{"id":141,"date":"2017-01-27T11:59:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T11:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2017-01-27T11:59:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T11:59:31","slug":"ebay-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/ebay-round-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebay Round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ebay_round2Listing-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen Capture from second listing, notice 11 views &#8211; not great<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well it may be a bit longer haul than I expected to sell this here Diatomite.\u00a0 When I first placed the item on Ebay I told my husband, if this sells, we are in business.\u00a0 So, I guess I am not quite it business yet.\u00a0 The first listing was $20, buyer pays shipping and it was viewed 29 times.\u00a0 This time I listed for $20 again, but it was free shipping.\u00a0 Since Ebay is driving sellers to include shipping in the price and it seems many buyers want free shipping I expected the second listing with free shipping to garner more views than the first.\u00a0 Well, as you can see from the screen grab above, it was only viewed 11 times.\u00a0 However, neither my husband nor I watched it, so, since it had one watcher I take solace there is someone out there who cares.<\/p>\n<p>But, Is Ebay getting it right?\u00a0\u00a0 First, if you have never sold on ebay you may not know that the seller can monitor the item and see how many people have viewed the item and how many people have watched the item.\u00a0 The views should be cumulative.\u00a0 When the first item was posted as soon as my husband \u2018watched\u2019 and \u2018unwatched\u2019 the tally was updated.\u00a0 This led me to believe that the viewed and watched values provided by Ebay were accurate.\u00a0 But on this second item the number of views went from three to zero.\u00a0 Hum, very suspicious.\u00a0 Ebay may not be as accurate as I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Chou did mention that when he looks for items to sell, he considers the Ebay success rate, to see how often an item sells when it was offered and he considers ~30% to be decent.\u00a0 So, maybe I need to list my $20 Diatomite just one more time \u2013 third time is a charm.\u00a0 I will keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that was sort of an aside, the point is, I have not sold any Diatomite yet.\u00a0 I think I may rebrand to, \u201cDiatoms\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Well it may be a bit longer haul than I expected to sell this here Diatomite.\u00a0 When I first placed the item on Ebay I told my husband, if this sells, we are in business.\u00a0 So, I guess I am not quite it business yet.\u00a0 The first listing was $20, buyer pays shipping and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}