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[Freestyle2384]

Anyone pay attention to the Bot views right away after posing a listing? I am talking about within the 30 seconds after listing an item. Usually its 2 or 3..sometimes 4..i've even seen 6 a couple times(account got suspended shortly after that day)
Yet earlier today I posted 2 postings from a template of an item that I had just sold 5 of the day before each and got 1 view only instead of the usual 2-3.
Are bots more active at certain part of the days or lighter on weekends etc?
I always pay attention to the bot views right after, whenever i see 4 or more I get the feeling they are watching you more closely.

[muzzie]

It's a random digit that can be up to 10, these are bots looking for obvious violations. But still, it does not matter, a real person WILL look at your lot if you are new to EB, or it is a high risk item.

[Ayusaga]

Right. Just list a low-risk item, let it clear and show up in the listing, then you list what you really want to list. You will still get restricted or suspended if they deem you too high of a risk, BUT the chances of your account being restricted or suspended for listing an item are way lower than if you list a high-risk item right away.

[jakobrockz]

Would it be even possible that a REAL person/team would look through all listings created by new sellers?

[SilentHill]

Supposibly new accounts go through manual observation first 48 hours of selling. Thus selling low-risk items at first seems to give you higher chances of survival.

[solefoodbk]

You never know if its a real person or not ...

When I would list and had to wait the 24 hours for it to show up in the search results I still had (rarely) a buyer purchase something before I could see it in the search.

I even asked someone how they saw my listing and they told me...very strange how they found it but hey...I wasn't complaining.

Most of the time yes its bots looking for something but you never really know if its a buyer that stumbled upon your listing. Ebay is very very glitchy..

[solefoodbk]

Originally Posted by SilentHill

Supposibly new accounts go through manual observation first 48 hours of selling. Thus selling low-risk items at first seems to give you higher chances of survival.

I disargee. Where did you get this information from?

[bjammin]

I always notice my bot reviews. I usually get 4 of them before it is visible on a new acct. I do not believe ebay has the man power to manually check ALL new listings, but maybe they do. I would like to see how many listings are put up in an hour from new accounts. I just imagine it being a very high number.

[mchgrt]

You can also use an iframe or web beacon to your personal website, and log the IP's to see which are coming from eBay's arsenal

[empirestate]

You can also use an iframe or web beacon to your personal website, and log the IP's to see which are coming from eBay's arsenal

Do you have a guide on how to do this?

[mchgrt]

Sorry, this is just something I setup back in the day when I had my own personal webpage. So I don't have any existing code I can share or access. I can give you a quick rundown though:

Set up an htaccess file so you can use folders eg website.com/ebay/auction_id to access a PHP page. On that PHP page, have it spit out the item description. In the PHP code, have it log the IP address, hostmask, browser, timestamp, etc into a MySQL database. Then create an admin page that displays the database in a user friendly format.

For images, do the same as above, but instead of having it spit out the item description, use PHP to modify the header to send out an image, and then use PHP to spit out the image in question.

If I remember right, it takes an hour or so to setup. Hope this helps.

[dallis]

I see the same thing, it's obviously bots of some sort, I always thought it was Google and other sites scraping data and counting listings, but I suppose it could be EB bots checking for violations.

I seriously doubt there's a manual look-over of any kind.

There's 265 million active listings on EB, if only .01% are new that's 2.65 million new listings a week, if you manually checked 100 per hour that's 26500 weekly man hours just looking at listings, or 660 full time employees doing nothing but that.

Why spend the manpower and money when a bot can cancel a listing for nothing?