eBay

elverano · ‎05-24-2017

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

With only 48h 00m to respond, you should be hearing back from this buyer soon. This buyer has 9 offers remaining."

Nine offers?! Glitch or new rule I missed?

hollys_hobbies73 · ‎05-24-2017

I believe that's just how many offers he has out in total to all sellers.

castlemagicmemories · ‎05-24-2017

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.

megadestroyers · ‎05-24-2017

"Nine offers?!"

My guess? ebay reaching out to cat lovers everywhere?

itsjustasprain · ‎05-24-2017

@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.

imapaqrat · ‎05-28-2017

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.

pantlandia · ‎05-28-2017

@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?

chrysylys · ‎05-28-2017

"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."

Sounds malicious and worthy of the ID being blocked.

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copper.boom · ‎05-28-2017

@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.

livadia · ‎05-28-2017

@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?

gabbycockatiel · ‎05-28-2017

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.