people watching doesnt add up

[davidc4430]

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.

[kopenhagen5]

Yep, views as been playing up for weeks.

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

[wide-world-of-stamps]

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.

[enigmabear]

Ebay failed maths101

[digital*ghost]

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. 

[kopenhagen5]

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

[egglesdtp]

Lucky you! Here's hoping it actually sells.

[davidc4430]

i bet you listed it on the chinese ebay site.

[kopenhagen5]

And now it's back to 2.

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

[dazzledayz]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

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

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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