Watching items...

[smileytown18]

I'm just wondering what other sellers think about ebay members watching your items. Do you think it shows interest or is it mostly competitors? I'm asking because I had 2 things happen to me this week vis-à-vis this subject:

1. On my other account, I had a member contact me regarding an item that had many watchers. He said he is watching this item and wants to know if he can purchase all of them at a low price. I take a quick glance at his account and see he sells the exact same items at a higher price....

2. I remember having placed something on my watch list, and wanted to see if it's still available. I go to my watch list (rarely do), and see that I have a HUGE list of items being watched. I spent some time studying it and realized I watch roughly 20% items I'm interested in, 25% time specific items I was interested in (not relevant anymore), 40% items I tend to list and want to see what they sell for, and roughly 15% I have no clue why I ever clicked watch. Many of the items were ended.

So I'm just wondering if the "watcher #" near my items for sale have any value at all?

What's your opinion and what are your "watching" habits

[smileytown18]

I never heard of that option in real life. For example, I can not see who is watching my items, how would I send them offers?

[touchdownarkansas]

On ecommercebytes today it says this in one of the posts

Sellers would be able to initiate an offer to anyone who is watching their listings.

That would indicate that at some point sellers will be able to see who is watching items and if they choose to they can bug them, harass them, torture them or whatever to try to sell to them. I will not let that happen . That is a violation of my privacy so to stop it I will no longer be watching anything. Problem solved.

[smileytown18]

When I see that, I'll delete my whole watch list. So far it's not live option and I can see a bunch of issues with that, so not surer how it will be rolled out on eBay's end

[luckythewinner]

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@smileytown18 wrote:

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@luckythewinner wrote:

 Your price is ridiculous and I was to see if some sucker actually falls for it

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lol. And then you wonder why that fellow doesn't come shop in your ebay store....

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Well I obviously don't tell them that 🙂 

[touchdownarkansas]

Its on ecommercebytes blog

New head of ebay buyer experience details major changes

if you want to go read all about it

[smileytown18]

Thanks, I will later.

[touchdownarkansas]

Some of them are already on there saying what a great idea it is. I think that they will find out that it will not work as an advantage for them like they think it will. They deserve whatever they get. I am a seller and I would never bug a buyer with that or a feedback request or anything. It is going to be a disaster waiting to happen.

[smileytown18]

Did a quick read. It gives no details. I would hate to give that tool in the hands of desperate or aggressive sellers.It would be terrible and a real put off to potential buyers.
Most comments on first page I read were overwhelmingly negative though

[touchdownarkansas]

Exactly. It is scary what is happening to ebay. Buyers will be leaving big league and not coming back.  Why do they think ad blockers are so popular? Buyers don't like to be pressured to buy and most of us hate extra emails in our inbox. I might have to get a different email address if it gets bad. It looks like it is not long until the harassment starts. Negative comments mean nothing to ebay. It is most likely already a done deal.

[luckythewinner]

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@touchdownarkansas wrote:

Buyers will be leaving big league and not coming back. 

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Buyers will leave it.

Sellers will leave it.

Its stock will crash. 

Its traffic will dry up. 

Its revenue will fall. 

It profits will shrink. 

No one will buy here. 

Competitors will destroy it. 

Amazon will destroy it. 

Etsy will destroy it. 

11Main will destroy it. 

Its business is cratering. 

A class action suit will force it to change. 

My lawyer brother will sue it. 

[touchdownarkansas]

Yep. 

[mcdougle4248]

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@touchdownarkansas wrote:

Some of them are already on there saying what a great idea it is. I think that they will find out that it will not work as an advantage for them like they think it will. They deserve whatever they get. I am a seller and I would never bug a buyer with that or a feedback request or anything. It is going to be a disaster waiting to happen.

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As a seller I would never use it either.  I think it would be a good idea, if they decide to roll this out, to have an opt out for buyers and place that opt out in an easy to find place...not hide it somewhere on the preferences page.  Maybe display  an "I do not want to receive offers from sellers" button right away when a potential buyer adds an item to their watch list?

[dirk12955]

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@smileytown18 wrote:

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@dirk12955 wrote:

My wife and teenage daughter use my ebay account to put the things they want for Christmas
in my watch list hoping I'll fall for it.

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Does it work?? lol

My souse not into ebay. never checks it

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My 17 year old daughter has a nice North face winter coat in my watch list.   (It's snowing here already.)

I'll probaly buy it for her figuring she's smart enough to find a good deal.   

[dirk12955]

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@luckythewinner wrote:

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@touchdownarkansas wrote:

Buyers will be leaving big league and not coming back. 

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Buyers will leave it.

Sellers will leave it.

Its stock will crash. 

Its traffic will dry up. 

Its revenue will fall. 

It profits will shrink. 

No one will buy here. 

Competitors will destroy it. 

Amazon will destroy it. 

Etsy will destroy it. 

11Main will destroy it. 

Its business is cratering. 

A class action suit will force it to change. 

My lawyer brother will sue it. 

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Sarcasm?      I get it,   I get it.    I complain as much as anybody,   But right now?    Business is pretty good.

[smileytown18]

then it works 😉