buyhigh
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posted on March 18, 2005 07:06:15 PM new
Why do I get watchers in my ebay on under $10.00 items fixed price Bin? What could they be watching?
buyhigh
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jackswebb
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posted on March 18, 2005 07:16:00 PM new
bewilders me too.....what's the point?
Good Luck!
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crowfarm
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posted on March 18, 2005 07:17:20 PM new
Other sellers wanting to know if it sells ???????
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buyhigh
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posted on March 18, 2005 07:56:19 PM new
Thought of that one. It could be the answer.
buyhigh
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sthoemke
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posted on March 18, 2005 08:34:10 PM new
Ah, that reminds me of the good ol' days when people would actually click "Buy It Now" if they saw something they wanted. Now they just put it on their watch list and spend a couple days about thinking if they actually want to buy it or not. My guess is that they may wait to see if the same item (assuming it isn't rare) gets listed with a better price or better shipping cost.
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Vickrose
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posted on March 18, 2005 08:41:20 PM new
If Ebay is listening please get rid of watch this item even though i use it. I think it hurts our sales. I am a seller and I use it to think something over to buy it and then i never do most of the time and I think if there wasn't watch this item it would receive a bid
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buyhigh
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posted on March 18, 2005 08:51:52 PM new
One piece is over 50 yr. old piece of jewelry not commonly listed and shipping is $2.00 so I do not think watchers are waiting to find one cheaper. I think watchers want to see if it sells.
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jackswebb
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posted on March 18, 2005 09:06:23 PM new
Vick ,I second that emotion,,E bay,,,,,get rid of that STUPID watchers crap! We want BUYERS NOT lookie loos........
I had a LIVE lookie loo last week,,,comes over L@@ks everything over, leaves, 3 days later comes back with a CAMERA! Takes pictures and I have NEVER heard from him again!
No more,,,,,see the product, buy it or get out of my shop!
Good Luck!
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sparkz
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posted on March 18, 2005 09:26:05 PM new
Buyhigh...Look on the positive side. That piece of jewelry is probably a "sleeper" worth about three or four hundred dollars. Those watchers are snipers getting ready for an all out bidding war in the last 30 seconds of the auction.
OOOPS! Just reread and noticed it was a fixed price. Shot that theory all to hell.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
[ edited by sparkz on Mar 18, 2005 09:28 PM ]
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ltray
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posted on March 18, 2005 09:34:08 PM new
Buyhigh, let me know the item number and I might buy it.
Also, do you have any of the GF bracelets from the 50's with stones. I have one I love. Mine looks like smokey topaz. I don;t know if its real sone or glass, but I lobe it and would like to find some more of them in different colors.
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buyhigh
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posted on March 18, 2005 10:38:31 PM new
No! do not have a supply of jewelry. This was just an item I had around that I listed on the 50% off day for the heck of it.
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crowfarm
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posted on March 18, 2005 11:07:15 PM new
It's smart to bid as close to the end of an auction as you can. That's why I put items I'm interested in on "Watch" (I don't bid as soon as I see an item).....so I don't forget them.
I don't want MY prospective buyers to forget MY auctions!
Long live "Watch".
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classicrock000
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posted on March 19, 2005 05:11:43 AM new
'OOOPS! Just reread and noticed it was a fixed price. Shot that theory all to hell"
I've put BIN on watch to "save it" and then looked around at other auctions that are not BIN to see how they are running.I will bid at the last minute(with my auctionsniper program) just under the BIN I have on save and if someone has a proxy bid higher then my bid,I will go back to the BIN and take that.
Of course your hoping the BIN is still there which is a gamble.
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stonecold613
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posted on March 19, 2005 06:40:28 AM new
The watch function years ago was a good tool, but now has become a huge detrament to the sellers. Bidders would rather watch an item instead of bidding. It is now time to get rid of the watch system.
Hear the EBAY. Dump the watch system.
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Alive in 2005
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sthoemke
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posted on March 19, 2005 01:18:25 PM new
I agree! The watch function is perhaps eBay's biggest mistake. Bidders should make a bid if they care to watch an item.
Before the watch function, there would always be lost of early bids.
Now every just waits until near the end of the auction to bid.
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classicrock000
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posted on March 19, 2005 02:02:23 PM new
I dont understand the last two posts.The watch system can also benefit you as a seller.
I dont do this,but lets say you go to estate and garage sales.You buy a bunch of goodies to sell on ebay.When you list them,and you see you have a number of watchers,at least you know somebodys interested in them.Without the watch feature,you have no way of knowing if someone is interested in what you're selling or not.If you get no bids,this may tell you that maybe your starting bid is too high.If you get no watchers this may also tell you that your starting bid is too high.If you re-list it at a lower price and you still get no watchers,this tells you that no one is interested in what your selling.Again you would not this if you didnt have the watch feature.Quite frankly if they didnt have the watch feature,all I would do is copy down the item number and keep going back to it and watch it anyway.
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sthoemke
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posted on March 19, 2005 03:33:15 PM new
If there wasn't a watch feature, people would bid instead of watching.
I doubt many people would actually write down the auction # so they could come back to it.
If there wasn't a watch feature, you could still use a snipe service to place a bid near auction's end.
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dadofstickboy
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posted on March 19, 2005 04:22:54 PM new
How can you tell if your auction is being watched?
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fenix03
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posted on March 19, 2005 04:33:40 PM new
Dad - in My Ebay it lists the number of watchers beside each number.
BTW - Anyone asked a question of a seller anytime recently? it's quite possible that the increased number of watchers has nothing to do with looky loos and evrything to do with the fact that "Add this item to my Watchlist" is a default setting when you ask a question.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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buyhigh
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posted on March 19, 2005 06:41:50 PM new
I have one rare item with 1 bid and less than 2 days to go with 17 watchers. Wonder how many will bid before auction closes. Should I be optimistic?
buyhigh
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cashinyourcloset
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posted on March 19, 2005 06:44:03 PM new
buyhigh,
I've noticed a correlation between the number of watchers and the way auctions finish. Not that there aren't surprises, but I feel reassured when a lagging item has a good number of watchers.
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sparkz
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posted on March 19, 2005 07:15:53 PM new
The other side of the coin is, with the watch list you have more potential bidders at the end of the auction. It's like an advertisement or reminder every time they open My Ebay. Before this feature, the common method used to follow an auction was to bookmark it and try to remember to check it every so often. Even worse, were the bidders who would watch it by placing a "Bookmark" bid early on, only to retract it near the end of the auction.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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crowfarm
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posted on March 19, 2005 09:52:21 PM new
Why would you want to take away a feature that reminds a potential bidder of the auction ?????
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sparkz
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posted on March 19, 2005 10:09:28 PM new
Crowfarm...My thoughts exactly. Every time they log into My Ebay, they are hit in the face with your auction. Sort of like spam that they chose to opt in for.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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jackswebb
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posted on March 19, 2005 10:25:01 PM new
So what this boils down to is,,,,,Different strokes for different folks, No harm ,No foul,,,,,and the beat goes on,,,,,,,
Good Luck!
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