View counts

[sakic92710]

How do view counts drop?  lol   I have a listing that had 43 views.  The number dropped to 35.  Now it is down to 29.   What an incompetent website.  There is an old saying that if you give enough monkeys a typewriter, one of them will type out a sentence.  Are these monkeys being paid by eBay?  Will they get it right eventually?  😛

[itscalledapostingid]

It's a running 30 day total last time I checked so that behavior is easily explained if it's been up for that long.

[evry1nositswindy]

@itscalledapostingid Yep, that's correct.  As looks fall off the number declines.  If you want to see the history of views, you can do so.  You can see last 7 days, last 30 days, last 90 days, last 6 months, last year, and last 2 years.  Click on the views number, look to the upper right, change the time frame with the arrow. 

[kensgiftshop]

Views are only counted for the last 30 days, and it's been that way for a little while now.

[fbusoni]

What an incompetent website. 

Website?  

You are not reading or not synthesizing what others have posted.   Start at the bottom.

[sakic92710]

This listing has been active for approximately 31 days 5 hrs.  Last week, the total was 43.  A few days later, it dropped to 35.  Now, after only a very short time as a relist, the number is 29?  I did not have 29 views within 29 hours.  Not after getting just 43 for an entire month.  lol

[sakic92710]

3 replies about the 30-day cycle.  Thank you.  Fully aware of it.

[itscalledapostingid]

In all the years I've been on ebay I never assumed that data was displayed in real-time or that it was 100% accurate and that never concerned me.

[sakic92710]

If they are incapable of getting the simple things correct, how can you trust them on the major issues?

[pjcdn2005]

"I did not have 29 views within 29 hours. Not after getting just 43 for an entire month. lol"

@sakic92710 

No, you did not have 29 views within 29 hours, you've had 29 views in the last 30 days.   It is a rolling total, just like feedback.

Let's say that when you listed it you had 10 views on the first day and then 1 view each day for the next 20 days.  On the 31 st day if one person looked at it, you would have 21 views as the 10 from the first day would drop off. On the 32 day if one new person looked at it you would still have 21 views as the one from day two would have rolled off.

I doubt that it is that precise but that should give you an idea of how it works.

[sakic92710]

Thank you.  This helps it make more sense.  I wish they would make up their minds because I've seen listings have a certain number of views (8, 10, 15, etc.) after 30 days & seen it reset to 0 on several occasions. 

[hartungcards]

Sometimes they revise the view counts from View CountsUS to View CountsCAN.  You have to factor in the incompetent exchange rate.

[gurlcat]

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@sakic92710 wrote:

 after 30 days & seen it reset to 0 on several occasions. 

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Only if you manually ended/sell-similar'd the item.  But for an auto-relist I guarantee you didn't see the views reset to 0.  

[itscalledapostingid]

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@sakic92710 wrote:

If they are incapable of getting the simple things correct, how can you trust them on the major issues?

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I'm not having any issues with my listings, payments, shipping or anything that affects my business.

Are you?

[gurlcat]

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@itscalledapostingid wrote:

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@sakic92710 wrote:

If they are incapable of getting the simple things correct, how can you trust them on the major issues?

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I'm not having any issues with my listings, payments, shipping or anything that affects my business.

Are you?

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Agree, but then those would all be errors we could see and prove.  What does make my eye twitch every time I think about it is how we can know whether an item really sold "via promotion" therefore justifying the charge for that, just because they say it did.