Zero views even with sponsored ads
Good morning, aware that I'm posting a question that's already been "overdone" in the community, I'll try again:
Why are the views still at zero even with sponsored ads and, as a result, the sales too?
This also happens in the categories where many years ago I had become a "power-seller".... good times šĀ
6 comments
heavenwelkin
Ā·1 year agoA sponsored listing is a listing that is given greater visibility.
If despite the sponsorships the item receives zero visits, it means that item does not generate interest from eBay users.
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Best regards.
vonbalden
Ā·1 year agoEvery now and then this request for an explanation pops up. Why? Why does it happen like this? Where am I going wrong? And so on and so forth. If you carefully observe peopleās behavior, which in every social sphere tends to repeat itself, youāll notice that the inclination to buy is driven by two emotional impulses. The first comes from the item for sale. (the harder it is to find, the more catalytic power it has) The second is that emotional impulse, letās say, of spontaneous reflection. As already clarified in other āinflatedā answers. Right after the first impulse, you come back into the family circle, where the potential purchase, if shared, raises doubts about usefulness and priorities. Broadly speaking, that is. Obviously, weāre not talking here about everyday consumer goods, where interest is driven only by price: ...but Giuseppino, canāt you see theyāre selling the vacuum cleaner here for 3 euros more than at Svendo e Svendi? Yes, but at Svendo e Svendi shipping is free!! Ahhhhh, I see! Antonietta replies. Also, in my opinion, itās that platforms offer similar items in every possible sauce. To sell, as someone once said, I need to have something formidable in my hands. Otherwise... youāre one among millions waiting your turn. Free market is like that. Inflated, just like requests for clarification. Many people here too want to know about the Daco7, the DECHI, how much you pay, how you would pay, everything and more. Fair enough, but if you donāt sell what you offer, why should anyone care? First there has to be takeoff, then everything else, right? As far as promotion is concerned, itās the same thing. If I put my electric plastic toothbrush into paid visibility, Iām counting only on the price. And even if I stay on the front page for a month straight...the result doesnāt change. There are also other less accessible strategies, but I think they fall outside this forum space. Within the limits of the possible, itās better to change selling category to make comparisons.
Kind regards.Ā
musicfly
Ā·1 year agoGood evening, Iām only now reading your reply to hifi - .... and, in all honesty, it seems very rhetorical and not very constructive to me, and above all misleading. In short, the price of an item is important for attracting buyers, but often and increasingly over the years on eBay there is an obvious manipulated restriction by the 'central system', with the introduction of innovativeĀ rules, regulations, and sales strategies which, even if indirectly but deliberately, tend to affect the visibility of certain groups of sellers. If you sell a fast-moving item even below market, therefore at prices much lower than average, and then the overall statistics tell you that demand is very high for that item, and meanwhile over the same time span you havenāt sold anything even while sponsoring, then there are two possibilities: either people preferred higher prices for the same item, which is very unlikely, or this intentionality comes to light ā letās call it 'indirect' to remain as diplomatic as possible. Not to mention then the catastrophic gap in benefits among private and professional sellers......
heavenwelkin
Ā·1 year agoI have sold items with zero views ......
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This is because views are checked by an algorithm / artificial intelligence that, before validating the view, checks a series of variables which can be, for example, the amount of time spent on the listing page, whether a user opens the photos, whether a user scrolls through the listing to read the description, etc.
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Because of a series of variables, it could happen, for example, that your listing is put under review and is sold in the 30 days following the monthly count, where the user buys the item BEFORE the algorithm ACTUALLY counts the visit.
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Basically, users could be faster at viewing and then closing the listing than the algorithm is at validating it and adding it to the count.
musicfly
Ā·1 year agoin this case they should ask ELON MUSK for adviceĀ ššš
heavenwelkin
Ā·1 year agoELON MUSK is rather busy on several fronts lately, including indirect politicsĀ š
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Anyway, to back up what I wrote, if you notice, if you open a listing and keep it open for a while, it's easy for you to receive the seller's scheduled automatic discount offers in an automated way.
If, on the other hand, you keep the same listing open for a short time, this doesn't happen.
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It's as if the algorithm is tasked with figuring out the interest you have in a certain listing.