Promoted Listings Changes - Ads Attribution

[pidgeun1]

How do we know if the listing was clicked by a buyer or some eBay employee who is testing their website? Previously, it was always the same buyer buying the item. How can eBay ensure they are excluding employee clicks?

[jonatjonatjonat]

Only eBay themselves could possibly confirm that so you might want to ask the question in th me weekly chat they do on a Wednesday at 2pm.

it would be possibly though to isolate eBay staff if they were on select IP addresses though.

[vinylscot]

I don't think they would be quite that blatant. However, it still happens occasionally now that virtually ALL of my auctions receive exactly one view, at pretty much the same time, soon after the listings had begun. It's less often now, but used to be quite common, and eBay would explain it by saying that it was their automated processes making random checks on listings.

I wonder if that practice will stop or not. I'm unlikely to be around for tomorrow's chat, but maybe somebody will bring it up.