My eBay account has gone mad tonight

hazey31

Under the 'items you are watching' section on my eBay, a lot of items keep appearing in there that I certainly haven't clicked to watch like a boys shirt, a teddy bear, a skirt, and now a leather jacket. They're always appearing in the last minute of the auction.

One item that I have bidded on and do keep clicking 'watch this item' on doesn't appear in the list of items I am watching.

Any ideas?????

frivolous_fay

Have you looked at them?
People can put naughty code in their listings to get them added automatically to your watch list. It's reportable.

hazey31

I've not looked at the items until they've appeared in my 'watching' list. They're always from different users too.

How would I know if there's code in the listings?

frivolous_fay

Can you give one of the item numbers as an example?

vangirl_2

This happened to me, was looking at cd's on Saturday and a cd I hadnt looked at appeared in my watch list. I know I didnt add it myself.

I deleted it but it came back today so i deleted it again. This has never happended before. I wonder whats going on?

hazey31

Item 370178028199 (but has less than 3 minutes to go)

BTW- I use eBay Germany

larlie1983

I've had this problem too. I was looking at things yesterday and now similar items have started to appear in my watched items list. These items aren't the exact ones I was looking at but similar items from the same category.

hazey31

Another one with slightly longer to run: 370178058284

It's nice to know I'm in good company and not the only one with this weird issue!

frivolous_fay

Took a look at that last one and nothing odd happened. Maybe it's something that happens in list view?

hazey31

Thanks for taking a look- much appreciated.

I think I'll just put it down as a blip (it never happened in any format before) and if it's still an issue, report it in the morning

supermezzo

Mine did something similar a couple of days ago. I changed all my passwords and ran a bug scan but found nothing...curiouser and curiouser said Alice.