Sending offers to potential buyers! Does it actually work for you?

[untitledrecords]

• Recently I have been able to send offers to watchers from the app. This has actually been quite effective in making sales. I usually stay at the minimum 5% off. Has this worked for others? 

[dirk12955]

It's working for me. I'm not sure the discount matters as much as giving the potential buyer a gentle reminder that he had an interest.

[lex-talon]

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@untitledrecords wrote:

• Recently I have been able to send offers to watchers from the app. This has actually been quite effective in making sales. I usually stay at the minimum 5% off. Has this worked for others? 

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No. I've sent numerous offers and not one sale. 

[drinkwine1204]

Not working for me. I've sent a dozen offers 20% off with no response or sales. Since my prices are already 50-70% off the retail tag, I am at a loss as to what else to do.

Glad it is working for some. Keep them sales going !

[richards*rock*collection]

a few but I some times wonder if best offer actually turns off the buying reflex or impulse buy. That being said, I was thinking of removing them but have sold many things where no one bothered to send a bo and they pay the full price. I sent 10 offers to watchers and got a sale. The fact of the matter is I would have sold many things for next to nothing but never had to. Some things got ridiculous low offers I had to decline them, like 5 dollars for a 80 dollar item that routinely sells for 125, this is dumb but people try it all the time, is ok

[disneyshopper]

My prices are already about 20% off retail, but I sent offers of 10-20% lower, and so far no takers.

[the.curious.fat.cat]

Nope. 
Didn't work for me. 

Also haven't got offers on items that I have best offers option on. Not even lowball offers.
Crickets. Crickets everywhere.
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[bill.purvis2012]

No. Not really. I thought it would. But, sadly. no. 

[*madison]

I was watching an item priced at £12.99 BIN.

Seller sent an offer for £12.49. 

Seriously, if sellers are going to send offers they need to make offers more tempting than that.

[myangelandmyprincess]

Hasn't worked for me as a seller but it's clearly working for some because ibe accepted enough of them ha.  I've received about 8 and accepted like 6.  

[this*old*attic]

Not really. Only 1 sale...... using it about 20 times on multiple items and dropping prices about 20%.

I think it might depend on several things - category, purpose/urgency of the need for the item, and the individual seller's average price point (for those of us with closer to market prices, I think we attract more watching sellers to see if it sells).

[this*old*attic]

Another thought: I don't GENERALLY worry that it bothers potential buyers UNTIL another opportunity comes around. I worry whether anyone gets SUBSEQUENT offers. I wish we had some way of:

1. Knowing who had received offers and not re-sending. Which watchers are new?

2. A true "Manage Offers" feature, so we could send increasing lower offers to specific watchers.

It would take some coding, but anonymity could still be preserved.

As the feature exists, it's stabbing in the dark. It's kind of a sloppy, beat a dead horse with a stick, approach.

[toyshnip]

Sometimes. We do it in slow days and here and there we get customers to bite.

[kataggr_0]

Just offer at a great price to begin with.  No, I don't like to be emailed with an offer.  I usually delete on watched list.

[untitledrecords]

I run through my watchers list at least once a day. I send them every time I get the chance. You can’t catch a fish without a hook.

J