for me the spike came yesterday. I had an assistant crisis reorganize everything week last week so my auctions ending were very weak last night but I had a ton of FP sell for no apparent reason other than they switched on my juice.
and in the miserable returns for my efforts last week I have so many sales from France that once again I know what test I was "enrolled" in last week.
this testing, these hit counter bots-- could everyone please consider refraining from this hushed apologetic- Oh I don't want to be seen as a conspiracy theorist tone?
its not a theory its fact
it is a conspiracy and its transparent-- read through this thread --we have located, analyzed and even in some cases solved the conspiracy ebay is perpetrating to boost its bottom line which is not us sellers.

the title of this thread is quite brilliant in what a broad swath of sellers it engages
sort of magical says the witch
5 DAYS STRAIGHT, NOT 1 SALES.
( now the last time I had 5 days without a sale would have been 10 years ago when I listed everything at 6 Sunday night and shipped everything out Monday morning-- life was good. so for me its not 1 sale its more like loss of 50% sales-- should I be shut up? point being sales are baaaaaad for each in her own way)
SELLING FOR 10 YRS ( I've been here a bit longer many on this thread considerably less, should we shut them up?)
WHAT THE IS GOING ON HERE! - now that is the heart of the question we are all dealing with here
right?
and part of that is that some of us are having no sales, some decreased sales and most of us are having ups and downs that call for analysis-- the what the___ part
so please use this thread for what ails you and allow me to use it for what ails me
there's a lot of stuff on here that doesn't interest me but its a living breathing community here with a thousand different viewpoints agreeing basically on a few very essential things like WTF!
OUR sales are being affected adversely by ebays corporate greed and incompetence.
I welcome otherness
hey I welcome the whole sick crew

Wouldn't surprise me one bit - remember the drastic climb of numbers when the stores were dumped into core? We should see a drastic drop, not as much of course, as I am sure many will still be there testing the system, and many astute sellers are tweaking their listings, in hopes to fall under the radar......... gonna be interesting here in the next few weeks - might be worth watching the show.............

0 of 0 equals 0 - The Well is Dry - NO coins for me - NO fees for you

jdb, I think for the next couple of weeks, the site will be in such a state of flux that experiments will be kind of meaningless. And even less will be predictable.

What great planning on eBay's part. We are a month away from Thanksgiving today. Likening eBay to turkeys is so cliche. But sometimes cliches are true!

Clittlern, this goes along with my post above about people not wanting to be involved more than the sale. Every day we get new buyers coming to eBay and they don't know the old traditions. What person who purchases something while driving a car is actually going to want to leave feedback? Forget about it.

The emphasis is on speedy, faster, instant. eBay's feedback system is so last century.

Have you left feedback lately? It's stupid. Once I've plowed through it, I'm not going to plow through it again.

If there's no complaints within 30 days, assume the sale was a good one and give the seller a good feedback point. That's it. That's all anyone wants.

Right wygmngal! It's like watching a freak show - frankenstein or something. Good for entertainment's sake and that's about it. I feel really bad for those who don't find this humorous and are really counting on ebay for some moola.