Question about views

[meekamaye]

Not this is a make or break situation but I am curious about how the views work. When you have an item with 15 views and suddenly they fall to 5 or 0, what prompts that to happen? Is it after so many days, after so many times of renewal? Or just random? 

Frankly, I don't panic that much over views because I have found an item can sell with one view or 45 or not at all. Views did translate into sales previously but those days are gone and now it is simply re-adjusting my sails to the new eBay breeze that is blowing through this site. But, I am curious about the decrease in views and what prompts this new method. 

Thank you for any replies. 

[femmefan1946 · Accepted solution]

Views are on a 30 day visibility.

So if you got 10 Views on Day One of listing and  subsequently got another five, on Day 29 you would see 15 Views and on Day 31 you would see five.

The other difference in that a few months ago, eBay stopped showing sellers 'bot views, which may be disconcerting.

So with both in play, if in September 2021 you listed a new item and Google picked it up 500 times by January, you would see a Views number of over 500 (allowing that you may get some human Views as well).  Then somewhere around June 2022, all those Google bot views were dropped* and only the previous 30 days of human Views were shown.

It's really more honest and transparent. You only see recent views by potential buyers.

But from a more cynical point of view, each of those Views is someone who looked at your item and did not buy it.

*The bots still see the listing, their Views are just not visible.

[aprilmoviebuf2000]

With the spring seller update, eBay changed the view count to a 30 day rolling count, instead of a lifetime of listing count the way it used to be.  

[meekamaye]

Interesting. It does make more sense to show the human views and I realize they are not all buyer views but it shows a more accurate count of how sought after the item happens to be at that time. I can live with that....

[meekamaye]

I wondered if it was a rolling count. I seemed to notice that the count would drop every so often and especially after an item was listed for around a month. It does help to see if the item is seasonal or not. 

[james8728]

Ebay really seemed to really screw things up (yet again) when they messed with the "View" counter. I know some don't think # of views are important, but it's an indicator to me that an item might be overpriced, a error I didn't see or something else. 

What I don't understand is how on new listings can I have "watchers" with 0 views showing.

Ebay really is a thorn in its own side.

[kensgiftshop]

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@james8728 wrote:

Ebay really seemed to really screw things up (yet again) when they messed with the "View" counter. I know some don't think # of views are important, but it's an indicator to me that an item might be overpriced, a error I didn't see or something else. 

What I don't understand is how on new listings can I have "watchers" with 0 views showing.

Ebay really is a thorn in its own side.

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You don't need to visit the listing, you can watch an item from a search page.