Ebay car selling - is this normal?
Ebay car selling - is this normal?
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insanojackson

Original Poster:

6,020 posts

273 months

Monday 4th July 2011
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Currently got my car up on ebay as a classified with best offer. Its been on about 4 days.

I havent had a single call or email about it but the car has been viewed 87 times and has 2 watchers. Now 87 seems quite high to me without one enquiry, is this normal for ebay or could those views be some kind of spyware/bot thingy messing about with my ad?

Dog Star

17,587 posts

197 months

Monday 4th July 2011
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My old SLK had over 300 watchers.... zero bids.
Selling my old R1 ... 87 watchers... zero bids.

In future I'll count watchers as meaningless.

m8rky

2,090 posts

188 months

Monday 4th July 2011
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I watch stuff just out of interest sometimes so i can see what it sells for.Good indicator of what people will pay for something rather than what people percieve as the value of an item.

Mr serge

197 posts

211 months

Monday 4th July 2011
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my merc is on ther at the moment 279 views and 32 watchers with a day to go. yours is normal in fact i would say it has not been viewed that much.

McSam

6,753 posts

204 months

Monday 4th July 2011
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m8rky said:
I watch stuff just out of interest sometimes so i can see what it sells for.Good indicator of what people will pay for something rather than what people percieve as the value of an item.
yes I do this all the time, even for things that I have only a vague interest in possibly buying in the future.

You're lucky to have 87 views hehe

Deluded

4,968 posts

220 months

Monday 4th July 2011
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Views/watchers mean nothing.

I've sold loads of my old cars through ebay. Probably 80% of them that sold had no enquiries at all before the end of the auction.

You wont get any bids until the last day, at the earliest.