“Script that adds to the “Watch” counter of a specified eBay listing in an attempt to make the listing more popular, increasing the number of real visitors that see the listing, which in turn helps the listing appear higher in search results and also makes the product appear as though it’s in high-demand since it has a lot of ‘Watchers.'” The eBay Viewer and Watcher bot eBay-watcher promises the following: However, eBay would likely not weigh this factor heavily.Īfter all, if it were a critical component, sellers would view their own item repeatedly and drive up the searchability. It may or may not be a component in calculating the popularity of the item. If so, the amount of views does not seem to impact the visibility of the item significantly. The listing terms of service, including returns and shipping policies.The overall quality of the listing in terms of information included.How popular the item is on the platform.The match between the search term of the potential buyer and the listing.In that way, I don't care how long it sit on ebay, with no views, nor if it sells or not.These are the elements that experts believe are an essential component of the algorithm: I will just list on ebay junk, broken, repair, as is items. At this point, I am going to shut down my ebay store, and go with the 200 free listing. All my new and good items are listed on other sites. However, I am so happy I listen to other ebay sellers who seen this coming, due to the many ebay decisions that suppose to have helped sellers actually hurt sellers. Wasting my money or giving my money to ebay for free. At this point I am paying for a ebay store for nothing. I used payed promotions, and after two weeks the item still do not have any view. I even tested a item that had no views for two months. I went from a top rated seller, to not selling basically nothing at all. All the years that I have been selling on ebay, it has never been this bad. I am not making any money on ebay, since they put in this new view system. Not only have I not been getting any views, I have not been getting sells. This is bad real bad what ebay has done to sellers. Maybe shed some light on when users are shown which option-the "eyeball/Watch" or the little heart. I really can't tell you with any level of confidence what determines which option is displayed. You'll see the "eyeball/Watch" option on the listings, but not the little heart.Ĭonversely, if you see the little heart, you won't see the "eyeball/Watch" option. I'm posting with a buying id, so click on "Listings" for another member in this thread who's using a selling id. It appears the "eyeball/Watch" link appears when looking at a specific seller's listings, and the heart icon appears when doing a general search-or something like that. I clicked on your "Listings" link here in one of your posts. How did you find that, to make that screenshot? Was it on your phone? If so, no wonder I didn't know about it, I almost never shop on my phone, ha. I thought maybe it was just a brief glitch that would change overnight, but nope, still I just now did a search (on my laptop, home wifi) and the heart is the ONLY thing I see, not the eyeball and 'watch' icon under the price. 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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