The number of Watchers I have.

[dianac6756]

I counted all of my Watchers on items I am selling. Ebay  states that there is half that many. Any ideas why the difference? Thanks. DianaC6756

[stainlessenginecovers]

You have no way of counting the number of watchers EXCEPT what ebay tells you. Not sure what you are talking about. 

[vintage-camerastuff]

You only have as many watchers as shown in your listings.   Your count should be the same as ebays.   If watchers were buyers we'd all be rich.

[redmodelt]

Most watchers are not buyers, so really don't mean anything. The number of times the listing has been viewed is a different thing. Just because someone looked at it, does not mean they saved it to their watch list. You could have 20 people that opened and looked, but maybe only 5 saved to their watch list.

[glenvonnie]

The numbers of watchers are the the number of listings that have watchers, not all of the watchers added together. I had 55 watchers on one item yesterday and after it sold the number of watchers went down by one.

[releasethekraken_1]

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@glenvonnie wrote:

The numbers of watchers are the the number of listings that have watchers, not all of the watchers added together. I had 55 watchers on one item yesterday and after it sold the number of watchers went down by one.

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If true, then it needs to be renamed.

[doug_5857]

It  you have 1 item for sale and have 6 ppl watching. You have 1 watcher.  They count items watched not individual watchers

[km181177]

I currently have zero view on all of my items, but I have watchers.  Geesh.  How do those tricky people watch my items without viewing them?  Another eBay glitz.  My sales have been dead for 2 months now.  No wonder with zero views..........

[stainlessenginecovers]

I clean out (delete/remove) my 'watched' items once an item sells or it ends and is not relisted. Therefore, the 'count' for 'watchers' would decrease after the item is sold.

[glenvonnie]

Number of items with watchers ?, Yes, plus total number of watchers, that would let us see trends.

[moldy5]

this is true info!  For over 10 years I amused myself by using pen & paper to mark how many watchers I had for my stuff.  Then eBay made a bunch of recent changes & they include number of listings with watchers. Took me a while to figure out-no, don't panic!    Some items may get 10+ watchers while most get just the one.  So before their "help" my total watchers may have been 65. After it's down to 21.  But that's just total listings-not actual bodies!

[tdumonde2014]

You can choose to "Watch" an item without ever going to the listing. There is an option to do so from a list of items that you are looking at.

[redmodelt]

I do that all the time if it is something I want to come back later look at, so I don't so I don't have to find it again.

[lowestpriceavailable]

So true

[kh-vince]

Hi everyone,

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