2 on Auction site in Jan and 2 here in Jan. Absolutely NOTHING here during the busy time between Thanksgiving and end of Dec, it was like I was invisible here. I believe I read that Amazon was giving away Prime benefits (to non-Prime members) during that time to promote sales. You would think Bonz would loosen the constraints during that time to counter during that busy time for ALL HERE even if it was just for a month to get more visibility (but NO). I also just read that Bonz ‘Director of Happiness’ has parted ways with the management here. Perhaps he was holding us back and the new person will shake things up for us sellers to become more visible. We can hope.

My sales at ebay have been really good this month. It seems what ever someone didn’t get for Christmas they go looking for it after it is over. So ebay sales are great, here I think I have had maybe two sales for my booth. Really not very good at all. And it is here that I promote the most on twitter, pinterest and facebook. Very slow sales more than usual here at Bonanza this year. :(

I myself have had 19 sales on Bonanza this month and a few on my other sites, Etsy I have only had 3 this month. However, this is always a slow month online. I am sure the Government shutdown has a lot to do with it even being slower, people are just not in a position to spend right now. I just use these slower months to fix older listings, reprice, fix pictures and of course add new product. Good luck to you!

My sales on Bonanza have been so bad that I closed my booth for a while. I’ve been making really good sales on Poshmark, though. I’m making three to four sales a week there.

Zero on Bonanza. I have been making sales in the groups on facebook tho. As far as Mark goes, I really liked him, but he did like to censor what members had to say, when the blog would come up, other members comments would post, if I said something negative about the article on the blog, it would never get published. He also closed up my other booth for a week, I guess as “punishment” one time for saying something he didn’t like in the forums., and it was sort of rude I thought for him to make comments about how all the Bonanza employees would be going on month long vacations together while the members here were just trying to make one sale…hopefully our sales will improve now

No sales on Bonanza, my items were getting so old that I just removed most of my listings and donated them……I used be a top seller and sold tons on ebay years back but their requirements of sellers are just out of line and way too many scammers on there now, so i refuse to sell there any longer. I have made sales on Poshmark, Mercari and Tradesy tho.
Hopefully Mark leaving will be best for Bonanza and maybe the site will be taken in a different direction and we will start making sales now.

Zero on Bonanza, 47 elsewhere.

I’m new here on Bonanza so I suppose I should not expect anything at this time. It’s still winter and I don’t expect any sales until at least mid-February. We’ll see how this goes. I have not had any sales on Etsy since early December. I’m just trying this out.

Hi,
We’ve just started selling here, so no sales for now (but it has to be expected, our items are more suitable for warmer climates). On Amazon, only 2 sales this month (one this week, operative there since 2016, getting very few sales a year, which is the main reason why we’ve started to sell here, to diversify our sales channels and “to add our eggs in more baskets”). Let’s hope it will improve here later on……

Thanks for your answer to our community help post ;)

I’ve only had 1 sale here in January, and 3 on Etsy, but that’s partially my fault.

Due to the Canada Post disruption, followed by delays, then Christmas, I was closed from Nov. 5 to Jan. 2nd, so well dropped out of search.

I would think the US govt. has a lot to do with it. Anyone who isn’t getting paid, and doesn’t know when they will, is not going to spend a bunch of cash on non-essentials. Yes, those govt. workers are minuscule in the numbers of shoppers in the world, but there are a lot of other things going on.

We used to own a retail store, and January is always dead. People are starting to get bills for their Christmas overspending, taking holidays somewhere warm, heating and power bills for the dead of winter, etc.

My MommyOf2QTs/ScentWork booth has 10 sales on Bonanza so far in January.
My MommyOf2QTs/LipWorks booth has 16 sales on Bonanza so far in January.

I’m happy with those amounts. It’s an increase from January 2018 in both booths.

I don’t sell anywhere else so can’t compare. I used to sell on eBay as well but stopped end of 2018 because their rules and regulations are getting out of control.

I’ve had 34 sales on ebay (I have 2 stores there) and zero on Bonanza.

I’ve only made 1 sale here this month. I also sell on ebay (over 19 years now) & between 1/1 & 1/16 it was like the lights went out at ebay~~I only made 6 sales. I’m up to 29 so far this month on ebay but I’ll never hit my usual 50-60. I was looking to leave ebay because of their dropping paypal later this year but I’m just going to have to bend to ebays policy changes. I sure can’t count on any other site to give me the buyers that I get through ebay. I sure can’t live with the “drop in the bucket” sales I make here. It appears ebay is the place for me and I will do whatever they require to continue selling there.

Slower than normal, however I have a lot of orders for coastal areas which are harder hit by government shutdown. Movies are a non-necessity in life so it has slowed me a little. This weekend I had just a ton of orders though, so hoping it improves now.

We’ve never had many sales on Bonanza; usually just one or two a month at best. Currently, we haven’t had a single sale since the beginning of December 2018. My best guess is that you get absolutely zero visibility from the site now, unless you pay extra. Sad part is, if you select anything other than the lowest fee tier, you can pay less on eBay…and you will sell more there. Bonanza really needs to re-think their tier structure, and start showing all items. Every item that sells here makes them money, so why limit that for those who only have a small amount of listings and can not afford to pay for tier exposure? Bad business….

31 on Bonanza for January, 1750 on ebay.

Sales were going alright again finally but then completely dropped off on the 15th for some reason even though I’m adding product. Views dropped about 75%!
It doesn’t seem like Bonanza is doing anything to get it’s name out there. Besides that, I can’t import over 100 ebay listings that ARE NOT duplicates… they’re just variations.

Bonanza feels dead and I’ll probably cancel my premium subscriptions. The comparison with ebay is redonkulous.