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What's the highest number of "watchers" you've ever had on one item selling on ebay?

ROBERTBROBERTB Posts: 1,016
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I've got this item1966

going on right now. I had bought it a few months ago but have since found a better set locally. It's not too far from where I bought it from. Right now I have 25 watchers. I've had 10 or 12 watchers before, but never 25. How about the rest of y'all. Ever reach this many folks with one of your items, (doesn't have to be a coin related item)?

**....and I know, there's a whole lotta bad grammer in my listing..........image
Everything I write is my opinion.

Looking for alot of crap.

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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    I had a watcher on one of my auctions once. I sell real boring stuff I guessimage
    My Medals collection

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  • NumismaticsNumismatics Posts: 1,092
    14 was my max so far.
  • ROBERTBROBERTB Posts: 1,016


    << <i>I had a watcher on one of my auctions once. I sell real boring stuff I guessimage >>



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    Everything I write is my opinion.

    Looking for alot of crap.
  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    28, but only one of them pulled the trigger ,yet still enough for a no reserve item to reach $1750 at the end,back in the good old ebay days. I often have 15-20, but in my case and the coins I occasionally sell on ebay, the interest is mostly academic. The actual price reached a few hours before closing is a much better indicator of the final value (usually anywhere between 50 to 100% higher) than the number of watchers.
    Dimitri



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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    I had 22 on one auction a few years back. But only one buyer pushed the coin above the reserve price!
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • clutsyclutsy Posts: 116
    Some of us just watch to learn. My library doesn't have Kraus, or anything for that matter to price coins. "Watching" E-bay, teletrade and other auctions has taught me many things...
    1. PCGS graded US coins do sell for more
    2. It's important to know how to list your coin. Raw coins properly listed also have a better chance of selling for a better price.
    3. Knowing your Morgan vam's, and bust halve overton numbers, varieties, and errors makes a difference.
    4. Over inflated grades, assigned by sellers, and calling common coins rare, tend to put off the serious collector
    5. Pictures of the coin need to be of the best quality possible.
    6. Even if it truly is your "grandfather's collection", that's the oldest line in the book for scam artists so avoid it.
    &. Most dealers will offer you only a small fraction of what a "grandfather's collection" may be worth...I know I'm strange, but I'd rather give away the coins to someone that will enjoy them, rather than sell them to a dishonest dealer.
    9. seeing the coins on ebay, and reading the comments here has helped me learn how to grade my coins more objectively.
    10. feedback is important, and as I 've never bought or sold anything on Ebay, I probably won't start with coins...if I ever do use Ebay

    Another thing...some statisticians are tracking and analalyzing coin sales for research...Stanford University published one on Canadian coin sales on Ebay. They determined that coins with hidden reserves sell for less than coins listed with no reserve.

    So thank you for your educational opportunity, and I will be having more giveaways.




  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow....I hit 12 watchers on some russian coin auctions and I thought I was doing good.

    By the way, those are some great looking coins.
  • kuhlikuhli Posts: 501
    as I am often doing pricing research for a coin catalog I help produce, I am often watching dozens of coins, with no intentions of bidding. even after the auction closes, I can bring it up rather quickly & easily to see what the final bid was, and what kind of activity there was in the final hours. at one time, I was using 3 separate accounts to help sort the items I was monitoring, and also to give me more items to watch (100 items is the limit that an account can watch). this summer, as we prepare the revisions for the next edition, I may be kicking up the old accounts again.
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,972 ✭✭✭
    I don't remember. I think I had 30 people or so watch my £100,000 1869 1d auction.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've got 20 watchers on one auction and 12 on another right now. I'm worried I accidentally insulted France in my auctions, and the watchers are a bunch of outraged Frenchmen waiting to pounce. I alluded to a "girl with a chicken on her head"--maybe that wasn't nice.


    Cathy

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  • PreussenPreussen Posts: 2,307 ✭✭✭
    I've had watchers numbering in the low 20s, but I quickly learned that having many watchers has little bearing on last minute bids, so it's essentially a meaningless number. - Preussen
    "Illegitimis non carborundum" -General Joseph Stilwell. See my auctions
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