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elgato
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:29 am Post subject: eBay Survey: two-thirds of etailers “confident” about future |
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Online businesses are meeting their sales targets and are confident about the year ahead, despite concerns about lack of consumer demand and the high cost of supply. So says the latest edition of eBay UK’s latest round of their Online Business Index, which measures the state of online retail by following the fortunes of 700 merchants who take an average of 61% of their turnover on the site.
54% of those surveyed expected their sales to increase over the next year: with 70% expecting profit margins to increase or stay the same, the mood is generally very bullish.
But eBay’s findings do suggest that merchants are working harder to achieve the targets they’ve set themselves. Only 10% (down from 12% last year) said they had “considerably” failed to achieve the requisite number of sales, but only 31% (down from 45%) said they had achieved them “easily”: most (38%, up from 27%) had reached targets “with difficulty”.
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dmtaylor247
Joined: 07 Feb 2010
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| Online sales have had a 3% increase on last year and things are looking to improve, investment in the dollar is strong, its shifted nearly 10p from the last time I looked. |
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Baconsdozen
Joined: 06 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:53 pm Post subject: Re: eBay Survey: two-thirds of etailers “confident” about fu |
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Quote....most (38%, up from 27%) had reached targets “with difficulty”.
And I bet they'd say most of the difficulties were caused by ebay. |
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