Meanings of sold badly in English

The phone has sold badly with businesses and consumers alike.

Although they were acclaimed by discerning critics like William Butler Yeats, they sold badly.

I am sorry in many ways, including the honour of England as a scientific country, that your translation has as yet sold badly.

To back up their argument, the tut-tutters cite a chain of identikit online articles suggesting magazines with Swift on their cover sold badly in 2012.