Supporting evidence of country/regional based visibility...

[ricarmic]

It has been said before here, but I thought I'd reflect a recent example...

A regular buyer from South Korea bought a couple good sized boxes of stamps.

Over the next day or two, I had more buyers from South Korea than ever (other than this guy almost never is more like it)!

So there certainly is something that notices decent sales to a seller and increases our visibility to buyers country or regionally....

[snoopwiz]

It has been said before here, but I thought I'd reflect a recent example...

A regular buyer from South Korea bought a couple good sized boxes of stamps.

Over the next day or two, I had more buyers from South Korea than ever (other than this guy almost never is more like it)!

So there certainly is something that notices decent sales to a seller and increases our visibility to buyers country or regionally....

Could someone have posted about their new, favourite Canadian stamp seller on a local (South Korean) hobby site, attracting the attention of like minded folk?

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

Similar observations:

In approximately 10 years of selling on eBay I've had 2 sales to PR. A few weeks ago I had 5 in a period of 7 days. Prior to that nothing to Spain. 3 in a period of 10 days. So very possibly there is a connection. It may even "possibly" appear it can be zip code or postal code related to some of these patterns. Or the alternative. Just a coincidence or are all those customers directly related? Hmmm!!!  If you hire a psychic for your eBay business can you write them off as an expense? They may be the only one that actually know for sure!!!

-CM

[silverpinups]

So there certainly is something that notices decent sales to a seller and increases our visibility to buyers country or regionally....

The key word here is "something", an irregularity of increased visibility in a particular country. 

I had two clusters of sales internationally, 3-4 buyers in the U.K and a few weeks later 4-5 buyers in Germany then nothing for the next few weeks..... 

One buyer out of nine transactions left feedback (U.K buyer).

When sales resumed I was back to the regular sales pattern, one in Canada, three in the USA etc... International (non-US) was non-existent.

[ricarmic]

I'm of the mind it is more than an irregularity.

The guys a regular customer (couple times a year).

He purchased two items total value $800 ish (US$).

Subsequently several more buyers from South Korea.

If some of the others came before him that would lead me more in the direction you are thinking, but they all came afterward...

[silverpinups]

All my international sales where to complete strangers... never did business with them before...

[momcqueen]

Three sales to Australians in 18 hours for me last week cannot be a coincidence, either. They were my only buyers in those 18 hours too. Best Match soup must have been tasty Down Under that day.

[silverpinups]

Yes, I can't explain these cluster of sales in different regions... then everything goes back to normal. 

[recped]

When I buy something on eBay that I think is a good product and at a great price I tell other people with similar interests about it and they often buy for themselves.

Word of mouth has always been the best way to generate sales, that positive word of mouth might relate to the product or to the specific seller or both.

I sold a bunch of items to a Chinese buyer in January and since then I've had a "huge" (it's all relative) upsurge in orders from China and they are mostly for the same or very similar items.

It's clear that the original buyer was very happy and has told their friends what good stuff and good service they can get from me.

This is a common occurrence and has been in all my 40+ years of retail.