Can anyone tell me my leaving a snipe for an ebay item would register as a watcher on the seller's selling tab? Thanks, Rob

I am new here so take this with a grain of salt, but it seems to me that you wouldnt appear on their "watchers" list since all you have done is enter the auction number and the amount you want AS to bid. I mean after all thats the entire concept of sniping isnt it? Nobody knows youre there till the last few seconds.

Booksearch - you wouldn't appear as a watcher because AS has nothing to do with eBay until the bid is placed. They are merely "holding" your instructions.

The only time you would appear on a seller's watching list is if you tell ebay that you want to add that item to your "watch" list.

I never see any problem with that. I watch lots of things. "I wonder what that will fetch" "who will bid on that" The watching list is no real help, unfortunately, to a seller because it gives no indication as to who will actually bid at the end.

For examply I sometines see something so overpriced that I mark it thinking "if he doesn't sell that, I'll try a private bid" Often works (Just don't tell eBay!)

It is, typically, what I call a "spurious" statistic - on the face of it interesting - but completely useless in practice!

Paul

I do that too, I'm always watching dozens of items I have no intention of bidding on. I think the hit meter tells a better story, but "in the end, there can be only one..." and sometimes, in the end, only one tries- in spite of what the indicators suggest.