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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Despite actually being an ebay member for coming up to 7 years I've not actually ever sold something on ebay. Yesterday listed two items and have been watching them with some interst. So here's an absolute newbie question.....what's a good number of 'watchers' for an auction? Am I allowed to post links to the auctions here? Mark Edited by markn
06/29/2006 02:02 am
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Valued Member
Australia
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Hi Mark,
Watchers don't necessarily translate into bids. I once had a ridiculous number of watchers, but few resulting bids.
--Peter
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hi Mark,
greek is correct, watchers don't mean a lot to sales. Theres a lot of people who watch who have simular items as you, that want to sell theres also. They will watch to see what your item sells for.
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
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Hmmm OK. Well I got my first bid, so I am happy for now.
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Moderator
 United States
23522 Posts |
I only Watch the items I'm not really committed to buying. For the stuff I *really* want, I set the auction up as a snipe in my sniping software and use that for reference to find the auction. If I'm going to bid in person, I cancel the snipe and keep a window of the auction open for the last couple hours.
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Forum Mom
United States
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Hi Mark, There is kind of a fine line about posting your auction links here. You can always post them in the Buy/Sell/Trade section since you have 50+ posts. We have had members post links to their auctions in the ebay Discussions section to ask for input on the format, terms, etc. I want our members to be able to get the help they need, so use good judgement and common sense and only post auctions here that you have questions about.  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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OK, well I'll see how these do before I start asking for advice. Thanks Susan.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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As stated above, the numbers of watchers do not necessarily translate into bids. However, I keep an eye on the number of watchers on my auctions as an indicator of interest in either the particular item up for auction or interest in the class of items. In other words, low numbers of watchers is BAD; high numbers of watchers is GOOD. Same may be said for numbers of hits on items. For example, I wanted to sell a Nikon camera with accessories, but I didn't want to give it away, so I set a reserve. I did not sell it at my reserve, but I had a huge number of watchers and hits on the camera, so I know when I list it next, it WILL sell if I drop my reserve a bit. I've had other items listed in which the numbers of hits and watchers was so low, I couldn't give the item away, so it wasn't worth relisting.
Fred
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