Watchers not showing on my listing, Watchers still not visible ... Why? An eBay Glitch?

[michaca_pmj6fxf8n]

I'm Having the same issue as you, with  my watchers not showing up on my listing as well. We all know how critical this element is to prompting that I gotta buy it now response from customers/buyers on eBay, as they think it might not be there when they get back, they buy it now!. This is a win win for the seller & eBay, we both get paid ... isnt this the point of selling on eBay having all these features & them working correctly, weather automated by eBay or our own free will like promoting our listing, using the stores and its tools, est. these tools are there to help the seller and for eBay to make money and sell, sell, sell like it was designed to.

So why is the watchers not showing on the my listing? Is it a Glitch? Is it only for some users and not others??? ... Can I/we the ebay community, who's sales make eBay what it is. Without any sellers what would eBay be? and without eBay where would the sellers be... probably on Amazon (Jokes).

But seriously eBay Do us right as sellers! we spend a lot of time doing what we do! we just what all/as much advantages as we can get. is that to much to ask on behalf of all the sellers on eBay, that the site work correctly glitch free?

Show our watchers on our listings ... That's all I/we want! Will you help us?

Maybe after i leave a message my watchers will appear to like my friend posted earlier ... 

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

@michaca_pmj6fxf8n 

tyler@ebay 

Before this slips through the cracks, Tyler, could you address this please. I believe it was brought up recently via a now cancelled zombie thread but still very relevant and important to OOAK type items. Other sellers have brought up this concern. Currently out of almost 700 listings I have over 100 items with watchers. Of those only 1 has 5 or more watchers that shows with the listing. Watchers trigger purchases, not views. See post 1 for backup.

Thanks,

-Lotz

[pjcdn2005 · Accepted solution]

eBay no longer shows watchers on the listing unless you have 5 or more watchers.  Do you have listings with 5 or more watchers that are not showing up on your listing?

Everyone has a different view on this but I honestly don't think that the number of watchers increases sales or makes something sell faster....at least not in most cases.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

Only 1 shows. The one with 6 watchers. My experience since this change over has been when an item got to 5 or more it sold within a week.  Approximately 8 to 10 times. Sometimes watchers are watchers because they sell similar items and are just monitoring prices. They still get included in the numbers. There was no reason to remove this as many others have noted. It does not cost eBay money for a seller to have watchers. For eBay it was entirely cosmetic or change for the sake of change. Similar to what the original post stated.

-Lotz

[reallynicestamps]

I tend to agee.

Most watchers are either dreamers or competitors.

Sending out Best Offers to Watchers, which is possible now, does not seem to convert to sales.

If it was available,and has disappeared, while that doesn't in my opinion make much difference to sales, it does appear to make a difference to sellers.

tyler@ebay 

And why not keep sellers happy over such a little thing?

TL/DR - If it ain't broke,don't fix it.

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

@pjcdn2005 

As a side note it appears watchers of less than 5 show up on your listings(listed on dot com?) 3 of 20 All Listings view. But not inside the actual listing.  Something else to make a Canadian seller say hmmm!!

-Lotz

[pjcdn2005]

I hadn't noticed that but when I view my listings on both sites, I see 2 listings as having watchers...  both are under 5 so I don't know why they they are showing.  Another odd thing is that I have an active item with more than 20 watchers but that is not showing up.

btw...of the 2 that do have watchers showing, 1 was listed on .ca and the other on .com so no hmmm's here.

Do watchers every show inside the actual listing?  When I looked at .com at some other sellers, their watch count was only visible in the search view, not on the listing itself.

[tyler@ebay]

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@lotzofuniquegoodies wrote:

@michaca_pmj6fxf8n 

tyler@ebay 

Before this slips through the cracks, Tyler, could you address this please. I believe it was brought up recently via a now cancelled zombie thread but still very relevant and important to OOAK type items. Other sellers have brought up this concern. Currently out of almost 700 listings I have over 100 items with watchers. Of those only 1 has 5 or more watchers that shows with the listing. Watchers trigger purchases, not views. See post 1 for backup.

Thanks,

-Lotz

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Hi @lotzofuniquegoodies - thanks for the tag, and sharing some context. 🙂

Hi @michaca_pmj6fxf8n! This isn't a glitch or a bug, but the intended way we show your listings. We changed the display of the View Item Page in 2018 to simplify the page overall and focus more prominently on things we found to increase buyer conversion. This includes things like member tenure ("Long-time member/seller"), return availability ("Free Returns") and shipping costs ("Free Shipping").

While watcher count was removed from the View Item Page, it does remain in the search results gallery when certain criteria are met.

@pjcdn2005 is correct that watcher count is not displayed in search results for all items. The specifics of when and how often watcher count will display isn't something I can go into but I can say that it is based on measures of the popularity of the listing.

Factors that indicate listing popularity are measures over a period of time and indicate the amount of attention a listing is getting. Some factors that help us determine that are:

• Views
• Purchase
• Watcher count
• Questions asked

Listing popularity is related only to the listing. It isn't related to a seller or a seller's performance.

Thanks!

[reallynicestamps]

Watcher count is used in Search?
Hmmm- I wonder if I Watch all of my reallynicestamp items with one of my other accounts, if that would give me a boost?

[tony929451]

I FOUND THAT IF YOU GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE OF WHAT ITEMS YOU ARE SELLING THERE IS A SCROOL BAR JUST MOVE IT TO THE LEFT AND YOU WILL SEE ALL THE WATCHERS

PASS IT ON IF IT HELPED YOU

TONY

[mrdutch1001]

You have responded to a thread from 2020, to which the previous most recent post was 2021..so the point was?

[mrdutch1001]

@kh-phdan 

ZOMBIE THREAD from 2020!

[kh-phdan]

Hello Everyone,

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Thanks for your understanding!