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If Your eBay Sales Feel Slow, Focus on These Two Numbers

Flippedit Aug 27, 2026 3 min read Watch on YouTube

Your 90-day total on the eBay app changes every day. Beginners screenshot it in Facebook groups and ask: "Am I doing okay?"

Usually they have no idea how to read it.

Flippedit co-founder Matt walked through four real stores from those groups. Two problems showed up in all four. Neither was "eBay is dead."

The two numbers hiding in the 90-day total

Sell-through rate (STR) = orders Γ· active listings, over the last 90 days.

Matt's examples from the video:

  • 154 orders Γ· 438 listings = 35%
  • The other three stores sat at 28%, 18%, and 35%

The seller who asked "am I doing okay?" was the 18% store: 250 active listings, and only 18% of the store selling every 90 days.

The target is 90% over 90 days. Over 100% is better. 200–400% happens when you sell the store more than once in a quarter.

Average sale price (ASP) = 90-day revenue Γ· orders.

The same four stores came in at $32, $35, $47, and $37. None cleared $50, which Matt treats as the side-hustle floor.

They had done the work: 150–400 active listings. The work was not converting because both metrics were off.

What a healthy 90-day total looks like

Matt's own store in the video:

  • $28,484 revenue over 90 days
  • 450 active listings
  • 471 orders
  • STR 104%
  • ASP about $60

The garage behind him turns over every quarter. Then he replenishes it. That is the loop. A 400-listing store with 50 orders is the other loop: more work, less cash, then a Facebook post that eBay is dead.

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The third ingredient: list a dollar value, not a listing count

Consistency matters. eBay is an input/output system. List and it sends traffic. Stop listing and it dries up.

Listing 5, 10, or 30 items a day is not a strategy if the dollar value bouncing into the algorithm changes every day. Matt lists $400 of asking price per day and has averaged about $120,000 a year in revenue for four years.

Same fee to eBay on ten $5 sales or one $50 sale. You do ten times the photos, postage, and customer service on the cheap ones.

Ballpark monthly revenue if STR is healthy (from the video):

  • $50/day listed β†’ about $1,250 a month
  • $100/day listed β†’ about $2,500 a month
  • $400/day listed β†’ about $10,000 a month (Matt's own number)

If STR is 400%, $100 listed can come back as $200–$300 in sales. If STR is 18%, the same listing quota feels like a job with no pay.

Fix the store you already have

Do this on the eBay app today:

  1. Note 90-day orders, active listings, and 90-day sales
  2. STR = orders Γ· listings
  3. ASP = sales Γ· orders
  4. If STR is under 90%, stop adding junk SKUs and fix sell-through
  5. If ASP is under $50, stop buying $15 items that cannot survive Australian postage

Flippedit puts STR and ASP on the dashboard so you are not doing this with a calculator on the 90-day screen. Start free 7-day trial and look at the two numbers the app hides.

The video is the walkthrough of those Facebook-group stores. This page is the written version of the formula.

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