Disable seller offers that I don't add to my watch list ...
Summary: Una discusión surgió sobre cómo desactivar las ofertas de vendedores que no se añaden a una lista de seguimiento. A lo largo de la conversación, varios participantes, incluyendo csdevil y christworks, participaron en intercambios de mensajes, aunque el contenido específico de sus contribuciones no se describió en los metadatos disponibles. Diferentes participantes respondieron a otros, mostrando interés y actividad en el tema, pero sin evidencia directa de una solución alcanzada o consenso dentro de la discusión. La interacción incluyó múltiples respuestas y seguimientos entre los diferentes autores involucrados.
I don't want to receive offers from sellers for simply viewing their listings! If I'm interested, I add the item to my watch list. I'm being overwhelmed with useless offers that interfere with the offers I'd like to purchase! Too many useless EMail's in my inbox and my watch list! I know I can turn seller offers off ... I don't want to! I want a buyers option to filter out viewing offers and watching offers!
crbr5066
·4 months agoA quick update...
Since my last post I have had the opportunity to message another six of these sellers via their unsolicited "offers" with a $1 counteroffer and the following message - "Why did you send me an offer for merely VIEWING your item? Here's what I'm willing to pay you for it"
I am beginning to browse the platform more than I was in order to actually trigger these unsolicited viewed-only offers just so I might have the opportunity to send more of these low-ball $1 counter-offers to waste the sellers' time. Metrics are important.
I am expecting the next wave of unsolicited viewed-only offers to be bigger and more impressive than what we have seen previously and I look forward to responding to them.
kathiec
·4 months ago😅😆😃😂
As previously stated, the vast majority of sellers who use this kind of blanket offer use eBay's automatic feature to accept or decline offers. So not only do they not spend any time at all responding to them, they never even see them, rendering your "metrics" well and truly useless. The only time being wasted is yours. But hey, if you're into that, knock yourself out.
mudshark61369
·4 months ago@csdevil , @mamacassidy , @crbr5066 ,
I have to ask if all of you use the app on a smaller screen device to search on ebay?
I login on a computer with an 18" screen. When I go to my ebay page the notifications themselves do not show up, but the Bell symbol in the upper right corner has a red number in it, to let me know that I have messages which I can open at my convenience.
If the messages themselves show up on your landing screen on the app, maybe logging in the classic way with your username and password using your device's browser will only show the Bell symbol w/ numbers and not be such a distraction.
mudshark61369
·4 months ago@mamacassidy ,
"I don't know why you insist on saying that the offers are only coming when you look at a sponsored item. They are coming from ANY item you look at, sponsored or not".
If that was the case, after the time I spent Saturday searching on ebay, in several categories, I should have received 60 or more offers by now.
"I have confirmed this many times by looking at items that were SPECIFICALLY NOT SPONSORED, and I've still received offers on them. Last week I looked at a listing from someone who was asking a question on this board, and within 1 hour I had an offer on that listing. It was not sponsored. I only looked at it one time to answer the question they were asking".
That listing may have been a sponsored one but since you went directly to it, you didn't know it was. Sometimes when looking at a listing I'll click on the circled > on the sponsored items images, and see the listing I opened directly from a results page posted there. Apparently, ebay has removed the Sponsored notice from search results page lists that used to be right above the item title.
If you want to complain to ebay about the feature Look below the message box of a
Because you showed interest in this item... message and click on the;
Updated messaging feedback button.
mamacassidy
·4 months ago@mudshark61369
Sorry, friend, you're sharing incorrect information.
crbr5066
·4 months agoLOL LMAO
Fresh kneepads for the platform sycophants, STAT!
In other news, since my last post I have been able to message another four of these sellers via their unsolicited "offers" with a $1 counteroffer and the following message - "Why did you send me an offer for merely VIEWING your item? Here's what I'm willing to pay you for it"
jonathanbrightlight
·4 months agoSounds like you’re just begging to be blocked.
crbr5066
·4 months agoYes.
Please, go ahead.
kibble-net
·4 months agoOf all the things to be mad about, receiving unsolicited discounts is the one you've chosen? That's quite a life choice.
I sincerely hope you have a better day tomorrow 🙂
soh.maryl
·4 months agoOK, if you get some satisfaction out of it, but why respond at all?
wandering-stars
·4 months agoI love offers from sellers even if I didn't watch the item because I don't make offers any more because it doesn't allow you to choose payment sources once you send an offer, for future transactions. Just because I haven't watched an item doesn't mean I won't buy it if the sellers send me an offer. Send me all the offers, yeah! 🥰
mudshark61369
·4 months ago@crbr5066 ,
You have replied several times to this topic without reading any of the other previous replies.
"... I do NOT appreciate a constant stream of offers for items I have viewed whilst window shopping".
If your window shopping includes clicking on the Sponsored listing photos you see on a listing page, that is why you are receiving offers for them. Sellers pay an extra fee for the extra search visibility and having offers automatically sent after a certain number of people, the seller selects, have viewed the listing.
Not everyone hates that feature, some use it to get discounted prices, and if an offer doesn't meet the hoped for discount, its easy just to delete them from your messages. You do not have to respond to them in any way.
mamacassidy
·4 months ago@mudshark61369
I don't know why you insist on saying that the offers are only coming when you look at a sponsored item. They are coming from ANY item you look at, sponsored or not.
I have confirmed this many times by looking at items that were SPECIFICALLY NOT SPONSORED, and I've still received offers on them.
Last week I looked at a listing from someone who was asking a question on this board, and within 1 hour I had an offer on that listing. It was not sponsored. I only looked at it one time to answer the question they were asking.
eburtonlab
·4 months ago@mamacassidy
I don't know why you insist on saying that the offers are only coming when you look at a sponsored item. They are coming from ANY item you look at, sponsored or not.
No one here is actually saying that all offers are "only coming when you look at sponsored items".
For users that disable "offers to buyers" in the Communication Preferences, though, looking at sponsored items can still result in getting offers, despite that setting.
Users that have "offers to buyers" enabled can potentially get offers for any item looked at, provided the category supports offers being made and sellers want to make those offers. Not just for sponsored items, any items.
Users either need to decide which is more important: getting offers for items on the Watch List, or not getting any offers for non-sponsored items viewed; or else find a way to do product research while not signed in to an account that is set to receive offers.
crbr5066
·4 months agoA quick update.
I continue to get these idiotic "offers" for merely viewing an item.
Yes, platform sycophants, I realise that sellers can't tell the difference between offers for items a prospective seller has in their cart and offers for items that a seller merely viewed. There's zero malice towards sellers and a seller's wasted time is a means to an end - a way to introduce just a teeny-weeny bit of friction between the seller and the platform to encourage the platform to make positive adjustments.
Since my last post I have been able to message some 17 of these sellers via their unsolicited "offers" with a $1 counteroffer and the following message - "Why did you send me an offer for merely VIEWING your item? Here's what I'm willing to pay you for it"
All have inexplicably declined my generous counteroffer, but not until they have had to waste time on what they thought might be legitimate offers, then gone through the motions of reviewing the offer and declining it, so that's mission success .
I look forward to the next batch of unsolicited offers 🙂
wandering-stars
·4 months agoI can't think why you use eBay when you hold the website and its users in such disdain. Using eBay isn't compulsory.
albertabrightalberta
·4 months agoI hope you feel better after having taken more time to counter and message those 17 sellers' offers. You may think you've wasted their time but you've wasted a lot more of your own time than the 1/2 second it takes them to decline your $1 offer.
Sheesh, I feel like we need to remind people that they need to be 18 to have an account.
house*of*paws
·4 months agoAren’t most sellers likely to auto-decline $1 offers … so that not even a 1/2 second needs to be spent reviewing and declining crbr5060’s offers? 🤔
How sad if such heroic efforts to annoy and harass go unnoticed. 😢
balloujune1952
·4 months agoThis makes you wonder how sophisticated eBay's system of sending seller offers is.
I often get offers from sellers who are selling the exact same thing I have listed and their offer price is much higher than what I have on the item for sale.
eburtonlab
·4 months agoI often get offers from sellers who are selling the exact same thing I have listed and their offer price is much higher than what I have on the item for sale.
Sellers making such offers have no way of knowing if you are a potential buyer or if you are another seller doing research on items you intend to sell, much less that you are actually already selling the same item at a lower price.
Sellers only know that eBay tells them an offer can be made, nothing more than that.
chapeau-noir
·4 months agoI agree with the OP - getting offers on something that is only viewed is pestering. It's also pretty out of date - for a while mail order companies were doing a thing that if you only LOOKED at their web page they'd start sending emails pestering you to come back...do you need any help...what do you need, etc. etc. It was pitiful, and it stopped a couple of years ago. If people are interested, they will signal that they are interested - pathetic attempts to pester a buyer are not needed.
And I don't understand these hostile remarks - I guess in this modern regime, dissent is UNPOSSIBLE.
powell-collectibles
·4 months agoI wish that sellers realized how desperate it looks to have auto offer set up. I might look at something or put it on my watchlist – some potential that I just buy it at the regular price. To get an offer shortly after reviewing something tells me that maybe seller will go even lower. Regardless, he’s Leaving money on the table in a lot of cases.
soh.maryl
·4 months agoSo you can't just ignore unsolicited offers?
And how do these offers interfere with the offers you'd like to purchase?
Forgive me if this is a dumb question -- have not sold for probably 20 yrs and it's also been a long time since I have made an eBay purchase.
crbr5066
·4 months agoHave fun with it. I appreciate offers on items I have in my watch list or cart, but I do NOT appreciate a constant stream of offers for items I have viewed whilst window shopping.
I have taken to sending extremely lowball ($1) counteroffers with a note asking "Why did you send me an offer for merely VIEWING your item? Here's what I'm willing to pay you for it".
If you feel like these unwanted offers are wasting your time, then waste theirs back. However, know that the sellers have no control over whether offers get sent to you because an item is in your cart or whether it's just something you browsed past.
The purpose in wasting seller's time is to frustrate them and have them present feedback to ebay about it.
eburtonlab
·4 months agoI have taken to sending extremely lowball ($1) counteroffers with a note asking "Why did you send me an offer for merely VIEWING your item? Here's what I'm willing to pay you for it".
Sellers have no idea who you are or why you are receiving an offer; eBay just tells sellers that a certain number of offers can be sent to eligible users, not who those users are or why they qualify.
You can receive all offers or receive no offers; but you cannot pick and choose which you receive.
You can use a different eBay account to research prices with offers disabled, or search while signed out of your eBay account, then only add items you are interested in to your Watch List. It may be easier to do this by using two different browsers; one you are signed in to, and one you are not.
Or you may find it easier to enable offers but simply ignore the offers you are not interested in rather than going to the trouble to reject them individually.
crbr5066
·4 months agoThank you so much for your wise counsel...
I'll continue to do it my way, because it's far more amusing to me than your way.
K? Tks.
albertabrightalberta
·4 months ago@csdevil
You can't have it both ways.
You either want offers or you don't. You need to choose.
You can't pick and choose which sellers are "allowed" to send offers and which aren't allowed.
simba6
·4 months agoLog out of eBay and clear your cookies. Then you can shop without any of that. You will have to log back in to bid or buy.
ryry-jj
·4 months agoWhen you sign up for eBay, you sign up to receive offers. Wish I could turn off commercials on my TV, too. Streaming we can, but notice we pay more to opt out of commercials? They are minor in the overall picture
grann-4629
·4 months agoIt's just marketing ... I prefer this to the other type of marketing used by eBay ... plastering ads all over every listing page so a buyer has trouble finding what s/he needs to know.
kibble-net
·4 months agoI've noted your comment, and will be sure to not send you any offers. I warmly invite you to buy any item from my store at the full asking price.
mudshark61369
·4 months ago@csdevil ,
If you are on a listing page, and click on the Sponsored item photos, you will automatically receive offers from those sellers. While there are ways to turn off other offers, you cannot turn those ones off because those seller's pay extra for the higher search visibility and the automatic offer program.
You can lessen the number of offers you receive by not clicking on them.
csdevil
OP4 months agoSecond intelligent reply! Thanks
Yeah, I came to that same conclusion ... Sadly, eBay does not understand that flooding buyers with offers also deters them from making the purchases they want. I'm tired of having My eBay Summary inundated with items I have no intention of ever purchasing! eBay is about to lose a long time member!
soh.maryl
·4 months agoHow does receiving unsolicited offers deter buyers from making the purchases they want?
Personally, have found it easy to ignore offers I have no interest in accepting. And, as far as I know, receiving these offers has not kept me from accepting any offers I want to accept.
jundedh2012
·4 months agoebay dosent really tell me anything like that. i can send an offer to i assume is a new watcher and that it. i dont who they are or anything else. sorry
*casey*
·4 months agoIf a seller has 'automated' offers enabled, the offers are sent out to members who have the item on their watched list AND to those who have just 'looked' at an item.
Buyers hate it !
grann-4629
·4 months agoBuyers hate it !
I am a buyer (only) and I like it. I put items in my watchlist because I get offers on many of them. I have purchased at least 15 items this way, so far.
*casey*
·4 months agoIf you read all of the thread correctly, you'll see it isn't about items on a watched list !
It's the offers received for just 'looking' at items which are the problem.
They're the offers that buyers hate.
powell-collectibles
·4 months agoThe OP is talking about something different. He doesn’t want offers on items He has merely viewed – only of those that are on his watchlist. I do find the nonstop offers annoying – but I have bought some items from offers on viewed only items. I do think it would be good to have an option to only receive offers from watched items – it can get a little bit overwhelming.
*casey*
·4 months ago@csdevil
Buyers everywhere hate it.
It's either turn off 'all' offers , including for watched items that you're interested in buying,
or receive non stop offers for items which have only been looked at.
The only way out of it is to browse without being signed in with any ID.
csdevil
OP4 months agoThat's exactly what I'm talking about! Think I'm done with eBay ...
kathiec
·4 months ago@csdevil
Unfortunately there is no option to "filter out viewing offers and watching offers". It's one of those things you have to live with if you're going to use the platform.
christworks
·4 months ago@csdevil Well, aren't we entitled?
You agreed to recieve offers when you either signed up to use eBay or when you continued to use when the terms of use were changed. You shouldn't have agreed to it if you felt like it was a waste of your time.
msha3839
·4 months agoHonestly, pushing offer just by potential buyer viewing listing and not saving it, bad business practice…even when saving watched item , seller pushing offer is a bad idea…making potential buyer upset in most cases is a lost sale..I look at 50-70 collectibles per day and get about 10-15 offers..I can let it expire, but too much junk on the page makes it annoying..taking time to decline but never buy anything while quite often buying stuff from watch list…and when I make an offer, it’s a one time deal with a time limit..🥃
kibble-net
·4 months agoI've noted your comment too, and will be sure to not send you any offers as well. I cordially invite you to buy any item from my store at the full asking price.
grann-4629
·4 months agoHey @kibble-net ... you're going to make a nice profit this year! 🤓
mudshark61369
·4 months ago@msha3839 ,
"Honestly, pushing offer just by potential buyer viewing listing and not saving it, bad business practice…even when saving watched item , seller pushing offer is a bad idea…making potential buyer upset in most cases is a lost sale".
If you do not want to receive offers unless you put an item on your watch list. DO NOT click on Sponsored listings either on a listing page, or on a search results page where you see Sponsored just over the listing title.
"I look at 50-70 collectibles per day and get about 10-15 offers..I can let it expire, but too much junk on the page makes it annoying..taking time to decline..."
I too look at lots of collectibles in several categories. sometimes clicking on Sponsored listings, knowing I'll get an offer sooner or later. Some days I click on the box above messages, checking them all and just delete them.
You do not have to decline offers in your messages, they usually come with an "Offer good until..." message, so you can just let them lapse. Most of the offers also have the note "Others have received this offer, be the first to buy..."
csdevil
OP4 months agoOffers are great if I add the item to my watch list ... I'm getting flooded with offers just because I open a listing to read the description. It does not mean that I'm interested. Thanks for your intelligent reply!
csdevil
OP4 months agoI've been on eBay since their conception. Idiotic reply with no concept of the conversation!