Simply-the-best-for-you Volunteer Community Mentor
I tell ya, I am having a generally bad and generally 'weird' week, and that's not a good combination because it feels like forces out of my control, HA. First (as described in another post) there's these seller offers I keep getting for items I have never even clicked on. Then starting maybe 4 or 5 days ago, my store seems to be in sudden down-throttle mode, total viewcounts plummeting overnight, with even new postings of very popular items getting little or no views (and so yeah my sales have sucked too, and my latest auction closed much lower than expected, even WITH the 'express' promotion which usually works great for me). Yesterday I ended/sell similar'd all listings older than 30 days, maybe that will algorithm me back to normal traffic, guess I'll see.
And now, a new weirdness: this item I posted yesterday. I posted it at the same time as a few other things, and then a few hours later checked to see how they were doing, and I think maybe 1 or 2 of them had ONE view or something, and no watchers. But then another few hours later, this one still had zero views, but one WATCHER. Now tell me how the heck that is possible. I know ebay recently changed the display of views to (supposedly) include only real views by shoppers, not 'bot' views for 'no-no' listing scrutiny, internal logistical whateverness, etc. But I can think of no way anyone can watch something they have literally not SEEN. I thought maybe it was just a brief glitch that would change overnight, but nope, still there.
Hey @pburn there's no way to say for sure lots of things can factor, the browser, the app, the version of the app, Android vs Apple etc...
As others have explained, it's very common (& has been for many years) to have a watcher & no views, but I wanted to address your low view counts comments.
Did you read the announcement? Or the 10,000 other threads about viewcounts? Ebay has changed the way they count views, so everyone's view counts plummeted overnight. They wiped the slate clean & going forward you will only see 30 days of views (you can click on the hyperlink to change it though) & additionally, they have removed bot views, since those weren't real buyers, for a more accurate count. Bot views were around 30%-40% of view counts. So, nothing happening to you, that is happening to anyone else on the US site.
I don't really care for the 30 day counts, but I'm glad they got rid of the bot views.
