Breakdown of eBay Store listings lost by category

[bargainbloodhound]

From the eBay Stores board.  The Music, books, and DVDs categories taking the biggest hits

Total Store listings on 7/26/2006
58,206,823

Total Store listing on 8/19/2006 (11:20 AM eastern appox)
53,476,452

difference = -4,730,371 or 8.13% down from 7/26/2006

Biggest losers: (% is change from 7/26/06)

Music lost 1,681,569 or 22.08%
Books lost 1,156,752 or 10.25%
Collectibles lost 414,623 or 6.11%
DVD's lost 288,594 or 9.12%
Sports cards lost 237,665 or 6.64%
Clothing, Shoes & Accessories 211,941 or 4.64%
Toys & Hobbies lost 139,878 or 5.71%
Business & Industrial lost 99,261 or 9.06%
Entertainment-Memorabilia lost 81,325 or 8.18%
Health-Beauty lost 72,190 or 7.06%
Jewelry-Watches lost 69,148 or 2.45%
Crafts lost 63,537 or 3.77%
Stamps lost 60,409 or 6.39%
Art lost 49,367 or 6.67%
Home & Garden lost 41,598 or 1.82%
Pottery & Glass lost 39,449 or 5.27%
Dolls lost 25,751 or 6.43%
Musical Instruments lost 24,266 or 7.35%
Video games lost 21,802 or 5.03%
Coins lost 19,413 or 5.06%
Antiques lost 13,981 or 4.52%

Biggest (only) Gainers:

Cameras & Photo 48,846 or 13.63% up
Everything Else 33,381 or 5.90% up
Computers & Networking 32,032 or 2.06% up
Consumer Electronics 3870 or 0.79% up

Of 32 categories I am monitoring....
4 went up in total listings and
28 went down in total listings

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?t...1000340325&tstart=0

[BellisimaJ.]

4M down. Quite a change on the face of it. But wouldn't we need to look at how the core was affected to really have a clue how this has affected ebay overall? :blinkie:

[bargainbloodhound]

[quote author=BellisimaJ. link=topic=4822.msg21155#msg21155 date=1156008866]
4M down. Quite a change on the face of it. But wouldn't we need to look at how the core was affected to really have a clue how this has affected ebay overall? :blinkie:


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Medved has 12.5 million core the day of the fee hike.  12.4 million before the sale this week.  Essentially no change in core.  The sale added 2.5 million listings ( 14.9 million) which will likely disappear when the auctions end.  In past years a sale would have added 4-6 million listings.

Music lost 1,681,569 or 22.08%

This one is no surprise.  The combination of lower selling prices on eBay than elsewhere and the new higher store listing fees would mean we would break even (maybe) if we tried to sell CDs from an eBay Store after the 21st...no profits

[maryrussel]

Biggest (only) Gainers:

Cameras & Photo 48,846 or 13.63% up
Everything Else 33,381 or 5.90% up
Computers & Networking 32,032 or 2.06% up
Consumer Electronics 3870 or 0.79% up

Aren't three of those categories where much of the fraud occurs? (Just a silly thought.) Probably no cause and effect there.

[bargainbloodhound]

Aren't three of those categories where much of the fraud occurs?

yes 

[DecorativeDishes]

I contributed by deleting / not listing 220 items so far.

I really think they are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but I doubt they care. Kim

P.S. What is happening with Express? Is anyone shopping on it?? (Speaking in general, NOT to the board posters who I KNOW aren't shopping on it  )

[dimucci]

I really think they are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but I doubt they care.

I think eBay's brass is too stupid to understand the consequences of their actions. 

[DecorativeDishes]

too stupid

Make that greedy, short-sighted, out for themselves. Typical corporate America. The execs make a big mess, take their stock-options and golden parachutes, leave, and let the next bunch of crooks have at it. In eBay's case it is not just the employees who suffer (i.e. Enron), but the jillions of small business owners using the platform  :'(. Kim

[amy]

In eBay's case it is not just the employees who suffer (i.e. Enron), but the jillions of small business owners using the platform 

That is the sad thing.  Most corporate employees know their jobs could disappear at any time but until recently I don't think many eBay sellers realized the businesses they had built on eBay could also be put in jeopardy by a corporate policy change.

[DecorativeDishes]

I don't think many eBay sellers realized the businesses they had built on eBay could also be put in jeopardy by a corporate policy change.

That is unless they were listening to those NASTY negative TT posters  trying to spoil the postitive nature of eBay  ... Kim