I hear a lot of complaining about watchers. I would be lying to say if I said none of that complaining didn't come from me. However, this doen't mean in anyway that I don't like watchers. If people are watching you then you must be doing something right. The second reason is that someone is usually going to buy, but probably going to bid at the last minute. That's common on ebay.

However, there are the other type of watchers. One such snatcher is the stalker watcher. The stalker is some one that want to buy something and will watch everything you post. He will wait until your auction has ended and seen no one has bid on your item, then think he can take advantage of you. The stalker watcher will believe you are desperate for a sale and will try to buy your item for pennies. I ran in to such a person, he watched and email me every time an action ended. Claiming that he just missed it by luck and could not bid. That was a total lye, he seem to miss every auction I post no matter the time or day of the week every week. He of course would like to buy the item, but he wanted to know could he get it for a deal. He did this on every item I posted for months or he wanted to make a deal out side ebay. The price I gave him was always to high, he would also complain about him having to pay for shipping. So finally I had enough. I told him to go to hell and screw off. The bad thing about it is that he still watches every single item I post. How do I know you may ask. Because every know and then I get a email. There is no way to stop him from watching, block his emails on ebay or banning him from my store. I least can block his bids. The last time he bid on something it took him two months to pay and that is insane.

The stalker watchers are not the only watchers out there, there are others. Rivals seem to do a lot of watching as well. Rival watchers are the ones who who watch you just to see if an item is selling and how much you will sell it for Most of the time they are selling similar items and they are looking for how much they can sell theres for or a new product they can add to there store. Then there are the bookmaker watcher.who watch slow selling items so they do not lose your store and can't remember were they seen them when they search next time.

There are all different types of watches from stalkers, rival, to book markers. There are better way to watch people/stores then snatching every item they sell. Or emailing them and trying to scam them, that's pathetic. Always be careful with stalker watchers. Mostly there trying to scam you and always have something to say.

If you don't have "Watch Pro" on your pc then it won't reveal the ebay watchers in your watch list to you. Another method you can use if you really want to find out who your watcher is or you think it is a rival sellers  is by placing an similair ad or picture that he or she is using in your own ad.. I got an email less then a fifteen minutes after it was posted by the person who was watch me on how similar my ad was to his. Now how could he or she spot that ad out of all the millions of ebay ads on ebay in less then fifteen minutes? Because that is your watchers.

Overall, don't complain about watchers, just ignore them. In time the good ones will reveal themselves. Their the one who actual will be bidding and buying, not watching.