We create a listing and Ebay wants us to help get the ball rolling by sharing the listing via email, and 3 social media outlets. Sometimes social media gets a view before the item goes live or do they? Who if anyone is looking at our listings?
Many of us have had websites and get real time analytics which include location, whether they are on a PC or Cellphone, whether they slurp their coffee/tea/soup and which leg do they prefer to cross. In other words we see valuable information we could use to close the deal. As a seller I want to know if they added one of my items to the cart. Perhaps shipping was too expensive ? Cold feet? Whatever it might have been I want to try to figure it out and close the deal. We don't even get traffic reports until a week or more later. To me this is ignorant. They give us links to share the listings but don't trust us enough with data to show our expertise? All they do is send out a junk folder message. They know very little about selling. If anything they irritate people with auto messages.
I've brought the subject up before but never got any answers. Are they purposely hiding the data from us so we don't learn they're not always showing our listings? Do they figure after two or 3 weeks we'd forget? I'd love to know if I actually generated any traffic by sharing my listings. I'd love to compare that with organic views to see if there is any correlation. Who knows maybe I come up with an idea to complete the sale. It would seem I'll never get the chance to try since I'm so lost in the dark. My page views were bad according to Ebay. So I ran some sharing campaigns but according to Ebay I got minimal views. On average each 0-1 view listing went up to 35-40 after my sharing. So all those views were fake? Why tell me my listing has views but show me a different number on the traffic reports? Duplicate viewer? Thought those were filtered out? Bots? To sum up I think Ebay needs to come clean and stop treating us like children. We need data to adjust our businesses in REAL TIME.
