Number of listings vs. watchers. Are they related?
Number of listings vs. watchers. Are they related?
Mine: 300 listings/400 watchers
inhawaii
Posted 1 year ago · Edited 1 year ago·Last reply 1 year ago
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Number of listings vs. watchers. Are they related?
Mine: 300 listings/400 watchers
tarotfindsandmore
·1 year agoYou also build up followers over time, so do you mean the number of current listings or all of the listings you've ever created? I don't think the current number of listings has much of an effect on the total number of followers but selling thousands of items over many years should.
ten_o_nine
·1 year agoDeleted-----
tarotfindsandmore
·1 year ago@inhawaii wrote:
Boy did I screw this up.
I mean "followers" not "watchers"
Is he?
ten_o_nine
·1 year agoMy mom says they are "kissing cousins".
inhawaii
OP1 year agoBoy did I screw this up.
I meant "followers" not "watchers"
johnrj1226
·1 year agoDo it again a bot might have you banished.
slippinjimmy
·1 year agoWell that is completely different...........
You get followers when you you sell many similar things that are of interest to buyers.
Back in the day when I was listing new stuff every day (records/cd's/cassettes) I had quite a few followers because my listings generated a lot of repeat buyers. If I had 2000 listings many of my buyers would be interested in seeing every new listing I made.
If you are selling items where buyers are only interested in one specific listing they are not likely to be a follower, if you sell a jumbled mix of odds and ends many buyers would likely have an interest in one single item they likely won't follow.
Let's say I am an active buyer looking for Classical music, if I find a seller where that is all they sell I might follow them. If I find a seller that mostly has rock records with just a couple of classical listings I would not likely follow them.
Just a guess but I think booksellers, music sellers, hot wheels sellers, baseball card sellers etc get more followers than sellers that just have a mix of items with no specialization.
sin-n-dex
·1 year agoI'll jump in, I had no idea how to find out how many watchers there were, and on 11K in listings I wasn't going to count them.
I have 1.3K followers for 11K listings. My other new account has 95 listings and 7 followers. Every time someone is happy with an item and thinks they want to buy again, they follow the store/seller. So I think you tend to get followers more from happy customers than people randomly coming across your shop, however that doesn't preclude someone from following you just because they may be interested in what you sell and might want to buy something later (or are just stalking your listings).
C.
gloryglorygifts
·1 year agoYou could have 1 incredibly popular item with a thousand watchers or a thousand listings with one watcher each.
I have 447 listings with 3,885 watchers, so the only thing that they have in common is they have at least 1 watcher. The most watched item has 36, but it is not the most popular item we sell. Our most popular item, this year, has 2 watchers.
luckythewinner
·1 year agoThey are related in the sense that the 400 watchers are all watching at least one of the 300 listings.
fbusoni
·1 year agoWhat do you mean by a relationship?
Seems to be a completely random ratio.
johnrj1226
·1 year agoThe only indicator worth a plug nickel is how many buyers that pay you have from those 300 listings. People window shop (aka a watcher) all day long and just do a walk on by. My wife and daughter will shop for hours and buy one thing maybe. Its part of the reason they are from Venus and I get to be the unpaid Uber driver. from Mars.
When I sold on eBay the only relationship I found that was reasonably accurate was that in a calendars month we would receive sales for ~10% of our active listings (intially about 25 listings then to 50 to 100 listings) then hung up my eBay spurs - sold mostly preowned stuff - like high end footwear, clothing - denims, pants and Levi jackets, (none from Walmart), hand bags, 35 mm cameras, fishing reels, spinning/bait casting fresh water - all in good to very good condition - always under stated the condition in my listings unless I had all the original tags, packaging - lots of pics an simple to the point bullet point copy feature/benefit - no cool marketing jargon or word of the decade - like cool, amazing, it's got pop. Got my selling price, expect profit margins and shipping handling on all fixed price listings and used the immediate payment option when it became available (cured the non payers issue).
Wouldn't have little clue what trips the trigger of the newer generations - been around 8 decades - seen a lot, been around a lot - 21 different mailing addresses in 5 states 1/2 of my life above and below the Mason Dixon line - been to 42 of the United States more than once and 5 foreign countries (mostly for business purposes)
adamcartwright
·1 year ago@inhawaii
I've never paid much attention to watchers but just counted mine and was surprised to find I do have more watchers than listings. Not at your 4:3 ratio, but more.
Goes to show watchers don't mean much.
chapeau-noir
·1 year ago"Watchers" only signal interest. It may be interest in purchasing the item later, it may be interest (from another seller) of what the item may sell for, it may be interest in price comparison, it may be interest to see if the seller may have a sale and they may get it cheaper, but it is interest.
If I send offers, I never send them to people who don't have the item on their watch list.
iamalwaysright
·1 year agoKinda like online dating. Just because someone “swipes right†on your profile doesn’t mean they’ll marry you. Heck it doesn’t even mean they’ll message you. Sometimes it does, but it doesn’t guarantee it. They might just like your photos or maybe want to steal your identity.
johnrj1226
·1 year agoSome (3 or 4 as I recall) of those views that get posted shortly after a new listing is posted are eBay scrubbing it for infractions - some seller do do a happy dance on views
chapeau-noir
·1 year agoWatchers, not views. And the initial "bot views" are no longer included.
johnrj1226
·1 year agoThanks for the update - time changes most everything. Did understand the thing about watchers from the get go....but some posters believe views were as important as watchers.
iamalwaysright
·1 year agoYes. If you have zero listings, you’re likely to have zero watchers. And the likelihood of more watchers goes up from there.
lakefor94
·1 year agoGood answer. That will make sense to @inhawaii
slippinjimmy
·1 year agoObviously there is some relationship.
Seller A has 100 listings with 10 watchers
Seller B has 1000 listings with x watchers
Seller B may not have 10 times as many watchers but they probably have a lot more than than Seller A.
There is lots of room for variation on this, some listings generate a ton of watchers and some generate none at all.
It's really no different than sales numbers, some sellers generate lots of sales from just a few listings, other sellers have thousands of listings and don't generate very few sales.
Generally speaking "list more sell more" is true but as we see here daily, sellers that have lots of listings and very few sales, it all depends on the "quality" of the listings.
My primary account where I list the "good stuff" has lots of sales, one of my secondary selling accounts has just about the same number of listings but it's all old junk that nobody wants, that account has truly pitiful sales. The same difference is seen in the number of page views, watchers and conversion rate.
chapeau-noir
·1 year ago88 watchers on 209 listings. Kind of surprised me as I sell pre-owned clothing.
 
simba6
·1 year agoNot really. Some items have a number of watchers and others none. Most watchers are not buyers.
sakic92710
·1 year agoWe are in a neck & neck race. I have 22 watchers on 92 items. 🤣 I just sent 8 offers. Let's see what transpires! Did you send any offers?
johnrj1226
·1 year agoNever did send a watcher an unsolicited offer. Received them but never responded to one - had other reasons to watch - primarily for establish a selling price of a same or similar item if I couldn't find the info on the eBay sold items. Would eventually clear out my watch list when I got around to it - all is fair in luv & war (selling is battle I always wanted a shopper to spend $$ on my listing vs the other guys - doesn't always happen). But my listing is my best sales person. Feedback tells me what buyers liked or didn't like about doing business with me - received FB on 62.5 % of my 1665 shipments - quick shipment and delivery stood out very strong and great value for the money - my $$ were mid point or higher than what other sellers sold it for..
Every now and then I would receive an order for items within minutes of posting - live in the ET only ship to the 50 states, US protectorates (Priority mail only) and military mail services - APO & FPO ).
Again I strongly believe the on number that counts - how many of your listings get sold each month - the only reasonable relation ship I found was no. of orders/month per active listings - my SWAG was ~ 10 % more or less
12345jamesstamps
·1 year agoI sent a 20 % discount to some watchers...about 9 watchers ...high end items...0 results.
Watchers are usually watchers who forget to stop watching...LOL
For me...it's to see what the items are selling for from other sellers or to get a description from another seller of the item same item I am going to sell.
Your watchers might have been watching items for years...LOL
kensgiftshop
·1 year agoI don't pay any attention to watchers.
lakefor94
·1 year agoI would not worry about them either, it's the stalkers that can be a problem.
chevymontecarlo88
·1 year ago