views of sold items

[GeemetsWorkshop]

I seem to be getting a lot of views (just this year) on items that have already been sold. Anyone else getting that? why do you think that is?

[NanaLetha]

From reviews or social media 

[HazelsSewingSupplies]

Do you really believe that?  All of my views today are sold out items.  I use no social media and most of them had no reviews.

I also don't buy the story that they come from showing our sales.

Why would a normal person just look at our sales and not what we actually have for sale?  Doesn't make sense.

[CuriosAnCollectibles]

@HazelsSewingSupplies

My sales are private and I get more views on sold items than what I'm offering some days.

I think some come from Google searches. 

[TimeSpanTreasures]

There have been other threads about this.

Views can come from someone looking at reviews, items they've favorited, social media posts, Google, etc.

If your sold items aren't blocked, anyone can look at them.

Even with all these places that someone can find and view sold items, it's strange that sellers have reported days where almost all their views are of sold items.

[HazelsSewingSupplies]

I realize that my sold items can be looked at - just not believing that hundreds of people just look at my sold items and NOT the items actually for sale!

[GeemetsWorkshop]

I agree with HazelsSewingSupplies, this makes no sense and it's been happening to me almost every day since the beginning of the year. So weird. 

[TimeSpanTreasures]

@HazelsSewingSuppliesand @GeemetsWorkshop 

I agree!

That's why I said  that even with all these places that someone can find and view sold items, it's strange that sellers have reported days where almost all their views are of sold items.

This has been going on for a while.

Some days almost all views are for sold items, and other days the views are more "normal" with most views being of current items for sale, and only a smattering of sold views.

[TheVintagePineapple]

Yes, it's been happening to this shop since last summer, and always for the same 6-7 listings.  They received more views after they sold than they ever did when they were live.  I deactivated the listings that were getting hit almost every single day and it took care of the problem, but only with those listings.  Other sold listings started showing up to take their place.

However, yesterday between 7 and 9 pm, 396 sold listings were viewed, a lot of them that were sold the first year we started.  All came from the Etsy app & other Etsy pages, and believe me, it was not because every single person who favorited these 396 items suddenly had an urge to revisit them in those 2 hours.

No idea why this is happening.  

[HazelsSewingSupplies]

"it was not because every single person who favorited these 396 items suddenly had an urge to revisit them in those 2 hours."

AMEN!!

[C20Ceramics]

I usually get one or two views of sold items each day...but recently though this has increased about x10 fold.... Earlier in the week the first page of search results (in stats) was all sold items...some from years ago. Etsy must something must have changed with searches....this can not be just a result of  "organic" searches.

[CDEwoodworking]

I've had a handful of sold items that regularly show up.  When I look at Google Analytics, they are nowhere to be found.  The Etsy stats rarely coincide fully with GA, but the sold items never show there.

[GeemetsWorkshop]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one. Does anyone know if there is someone in Etsy I.T. that we can contact?

[CrazyOldLadyJewelry]

they show up in google search, when doing research many sold listing come up in google

[Bibolde]

I made a test. One of my sold items was seen almost every day and had more views than many others items. After a few months, I decided to add it again in my shop.

You won't believe it : 0 view in over 1 month. Don't understand...

Ps : my sold items are blocked

[JHFWBeadsAndFindings]

It is odd when this year it seems that people see sold items. I know that they could see them anyway before but, this year it shows more often.

I do not mind it much. I never removed them from Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social media. If i do that, i could spend days removing them.

But yeah it is strange that this from beginning this year, i see more that sold items are visited.

[TheKiltedKnitter]

I normally have a handful of views of sold items each day with somewhere between 100 and 200 views in total. But on the 27th Feb I had a massive no. of views >750 and most of these were of sold items. I certainly haven't seen a sustained increase in views of sold items, but this sharp peak was a bit surprising. I don't do any social media at all so it is not coming from there.

[NVFaceMasks]

How do you know that the views are from sold items?  I can only tell where visits come from; however, sold items show in the list but they don’t show any number.  For example, I can have 10 visits, from which 2 are from one item, 4 from another, and the other 4 don’t specify but sold items are down the list.  I never know where the views come from…

[WhiteHeartCraft]

I’m at a loss with Etsy . My shop too has more views on sold items than anything else . It makes no sense at all 

[Bibolde]

I sew it in my statistics. And when sold items have many views, they are on the top of the list.

[CraftyCraftsCorners]

I get more sold item views than live for sale ones, all my items are only 1 per listing and then gone no more. Yes they also go back when I first opened for a short time. Does not bode well for search placement of any kind I can see of figure out. Totally stupid bad programming more glitches, no sales or very low sales. We get raised fees for nothing in return. 

[daisysjewellerygifts]

@CraftyCraftsCorners  my stats always show me that every item in my shop has had at least one view!? even the sold out items, I have just done a google image search on some of the items that they say i have had a view on that sold out in 2021 and they are no where to be found, so its not that, i think its counting when i go into me sold out items to see what stock i need to make the jewellery as a view, either that or its just not true.

[VintageGiftsEE]

Maybe these are from people who favorited or bought this item

The same in my shop 

[MoodyLoch]

I think these may be from potential sellers checking out what sells. I get favourites from people who also favourite the same supplies as me (their favourites are not private), so clearly checking the shop for ideas. 

If someone's favourites are all the same components you use in your craft and then they favourite your shop or items, then I think it's pretty clear they are not a buyer. t'would make sense for them to also check your sold items to see what sells before they invest in making something similar to you. I don't like it, but what can you do except be as complicated and hard to copy as possible!

2 cents. 

[LastCentury]

pinterest is a graveyard of sold items. Lots of people do deep dives through that archive. 

If a lot of traffic is coming to sold items, it may be time to consider making more, or if it's vintage or supplies, trying to source similar items to add to your shop.