Measured on one real store's own listings, through 2026-10-12. Updated weekly.
Every seller who watches a listing sit at zero views reaches the same conclusion: eBay is burying it. Cassini hates the title, the listing is shadowbanned, the account got dinged for something.
For most listings that is false, and you can check the arithmetic yourself.
We run an eBay card store and instrument every listing with eBay's own Sell Analytics traffic report — one row per listing per day. Over the 7 days ending 2026-10-12, across 2,194 of our own live listings:
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Impressions (times a listing appeared in search) | 334,122 |
| Views (times someone clicked through) | 5,198 |
| Click-through rate on search results | 1.56% |
| Listings with zero views | 1,576 (71.8%) |
| Listings with zero impressions | 0.6% |
| Median impressions per listing | 73 |
Take the median listing. It was shown 73 times in 7 days. The click-through rate on search results, across the whole store, is 1.56%.
73 impressions × 1.56% = 1.14 expected views.
When the expected value is near one, zero is not an anomaly — it is the single most likely outcome. You need no explanation involving punishment, suppression, or a bad title to produce it. Roughly 71.8% of our listings landed on zero, which is close to what a number that small predicts.
Note the second row of the table: only 0.6% of listings got zero impressions. Almost everything is being shown. It is being shown a small number of times.
Impressions are not spread evenly, anywhere near it:
That concentration is the real finding. A store's traffic is decided by a small head of listings. The long tail is not being punished; it is being shown a handful of times each, which is what a tail looks like.
This is one store's own listings — ours, in trading cards. It is not a marketplace-wide statistic, and we do not publish numbers about anyone else's listings. Your category, price band and store size will move these numbers.
The point is not the specific percentage. The point is the shape: check what your expected view count actually is before concluding you have been buried.
If your median listing gets a couple of dozen impressions a week, zero views is arithmetic. If it gets thousands and still converts nobody, that is a real problem worth chasing — and it is a different problem than the one most sellers think they have.
The figures above come from Sell Analytics data that eBay already collects for your store and shows you almost none of. Drop Zone Cards reads it and computes this same breakdown for your listings: your CTR, your median impressions, your expected views, your concentration.
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Published by Drop Zone Cards. Figures recomputed weekly from our own store's eBay traffic report; last run 2026-10-12T06:10:03+00:00. We publish numbers about our own listings only.