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I don't have a clue.... I don't worry about the watchers, they are unpredictable at the best of times... Its the people like me who don't watch but use Sniper instead, we get all the bargains...
 
I've noticed that there sometimes seems to be a new "service", when you hover over a picture on an item a message comes up saying how many people have watched it in the last 24 hours.
 
I think you will find the first number is the number of times the item has been viewed, the second is the number of people watching the item. Hopefully there will be a third which is the bid!
Strangely the number of watchers only shows up on ebay uk, if I look at the same item on ebay de there is no watchers number.
 
They now show the number of people who have viewed the item over the number who have put it in their watch list to show you if your item is being seen or not, it is also a good guide to judge if people think it is over-priced.
 
Not sure about being able to get an idea of your pricing using the number of views or bids... If the item is unique it brings what it brings and depends who wants it.... If the item is such that it can be compared then you have an idea of what its worth. I had a 7" GPS that I won in a competition, they were selling on eBay around $90 so I thought I'd start of around $45. I did not get a bid, put it back up for $1 and it got $97....
 
Nor does watchers mean bidders, I just had something on Belgian ebay that had 4 watchers for the whole time but did not get one bid.
Of course if you are into statistics this is all wonderful stuff :yawn:
 
The number of views does show how the G scale market in the UK has considerable shrunk. People can't see the starting price until they click on the page link and often there only seems to be 20-40 people viewing items.
 
I quite often watch stuff:
[*]out of interest, just to see what happens to it - eg something which looks incredibly over-priced[*]in case I might snatch a bargain - if something is low-priced and has not attracted many bidders then I might set up a snipe[*]to see what sort of price something which I am thinking of selling might attract[*]to remind me of where an interesting Buy It Now item is which I might want to buy in the future but not just at this moment As Pugwash says, 'Watchers' are not necessarily potential buyers

Rik
 
funandtrains said:
The number of views does show how the G scale market in the UK has considerable shrunk. People can't see the starting price until they click on the page link and often there only seems to be 20-40 people viewing items.
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Not surprised its shrunk - most of the stuff on ebay G Scale is not available to Eire (WHY NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - not that I'd want it all or be able to afford it) - so I can only look. It gives me an idea of what my stuff might be worth - but then again, because of the ridiculously high postal charges, I'd never be able to sell it on fleabay because the charges might exceed the value of the item.


Yours, truly peeved, miffed, etc.
 
I also have used the watch feature to preview a similar item I am considering selling, by seeing what something actually sells for better allows me to determine a fair starting bid.

The thing is though, despite the armies of the delusional routinely placing clapped out G gauge items on BUY IT NOW for asking prices higher than they were originally sold for, the ACTUAL auction selling prices of auction items shows that the market is still depressed. Collectibles aside, alot of stuff sells for cheap, alot of it sells for what consider fair and reasonable prices but some of it is hard to give away, and some stuff thats being undersold still doesn't sell simply because even at its depressed price, its still too expensive for what people have or are willing to spend on Ebay.

I think the US large scale market isn't half what it was back in 2008.
 
All the stuff I had on last week sold for prices below what they had been getting just a few months ago but still enough for my needs. and yes if you compare watchers against bids you do get a feel for how the prices are BUT only if you start the bid amount low, if it's too high to start as somebody else said people wont bother putting it in there watched box! Ebay for profit is I think now pretty much dead still a good place to dispose of unwanted stuff just don't expect to make a fortune at it anymore!!
 
It depends what your selling, if its something legitimately rare or collectible, then yes stuff can sell quite well.

But more often than not, its more of a dumping ground these days. You put in on there to sell and get rid of and hopefully make a couple bucks off it.

I'm beginning to think some stuff would be better off donating to Salvation Army or St Vincent de Paul's and take the tax deduction instead.
 
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