eBay

dairywyfe · ‎02-09-2018

How can I have 22 views on an item that I haven't even officially listed yet? It's SCHEDULED to be listed. So who's "viewing" it?! And why so many times?

dhbookds · ‎02-09-2018

You know, we get alot of questionable questions......some answers should be obvious, some can be answered with research, others are merely gripes posed in the form of a question.

lol, but you do have a legitmate question.......and will be interested if anyone knows the answer.......I sure don't.

dairywyfe · ‎02-09-2018

It's happened before. It's just weird. I'm picturing someone in an ebay office somewhere sitting at a desk saying, "hey Sara, come look at this necklace"... and then Sara saying to Susie, "hey Susie, isn't this cool?" and so on... 😉

I have NO CLUE!!! lol!

a_c_green · ‎02-09-2018

lol, but you do have a legitmate question.......and will be interested if anyone knows the answer.......I sure don't.

I believe there's a connection between the views of a pending (i.e. scheduled) item and the number of notifications that will go out when it goes live, to recipients who are either following the seller or watching the expired item that it was generated from (if any).

Anyone stiill watching an expired item when it's relisted (or, I think, used as a Sell Similar by the same seller) gets a heads-up notification in email at that time. When the system creates and queues up that notification to be sent out, it retrieves the data from the new, pending listing, such as its gallery photo, title, link and so on. It's that retrieval by the system that probably gets logged as a view of the listing, even though technically no one can see it yet.

dairywyfe · ‎02-09-2018

These are all new/never before listed.

emerald40 · ‎02-09-2018

Even this thread when I look at the main page is showing 0 replies even though 3 or 4 people have already responded.

a_c_green · ‎02-09-2018

These are all new/never before listed.

All righty, then; I'm going to go with possible followers... Come to think of it, it can show up at the bottom of similar listings, so the process that packages up the new listing for display elsewhere probably gets counted as a view of the listing too. I think any process that reads data from the listing record probably gets counted as a separate viewing.

dairywyfe · ‎02-09-2018

Ok... but I only have 7. lol! (totally not trying to argue... just sayin!) 😉

a_c_green · ‎02-09-2018

Ok... but I only have 7. lol! (totally not trying to argue... just sayin!) 😉

No problem! My real job is Tech Support; I have to make up plausible-sounding theories all the time...

dairywyfe · ‎02-09-2018

It does sound good! 🙂 😉

dairywyfe · ‎02-09-2018

Honestly, this is just getting weirder. One of my items is up to 40 views. Others at 27, 14, 26, 21, 15, 14. They're not even listed yet. I really think it's gotta be someone at ebay viewing them... no one else can see them yet! =0

partial*eclipse · ‎02-09-2018

Maybe indexing. I've noticed that scheduled listings show up right away in searches, even in categories where indexing usually takes a while.

bubbleman2010 · ‎02-09-2018

Its just ebays fluff bots they get stuck once inawhile while fluffy up listings....

argy_eyes · ‎02-09-2018

DW, I've noticed that every time I review an auction before it starts (sometimes before making small edits) the view count increments up. But 22 is beyond explanation.