Hi how do i contact watchers on a product i am selling (2024)

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Hi how do i contact watchers on a product i am selling? ›

You can not contact watchers, although you might be able to send them offers to buy the item at a lower price. Go to My eBay Selling or Seller Hub Active. Select Send offer beside the eligible item (or Eligible to send offers, if you're using Seller Hub).

Your listing also needs to be at least 10 days old. If your listing meets those criteria, you'll find the option to direct message your watchers under your Manage Active Listings menu by clicking the tab labeled “Send offers-eligible.” You have the option to message up to 10 watchers at a time with a new price offer.

While watchers don't necessarily equal buyers, they can oftentimes present an opportunity to close a sale with buyers who otherwise would have added your listing to their watchlist, then promptly forgotten about it. In short, a watcher on eBay can mean many things, from an interested buyer to a competing seller.

A view is when someone opens you listing. A watcher is when someone who has flagged your item to be added to his Watch List. The view count contains only views within the last 30 days. An item can be watched indefinitely.

You can not contact watchers, although you might be able to send them offers to buy the item at a lower price. Go to My eBay Selling or Seller Hub Active. Select Send offer beside the eligible item (or Eligible to send offers, if you're using Seller Hub).

Sellers cannot identify who is viewing their items, but eBay gives sellers the opportunity to send offers without knowing who the offer is going to. If the buyer takes advantage of the offer, then the seller finds out identifying information.

You can only send one offer to the same buyer. Only listings that are older than 10 days will be enabled for this new feature. Since this is an offer feature, you must discount your product from the original listing price, even if it is 1% or 50%. You can only send an offer to a maximum of 10 watchers.

It's impossible to know which category your watchers fall into. And only eBay sellers can see the number of watchers on their listings. So, high watch counts don't generate any external social proof or sense of urgency for shoppers.

Are there fake watchers on eBay? ›

ACCORDING TO A FEW PEOPLE, EBAY DOES HAVE BOTS THAT WATCH ITEMS, AND THAT "THEY" (WHOA MIB MAYBE) ARE AWARE OF IT AND IT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A DECADE OR MORE. 2. BUYER'S CAN "BLOCK" SELLER'S FROM SENDING OFFERS." SO IF THAT'S TRUE, THEN IT COULD BE THAT SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOUR ITEM.

It means that some eBayers have decided to watch your listing. They may be doing so for a variety of reasons, such as, wanting to know what it sells for, or so they can comparison shop, or they may be interested in bidding closer to the end of the listing.

Sunday is widely considered to be the best day to end an auction, as Jane eBay and Joe Bidder are more likely to be sitting in front of their computers at home with time to shop. Many people also use Sunday-and to a lesser extent, Saturday—as “get things done” days, including searching and bidding on eBay.

You can add a "Watch this item" link to show up right on the page of Search results, so you can add an item to your Watch list without opening the listing itself.

The way I understand it, a watcher is just that - someone watching the item. An Interested Buyer is someone that may have had it come up in a search and was interested enough to click on it, perhaps more than once.

It means that someone added the item listing to their watch list to keep an eye on it (possibly because they were considering buying it or perhaps for some other reason). If you find an item you are interested in and want to keep an eye on it, click the Add to watchlist button on the item listing.

And only eBay sellers can see the number of watchers on their listings. So, high watch counts don't generate any external social proof or sense of urgency for shoppers. But a rising watcher count is still a useful signal that someone is interested in your product.

Yes, when you lower the price of an item, watchers with notifications on, would receive a message stating something like “an item you've showed interest in has new lower price” … not exactly the wording, but definitely a message I've personally received on a watched item.