I have a new item request… could an “in Cart” category be added to Smart groups? There is no use cancelling and restarting a listing if someone already has an item in their cart. The focus of selling on ebay is sales and not cancelling an item so if it is in a cart it shouldn’t be cancelled. I sometimes get questions after I end a listing and restart it asking if it is still available. I assume if this pops onto the screen when viewing a listing from GS in live mode that it is info readily available to GS. Thanks
This would be very helpful. Then maybe you could Send an Offer???
Neal
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In watching the “in cart items” I have found that they are not always marked as watchers or views and ebay uses that list for sending “offers”. Sometime they will mark a watcher and not viewed. Ebay says in a note that a watcher and not a view come from a secondary search.
I didn’t know it is possible to know if an item is in someone’s chart. Are you sure this is available in all ebay sites? Is it possible to filter listings in charts from your ebay account? I cannot find it in ebay.it, but I might be wrong…
There is a popup on the “LIVE” mode in US. I provided screen shots to show it is available to the GS program. These are very helpful and I never end a listing in someones cart. They sometimes sit there for months but that is the way some people mark to come back later to buy. I want sales not just relisting. I change or add a tag to track and follow them but it is time consuming to do and I am hopeful it can be automated.
They also, in the US, have a popover that says “Watched in the last 24 hours”. Obviously also a listing that should not be cancelled and restarted.
I think people who keep items in their cart for months are more used to how Amazon works where they are alerted of price changes, or they don’t know they can use a wishlist. Putting something in a cart on eBay actually “punishes” the buyer since they will not receive offers [offers are available for sellers to send to people who watch an item or who have viewed an item, but not put in their cart. That’s because the item in a cart apparently locks in the price for the buyer. I’ve not tested this out, but I do know that items in carts will never receive offers by sellers.
I don’t worry if someone has watched an item in the last 24 hours - if it is time to re-list, it is time to re-list. A potential buyer will get an e.mail/notification showing that an item they previously watched has been re-listed, so for me, it doesn’t matter how many watchers there are. If nobody has bought yet, I do the re-listing method. I want buyers, not watchers. 
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I relist as new and seem to get more views. A start as new doesn’t trigger the re-listed email so that is a pitfall to the Start as new as opposed to re-list option
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People who have items in their carts will never receive offers from the items in their cart. That’s how eBay works. There is a blog post from 2019 that states send offers get sent to people who are watching or who have the item in their cart, but multiple support tickets have stated that this is incorrect. 
I tag all the “In Cart” listings different color to track them. Some sell in a short couple days and some languish there so after some reasonable time I do end and start as new.
Don’t get your hopes up high as I don’t see an “in cart” status anywhere in eBay’s API. I’ll drop them a line and ask if its available to use third party developers.
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They pop over when in the live mode about a second after the page loads. It must be available at some point to GS because they do show me on the regular safari BUT the google chrome DOES show it. AND DuckDuckGo shows it
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I never relied on such popups, in many situations I found they were not realistic. Like the “Watched in the last 24 hours”, I think this is a sort of automatic warning that ebay uses to catch buyers attentions, more than providing a real information like others you can filter from the seller page (like “number of watchers” or “eligible to send offers”).
That is exactly what I think. I personally hate ebay chart, it gives more troubles than advantages because people do not know how to use it. It is totally different from amazon one, but everyone thinks they works the same (just see “request total”…). This is why I would not rely just on a red banner that draws attention…
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Just because somebody at eBay web department decides to display a particular data point somewhere on their web page, doesn’t mean that eBay’s API team is going to add the same field. 
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