Since late 2018.. when I list items, no matter if they are newly listed, or recycled,
I'm finding watchers are not showing up until the last minute. I do end up getting bids (sometimes) it's a strange phenomena. It's opposite to what was happening to my listings in 2018, would get the most watchers for items in the history of being on ebay, but no one hits.
It still annoys me that even for low cost items, people won't bid until the last minute of the auction.. but I see other sellers, mostly in the USA.. they will sell the same item and have 30 bids. That never happens to my listings, unless it's something extremely rare.