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Well I can tell you there is something wrong with the counts right now. It shows 0 views on an item and I sold one of two. So you can't trust the views at all, well that is just great. Might as well not count them at all. It sold almost 1 hour ago.
I have noticed some stuff!!
I did "sell similar" on a bunch of items, It has 0 views but watchers (almost immediatley) and I was able to send the "offers to buyers"out within about a hour after listing.
So is a person who was watching the item before I ended it and then clicked sell similar having the item added to their watch list for them? Kind of how Relist used to work? Since I think I read soemthing recently on here that relist was having weird issues?
The things you are seeing are likely because the Views doesn't update as fast as some of the other things
@ilikehockeyjerseys wrote:I don't think views matter when you're selling relatively to a niche market.
People don't really window shop for lower value media. They decide one day, I want x cd by y band, search it in eBay, and buy whichever appears to be the best value (placement in the best match, overall price, shipping time, condition, likelihood of the seller being truthful about the condition based on pictures and reputation, etc).
Media has a long turnover time, because even with nearly 400 million people between Canada and the United States, there probably are only a handful who search for a specific out of print or older DVD or CD each month. When they search, they aren't clicking on every listing. You're placement in the best match, and overall sales relative to the amount of items you have available are a much better indication of how well you're doing.
It makes complete sense to me that a DVD or CD can have 0-5 views. It will still sell. If you have lots of views for those types of items without converting a sale, that's probably a greater problem than having almost no views. That means those people clicked on the listing, and even after choosing to click on it, they went through the trouble of backing out and looking for someone else because something about the listing or terms wasn't to their liking.
Exactly why being able to see the last 30 days is valuable, I have lots of long tail listings with hundreds or thousands of views (probably lots of 'bot view included) but up until this change I would not know if the views were from a year ago or two years ago. Now I can see, oh 2000 views since listed 2 years ago but only 2 views in the last 30/60/90 days.
To really understand what is going on one needs to consider all the metrics, impressions, click through and conversion (the latter more for multi-quantity listings).
All that screaming is about the Category and Item Specifics changes that just kicked in (announced months ago). It happens every time there is a Category overhaul.
Thing is...the OP does not sell in the Categories that have changed, he sells mostly in Media which had an overhaul last September.
Unfortunately some posters on .com are conflating the change in the display of views that effect every Category (but don't disrupt AT ALL) with the issue that affects the Categories which just changed.
I don't want to brush off the sellers who are seeing miserable sales, my own have been on a steady decline since last Summer (Covid bump ending) BUT, I've just had my best week since November*.
The View change highlights one thing.....a LOT of sellers never read the Updates!
* You won't see it on the id I use here, it's for dead stock and board posting only.
It's not "phoney traffic" (there is some of that) it's traffic from whenever the listing started which could be months or years ago.
Most of my GTC listings were listed in March 2019 so the total views I was seeing covered three years which is completely meaningless.
I was playing around with the detailed Views pop-up (click the view number in your Active Listings), it will give you a graph of your views and you can choose 7, 30, 60, 90 days, 6 months, 1 year or 2 years, it compares to the previous period.
Most of my GTC are multi-quantity and I can see that the graph reasonably correlates to my actual sales.
I think this new view system is a tremendous improvement is terms on knowing which listings would be best to use for Promotional Listings, Discounts, Offers to buyers etc.
I was nice to see big View counts but it lead people to believe buyers were looking and interested but the reality was that people WERE looking at one time but currently maybe not at all.
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