Winter blues or Global Warming?

I think it’s obvious. There are more and more newbie sellers than ever before. In order to compete, they are undercutting the established sellers.

The problems with this are:

The newbie seller sells ridiculously cheap because they haven’t realised the workload that comes with ‘just wearing some panties’. Once they realise the workload, or once they realise that buyers aren’t falling over themselves to buy her knickers the seller disappears, sometimes quietly, sometimes after a moan and some cut price (again!) sales that still don’t get the buyers running. They moan and lament their lack of success and then they are never heard of again.

The buyers aren’t clamouring for her knicks because she is one of dozens of cut-price sellers.

The newbies come and go, one replaces another and the established sellers, who have more realistic priced panties, based on their experience, attention to detail and added value suffer the consequences. The consequences are buyers who are less polite because a lot of sellers are too willing to give it away for nothing and put up with abuse in order to make the sale (if one seller markets herself as a ‘whore who is willing to please – scat? no problem’ then why shouldn’t the buyer think we all are?). Buyers are reaping the awards of a buyer’s market (but getting a lower quality product), and all-round lower sales for everybody.

From a buyer’s point of view, why buy panties at £40 when you can buy them for £8? So what if the seller goes out of business, half a dozen others will replace her. In fact, if the £8 panties are rubbish, what’s the loss? It was only £8, just try someone else and you may strike lucky. Loads better than taking a risk on someone who is asking £20 for her knicks.

I’m not surprised that sales have gone down for individual sellers. I believe that the same volume of panties is being bought, it’s just that there are so many sellers now.

The bottom has dropped out of the panty market  :unsure:

As a new seller, I’ve had business pick up, but who knows? Maybe it’s much busier in the summer.  Is there a “peak” season?  :huh:

And winter blues are no fun lol I made sure I soaked up some rays after seeing your post. My mood is sometimes affected by the weather  :crazy2:

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Hi Gustav
thanks’ for your comment, but I don’t quite get where this fits with my original post?! I guess was in response to Anna’s?
Either way, I buy expensive panties, I sell/wear them for profit and always get the buyer to pay them in advance! Don’t we all?  🙁
Recorder Delivery is a worldwide service, I use it here in Italy. So I’m not clear as to why who would not purchase off shore using such service? I can accept you like to purchase exclusively from sellers you trust, but come on! because of Royal Mail??   :idiot2:
90% unsatisfactory is  however a very high percent…. sorry to hear that!  Where have you been buying one need to ask?  :ohmy:
 
In principal I agree to every point Anna made, all industries (even Microsoft!) will eventually  be challenged by a cheaper and nastier version. We just need to stand our grounds and market what we believe in!
But I do feel that something else in contributing to a general slow down of things… any ideas?

It was a reply more or less to Anna’s but I will clarify a few points, recorded delivery is not enough, I only use special delivery as recorded delivery is a total waste of time, I’ve had plenty of recorded packages go missing, and the only type of mail I can use from the USA is Express which costs over £15, and what I meant about buying from one seller has nothing to do with Royal Mail, its because most sellers I’ve bought from are disappointing, there is no way of telling before you buy, most of the things I’ve bought are from Ebanned, I must have bought over 1000 items, I can tell by your reply you have a bad attitude to buyers, maybe this is why you are not selling much? Cheaper items are not necessarily nastier, some sellers just sell at a fair price, a lot of your items are over $80 and that’s for 24 hours wear, you talk on your site like people are lucky to be buying from you, I would say more but I can’t be bothered, I’m normally more friendly but sellers who think they are better than others make me angry