eBay was a much bigger market, but the figures shows that they are fairly much level. But the cleaner catalogue on Amazon means that my sales totally trumped eBay.

   The minimum £10 spend on Amazon probably is having an impact, but as a non FBA seller, that can only be good for me.

8. Good news and well done. However, to qualify that we need comparisons of value of sales, and market penetration of smart phones; one of the first things people do with the new phone is to go to familar sites to try them. However, we should all be looking at listing for tablets and phones, which are a nightmare to use – so simple descriptions, good pics, inclusive postage- all the things ebay have been pushing us to do, get them done.

9. Very odd reading and doesn’t compare anywhere close to our sales.

   Same inventory on both sites, in fact possibly more on ebay as we run actions to clear end of lines, yet sales are around 70% more on Amazon than ebay. At Christmas that reaches almost 85% as Amazon rockets at Christmas where ebay jumps a little more than normal!

   They might be getting the visitors but are they converting to sales would be my question!

10. I wonder if the difference in sales/new traffic is due to the ads from other sites that click through to ebay.

    Ebay seems to have a lot off ads on other sites and amazon seem to target there ads.

11. As I operate a number of selling IDs, I’m constantly switching from one to the other during the course of the day, I wonder would each log in count as a “visit” ?

12. I would also be interested to see comparison sales figures betwen Ebay & Amazon.

    I searched but came up with this discussion thread which interestingly is almost entirely anti-Ebay and pro-Amazon
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/deals?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1DEIHNWYF5SA9&cdThread=Tx1PN9B370IWT1J

    To me the two marketplaces are different.
    Firstly, apart from books, almost all other items on Amazon are new. As I deal almost entirely in vintage and antiques I don’t have the option to use Amazon for selling.

    I buy on both but stopped buying new electricals on Ebay several years ago – now only on Amazon and Argos. I’ve also started buying mid-range Kitchen items on Amazon and have been very pleased.
    There are bargains on Amazon if you look.

    But for vintage, when I buy online, Ebay is the only place in town. I have tried some of the newer competitors but there just isn;t anything like the same choice.

    For selling also Ebay has almost no viable competitors for the UK market. The others just don’t have the traffic.

    I learned a year or so ago that of all Ebay’s country sites Ebay.UK has by far the largest market penetration. This surprised me as I assumed it would be the States. However it seems that although we may start a bit late, in this country we are very quick to take up new things (also Google)

    Except, that is, any competition to Ebay.
    I’ve tried Craigslist, Gumtree, Preloved, Ebid and Betubid.

13. That ebid isn’t more popular (with sellers) than both of these jokes combined shows how mad the world is.