Interesting eBay UK has seen some category’s weekly listings fall year on year, sometimes dramatically. Good summary here, which refers to this, who got it from the Bear Stearns eBay report.
The biggest falls were in media – DVD’s and music seeing 15% and 26% drops – hence the recent price changes.
Even eBay.com saw some reversals, with Collectibles down 1%, Pottery and Glass down 6% and Real Estate down 1%. Of course these are only weekly stats, so I would not read too deeply into the actual numbers, but it is showing that growth in some categories has reached it’s limit. These are the categories that had the highest early growth (including Dolls and Bears) so you would expect them to be saturated first.
Overall weekly y/y growth is 10% for eBay UK and just 8% for eBay USA – that’s disturbingly ‘normal’…
Lance Wiggs 