05-24-2017 07:27 AM
A potential buyer sent me a 70% off offer yesterday. After I declined he sent me the following message, "Don't worry about it. I have several more offers I can make on your XXX. If it does not sell soon, I will make more offers."
Today he sent a closer Best Offer. When I responded with a counter offer this message came up...
"XXXXX is considering your counteroffer
05-24-2017 07:59 AM
I believe that's just how many offers he has out in total to all sellers.
05-24-2017 08:01 AM
AFAIK, buyer only gets three best offers. I googled, how many best offers etc, and the verbage says that you can make up to three best offers on MOST items.
It does not specify what items may have more than three best offers, and frankly, in my experience, I have never encountered that.
Interesting! What is the item and what category is it in? Perhaps that has bearing on this.
05-24-2017 08:12 AM
"Nine offers?!"
My guess? ebay reaching out to cat lovers everywhere?
05-24-2017 09:10 AM - edited 05-24-2017 09:13 AM
@hollys_hobbies73 wrote:I believe that's just how many offers he has out in total to all sellers.
Yup. Sounds like a code glitch. It totals them altogether even if its offers going out to other sellers as well.
I learned about 3 strikes & your out the hard way. Made a couple of offers that got auto rejected becuase the seller had an offer limit. I didnt think my offers were unreasonable but i came up much higher on my 3rd. That got rejected instantly too & i was told that i could make no furhter offers - just Buyitnow if I wanted.
05-28-2017 07:25 AM
Not a glitch. I had the same question and called ECS. eBay has changed the number of offers to 10 on some categories, including collectibles. Also it seems like the new norm is 5 offers.
My questions include:
☞ Did eBay ever announce the change to sellers?
☞ Did eBay ever ask sellers if the change was a good idea?
Personally, I'm not happy with the change at all.
05-28-2017 09:21 AM
@imapaqrat wrote:Not a glitch. I had the same question and called ECS. eBay has changed the number of offers to 10 on some categories, including collectibles. Also it seems like the new norm is 5 offers.
My questions include:
☞ Did eBay ever announce the change to sellers?
☞ Did eBay ever ask sellers if the change was a good idea?
Personally, I'm not happy with the change at all.
Have they ever?
05-28-2017 09:39 AM
05-28-2017 01:43 PM
@imapaqrat wrote:Not a glitch. I had the same question and called ECS. eBay has changed the number of offers to 10 on some categories, including collectibles. Also it seems like the new norm is 5 offers.
Well if that's the case eBay should update their policy page and send out an announcement. They could have put this in the last Seller Update but they didn't....
https://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/best-offer.html
You can make up to 3 Best Offers for most items. Expired offers, declined offers, and retracted offers all count towards the limit of 3 Best Offers.
05-28-2017 03:02 PM - edited 05-28-2017 03:04 PM
@copper.boom wrote:
@imapaqrat wrote:Not a glitch. I had the same question and called ECS. eBay has changed the number of offers to 10 on some categories, including collectibles. Also it seems like the new norm is 5 offers.
Well if that's the case eBay should update their policy page and send out an announcement. They could have put this in the last Seller Update but they didn't....
https://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/best-offer.html
You can make up to 3 Best Offers for most items. Expired offers, declined offers, and retracted offers all count towards the limit of 3 Best Offers.
Perhaps sellers are the last to know because when it comes to software development eBay's practicing what's called in the biz, "Continuous Deployment."
For an explanation of how it works on another similar site, see: http://sciencemeetsbusiness.com.au/tag/chad-dickerson/
If so, no wonder the left hand has no idea what the right is doing...
Seriously. Who comes up with this stuff?
05-28-2017 03:06 PM
Really, that sounds malicious to you? To me it reads as someone who is saying they aren't offended by their offer being declined, and plan to make higher offers soon if someone else doesn't buy it first.
05-28-2017 03:07 PM
@megadestroyers wrote:"Nine offers?!"
My guess? ebay reaching out to cat lovers everywhere?
05-28-2017 07:14 PM
You could always put him on your BBL since you already declined his offer. By declining the offer you have given him no counter offer to consider.