Ebay:What's the highest number of watchers you've had?

elsietanner71

Hiya

At the minute, I have an old dolls house of my daughter's that has 20 people watching. I'm really chuffed as this is the most I've ever had watching anything in the 8 years I've been on there (and to think I was going to Freecycle it!)

Just wondered what experiences others have had eg how many watchers, what it was, was there a bidding frenzy etc?

Love to hear your stories

Els x

soolin

I had 30+ watchers on an item once and it went on opening bid.

elsietanner71

Oh no! I better start planning how I'm going to spend my 99p then ....

What was the item, Soolin.

ClaireLR

I had 36 watchers once on a swimsuit of all things! It went for £18 which was half what I paid for it, and had never been used.

soolin

elsietanner71 wrote: »

Oh no! I better start planning how I'm going to spend my 99p then ....

What was the item, Soolin.

On that occasion it was a skirt, rather fancy very Camden goth look.

I also had tons and tons of watchers on a laptop once, and that went for starting price and a camera went unsold despite over 20 watchers.

However at the moment i have 3 bidders on one item ending Wednesday and no watchers at all. I assume they all bid rather than watch first.

Hopeuflly though all your watchers will bid, I tend not to do cheap starts so it didn't matter to me how many bidders I had as I just needed one to reach my target price.

Bladebaby_2

Once had 50+ watchers on a pair of rayban sunnies and in the last minute the price jumped from 13.00 to 34.00

terra_ferma

erm...I have lots of items in my watching lists, most of which I have no intention of buying.
I use it as a shortlist of things I may be interested.

So for example If I'm looking for a watch, I will shortlist 4 or 5 watches, think about it and later (normally the same day if BIN) buy it.
If it's an auction... 99% of the time I will forget all about it.

Other times it's something I may want to buy in future and I want to see how much it's selling for.

Half of my watched items are things that I keep there as one day I may need them. Probably never...

I would say that I probably buy about 10% of my watched items.

HTH understand buyer's behaviour..

**dancingbutterfly**

ive had 25 watchers for a diamond eternity ring (just a wee 10 points of diamonds) and it too went on the starting bid!

Ive currently got 14 watchers for a pair of mens swim shorts so we'll see how that goes but i find a lot of people will watch something a very few will bid!

Maysie

I had 56 watchers on a karen millen corset top it went for £60 and i started it at 99p that was exciting it nearly doulbled in the last minute or two.

I have had a fish tank with 30 watchers it never sold so i freecycled it.

mickbhall

10 or so on a speed camera locator jumed from £70 to £120, other times same as most starting bid.

elsietanner71

Some mixed outcomes then.

I now have 23 watchers and the same used item sold for £35 yesterday so fingers crossed.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks for your replies

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