Whatever angle you approach this with, it seems to me....nigh on impossible to list something that garners just one view in 104 days,
The item in question - an extremely rare movie program (such, usually sell quite well) "To the Devil a Daughter"
I bought this on ebay back in 2013 or 2014. I think it was even more expensive then than the $130 I'm asking now. I do recall a few facts:
1. I saw and bought it during its second week of listing
2. It went down the wire with four or five of us bidding against one another (When was the last time any auction involved a dozen bidders?)
3. There had been a significant number of "views" (no need to "promote" a sale back then)
4. I only won it because I placed an ultra high bid right at the end, and other bidders ran out of time trying to catch up to it.
Other factors today such as
1. There's way more sellers now (presumably way more buyers too?)
2. Buyers are more selective
3. There are many more listings for what you're selling - so price comes into it. Too high...no-ones going to look at it
4. Shipping costs are far higher - doesn't affect this....it's media mail
aren't particularly relevant
Taking into account also,
1. People MUST still be looking for Movie programs
2. Promoting the item should be helping to some degree
3. It's an extremely rare item
4. The program's condition is excellent
5. Nothing wrong with the images OR the description
6. There's no other similar item on EBay to compare it with - so it's not a case of "Oh there's better ones
out there" or "Yours is too expensive" (but they'd still would have had to view the listing).
7. Many listings for genuinely rare movie programs wildly exceed $130 - I doubt any of those have seen only ONE view in 104 days
Just statistically speaking, I find it hard to believe that with allegedly multi millions of EBay buyers globally, hundreds if not thousands of which, probably collect movie programs....just ONE person in three months across the planet, has viewed this listing. There's obviously another reason I'm not privy to!
