It's the number of people watching through the My ebay page. They just started this recently with the new "My ebay". So far it looks like a neat feature, and I usually dislike new "features" especially for software. If this has been answered earlier, sorry. I get the list by digest, and there's sometimes a fairly long time lag.
Steve Birmingham Lowell, Ma
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 22:49:38 +0000 From: themaaslands@comcast.net To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous) Subject: [CR]Ebay counter for # of watchers Message-ID: <060220042249.28770.40BE5981000A850A0000706222007621949C0B020E049C0E0E030A08 9B@comcast.net> Precedence: list Message: 12
Can anybody say when ebay instituted the counter to monitor the number of watchers when you sell items? As I don't sell frequently on ebay, I had never seen this feature before. Does anybody know whether the number listed is the number of people who have bookmarked the auction or perhaps something else. If it the number of bookmarks, there are likely going to be fireworks at the end of the auction for my late 70's Titanium Huret Success rear derailleur where more than one quarter of the people who have looked at the auction have bookmarked it. The same for the 1960's Campagnolo waterslide decal, where almost third of the viewers have bookmarked the auction. Of the rest of the auctions the ratio of bookmarks to views lies between 1 out of 6 and 1 out of 10.
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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ