every 'watch' your own item to stimulate interest?

[dealsagent]

although eBay might keep sending you updates about your own item and when it sells they'll apologize to you for missing out and direct you to a similuar item

[*help_no_brakes*]

The title of this thread grabbed my attention.

I'll read it again when the English version is released.

[sockmonkeydave]

@dealsagent

The "Sock Monkey" watches a few of "Dave's" items.

But I do it just to see what the listings look like with Monkey eyes.

I don't think it makes a bit of difference in the interest.

[wolf*song]

I thought watching your own item was against the rules.  No?

[grasshopperx]

When I had items on here. I used to watch my own items. Then ebay started to send me emails not to buy my item, but to go buy someone elses. That's when the magnitude of how STUPID this place is, hit me. Like a ton of bricks. Moved all my items to another site, did very well.  Until lately. No views just like here. I have learned the ebay ceo got hired on the other site. Already I can see the mess. It's pretty bad when you move to get away  from these idiots and they follow sellers to other sites to ruin those as well. There is no escaping it.

[luckythewinner]

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@dealsagent wrote:

ever 'watch' your own item to stimulate interest?

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No, I've never done that. I've never really considered the presence of watchers to be something that stimulated enough interest to bother trying 🙂 

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

I'm not sure anyone really understands the correlation between watchers and time to sell when it comes to Cassini. For instance if you tend to have a lot of watchers but your items don't sell is that a strike against you? Does it affect your search rankings?

[thatsallfolks]

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@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:

I'm not sure anyone really understands the correlation between watchers and time to sell when it comes to Cassini. For instance if you tend to have a lot of watchers but your items don't sell is that a strike against you? Does it affect your search rankings?

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I believe it does.

[thatsallfolks]

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@dealsagent wrote:

although eBay might keep sending you updates about your own item and when it sells they'll apologize to you for missing out and direct you to a similuar item

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How would watching your own item "stimulate interest"? No one is watching you watch.

[thatsallfolks]

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@wolf*song wrote:

I thought watching your own item was against the rules.  No?

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No. Why would putting your item on a watch list be something they'd have a rule against?

[omgitlightsup]

Back in the 90s, you could bid on your own items.

[ebbyisme]

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@thatsallfolks wrote:

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@dealsagent wrote:

although eBay might keep sending you updates about your own item and when it sells they'll apologize to you for missing out and direct you to a similuar item

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How would watching your own item "stimulate interest"? No one is watching you watch.

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No one knows everything that goes into search placement. Like increased sales gives you better visibility, a lot of people believe "watchers" improves search placement (at least for that item). The more "interest" or people considering purchasing that item the more it moves up in visibility. There are and has been for years, groups of friends who "watch" each other's items in the belief it will help sales.

[wolf*song]

I dunno, that's why I was confused.  🙂

[thatsallfolks]

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@omgitlightsup wrote:

Back in the 90s, you could bid on your own items.

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I wasn't aware that shill bidding (a crime) was ever permitted on eBay. Not believing that one.

[omgitlightsup]

It absolutely was permitted to accept bids from other sources, and submit them on behalf of your buyers. Look it up, or ask anyone who, like myself, has been here for a long time.

Have you ever been to an aution where a sealed bid from an absentee bidder was announced prior to the start of open bidding?

eBay used to endow members with an astonishing amount of responsibility and autonymy compared to today.

"Shill bidding" is the practice of deceptively bumping the price to the end of a higher sale. It's not the same thing as bidding by proxy, a term that eBay re-invented to mean automatically raising your minimum bid when someone else places a bid.