But viewing activity could indicate it might be a good idea to do something with that listing.

If a listing is not getting any views or a listing is getting views, but not watchers or sales, for example, it might be time to review my listing for ways to improve photos or titles or the item description, or even time to lower the price or take it off the market for awhile or list it elsewhere-or even donate it. It is not obsolete.Īs a seller, however, I would think there would be at least a passing interest in which listings were being viewed.

But few of my items are getting buyers, and those are what I'm here function is for buyers, not sellers. Nearly every item I list gets one or two watchers. I've had dozens of items watched over the past few years. 'watch' is obsolete and serves only to confuse people today. Watch a few random items of a specific genre and see what kind of ads you start getting on the web. I don't have any evidence of this, but from a marketing and analytical standpoint it would be kinda stupid of them not to. This probably works great for eBay even though it leads potential buyers away from the item they originally watched. There's nothing special about you or the particular item you're selling.ĮBay probably offers watchers similar goods when they're not shopping too, based on the items they've watched. 'goods' as 'equivalent' to your offering. It shows potential buyers anything with similar keywords to your brooch and attempts to market other. Today, eBay brands your merchandise like any wholesale good. It was not unusual to have numerous watchers, and you could guess from the number of watchers whether there would be a bid war at the end. I don't know why eBay still uses this feature.īack in what I call the golden years of eBay (99-03 or so), most of the items on eBay were unique, and they were offered at auction. It's not technically a 'glitch,' but more like, how you need to call the bank for a payoff quote and can't just pay your mortgage off by writing a check for the balance on your statement. The problem is just very obvious when the numbers are small. Statistics presented to users may be delayed or slightly inaccurate. (edited because I never answered your question which was pretty clearly stated) database-driven systems like eBay do this for a number of reasons. I thought maybe it was just a brief glitch that would change overnight, but nope, still there. But I can think of no way anyone can watch something they have literally not SEEN. I know ebay recently changed the display of views to (supposedly) include only real views by shoppers, not 'bot' views for 'no-no' listing scrutiny, internal logistical whateverness, etc. Now tell me how the heck that is possible. But then another few hours later, this one still had zero views, but one WATCHER. I posted it at the same time as a few other things, and then a few hours later checked to see how they were doing, and I think maybe 1 or 2 of them had ONE view or something, and no watchers. Yesterday I ended/sell similar'd all listings older than 30 days, maybe that will algorithm me back to normal traffic, guess I'll see.Īnd now, a new weirdness: this item I posted yesterday. Then starting maybe 4 or 5 days ago, my store seems to be in sudden down-throttle mode, total viewcounts plummeting overnight, with even new postings of very popular items getting little or no views (and so yeah my sales have sucked too, and my latest auction closed much lower than expected, even WITH the 'express' promotion which usually works great for me). First (as described in another post) there's these seller offers I keep getting for items I have never even clicked on. I tell ya, I am having a generally bad and generally 'weird' week, and that's not a good combination because it feels like forces out of my control, HA.

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