Eligible to Send Offers
Just wondering how people deal with this category. I have Best Offer initiated so feel these people are only browsers. If they were serious buyers they would initiate an offer. I have begun to ignore that section of my Overview page.
15 comments
lovefindingtreasures2
·5 months agoI continue to use best offer and I make offers, the bulk of my sales comes from one or the other. It's a bit of a buyers market right now too I think. I need to pay bills so I'm wheeling and dealing all day to get that sale.
I also don't want to sit on a ton of inventory, I sell it and buy better things to sell. Hoarding is not my thing, lol.
fm2000
·5 months agoAre lots of people watching but not making offers? Are they more expensive items? Might be due to the nightmare economy right now. I have some nice midrange collectibles (not cheap, but also not investment items) with lots of watchers but zero sent offers from buyers and zero response to seller initiated offers. I get it, given the fear and chaos going on right now.
grann-4629
·5 months agoI get these offers quite often, usually on more expensive items where the cost has been inflated over the norm. The offers presented normally amount to between 5 and 10% on the item, but nothing on the shipping, which isn't enough to make me bite. This is especially true for those sellers who prefer to use the eBay hub method for shipping. In spite of the high costs for any type of shipping these days, which has been discussed here often, I find this eBay 'service' to be an expensive add-on that provides zero benefit to a buyer.
If the offer is similar on a lower priced item, I may bite. If a counteroffer is available, I will only do it if the offered price is close to what I want to pay ... otherwise I don't want to embarrass the seller with a lowball offer.
fern*wood
·5 months agoWhat ebay shipping service are you talking about being an expensive add-on?
grann-4629
·5 months agoThey call it eIS - it's a service offered to sellers for International shipping. All the seller has to do is get their item to a 'hub' located in the US, and then their responsibility is over. If the item never gets to the buyer, tough. If the item arrives broken, tough, if the item goes somewhere else, tough ... the seller is no longer responsible ... eBay is.
eBay provides remedies for the buyer.
The seller pays a little more for this, hence the buyer pays a little more too.
jonathanbrightlight
·5 months agoSellers do not pay more for EIS. It's completely free to the seller.
meme6253
·5 months agoI use it, But I don't get much of a return rate from it., I would like to know who or what actually determines that they are eligible to send an offer, I use Best offer but I don't seem to get much out of that either.
sportsfindsandmore
·5 months agoIn my short time of selling, (March 3) I am having some positives from sending best offers. I actually do it when I get my first watcher even on a new listing. The majority of those I send, not a lot, but those offers in particular have a high sales rate. As far as the older listings, sending offers isn't real positive.
This forum won't link to my listings because my ID changed, so here's the direct link — https://www.ebay.com/usr/floydsdealdepot
my-cottage-books-and-antiques
·5 months agoI send offers, but have a very low conversion rate. It was higher when only actual watchers were eligible, but even then, it was never very high. I think it is in part because I probably have a heavy percentage of people researching price or identification, with no interest in actually buying.
When I send out offers I do so with very low expectations, so I'm always pleasantly surprised when someone actually accepts an offer. LOL
It only takes seconds to do, if it took a lot of effort I wouldn't bother at all.
jonathanbrightlight
·5 months agoWe’ve adopted a sort of tiered system for offers. When we first listed an item, we don’t allow offers, and if we get an offer in a message, we just reply politely that we are not accepting offers at this time. Then, after a few months, we turn on the option to allow offers, and at that point, I will also begin sending seller initiated offers. I had to sort of craft a saved link that would let me only view items that we have enabled offers on, that are above a certain price, so that I could only send offers on those in a relatively quick way. We then began dropping the price after several more months, and keep offers enabled until we reach the lowest price we would accept, which point, we turn the offer option back off.
simply-the-best-for-you
·5 months agoI don't use BO, so I Send Offers daily, multiple times a day. Used to be 40+ a day, some days now, I only get the opportunity to send a handful. A good day is 10. I used to have about a 30% conversion rate. Not anymore 😢
ten_o_nine
·5 months agoIt makes sense since Best Offer is already enabled on your listings.
tarotfindsandmore
·5 months agoI find the "send offer eligible" notifications annoying, but I do get approximately 25-30% (exactly 26 of my last 87 sales came from offers I sent out) of my sales from offers I send out. I don't use Best Offer and I don't allow counteroffers.
I send out offers primarily to keep my dashboard clear, but I have found that they do work for me.
shire123
·5 months agoYes. I ignore it too. The few times I actually did sent offers to watchers , the return rate was less than 1%. For me it was a real waste of time.
ten_o_nine
·5 months agoNot all watchers are eligible to receive an offer. eBay limits how many offers a buyer can receive within a certain timeframe to prevent spam.