I hate the 'Watch" feature on eBay

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as a buyer, it's convenient, but as a seller, it sucks. I think it totally prevents poeple from bidding high until the last few seconds, and even then, it doesn't get as high as it would have if everyone was just bidding and forgetting about it. My items get more watchers than bids these days.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew this was your thread.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

As a seller, I like the watch feature because you can get a good idea what is more in demand. Sometimes if an auction starts out with no bids but a handful of watchers, you can raise the price ... and don't even get me started on inflating bids ...

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

dad was right. I shoulda taken that civil service test. ;)

i don't inflate bids

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

FUCKING ASSHOLES - JUST BID FER CHRISSAKES!!!!

EIGHT fucking people 'watching' an item with 12 hours to go. And it's a sure bet that seven will forget to bid in time and email me asking if I 'have another copy' the next day. I HATE this feature SO much. eBay you are the SUCK

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Just give up and have your friends bid to drive it up, you know you want to.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

eBay is teh suck, indeed. I had approximately 20 corny indie fuXX watching this little vintage 80's sweater and none of them bid. I relisted it with a little rant at the beginning saying "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, MAKE UP YR MIND, HOW DO YOU EVEN DRESS YRSELF" etc., and it got a bid within the hour. Did you try that?

Goths are watching us,
goths are watching us,
goths are watching us...
from a distance.

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

How do you stop watching an item? I'm supposedly watching lots of things that I have no interest in any more, but I can't see any way of deleting them from the list.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a checkbox next to each item and a 'remove' button at the bottom of the list.

Ebay is amazing. Half the stuff is listed well over its value ('everyone else is listing this for $200 and getting three bids... I think I'll go for $450!') and people bid up items they can get cheaper from trustworthy retailers.

I don't like buying from Ebay, but for a lot of stuff (old cameras and accessories) it's the only way now. So I get stuck paying shipping to some yahoo who can't get off his ass to ship it for four days and they'd bitch and moan if I left neutral feedback. Lesson learned - do not order off Ebay if you need the item any time soon.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What's Roger Adultery's e-bay ID? I'll happily watch all of his items for him.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it is Roger Adultery.

As a buyer I love love the Watch function btw.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

And the fact that people forget and don't drive the price up, etc, are obv a big reason why I love it (although if it didn't exist I would just write little notes to myself on my work calender to remember to bid on an item at X time and date--actually this is what I do anyway.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

L@@K

― eman (eman), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Four days? That's not that long. I don't have time to drive to the post office every single day. I had some guy from New York on my shit about wanting me to FedEx something, and I'm like, no, I am not making a special trip for you. I just cannot conceive of any possible circumstance in which someone has a serious, life-threatening need that a $10 belt arrive the next morning.

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Goddamn it! It enbles you to keep track of something you like so you can bid for it when you decide that you want the item, rather than spend an eternity searching for it again due to Ebays glacial loading times (WTF??? sometimes it takes so long that you might as well work overtime to buy the damn thing brand new.) The other option is, of course, thinking "hey that't cool" and putting in a bid for something that you then have to buy even though you realise that it will add the sum total of fuck all to your life. No wonder sellers hate it.

― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

If it were a $10 belt and shipping was only a couple of bucks I wouldn't care. Even at that, though, the seller should make a special trip to the post office if they're going to sell something. If someone pays me at a reasonable hour on my auctions, I'll have it packaged and shipped that night (overnight dropoff yay) or the next afternoon at the latest.

Are you using Ebay with Safari Ben? I had to download Firefox just for Ebay, half the time it doesn't load correctly with Safari or takes forever.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

IE on an original iMac with NTL broadband.

― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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