Send lower price to watchers
I saw a link where you can send a lower price to watchers. I accidentally typed $35.00 instead of $350! Duh!
I did not see anyway to fix this or contact the watcher so I pulled the listing and re-listed it. In the future how do I fix it if I send the wrong price offer?
Thx!
11 comments
mike_jayroe
·3 years agoDon't feel bad. I did the same thing on two items. Meant to type $26.00 but typed six when making offers. Buyer bought one before I noticed. I shipped it taking the loss and quickly fixed the second item before any one bought it. The first buyer then asked about the second item and when I explained what happened he/she thanked me for not cancelling the first order. They than bought the second one at $26.00.
I will blame my old age for my mistake.
tahooker
OP3 years agoWell I learned a valuable lesson...use a PC with keyboard and large LCD's instead of a tiny cell phone when doing these types of things!
Thanks to all...even the snide remarks! Ha!
toysaver
·3 years agoGood thing it wasn't brain surgery.
m60driver
·3 years agoWe have all done this. You did the correct thing by simply ending the listing before they accepted the offer. Often ending a listing is the best solution for many an Ebay dilemma. I recently ended a listing because I was getting an endless stream of lowball offers from one person.
soh.maryl
·3 years agoWith offers, you can't just ignore and block that person?
m60driver
·3 years agoYou can't fully ignore because Ebay will send you constant reminders to respond. But yes, you can also block but then you might get some wacko who gets offended and opens a new account just to harass you. So I prefer to just end the listing for a few days.
reallynicestamps
·3 years ago@m60driver
Did you know you can set parameters on your Best Offers?
For example if you have an item listed at $100, but you would accept a $90 Offer.
You can set your parameters to accept automatically any Offer of $90 or more and more importantly to refuse any offer of $89.99 or less.
The customer gets a polite refusal, automatically, if he offers below $90.
You can also set the refusal lower at, say, $75.
The customer gets a polite note automatically from eBay if he offers less than $75.
You handle any Offers between $75.01 and $90.
If the listings is getting a bit stale, you may be willing to accept that $75.01 a month or two down the road.
Basically though you only have to see sales, whether the customer bought at full price or with an acceptable Best Offer.
m60driver
·3 years agoYes, but sometimes someone throws out a lowball offer as a starting negotiation only to accept a reasonable price. I only ended my listing after repeated lowball offers on the buyer's part and a warning from myself to the buyer that I had given the buyer my final offer and they could take it or leave it.
albertabrightalberta
·3 years agoYou can't fix it. You had to end the listing just as you did. You're lucky that the buyer/watcher didn't purchase after receiving your offer!
soh.maryl
·3 years agoWouldn't the simplest solution be to just slow down when sending offers and proofread before hitting the final button?
And I'm sure there is no need to remind you that not all watchers are necessarily potential buyers.
frodobagginskennedy
·3 years ago@soh.maryl How condescending of you. Like YOU have never made a mistake.......