It would be interesting to know if the view ratio to orders is the same for everyone. I need to think about the ramifications of asking this related to categories , to listings that compete in here and between listings that compete on other break away sites.
Buyers tend to graze together and if another pasture has something different to offer they will move over to it.
A shop can have a dozen televisions in a sale at 90% off and a hundred people will still queue outside. A market trader can describe the contents in a cardboard box without opening it up and if one buys another hundred will do the same. A wholesaler can move into the area of another wholesaler and take all the custom away by offering a free breakfast despite having less choice and being several percentages dearer. A web site famous for one type of product can revamp by increasing its product range and the buyers will switch over to it accepting lengthy deliveries and carriage charges they would never have tolerated elsewhere. A car boot table piled high with unsorted junk will take more than a neatly laid out similarly priced high quality table nearby. A trader setting up in motorway services will make a good living on recommendations alone despite the goods being fakes as long as they are acceptable as fit for purpose. - herding > the feel good factor of operating within the herd even if the other herd members are prone to pushing, shoving and biting.
The herd will only move over to this pasture when they are reduced to fighting for the last blade of grass in their present pasture
The sellers are moving over because their revenue is being squeezed
and if they are still there selling at low prices with free shipping I doubt they realise this
Buyers will move over if the category they are mainly interested in is squeezed