I have had but 2 sales on Bonanza in the past 12 months. Bonanza is what it is, not what it was. Like Bonanza, Etsy is also a mess now. Both Bonanza & Etsy have gone to “Seller Services” to make their money off sellers and there is no longer any sense of direction or any sense of goodness to either of these venues as both are self-destructing from their own selfish interests & greed. My sales on Etsy have dried up too …another it is what it is, not what it was site….so it’s pretty much bye bye to both Bonanza & Etsy for me and back to putting ALL my effort into keeping over 1300 items on eBay where I have been a seller for 14+ years & where there is still some consistency in sales.

If you are mainly concerned with feedback, dont look to bonanza for that to change. Most buyers do not leave feedback when they purchase here. As for the advertising, there is no way i would pay $24.95 to get sales., There are other sites out there other than bonanza and ebay where i have been making sales without putting out extra money. I stay with Bonanza because i have been here for quite awile, and when i make a sale here, i look at it as a “bonus” if you will, and the members are great here.

I sure wish I had read these comments before posting on Bonanza, I have over 400 sports items we listed almost 2 months ago and no sales, 90% of items haven’t even had a view. They say they are better then eBay, I sure like to know where. I was booted off eBay after 17 years and fell below standard for couple months, which was after all those years we opened a store and after holidays my sales do drop. Very up set now and don’t know where to turn since can’t no longer down load my items off ebay like I could to Bonanza. May reason tried them…Please someone help me, my husband broke his neck, we have over 1000 items to sell and I don’t know where to turn. I do have us on Pinterest, Facebook and Storenvy,no sales there either.
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Simply…. here are no sales except you promote yourself on FB, Twitter, Pinterest. And that doesn’t help much either.

I too can agree with about 65 to 70 percent of what the original poster is talking about. I dont do Facebook and all that other tweet stuff. My stuff on Google shopping is almost non existent to find. That and I get views it seems from stuff I sold YEARS AGO that seems to be stuck out there in cyberspace. When I do find something of mine, for items with calculated shipping (which is also the price I pay), what shows in Google shopping is way waaaayyy higher than the calculated price which is a deal killer at first look. Now Google says shipping is an ESTIMATE but how many shoppers will remember that and want to go deeper into the item to find the real price after putting in their ZIP code?

Like misskeech mentioned, “As for the advertising, there is no way i would pay $24.95 to get sales” especially if I will only realize a sale of perhaps an item under 5 bucks. It just is not cost justifiable to “bet” that sales will come flowing in. That and summer never was a big sales period it seems.

Sales for me on Bonanza were never what they should be for as long as I have been on here but they used to be much better and I was happy with 2 or 3 a month. Now that they have turned (to the dark side) by not promoting themselves as a destination and making us do the the paid advertising money generator at 25 bucks a pop, I just don’t feel I would make enough to justify it.

(Stepping off of soapbox now).

I have been here for about a month and a half and have not seen any sales yet. I also am promoting using Bonanza 19% advertising level but my products are in the higher range. I would not be paying that level if most of my items were under $10.00.

Its been not quite a week for the advertising because I wanted to get more items up before I used it. I only have 68 items up and counting. I am seeing higher views but not by much. Hopefully that changes soon.

I do believe that you need to spend money to make money, but I would not go over board to do it on a site that I barely know. So google analytics is out for me because I am not buying into a plan. Nor am I going to be purchasing advertising packs. I instead will try to advertise my self out side of Bonanza and will try to build some organic traffic which does take time.

I got to say, if I had no sales in over a year on any site and I have worked hard to make the site work for me, then I would be leaving said site.

Wishing you the best MomentsInThyme.

Hello Moments, Remember you have a lot of competition for sales, Here on Bonanza and all the other selling site, So. You need many listings with good variety with reasonable prices. Just because you list it does not mean there is a ready buyer. Advertise where and when you can at a cost that you can afford making your items potentially visible to buyers. Good Luck to You

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I don’t know about everyone else, but it’s 2018. I started in November of 2017 and I had about 2 sales. As soon as I did the Standard advertising for 9% which gives you Google advertising, sales picked up. They picked up so much that over the last year and 4 months I’ve made 784 sales. It works great for me and I paid $24.95 for traffic booster just recently and it’s been amazing. I do very well on Bonanza. At least a few orders every single day. Not as great as I was doing on ebay back in 2009 when I quit there but it’s a lot cheaper to sell on here. At least for me.

This pandemic has affected so many businesses that it became too common for everyone to cry for sales. Like you dear, I also registered myself on many online marketplaces but no help because of delivery restrictions. Then I click here to read on [URL removed] website about ways to improve sales amid pandemic. They nailed it really, they had top-class ideas to help people like us. Every business person must try it once.

Opened my Bonanza shop about half a year ago. Not a single sale. Listed a bunch of products that sells well on other platforms. Marked advertisement percentage too for them. No sales, nothing… Even better, Google blocked 2 of the products’ ads, for no reason. 2 no-brand US flags. makes no sense at all. But who cares, as literally nothing sells, I sold absolutely nothing since I opened my booth.

I could walk around our local small town and I could sell my products. Sometimes I do that. At events I just ask people if they are interested buying a pin, a patch, a flag, and I make 50 bucks.

How Bonanza can’t do that money? Not even 1 sale in 6 months. I was expected about $60 a month, but nope. Absolutely nothing, zero, nada. :-/

We had sales but when this place was sold are sales are o what happened