The ebay auction marketplace is no longer a level playing field. It must be overpriced or have some other dire characteristic to be avoided. If your listing shows “watchers off” on a page with similar items and a mix of “watchers on”, then in the viewers mind there is clearly something wrong with your listing. But those with “watchers on” now have a distinct advantage over those with “watchers off”. For (what? 30 year now?) this has been ebay's reason for being. Level of interest establishes the basis for both buyer cost and seller's price in an auction environment. They're not called "watchers" for no reason. That’s intel the buyer and the auctioneer and the seller need. Assessing the level of pre-bid interest establishes favorable urgency (or the lack of it) once the bidding starts. Anyone who has attended a live auction knows this. It is basic to the very idea of an auction. Knowing the level of interest in an auction listing is fundamental to auction selling. There is no way this can be a technical glitch or bug for such a basic auction listing characteristic: one that is at the heart of auction selling, especially on ebay, who knows this, and who employs an army of developers and programmers. Most of the discussions are complaints from confused and dismayed sellers. The problem is discussed at length online. Plenty of time to fix a bug, or to correct a glitch. I’m just seeing it now, but this has persisted for some time apparently. They’ll look into it, you know, create a ticket and get back to you in 2 hours. I've been told by CS that it is in fact “likely” a technical issue. I've called customer service to make them aware of this problem. But I was sure it had to be either that or a bug, so I tested all that too: different browsers, re-boot, private windows, clear cache, repeat. If your watcher count is not shown on your listing, you can easily test these settings yourself. The settings for the listing, such as BIN, reserve, duration, or any other variable for the listing have no effect on whether or not the number of watchers is displayed to viewers. I've noticed that on many listings, mine included just now, that the number of watchers for my listing is not shown to buyers/viewers.
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