Hey guys…normally I do, like 2 sales a day and today it’s like 0
That’s like a 100% decrease in sales bro
Like why do people have to watch football because it’s really not played with the feet and stuff
Amazon sux!
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Was there a football game? I was busy editing product pics so I guess I missed it.
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I don’t understand. Same exact thing happened on 25 December, 1 January, 4 July… I don’t understand why sales just kind of stop during those days…
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Damn it, my buyers apparently lost too much money on their Super Bowl bets and business is in the tank
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I haven’t had a sale in the last hour…what’s wrong with amazon?
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I had only one sale on Super Bowl Sunday. It was from Santa Claus so I’m hopeful he will like it and stock up during the year.
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We did not invite the creator of the sprinkler.
We can affect the flow and do not accept that it is beyond our control.
Already planning for how to keep the coming three day weekend from being a waste of time.
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How about this one “DEAD Sales, Like NEVER Before”!!! I am the original creator of that post that lasted from 2018 to 2022. 
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I anticipate that as all the federal workers lose their jobs, sales are going to suck.
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Even just uncertainty at work can lead people to pause discretionary personal spending or find (cheaper) alternatives.
It might be a more volatile Q1 than we have expected.
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Past two days my sales have dropped by a noticeable percentage of course the latest debacle that was this weekend to the Present, but are folks seeing a 20% BPS delta in sales? Ranking is ~ the same so thinking its things are on fire and folks are actually worried. If so, fair.
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A war in the Middle East is not good for sales.
Today’s stock market drop is not good for sales.
Over the many years I have sold online, this has been the case.
What differs this year, is that whatever has caused the stock market drop, has not had more effect than a few days. My hope is that continues to be the case.
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As someone who had a large inventory of Middle East related books, I actually did quite well during the last unrest. But now my selection is down, and I’m not FOE, so nothing to compensate for the normal factors.
What I find odd is that not only did stocks plummet today, but so did gold (we have some junk jewelry to sell for scrap; have been holding since gold was about $3500 in anticipation of a war like this).
And my local gas station is already up almost 20 cents since last week when I filled up. I somehow think it will be quite a bit higher by next month when I’ll need more.
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We think Amazon was playing around with coding with it’s moving to DD+7 starting last week. We had 4 days of zero sales last week followed by 4 good days followed by 2 days of zero and then today was average. We would note that today’s sales will be our first sales that will be involved in the DD+7 change over as they will ship on Thursday 3/5/2026 which is the day Amazon is suppose to change our account.
We are keeping an eye on the grocery stores as our local Sams Club was looking low in stock today. It could be they are getting ready for an inventory or they could be getting ready to re-merchandise the store for spring/summer sales. Either way … people panic buy when things seem unstable.
We were also without the internet in our area today from around 10am to 9pm … both fiber and cell data … 1 gig service was running as 0.1 Mbps and cell data was the infinite circle.
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We usually have very little spread day to day (weekdays at least) and February had more volatility than the position of Ayatollah.
Personally, I blame the weather and the freezes during February more than recent events. I honestly don’t believe that the current episode of Tom and Jerry Middle East conflict has affected the market yet. That will come of course. I had to ship a pallet today 150 miles through I10 and cheapest option was $150 (freaking $/mile!, some options going up to +$220)
Being an election year (it feels like every year is an election year), I do believe that sales will improve as the months go by, there will be too much money in the street. Heck, the primaries in TX spent hundreds of millions! Some of that will end up on online purchases. I hope that even if oil prices momentarily go up due to the war, we will see them return to “normal”, not only as a Venezuelan that wants things to improve down there, but as a heartless, capitalistic, mercantilist manufacturer that just had to pay $1/mile for shipping, whilst the US has gained control over the largest reserves of oil in the world.
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Ya but that only matters if we have an “America first” pricing program for oil. Being we are a net exporter, pricing at the pump is determined by how much someone in China or France is willing to pay for it, not what our desired economic outcome for $/mile is… Despite heavily subsidizing that industry with your federal tax dollars.
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I know, that’s sadly too true
You know, when I was in college, mid 2000s, oil was $0.005 a liter (5/1000 per liter), no wonder the country went broke, sadly it wasn’t even close to the biggest missmanagement
In any case, the “stereotypical” picture for a Venezuelan that traveled abroad was to take a picture while filling gas and showing the “crazy” international prices
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