No views????

[citrine146]

I am aware that sales have been down or even NIL for a lot of people here but no views?

Is it me on how I present my items?  Items not interesting enough?

I'm hoping it's a just a glitch which is about to be fixed soon.

Anyone else having the same problem?

[bigoljim47]

For the past 2 weeks many of my items show 0 views. I know this is the slow times for me, but never this slow. It was said that the first view on the counter was a bot count, showing it was picked up by the computers. So to me my items were never indexed and can not bee seen. Other sellers state they have a watchers and no views, so something must be messed up.

I have no clue how computers operate, I ask my husband when something is wonky. 

[kaelykat]

I think this could be a glitch in the indexing on the site. Hopefully it will pass quickly.

One suggestion, add US sizes to your listings. This could give you a little boost in sales to the US.

[lacesandtrimsforyou]

Last night all of my listings said zero views on another ID. Today they are all back to normal and some with 100's of views. 0 Sales for 4 days now though, so they are definately messing with serious stuff. No site can make big changes without shutting down servers and Ebay does it constantly.

[shfquickship73]

I might have some answers for you.  Your listings and everyone else's are predetermined on this site.   If you don't believe that then there actually when I was on facebook a group called former ebay sellers.  THey had to have two different discussions. 

In one was a list about what ebay really does to mess with sellers.  SO, technically it's not your fault.  It's ebay. How about giving the other competition a try.  If one site doesn't then maybe try other avenues.

[abfabvintage]

@kaelykat

@citrine146

Hi, all. It IS an off and on glitch for the past few weeks. I have had views & watchers show with no problem since the glitch was reported and was thankful it wasn't affecting me. BUT I spoke too soon. This morning I, too, now have 0 for views whereas yesterday I had multiple views. The watchers have remained, but no views. In all my years here, I have never had a view at 0 cause at least one view or two are bots and indexing. Not sure if not putting US sizes/measurements in a listing would cause 0 views, but good idea anyway. 

[ymeagainlord]

I recall seeing a poster mention once that if their new listings had zero views within a day or so, they would end them and relist because they knew they would end without being seen, but I'll be damned if I'm using up my listings for that.

[pvcliff]

I posted about this several weeks ago, wondering if they've changed something with the indexing so that the usual 1-2 bot views that appear almost instantly have vanished.  Today I see a "-" (dash) as the number of views on many of my listings that wasn't there yesterday.

[midwestmenswear]

Something is off with the views if an item can have a watcher but no views.

And the seller is not watching the item.

[kaelykat]

@abfabvintage  I just added the thing about us sizes as an aside. Had nothing to do with 0 views, That's jsut eBay being the mess it is right now.

I was just thinking, as I looked over the OP's listings that adding US sizes may give a small boost in sales overall. I know, if I don't see US sizes, I don't even bother to try to figure it out and just moveon to someone who does list US sizes.

[femmefan1946]

More important than views-- how do this month's sales compare to your sales in June 2017 ? In June 2016?

I looked at my annual sales graphs on Paypal, which I just discovered,  and they confirmed that June is not a good month for me, but January-March and August-October have been consistently busy.

Something I knew from my casual observations since 2001. Nice to have it confirmed.

aware that sales have been down or even NIL for a lot of people

Every single month of every single year, you will see long threads from sellers moaning about poor sales.

Frankly it's a man bites dog situation.

If sales are good, you don't post to say so.

If sales are off, you look for sympathy.

Don't take those posts too seriously.

Asking for a critique of your listings while things are slow can be very helpful.

Just selling from Bahrain may be part of the problem.

[futuretomorrow]

1. You don't have "buy it now" on any of your listings, they're just auctions. I can see this being a huge turn-off to a younger, more impatient user.

2. As someone else noted, you don't have the size in your listing title. 

[missalisa]

There has to be some sort of glitch.  I have two listings with bids and a watcher but showing no views.  How could that even be possible?  I have a few other listings that I know showed views at one time and now they do not.  The views seem to have all disappeared.  Something is wrong.

[emerald40]

No views = known ebay glitch.

For some it is just resetting each day.

But as another poster pointed out, when I am scrolling down the new list, if all the pertinent info is not there, I just scroll right on past you.

[ymeagainlord]

Yep, I seem to have no views then views showing up and now I have a lot with just a dash instead of a number.