ebay runs tests on everything and they must have realized displaying it discouraged sales. Short answer: If you want to send an offer, send it to whoever ebay is sending it to and don't worry about why it's 2 people rather than 5. The watchcount was designed for buyers and it was years before it was visible to the seller then years again until it was displayed on the listings. "If that is the case, it makes the watch count rather deceptive and makes me think I'm not doing as well as I thought with visibility!"Īs I explain above, that is not the case. He is still watching your item, he could still buy it or make an offer to you, but he does not want people sending him an offer. The issue is, the buyer can sign up to be placed on what amounts to eBay's version of a "do not call " list.the buyer doesn't want people sending him offers, period.
If the buyer takes your item off their list, the buyer won't be shown as a watcher, period. Yes, but that has nothing to do with this really. "Does eBay not change the watch count if a buyers takes my item off their list?" Programmers advertise these bots as a form of SEO (search engine optimization) for eBay listings. This action drives up the visible ‘watch’ counter on that item. They are scripts given instructions to view a listing on eBay as many times as the user ordered. Ranking of the most watched items is calculated with the latest watch count information. eBay Viewer and Watcher Bots are very simple. The top items are determined by the watch count totals from the preceding day. You should dump the response given by findItemsAdvanced, find listingInfo and it will be there. NOTE The watchCount variable is not in the documentation. It only works with findItemsAdvanced and not with any other. And I believe there are other factors as well, for example, ebay may limit the total number of offers a particular buyer gets from all sellers within a time frame. The top 20 most watched items, if any, are returned unless maxResults is used to specify a smaller or larger result set. Anyway, If you call findItemsAdvanced, under listingInfo there is a watchCount field. On the other hand, if the watcher count is high, this may indicate that the item is popular. If the watcher count is zero, that may mean that the item is not popular enough to draw many buyers. If he has signed up to refuse such notices, he won't get one. One way to gauge the popularity of an item on eBay is to look at the number of watchers an item has. If a watcher is on your Blocked Bidder List, he won't get one. Watchers and eligible watchers are two different things.
This is what you’ll see: VoilaWatch Count reports 3 watchers on the listing the same listing that didn’t have any watcher information reported on eBay. It's rarely the actual number of watchers that eBay says are watching my item. Go to and then plug in the title of the listing into the search bar. Its all done anonymously - the seller specifies the offer amount but ebay acts as an intermediary and sends the offer. This is correct, ebay will sometimes invite sellers to send an offer to watchers of their items. "I have sent out quite a few of them and I noticed that say a listing has 5 watchers, sometimes when I send the offer out, it says the offer will be sent to say 2 buyers. If you’re a seller sometime ebay will ask if you want to send an offer to your watchers.
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