topic Re: people watching doesnt add up in Selling

people watching doesnt add up

davidc4430 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:45:34 GMT

i listed a radio control car a couple of days ago, whats amazing is its got 13 watchers but only 4 views?

ive noticed the views/watching bit of my selling/sold page has been weird the past week or so.

Re: people watching doesnt add up

kopenhagen5 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 08:15:02 GMT

Yep, views as been playing up for weeks.

I had 64,000 views on a listing all of a sudden.

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wide-world-of-stamps — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 08:20:24 GMT

We've always thought they were random numbers (at least for the views) and it's been even more erratic than usual the last few weeks.

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Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 08:22:55 GMT

Ebay failed maths101

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digital*ghost — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:59:30 GMT

Stats definitely are all over the place at the moment, but I just thought I'd mention that since you can have a "watch this item" link in search results (it may have to be set up in preferences), it is technically possible to have more watchers on an item than views (on single item listings, anyway, the link won't appear regardless for a variation listing).

I use it sometimes when searching, to get quick links to several items I want to visit / compare later - though even when stats are 'normal', it's likely pretty rare for a listing to accrue more watchers than views, so this post is really just a relatively useless fact thrown in, 'cos.

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kopenhagen5 — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:03:04 GMT

One of my items just went from 1 view to 15,799.

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egglesdtp — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:45:56 GMT

Lucky you! Here's hoping it actually sells.

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davidc4430 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 01:01:39 GMT

i bet you listed it on the chinese ebay site.

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kopenhagen5 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 03:33:30 GMT

And now it's back to 2.

Think I'll just give the dvd's to the local op shop.

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dazzledayz — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:05:48 GMT

@kopenhagen5 wrote:
One of my items just went from 1 view to 15,799.

Well Kopes, I imagine you'll now be punished for racking up such a miserable conversion rate

I'm so not looking forward to these guys implenetation of AI judging by their less than stellar attempts at basic progamming.

What's a learning system going to learn if the data it learns from is whacko?

Oh, I know, it will learn to be a corporate psychopath.

Silly me

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kopenhagen5 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:51:07 GMT

Yep, I'll probably get the listing pulled for non performance.

I read something about old listings that have constantly been relisted might be taken down but yet to hear of it happening to someone.

eBay Tech Dept 2018

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Anonymous — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:54:17 GMT

That is a massive upgrade since last year

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justkidzbiz — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:07:18 GMT

I have 3 watchers on one item and no views 😅

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kopenhagen5 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 13:11:48 GMT

Hi just kidz, actually that's possible.

There is now the ability to add to watch list from the search result without viewing the listing.

But I am not surprised at your post due to the amount of strange changes and glitches on eBay at present.

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padi*0409 — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 13:57:31 GMT

Still neck and neck on FB Kopes.

"All for One" mate.

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clubesquire — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 01:29:09 GMT

Hehe!! Our views and watchers haven’t changed in 7 days. The world has gone to sleep, or should that be eBay?

ive noticed it has quietened considerably though, at least for us.

Oh well, I get time to bake some scones today. Big fluffy, crusty scones with fresh whipped cream and real strawberry jam tonight. And I ain’t sharing with ya’s 🙂

Mel.

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davidc4430 — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:11:30 GMT

i'm sure it will be sorted this friday when the Ebay minions get on it.

yes, the numbers will suddenly add up, but the listings will dissapear from ebay

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davidc4430 — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:17:43 GMT

OH btw, sold the car.

had one guy make an offer i was happy to accept, messaged him, then he took ages to reply.

then started asking questions. each time i replied asap.

asap, cos his original message making the offer said get back to him ASAP!

so time and time again the questions came and i relied asap, then he would take many hours to reply, with another question.

that was from last thursday untill sat morning.

havent heard from him since.

then last night got another offer from another buyer, sold it straight away.

i do hope that first guy is now kicking himself.

and yes, hes on THE list.

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hobby_cds — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 05:29:25 GMT

In my experience people watching are just that...watchers...tyre kickers that never buy anything! lol