Put a fork in it, for it is done. Statistics are again from PowerSellers Unite. You can visit them to see the current volume versus the same time on the previous day at their site anytime.

Total listings increased 203,254 over the same time yesterday, or a 1.49 percent increase. No commentary today, I think the numbers in this series of posts have pretty much spoken for themselves.

Barring any shocking (or even interesting) news about this year’s eBay boycott, this should be the next to last post dealing with the numbers. As always, statistics are from PowerSellers Unite. You can visit them to see the current volume versus the same time on the previous day at their site anytime.

Total listings increased 39,472 over the same time yesterday, or a 0.29 percent increase. Listings have pretty much stabilized and are in line with how the month started. On some forums, I’ve seen calls to extend the boycott to really stick it to eBay, but being as how very little seems to have been stuck anywhere, well, you get the picture. Technically the boycott runs through the 25th, so I’ll check these one more time tomorrow.

Thanks for the charts PowerSellers Unite!

eBay listings increased again today, putting them equal to (or even slightly above) where they were earlier this month. Statistics are again from PowerSellers Unite. You can visit them to see the current volume versus the same time on the previous day at their site anytime.

Total listings increased 204,069 over the same time yesterday, or a 1.52 percent increase. In the chart at the bottom of this post, you can see the trend for the month of February up through today. There was a big spike on the 20 cent list day, followed by a plunge one week later, as one would expect. With only a day left, it seems unlikely that the boycott is having much of an effect.

Wired ran a piece on the boycott yesterday. I can’t help but suggest you read through some of the comments on the article to see the paranoia and vitriol eBay elicits.

Thanks for the charts PowerSellers Unite!

eBay listings increased today for the first time since the boycott started. As a commenter mentioned yesterday, the big drop was likely caused by the list fee sale from the previous day. Statistics are again from PowerSellers Unite. You can visit them to see the current volume versus the same time on the previous day at their site anytime.

Total listings increased 576,413 over the same time yesterday, or a 4.37 percent increase. Total listings are just over 13 million. Last year, eBay averaged about 15 million listings a day, according to a report in Barron’s. Having 12.6 million to 14.6 million daily listings this week seems to fit within that as a yearly average.

Thanks for the charts PowerSellers Unite!

As we enter the fourth day of the boycott, we saw the biggest drop yet in auction traffic on eBay. Statistics are again from PowerSellers Unite. You can visit them to see the current volume versus the same time on the previous day at their site anytime.

Also, PowerSellers Unite now has some handy graphs on the site traffic page to see how traffic changed throughout the day (just hit the above link to see them). Today’s graph is attached at the bottom of this post.

Total listings dropped 1,259,314, or a 10 percent decline from yesterday. eBay’s numbers naturally fluctuate, sometimes by large amounts, but I’m thinking there might actually be some effect from the boycott going on here. I had honestly expected to see numbers start to increase today. I was wrong.

Thanks for the charts PowerSellers Unite!

The fee changes officially went live today and auction traffic is down again from yesterday. Statistics are again from PowerSellers Unite. You can visit them to see the current volume versus the same time on the previous day at their site anytime.

Today saw an even larger drop, almost 650,000 listings, or a 4.59 percent decline from yesterday. Of course, a week ago, eBay had a 20 cent listing day. A chunk of that drop could be caused by a number of auctions ending today that people only listed because of the fee sale. I usually throw up a few odds and ends on cheap list fee days to see if they will sell. If they don’t sell, they usually won’t be relisted. Still, I’m not sure that would account for this big of a drop. Total listings are down by almost one million since Monday evening. Also, the stats haven’t updated for a couple of hours (normally updates every hour). I’ll check again later this evening and see if they have updated.

We’ve got today’s updated auction statistics from PowerSellers Unite You can visit them to see the current volume versus the same time on the previous day at their site anytime.

So, total listings have dropped about 400,000 more, or a 2.78 percent decline from yesterday. A two day trend downward, but what will tomorrow bring?

Yesterday, I suggested people should explore other sales channels even if they aren’t participating in the boycott. Now I’m wondering if this could actually be bad for some of eBay’s competitors, particularly the smaller ones. Taking my own advice, I played around on iOffer last night. The experience in three words: buggy, slow and frustrating. After a half-hour, I had no desire to be there anymore. Page loading and search times were horrendously slow. Maybe it’s fine normally and the first day of the boycott was just driving too much traffic to them to handle. But, the last thing you want as a business is for a new potential customer’s experience to be so poor. To be fair, I’ll go back in a couple of weeks and judge it again, but how many other people will? I couldn’t recommend seller’s try to transfer their inventories there this week, that’s for sure.

Also, I think they may not have thought out their Mr. Grabber program very well. iOffer’s Mr. Grabber will go to eBay, Overstock and Sell.com and import all of your active listings. Sounds great, but some people were clearly lazy about it. Almost every item I checked out had the vestiges of an eBay listing left in them (graphics for eBay stores, notes about a listing being updated, etc). It made some of the listings ugly, others silly and gave me a generally low opinion of those sellers for being too lazy to properly touch up their listings. This all reflects kind of poorly on iOffer too. The idea of Mr. Grabber is great, but if the result ends up leaving buyers unimpressed, you’ve hurt your site. Perhaps the next version of it could automatically strip out the code for things like eBay stores (though that would potentially have its own negative impact).

PowerSellers Unite tracks listings volume across a bunch of different sites. You can visit them to see the current volume versus the same time on the previous day. Normally that page is embedded in the site, but is currently a standalone page due to the high volume.

As of right now, it’s showing a decrease of 3.03 percent. Is that a big change going from Sunday to Monday? I don’t honestly know. The charts page isn’t currently working (just takes you back to the main page). I’ll check this every day during the boycott and update as appropriate.

A couple of days ago I wrote about the boycott. If you’re interested, you should definitely check out AtTheBat’s comment on it. I think he nailed the mentality behind some eBay sellers (not all, certainly, but some). I’ve got some more thoughts on this, and a reply to ATB that I’ll hopefully get typed up in the next day or two.

Also, I’d like to pass along some advice I’ve seen posted in multiple forums about the boycott. If you are participating and are a regular eBay seller, take the opportunity to explore your other options. Every seller can benefit from diversifying their sales channels.