changing listing format, with watchers

[hiddenvermont]

If I have a BIN listing with watchers, and I end it and relist as an auction, will I lose the watchers, or do they get notified of the new listing? Thanks.

[hartungcards]

You lose all your watchers whenever you end any listing.

[buyselljack2016]

@hiddenvermont 

there may be an option to send that listing to "auction". Seems that watches should remain, but can not confirm that.

[ten_o_nine]

Whoever is watching the listing will get an email from eBay stating "The item you've been watching has been relisted" with a link to the new listing, so you can end and relist, and you won't lose interested watchers.

[nobody*s_perfect]

As noted, the Watchers will not carry over to the new listing. But if the original listing is still in their Watch list, it will show a link to the relisted item.

In your site preferences under Communication is a notifications options checklist which includes an option for "Watched item relisted," but I don't recall whether the default is to receive them or not. Either way: some of your lost watchers will be notified about the relist and others will not.