Ebay watchers

interestingly the highest value items under Tolkien has 48 watchers !
vs 100's on others
At least you get a good feel for level of interest

Can you post a link to such an auction laurel? I haven't looked that hard, but haven't seen the watchers function yet. The seller (privately) saw this anyway, did they not?

BH

I think this is what laurel talks about, from my experience it appears if you highlight the picture on the auction, but disappears quite quickly.

But it is not Watching but Viewing, which is not really the same.

Ahh, indeed, I'd seen that. This isn't how many people are actually watching it though i.e. the figure the seller would have. This is just a "other people are watching this" graphic which annoyingly gets in the way of you viewing the photographs!

Is this what you were referring to laurel?

BH

No not what i saw

At one stage when i posted topic i could see all the actual watchers on almost every item !!!
Then i went to check again and that view had been removed !!?!?!
I have contacted ebay and awaiting a reply.

very odd

ok
it looks like the odd watchers feature is back
still havent heard from ebay but this feature is useful for sure
here is a screen dump

as yo ucan see the number of watchers now appears under the price
PS apologises if this is anyones sale - tried to pick one at random

Interesting & useful, as you say. So, now that it's reappeared, does this appear in every single listing that you look at?

BH

I went to that same listing, and the number of watchers is not shown to me (logged in and not logged in). If I look at the source HTML, there is a field there, but it is not populated with any data.

I wonder who gets to see that and who does not?

[UPDATE] - when I look at it on ebay.COM it has the watchers shown, but not on ebay.CO.UK (where you saw it) - perhaps it has to do with what is my home ebay site?