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[theElench]

More puzzling stats. from Ebid.

Looking at the "Browse 4,814,502 items on Ebid" as UK listings they're up 5K since yesterday.

But if your USA and Canadian listing numbers come from similar boxes on their sites the total comes to nearly 13M. Not the 5,627,254 given on our Home Page for World-Wide Listings.

When I used to look at the number of UK listings regularly I always assumed that the UK figures were right. Most ebid listings in the UK with much smaller numbers in other countries. Something I began to doubt when looking at GS. I came across several US sellers on GS.uk with "Ebid - username" with huge numbers of listings, far more than any UK seller in that particular set of search results.

From that I concluded that if GS showed an Ebid seller on its Side-Bar, it was the one with the greatest number of listings visible in the UK, not just UK based sellers.

[Stnenopmoc]

I thought I would regularly post some stats from nations that pop up on the forum on a regular basis, although the USA appearances have dropped off recently.


I don't get time to have time to delve into the basis of the figures, I thought I could leave that for others.


Australia and NZ have been left off, never ever seen a comment here, or sold anything to either country, but I may add Germany next time.


Be interesting to see the rate of change over the year with the numbers of Platinum sellers, sort of indicated by store increase

[theElench]

I see your point about the time it takes !

I agree it will be interesting to see the rate of change, thank you for taking the time to post any figures at all.

[johnwash1]

More puzzling stats. from Ebid.

Looking at the "Browse 4,814,502 items on Ebid" as UK listings they're up 5K since yesterday.

But if your USA and Canadian listing numbers come from similar boxes on their sites the total comes to nearly 13M. Not the 5,627,254 given on our Home Page for World-Wide Listings.

When I used to look at the number of UK listings regularly I always assumed that the UK figures were right. Most ebid listings in the UK with much smaller numbers in other countries. Something I began to doubt when looking at GS. I came across several US sellers on GS.uk with "Ebid - username" with huge numbers of listings, far more than any UK seller in that particular set of search results.

From that I concluded that if GS showed an Ebid seller on its Side-Bar, it was the one with the greatest number of listings visible in the UK, not just UK based sellers.

Perhaps the numbers are not, as you're interpreting them, the number of listings by users from those countries, but counts of how many listings are visible from each country. And presumably that means plenty of them are willing to ship abroad.

Personally I think it's as fruitless as counting stars in the sky. More important is whether we get sales. My stats are that I made no sales last month on *bay, and one here. So ebid is infinitely better on that sample!

[robbielowe]

...... More important is whether we get sales. My stats are that I made no sales last month on *bay, and one here. So ebid is infinitely better on that sample!

Agree, here is my sample results... I put up 10 listings over there to check sending by stamped mail was still available. Stats 3 views on 2 listings, 0 on 8 listings.

Here on ebid I put up the same items same period, between 9 and 14 views per item.

[johnwash1]

Agree, here is my sample results... I put up 10 listings over there to check sending by stamped mail was still available. Stats 3 views on 2 listings, 0 on 8 listings.

Here on ebid I put up the same items same period, between 9 and 14 views per item.

That seems better, I agree. But it's been widely observed that the view counters don't seem to work the same way on the two sites, and anyhow I've never found views much of an indication. Except when I've listed a rare popular item and a view counter has gone ballistic, quickly followed by a chunky sale or a bidding war. And nowadays I'm suffering a double whammy, regardless of site, because most of my items these days are pretty niche, plus the state of the economy isn't leaving people with a lot of cash for anything but essentials.

Still, it's as true today as it's ever been that the more you list, the luckier you get.

Good grief, I've just taken a quick look at your listings count. HOW MANY??? I think you should be very lucky indeed!

[robbielowe]

That seems better, I agree. .......

Still, it's as true today as it's ever been that the more you list, the luckier you get.

Good grief, I've just taken a quick look at your listings count. HOW MANY??? I think you should be very lucky indeed!

That is 27 months of listing (approx 700 hours spread out). 25% listings sold. Mix of high value items and loads of low value items. (eBid needs a proper bulk edit facility to search by BuyNow price).

Feedback is all earned exclusively on eBid. (Dont see how imported fb is relevant under a different regime).