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mauritron



Joined: 31 Aug 2008
Posts: 51
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 12:23 pm    Post subject: Is the Ebay counter fixed or fiddled  

Listed a few items yesterday.
(I know, I can't keep away from the bl**dy site but nowadays only use it as a way of driving customers to our other sites)

Checked today and as usual the counters were still very low or non-starters.
However I then put a mention of the items on Twitter.
The counters on Ebay INSTANTLY increased by at least 10 within a second of the twitter link going live.
Is this a bug or an ebay scam to make you think you are getting more hits than you actually are.
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elgato



Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 17240
Location: Texas

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:08 pm    Post subject: Re: Is the Ebay counter fixed or fiddled  

IMHO fewer and fewer people actually shop auctions at ebay. Ebay is pushing for the larger stores like Amazon has.
That's probably why ebay keeps running these weekly deals merely to lure sellers to list items which receive few page view and sales. Looks good to the stockholders though when numbers jump due to the weekly listing deals.

The last 2 times I bothered listing my merchandise on ebay I received few page views and no sales. Why waste my time? I certainly don't rely on online sales any longer to pay any bills.
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