figuring out visitor/watcher patterns

Originally Posted by Mick

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason. I've had stuff sell with no "watchers". I've had stuff sell as "Buy it Now" in the last hour of the listing. I've had stuff not sell for two cycles, then get sold "Buy it Now" within the first couple hours of the third. Just list it - keep it there - and eventually, it'll sell. I even had some copper listed that didn't sell. I kept dropping the price just to see what it'd take. Last time I dropped it, it had been there two days before I said "Wait a minute". I'd dropped it below scrap price. Got the listing ended before anybody else figured it out.

Yup, I would agree with that. I had an auction before with tons of interest, a bidding war with several people to sell at a really good price to then have the winner back out. I then send a second chance offer to the next bidder, who does nothing. so I then relist the same item in auction and sell it with only 1 bid for WAY less than the sale price of the first auction. So in summary, the EXACT same listing gets tons of bids one week, and the next seems lucky to just get one!