97 Views in less than an hour

[klassic*kids]

Earlier today I relisted some items.  These items currently have 1-2 (bot) views - dismal, that is all except one item (a Michael Kors womens button down shirt) - that one got 97 views within 45 mins of listing it.

It makes no sense, it is a nice shirt but there is nothing special about this shirt and there are other similar ones listed on eBay in fact.  This has been happening to me over the past week: crazy amount of views immediately on some items.

I do not for a moment beleive these are all actual viewers: I believe the bots have gone bonkers.  How many other people are experiencing this phenomenon?

[994john]

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@jaxjoy wrote:

I'm here on the boards for this reason. This started happening to me yesterday as far as I can tell. As soon as I listed a shirt it instantly had around 40 views. Then it happened on the next shirt I listed. Just run of the mill shirts, nothing really interesting. I don't post anywhere socially either and I doubt these items are pinterest worthy. The views didn't just go up gradually.

It was instant 40+ (I forget the actual number). Then it crept up slowly to 65 views from last night to now for the first shirt. Seems like a glitch thing or a way of meddling with our visibility. Last week sales were good but now this week sales are pretty non existant. Hoping they aren't meddling for sake of meddling. Ugh.

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I was amazed that I listed something at 7pm last night, and within two minutes it had 140 views.

As far as I remember, the more views a listing gets without a sale causes it to be placed much lower in the search. So this may be a not so healthy glitch.

[doozer0712]

Are the majority of your listing auction or BIN?  I have been having the same issue lately, but it only seems to be happening with my BIN listings.  It's very frustrating!! 

[solarshift7]

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@valjean1650 wrote:

If someone tweets your item there is a proxy on twitter that attempts to make sure your link is safe so they hit is about 10-30 times. These bot hits show up as views. One of the reasons to be wary of posting on social media if you have items that are slow moving or one-of-a-kind is that these bot hits will SIGNIFICANTLY lower you Cassini best match score as ebay will read all of those hits as legit individual views without action or a sale and they will interpret your item as low interest. 

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Wow-really good point.  I listed some things last week on a few accounts.  One showed no crazy views on any new listings while the other account....almost every item shot to about 200 views in 1 hour...except for one item that only got 2 bot views LOL. 

I'd been reading these posts lately and wondering if the high views would hurt me that way but with everyone saying they were (obviously) fake views I blew it off as eBay would recognize all those as fake views....best to assume not 'eh?  I'll try to relist those things and watch the results.  Thanks for the info!

[solarshift7]

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@z50com wrote:

When items get that many views in a short time it's because someone has posted it on a blog or group where everyone goes and looks and then they discuss the item in the forum or blog.

Post an item up here on a popular topic and you'll get a lot of views in a short time period.

There's just way too many conspiracy theories about how eBay works or doesn't work.

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Indeed-nothing worse than wanting to call CS to complain about something we really can't explain well.  I do really worry it screws with my search placement metrics though...ugg