I thought you only got an offer from a seller if you were watching the item. Today I was looking at an item that I have one to sell also. A few minutes after I got mine listed I received an offer from the seller of the item I was looking at. I almost messed up and accepted the offer thinking I was getting an offer on my item. I'm glad I did a double take. I've only been able to send offers to watchers. How are they sending offers to lookers?

Most likely thru " cookies" ... You clicked to have a look, they slapped a trace/ cookie on you, and then used the link to send you an offer. It never fails for me to look at something casually, and then get several ( eBay automated) "seller" offers and/ or have that item showing up as an ad in Google searches and such.

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