eBay Ghost in the Machine*

If you are looking at this thread looking for a review of the Police's album I'm sorry this is about something else.

I recently was looking at a CD on eBay and it was listed for $9.99. it didn't sell and the owner dropped it down to $7.99. I put it in my watchlist thinking I may buy it later. I went back to buy it and it jumped back up to 9.99 again. I thought huh. The seller decided he wanted more money after all. I didn't buy it but left it in my watchlist.

I was recently notified the price of that title dropped $1 to $6.99. now I was confused because wasn't it $9.99 a second ago? Which made me think is there a glitch in eBay's pricing or how they display their pricing?

Have any of you knows anything like this before?

 

What’s this got to do with music?

 

Sorry, I keep forgetting to post in marketplace.

 

Browser caching, maybe?

 

I was watching a Pretty Things album for several months and watched the price change multiple times, sometimes 3-4 times a day. Low of $45 to high of $69.

 

Possibly, but I've changed my browser and it's come up several times so I don't know if it's that. There may be some kind of issue with an eBay that's all I'm thinking.

 

Again I'm wondering whether it is the seller thinking that they can make more money or if it is the system wigging out. So it's not me. okay thanks for letting me know that this problem isn't isolated it is in more than one case.

 

Probably an algorithm at work. If you want to buy the cd why not just contact the seller with an offer?

 

A price reduction on eBay will generate a notification to the watcher. That is probably what happened.

As for the price going back up, perhaps the seller thought that with a watcher he could get his original asking price and jacked it back up, only to reduce it further later.

Who knows. I doubt there is any sort of algorithm in play unless this is a high volume seller.

 

It was Decluttr or someone like that. I'm not certain if it was eBay or them that's why I was asking to find out if this is common with different sellers .