03-20-2021 12:17 PM
03-20-2021 12:54 PM
It's eBay. You are lucky the site loads even 🙃 Also a screenshot would make for a great laugh if you can.
03-20-2021 12:54 PM
I agree and would love a screenshot, never seen that before
03-20-2021 01:05 PM
Does the listing show as -1 watchers, or does one of the watchers have -1 feedback?
03-20-2021 02:12 PM
@doc-holmes wrote:Does the listing show as -1 watchers, or does one of the watchers have -1 feedback?
You can't see any info about the watchers.
This is like antimatter. You have an antiwatcher. Only on eBay.
03-20-2021 02:27 PM
though i just checked and none of mine show up that way, that is pretty much how my listings feel right now...-1 watchers and even less buyers
03-20-2021 02:45 PM
I know you can't see your watchers, but if someone sends an offer or a message, then you can see the feedback score. Then all the OP has to do is assume they're a watcher and voila.
03-20-2021 02:48 PM - edited 03-20-2021 02:48 PM
@awneedham812013 wrote:How does one of my listings have a -1 Watcher?
Because as much as I would like to think so, software engineers aren't perfect.
03-20-2021 07:21 PM
@luckythewinner wrote:
@awneedham812013 wrote:How does one of my listings have a -1 Watcher?
Because as much as I would like to think so, software engineers aren't perfect.
Especially the contract programmers they seem to hire on eBay. By the time a bug report comes in, they're off elsewhere.
I remember once noticing that some of my listings on the My eBay page were showing either Watch counts or Number of Bids in italics for no apparent reason. I never did figure out what that was all about.
03-20-2021 09:07 PM - edited 03-20-2021 09:09 PM
@a_c_green wrote:
@luckythewinner wrote:
@awneedham812013 wrote:How does one of my listings have a -1 Watcher?
Because as much as I would like to think so, software engineers aren't perfect.
Especially the contract programmers they seem to hire on eBay. By the time a bug report comes in, they're off elsewhere.
I remember once noticing that some of my listings on the My eBay page were showing either Watch counts or Number of Bids in italics for no apparent reason. I never did figure out what that was all about.
I've been a software engineer my entire life. Most subtantial software companies I have worked for have a backlog of thousands and thousands of bug reports.
The bugs are generally tagged with an incident count, a severity, and a priority. A rare, intermittent, cosmetic bug that does not affect the user's ability to do his job is generally assigned a very low severity and a very low priority.
Many of these bugs are never even addressed because the cost/benefit does not justify it. A manager who prioritized a bug like that (a seemingly rare display of -1 for a watch count) would raise eyebrows unless his team has absolutely nothing else to do.
03-21-2021 09:46 AM
@luckythewinner wrote:
@a_c_green wrote:
@luckythewinner wrote:
@awneedham812013 wrote:How does one of my listings have a -1 Watcher?
Because as much as I would like to think so, software engineers aren't perfect.
Especially the contract programmers they seem to hire on eBay. By the time a bug report comes in, they're off elsewhere.
I remember once noticing that some of my listings on the My eBay page were showing either Watch counts or Number of Bids in italics for no apparent reason. I never did figure out what that was all about.
I've been a software engineer my entire life. Most subtantial software companies I have worked for have a backlog of thousands and thousands of bug reports.
The bugs are generally tagged with an incident count, a severity, and a priority. A rare, intermittent, cosmetic bug that does not affect the user's ability to do his job is generally assigned a very low severity and a very low priority.
Many of these bugs are never even addressed because the cost/benefit does not justify it. A manager who prioritized a bug like that (a seemingly rare display of -1 for a watch count) would raise eyebrows unless his team has absolutely nothing else to do.
I mean it seems like they have nothing else better to do, when they are doing random cosmetic changes no one asked for.
03-21-2021 09:49 AM
That means the user clicked on ... "don't show me this item ever again". 😉
03-21-2021 01:07 PM - edited 03-21-2021 01:08 PM
@luckythewinner wrote:
I've been a software engineer my entire life.
Likewise, most of the time in Customer Support for contract customers in a subsidiary of a software company you have heard of. The comparison between our approach to software support and eBay's is downright painful, when looking at eBay's reluctance to even acknowledge problems, let alone track them, discuss them with customers or keep us updated on when repair(s) can be expected. In the meantime, and instead of bug fixes, we get another round of idiot revisions that no one asked for and which tend to make things worse instead of better.
This has been going on for so long that I do not see the responsiveness improving anytime soon, and now I'm just doing my best to get things done despite their involvement instead of with it. It stinks, but sometimes you just have to pick your battles.
12-25-2023 09:16 AM
I’ll take your -1 and lower you to a -7!
12-25-2023 09:17 AM
-7 for me today on this listing!