
Daily peak visitorship is between 8:00 PM eastern time and 10:00 PM pacific time. In general, traffic flows according to the following two simple rules: Peak visitorship on eBay runs in daily and weekly cycles following the same pattern seen around most of the World Wide Web. While the answer to this question will be somewhat dependent on the audience you’re targeting (are you selling to students, stay-at-home Moms, businesspeople, etc?), the overall answer will be tied to eBay’s visitor statistics - particularly, split into days of the week, and times of the day.Ī has an interesting article on the subject where Aron Hsiao writes: Today I’ve found the time and I’m sure those thousands (or millions really) of us that don’t rely on eBay to make a living - but just want to sell a thing or two now and then - will also find this information of help. I was wondering the same thing when selling my old laptop a couple of days ago, but didn’t really have the time to dig into this subject then. So she came to me with this question: “What’s the best time to end an eBay auction?”
As some of you have already seen on Twitter, I’ve been selling some stuff on eBay lately, and today being the last day of their free listings, my wife wanted to sell some things too.