Checking on my listings constanly.

[primeusa]

I find myself always checking how many views or watchers are on my
ebay listings.

I check them about every 15 minutes.

I have a desktop computer at my
home.

Being retired, that is all I do all day.

Does anybody have any tips or tricks to prevent me from checking my ebay listings every 15 minutes.

I average about 30 listings per week.

Sincerly,

primeusa

[dhbookds]

Take a walk, cook something, read, get away from the computer.........

[joem4stuff]

If it makes you happy, go for it!

When it no longer does, find somthing new that does.

[a_c_green]

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@primeusa wrote:

I have a desktop computer at my home.

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In that case, get out of the house. 

Seriously, get yourself doing something... anything... that takes more than 15 minutes to complete, and go do it. Don't come back until it's done, and then you can reward yourself with a peek at the screen. Try to make it into longer and longer intervals as time goes by. eBay will manage just fine without you, really, and all will be well when you check next time. 

If you think that sounds like a way to quit smoking, it's pretty much the same thing, yes.

[mountainmommie]

Surviving Motherhood has a blog for the 4 Stages of eBay Addiction. Maybe they'll give you a senior-citizen discount.

[cubano4u · Accepted solution]

First realize you aren't doing anything wrong. You aren't hurting yourself or anyone else. You aren't a threat to anyone else's safety. What you do in the privacy of your own home is your business only, as long as no one else in involved.

That said, it sounds like you "feel" that perhaps you are spending too much time looking at your listings. You should pick up another hobby. If you enjoy reading, go sign up for a library card. Libraries have plenty of activities every day, some even show movies on a large screen for free. You can also check out DVD's just like books.

Since you're retired, go out to lunch with your friends or family members. Call someone up that you haven't seen in a while and make them feel special again. Pick up your old friendships and you'll end up making new ones. You can always sign up to volunteer one day a week, there are a variety of places that are always looking for volunteers.

Plus, you can continue to check out your listings and make a game out of it, that's what I do. I also don't work anymore, disabled at home, and I enjoy all of the above things I listed plus I like to list up to 20 different items a day. It keeps my mind working and the days fly by. It's important to exercise your mind to keep your brain active. Very important!! Best of luck to you....

[sin-n-dex]

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@primeusa wrote:

I find myself always checking how many views or watchers are on my
ebay listings.

I check them about every 15 minutes.

I have a desktop computer at my
home.

Being retired, that is all I do all day.

Does anybody have any tips or tricks to prevent me from checking my ebay listings every 15 minutes.

I average about 30 listings per week.

Sincerly,

primeusa

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Get busy doing some other stuff... when you're too busy, you'll find you never check your listings at all. Views mean nothing, a lot of views are just bots. What matters is when your item sells and for how much.

Cheers, C.

[flipper2flipper]

Adopt a puppy or a young dog from a local rescue group.

Adoptapet.com

Petfinder.com

It will be a win-win for both you and for the dog that you rescue !

Puppies and young dogs need training, and walking 3 times a day, and quality play time, and quality snuggling time.

You can check your listings when your puppy or young dog takes his naps during the day.

[inhawaii]

Don't feel bad.  You are not alone. I do that too.

Constanlty checking the views, the watchers, double checking the listings, checking on competitors, seeing if my feedback went up.  

[sakic92710]

Don't feel bad.  I do it a lot, too.  Even at night, I'll get up when I'm awake to see what is going on.  1-2 times a night.  😛  If I was busy with sales, I wouldn't worry about it but, I'm DESPERATE for sales!   Are you doing other things online & just checking in between?  Take care.

[judydu2]

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@flipper2flipper wrote:

Adopt a puppy or a young dog from a local rescue group.

Adoptapet.com

Petfinder.com

It will be a win-win for both you and for the dog that you rescue !

Puppies and young dogs need training, and walking 3 times a day, and quality play time, and quality snuggling time.

You can check your listings when your puppy or young dog takes his naps during the day.

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Don't overlook senior dogs. They need loving, too. 

[mypostingid15]

Check your email for sold items and buyer inquiries often, but spend the rest of the time listing and improving your listings. I looked at some of your items and it seems you're describing yourself and not your items.

[minions4me-8]

To be honest, I did that when I first started posting my products for sale. But, I came to realize that checking them every hour for views or watchers was not helping me sell. I think it has to do with ourselves wanting to know if we did a good job with the posting just to see if anyone likes our items. 

To break the habit I started a blog on the selling gig I was doing. The whole process, the good, the bad and the ugly of selling on here. How I managed to find some of my items, how I researched them and how I came up with the pricing. Let me tell you, there are lots of people curious about how sellers get their stuff, price it and how they come up with it. It's nerve reckoning starting your listing on here, not to mention keeping up with the sh*t Ebay pulls on a daily basis. I have tremendous respect for the "BIG" sellers here, for me being just a minnow in this ocean of BIG TUNAS has been difficult to start and then continue listing to keep traffic following.  

Now, this may not be of use to you so I came up with other ideas:

1.) get a pet(dog) to take to the dog park to meet new people and get you outta the house

2.) volunteer-shelters( animals or people) hospitals, schools, churches, VA centers, meals on wheels, library(reading to kids or helping with books), senior homes, museums, zoos, your local community center, 

3.) take a class-whatever interest you, computers, painting, drawing, languages, photography, cooking, baking, golfing, gardening, dancing, water aerobics, woodwork, swimming, bird watching

4.) join-community senior center(ours has certain days for movies, dinner, shopping trips, casino nights, dances, game day, sports clubs), book club, chess club, vintage cars club

5.) take a walk, go for a drive, start a garden, start a birdhouse farm in your backyard for bird watching

It really just depends on you, on how far you're willing to go outside the home. But mine was the blog and gardening. I love growing things and it has rubbed off on my daughter. She has managed to grow tomatoes, jalapenos, tabasco peppers, strawberries and carrots. 

Whatever you pick just know it's not just you, but finding an outlet will help keep you busy enough to not have to be tied to the computer.

Good Luck friend!

[juststuffisell]

I think I can offer some constructive direction.

As an example, studies have shown that email is one of the leading causes to reduced office productivity. There are articles written by people much smarter than I that will tell you that the key to being more productive - relative to emails - is to only check you emails every 4 hours, make brief replies where appropriate. Not every email requires a response etc. Read up - it will take your mind off your listings.

I think one of the issues is habits and creating habits that lead to successful habits and again, there are books about this written by people much smarter than I am.

One suggestion I will make is to analyze your statistics. Set a block of time, analyze what is going on with each listing and make adjustments to your listings - title, description, category to see what works to improve your; impressions, click through rate (pageviews) and conversions. If you are going to look at you stats, do something constructive with them. let them simmer for a few days and come back and evaluate and tweak as needed again. This will have you doing something productive with your habit.

While you let them simmer, take that time to do new listings. 

I personally don't babysit my listings. I list them, I will look to see if I am getting views and drive on. I don't do a lot of detailed title work or SEO to the listings where I really should be doing more. I prefer to spend that time buying new neat inventory than tweaking stuff.... when I should be spending more time evaluating & tweaking stuff and less time buying new inventory.

Good luck to you!

Cheers

[buyarama]

Give Facebook a try  hahahahah