Changing Duration Of Offers

[mattnd3]

Good evening.  Asking as a seller, how can I shorten the length of time my offers last?  I see mine are 4 days currently.  I also buy on eBay and I receive offers all the time that are  2 days, sometimes 1 day.  Where in the seller hub can I change the duration of my sent offers?  Thanks in advance.  

Matt

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@mattnd3 Seller Initiated Offers are now 4 days (96 hours). There is no option to reduce that.

Buyer Initiated Offers are, I believe 1 day or  2 day, buyer's choice.

[mattnd3]

Appreciate the quick response.  I have a followup question.…. Let’s say I list an item, it attracts 2 watchers, and I send an offer to both.  Meanwhile, during the 4 days, 5 more  people start to watch my item.  Is there a way to send an offer to them before the 4 days expire?  I often find people sit on offers with no plan to accept or reject… they just leave it and let them expire so you are stuck for 4 days.  

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@mattnd3  You do not need to wait for the four days to run its course. Go ahead and send offers to new watchers. Whoever buys it first gets it....if your first watchers waited too on to decide, that's on them , not on you.

One thing to keep in mind----once your offer is live, there are certain revisions you will not be able to make to the listing until it expires. However, you can end the listing itself anytime during the 4 days. And then you can revise it when you relist it. 

[mattnd3]

I’ve never been able to send offers when I have offers already out.  I don’t see an option to do it for me (using the app).  

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@mattnd3 Sorry. I guess I was mistaken. I was pretty sure I've never had a problem doing that, but maybe all my offers were sent after the expiration. Hopefully, someone else will be along who can provide more info.

[go-bad-chicken]

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@mattnd3 wrote:

I’ve never been able to send offers when I have offers already out.  I don’t see an option to do it for me (using the app).  

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@mattnd3 @my-cottage-books-and-antiques 

You can check the box to automatically send offers to future watchers. That way in the example that you gave earlier whenever a new prospective buyer comes along and watches your item that you have already sent an offer out, they to will then receive the same offer via email sometime shortly after adding that item to their watch list.