I posted somthing on ebay about 4 days ago and its my first time. How come noone has bid on it but I have 5 people watching it? Does that mean someone is interested in it? Its an unopened Blu-Ray disc player with a free movie valued at $1,000 but I started the bidding at $600. Why do people watch an item but dont bid?
2007-02-26 17:02:26 · 3 answers · asked by veggiemama 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
people don't bid on it cuz they don't want to just keep increasing the amount they'll have to pay in the end. it doesn't matter whose name is showing as the winning bidder until the very end.
and yes, amount of watchers are the amount of people who have seen your auction and are currently interested in it.
2007-02-26 17:10:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot of times people will watch an auction to see whats going to happen without actually having to be stuck buying something when they can get another deal. For instance, Im in the process of looking for a laptop dvd burner, I am watching about six of them right now. I am definitely interested in buying at least one, but I wanna see how many other people are bidding, or not bidding. Or sometimes you see several good deals, but you want to kind of sit on it for awhile, and think about it. Well if you watch an item, you can easily go right back to it once you decide. Instead of saying..."ah, man...that would've been a good deal! let me try to go back and find it, what was it called.....so, it saves alot of extra heartache. Or sometimes you might be interested in an item, but it has like a week left to go. Well, you really want it but you'd kinda like it sooner. so, you watch that one while you look around and maybe find one that has less time on it, and maybe even cheaper. Whereas, if you bid on the first one you see, and then a bettr deal comes up, well you're kinda allready commited to that first one, unless you get outbid. So, there's several reasons. It's a pretty handy feature, but remember just because you have people watching doesnt mean they are going to buy...its about 50/50. More than likely, you will get at least one bid. Unless there are a thousand others on there just like it, and hardly any bids on those....it all depends. Hope this was helpful.
2007-02-27 01:23:40 · answer #2 · answered by clone17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two possible reasons:
1. They are considering the item but unsure if they want it
2. Waiting until the last 1-2 minutes, then will bid in hopes no one outbids them. This is quite common. When it finishes, the history might show 10+ bids within 2 minutes!
2007-02-27 01:06:20 · answer #3 · answered by Byte-Sized Cookie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋