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Low Item Views?
 

Anyone been experience very low views lately? I list in multiple categories and lately views have been really low. Anyone else seeing this?

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Welcome to eCommerce saturation. When I was here few years ago warning you people everyone was laughing at me.

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Are these lows just on new accounts or across all accounts?

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I'm doing just fine. Can I still laugh at you?

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My sales dropped significantly from the 9th. I thought it was just the regular blip but no. So I looked up my item in Terapeak and some small new competitor had crashed his prices.
He's just crossed the hundred mark on feedback.
He hasn't got TRS and his feedback is 95%

I decided i'm not playing peekaboo with this one.

You may need to check your competition.

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I think it's going to largely depend on what you're selling and categories you are in.
I'm not seeing any slowdown in sales at the moment.

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I'm making 1mil per day thanks
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aking, have you considered using advertisements to boost up your view and possibly your sales?

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900 million active listings, 360 million users, ( 180 million of which are stealth, and another 90 million of the remainder who are fed up and shop on AZ instead) you do the math. :)

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Nope, you mean like advertise on social media?

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I believe he means using the "sponsored" method

I haven't dabbled with this but I might for some slow moving items that I have that don't seem to be getting views as my other ones are doing just fine on the same account.

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any kind of advertising whether it's on eBay itself or external.

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99% of those listings belong to empirestate anyway.

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But why would views matter on a new account vs established account? A view is a view and no one knows the sellers status until they have already clicked on the item, right? I guess the buyer can see the Power Seller icon or whatever, but I don't think that will necessarily deter views.

My price is already rock bottom and still not getting any views. I have an item right now that has like 4 views. :tears:

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account age has a lot to do with views. New accounts dont get propped up as much. Also old accounts that dont sell much get little support from ebay.

When you search, how do you place? That will answer most of your questions.

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Ok, this particular account is 7 years old.

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Does it have much sales? Without views, then sales, your placement will be pretty low. Ebay typically supports successful listings.

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Very good idea.

I've seen OK results with promoted listings.
He'd have to make an offer slightly higher than what's been offered by his competitor.

Another method that may yield results for less would be to write a simple squeeze page on a free sub domain, then get one of those guys on seoclerks to send genuine, geo-targeted traffic to squeeze page ----> eBay listing.

Finding sellers that do not send bot traffic can be a challenge. Going directly to ad networks usually solves that problem.

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Is that right? I saw a seminar on YouTube where an eBay employee said new accounts are given priority within their search engine. I can't remember but I think he went on to explain... What I got was that this gives new accounts an opportunity to prove themselves. Hmmm.... :juggle:

Are there new players in the niche?
Has someone dropped prices?
Is there a duplicate listing that's causing it to be demoted in the search?

If you are not No. 1, find out who is and check his sales history.
Compare the last few days to the previous week(s). If it's ailing too, then it may be nothing wrong with your listing.

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I always thought new accounts DO get propped up, in order to bait them into selling more? You know, before they pull the rug out from under you, after you're already financially and emotionally invested in your account.

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New accounts once the item can be found do get referenced in the search results more than stale old listings but sometimes it can take a day or more to make it. So, a 5 day listing often gets little action till day 3 or 4.

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Aking are you talking about auctions or BIN listings?

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Cassini hard at work. Things switched up around a month ago to give preference for listings with high CTS/CTR.. so make your listing stick out like a sore thumb and so it sells the product.

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There seems to be a slight placement in BIN vs my 1 or 3 day auction listings for the same item(s) in the same categories. For some reason I find my auctions are maybe in 2nd or 3rd place on the first page of a search, whereas my BIN listings are pushed back to nearly the end of the page. Also the amount of time remaining on an auction listing seems to push it up more too.

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is your listing good till cancelled...

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Auctions used to get a bump in search close to ending time, but they claimed that stopped a while back.

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I noticed that too. You used to be able to type in something generic like "iPhone" and half the first page would be auctions ending within an hour maybe two hours, then the most popular BIN listings

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Both actually

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Weird thing is the items are still selling, but barely any views.

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What you've written is exactly so. I take advantage of this by creating one BIN, one Auction and several scheduled auctions to start when one ends.

I make my own BIN Button (linking back to my original BIN listing) and stick it right at the top of the description on all auction listings. I make sure to leave a text saying they can buy the item right now if the cannot wait for the auction.
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Smart Idea. I stick to BIN nowadays because I just can't deal with nonpayment buyers. Too annoying, especially when you get excited when an item sold for XX and never get payment or never respond to messages.

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Frankly, I never worry about the amount of views.

What I focus on is the quality of my listing and the pricing for my target market.

New accounts do get a helping hand from eBay because they want to encourage you, but this only lasts so long. The algo has always been you sell more and make more, thus your results in search go up. There's really no such thing as staying level. It's either you go down or you go up.

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I've stayed level, for about 2-3 years. I could erase half my listings. I can double my listings. Always the same level.

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2 things I am certain:

1.You aren’t a millionaire.
2. I am still doing better than you.

So the answer is NO you can’t.

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How Cassini ranks listings can drive a seller nuts, esp. considering there are no guarantees when it comes to eBay.

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lol excuse me? You know absolutely nothing about me. zero. zilch. nada. You don't know how much I've made. You don't know how well I'm doing. You base your statements on pure and unadulterated ignorance.

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Some are probably still laughing at you....but for other reasons...or not.

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1:34 - - classic...

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Don't worry! Just optimize your listing titles and images. It will helps to get more views.

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both really