posted on January 9, 2005 06:13:14 AM new
I am confused, I guess. What is the point of "watching" an auction? Why don't they just BUY it and get it? I opened a store 20 days ago, watchers. They gonna watch it for 30 days?
No swapmeets today, Pouring down rain here. Boring day on the way. No SUN! Bummer!
posted on January 9, 2005 06:39:41 AM new
I can tell you of one instance where a "watcher" on my ebay store items paid off. Just before Christmas I had a lady buy one auction item and one small, cheap store item. The weight of the 2 put her up in to the "over 3 pounds" which meant that she was going to get her items shipped in a flat rate box (USPS). I wrote and told her that if there was any other items that she was thinking of getting, now was the time because of the flat rate. Turns out that she was the watcher on 6 other small items in my store. She just didn't want to pay the shipping on them. It ended up that her box was stuffed to capacity and turned a $12 sale into a $25 sale. So I say, let then watch, you never know when they are going to cut loose and spend some of that hard earned money!
Kevin
posted on January 9, 2005 07:52:48 AM new
I often watch auctions as a seller because I may have the same item as you and I want to see what it sells for. Then I'll determine whether I want to bother to list it on eBay or just throw it into my shop for sale.
~ Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. ~
posted on January 9, 2005 09:30:23 AM new
No, if she hadn't told me that she had these items on her watched list I would have never known.
After I told her that she could fill up the box for no extra shipping she wrote back and said "I have several of your items on my watched list".
Kevin
posted on January 9, 2005 10:37:47 AM new
Most people watch items instead of bidding because they are afraid other people will see their bids and outbid them.
You could list an item worth $1,000 and start it at a penny, and most people would watch it instead of bidding.
posted on January 9, 2005 10:47:28 AM new
I just went on WATCH to some guys auction, just for the heck of it, Test. Now if I KNEW where to locate WHERE I am watching him, I have a feeling it's kind of like a Bookmark? I not really that MOTIVATED to find out right now. All good points.
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posted on January 9, 2005 10:55:44 AM new
Personally I "watch" items that I come across but am not quite sure that they are what I need. Over Christmas I did much of my shopping on ebay. There were a couple items that I came across that I thought were probably what I needed but I realized I needed to do a little more research on so I put it on my watchlist until I was able to confirm whether or not they were what I needed. Many people will also put things on their watchlist when they ask a seller a question in order to bookmark the item while they await an answer.
There is another seller who has had an item on my watch list for over a year now. She has a funky user name that I can never remember but I spend about $200 with her every other month. I keep one of her store items on my watchlist as a bookmark to her store. Somehow I don't think that she minds.
It may frustrate us as sellers that items with 3 watchers ended up with no bidders but if the person does not buy it just means that in the end they didn't really want what we were selling. At the end of the day at least we know how many cases of "buyers remorse" we won't have to deal with.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on January 9, 2005 11:45:29 AM new
I check the watch list on My Ebay occasionally--mainly to reassure myself that an item with no bids may actually get a bid eventually. Or, as is the case with one of my collectibles today, an item with 1 opening bid has 9 watchers, and it's a unique item, so I'm pretty sure it'll go higher than the opening bid. Just curious, I guess, but if an item ends with no bids AND no watchers, I tend to think it won't sell on relist.
posted on January 9, 2005 12:11:42 PM new
Jack, I watch a ton of stuff. I only have so much to spend so I watch what I like then see if any of the items fall witin my budget in the last few hours.
posted on January 9, 2005 01:42:19 PM new
Personally I find that more people do last minute bidding, and being on the watchlist, eBay emails you a few hours before the auction closes. I find that the number of people watching my auctions is absolutely no indication of the number of bid it will get, if any. Last week I had 14 watchers on one item, no bids at all, but several with 0 watchers had 3 or 4 different bidders. I often just save auctions on "favorites" rather than on the watch list.
posted on January 9, 2005 02:22:10 PM new
Right now I have 41 items on my "watch list"
If you want to snipe an auction,and if you dont have a program that does that, a "watch list" is essential.Also for instance,I might be watching lets say a video tape recorder.I will check this every moring to see how high its going.Now lets say day 5 another seller is selling the same tape recorder for half the price...well Im going to delete the first one and watch the second one.
posted on January 9, 2005 07:06:21 PM new
Two auctions with two watchers. Getting my mouth all watering for a bidding war.
Nada.
Another auction, no watchers, little bidding war.
I hate watching watchers.
They can watch, but I don't want to know about it.
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It's easier to watch a camel get stuffed
through the eye of a needle, than watch
a man use heaven to get all his friends rich
