Legitimate Views??

[meme6253]

I Have to Question if the views we are receiving are legitimate, Reason being, I have been doing many new listings, & finding that their are some with 2-4 views & the next day those views are gone, back to 0, way before the 30 day mark that they have now, I understand watchers going away, changed their mind, found something else, whatever reason, but Views are Views Right!?

[onefootflipper2]

I have not noticed that happening at all. My views on new listings are definitely only incrementing upwards. I have not seen any resets at all.

[wrong66]

I don't doubt it. I don't know if anyone can fully explain what's going on with views or why it became such a priority with eBay to have them messed with (with so many other things that need to be fixed).

[stainlessenginecovers]

Views are a rolling 30 days. If 10 people 'view' an item on May 1st and you look at the 'views' on May 29th; you will see those 10 views. If you look at it again on May 31, you will see 0 (zero) as those 10 'fall off'... BUT....

you can 'click' on the 'views' (number is blue underlined) and you can expand to see views for 90 days, 6 mos. etc. 

[m60driver]

Contrary to some explanations, I had a recent listing, so no reset, with one watcher and no views.  But it doesn't bother me as I ignore views as I have had items with hundreds of views with no sale and items with low single digit views and the item sold.

[onefootflipper2]

A lot of my recent sales only have 1 view or course I do sell a lot of things that are likely to sell on the first view since the buyer already knows the exact item they want and are sorting by cheapest.

[meme6253]

This is happening before the 30 days

[stacy_pme]

Cool, I didn't know this, and never clicked on it.  Thanks 🙂 

[johnrj1226]

Always considered views the same as the window shoppers at the mall that  loo and "well that's cure".  In eBayland those folks take "a look see" with zero interest in buying or don't  have the money right now to buy - but wish they could - something like that old  Christmas Sears Roebuck and Company "Wish Book" - especially the Christmas one or they just didn't like something about the listing   i.e. description  ( both in pics AND wordings.or seller's FB  rating or  could be a fellow  seller getting  info  for  competitive comparison reasons - I did that a lot and even might add it to  my watch list  and some day when I get a "roundtoit"  delete it from my watch list.

[stainlessenginecovers]

What does the 90 day show for that item that had 'disappearing views'? 

[reallynicestamps]

Viewers view.

Watchers watch.

Buyers buy.

Are you getting sales in comparable numbers to June 2019 or 2018? (2020 and 2021 were outliers with the pandemic surge in online buying.)

[chapeau-noir]

@meme6253  Can you make a note on those listings that reset the view count to 0 before the 30 day mark, and then when views start showing up again, check into the views itself and see what the 90 day graph shows.  It might yield some information.  I don't track views much unless they're outrageous (when I figure either someone here is tinkering under the hood or my item got onto a blog or something) so I haven't seen this happening, but when I check I do see ups and downs in the graph and sometimes it flat lines.

[meme6253]

I will make a note & watch it, I know overall their not a Big deal, but my concern is why would they change to a Goose Egg before the 30 day mark?

[chapeau-noir]

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@meme6253 wrote:

I will make a note & watch it, I know overall their not a Big deal, but my concern is why would they change to a Goose Egg before the 30 day mark?

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It does make one distrust the process - if I'm going to have data like this, I far prefer it to be accurate.

[sakic92710]

We cannot trust the view count now.  I thought I only had 1 view on a listing but a friend informed me, when he visited the page, it was a 'hot' item with 1 view per hour.  Now I just ignore that "data" they provide.