topic Re: Watchers in Selling

Watchers

greenemerald456 — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:41:19 GMT

Underneath Viewers/Watchers it has 23 and 7 underneath. Before on the main item page it would have for eg Watchers = 7 but now it doesn't show up that way

Re: Watchers

greenemerald456 — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:45:59 GMT

Underneath Viewers/Watchers it has 23 and 7 underneath. Before on the main item page it would have for eg Watchers = 7 but now it doesn't show up that way

Re: Watchers

davewil1964 — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:58:49 GMT

23 is the number of views, 7 is the number of watchers.

Before when? My my selling page has shown this for quite a while.

But anyway, that is what the numbers now mean.

Re: Watchers

billexploited — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:59:13 GMT

I don't like watchers they don't buy anything they make you relist over and over again

Re: Watchers

dylan11235813 — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 03:20:29 GMT

I think ebay made some changes to the selling manager and it has been reset to the default. I had mine customized and it changed about 2 weeks ago. Nice of ebay to let people know.

Re: Watchers

maranock — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 03:30:21 GMT

They make you list over and over?? What, they hold a gun to your head?

I am a watcher, I have a heap of things that I want to buy on my watch list, things that I might buy next week when I get paid, or things that I might keep on my list for a year before buying - but I do usually buy. If you don't like them then ignore the numbers.

Re: Watchers

davewil1964 — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:04:57 GMT

I rarely look at the numbers, but a lot of my sales had watcher(s) when they sold. Presumably at least some of the buyers were watching beforehand.

Re: Watchers

2106greencat — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:32:42 GMT

I don't sell anymore, but I liked knowing how many watchers, usually the more watchers the more popular the item, and this was proven in sales.

It assisted me in weedling out the slow movers and havng more of the popular lines.

Re: Watchers

bsal6160 — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:03:23 GMT

watchers making you re;list? no way it would have anything to do that just maybe your asking price is more than people are willing to pay? Nah, surely it couldnt be that....must be the watchers.

Re: Watchers

bettyboopsadaisy — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:07:25 GMT

Huh???

No watchers, no sale, in my experience !!

AND the more watchers the more energetic the bidding activity, in most cases, is also my experience.

Mind you, I have whined to ebay about the policy they adopted some few months ago of publishing the no. of watchers an item has on the item sales page for all to see, until the item receives its first bid.

Previously, it was information only the seller was privy to.

I somehow felt, it was information that potential buyers didn't need to know and that it would disadvantage the seller but I don't know for sure that it does.

What do others think?

Re: Watchers

amber-eyed-girl — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 14:43:07 GMT

This is a thread where the last post is two weeks old, but...

to answer your question, I think eBay shows viewers the number of watchers to try to encourage them to buy it now, or put in a high bid...the panic tactic.

oh no, there are five or nine or twelve other people watching this item!! I must get it before one of them grabs it!!!

that kind of thing.

so if there are at least a couple of watchers, it might encourage a sale or better bid...maybe 🙂