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Posted By: davidcycleback

As an occasional eBay seller, I can tell you that number of hits and
number of watches is minimal relation to the final auction price. You can
have 17 'watchers' and receive no bids. Also, other than the bidder
telling you, the seller has no way of knowing when a snipe bid has been
placed. If one million snipes have been placed, the seller will have no
knowledge that even one has been placed. If one million snipes have been
placed and zero bids, the seller will only see that no one has placed a bid.

Barring bidders emailing you and telling you that they will palce a bid, the seller's
only concrete indication of interest in an item is the number of bids. If
there's one bid, one person has placed a bid. If there are two bids, two people have
placed a bit. If there are no bids, no one has bid. That's what the seller knows.