Check your listings: Ebay is automatically making decisions for you

[liawrig.nq8rdwqa3]

Hi everyone,

This is happening more and more.  I get an email from ebay that a listing has been relisted -- when I didn't relist it.  Or I get an email that I can now accept best offer -- and I never checkoff best offers on my auctions.  Is that happening to you too?

So now I have to go through 200 listings and make changes.

[bimm_corp]

eBay has been adding the Best Offer option to sellers' listings for some time now. Who gets hit seems to be kind of hit and miss but I've heard on these boards that it's more likely to happen if you use the "quick listing" page. eBay does this without a sellers knowledge or permission.

You can use eBay's mania for "Best Offers" to your advantage, whether you list with auction or BIN. In the Selling Details section of the listing form click on the Best Offer click box. Just below that you will see two click boxes marked "Automatically accept offers of at least" and "Automatically decline offers lower than". Click both these boxes and enter your lowest acceptable price in both. If a buyer makes a lowball offer, it gets automatically rejected and you will never get a notice or email. If the buyer makes an offer equal or higher than your lowest price, it will get accepted and the item will close the same way as if the buyer did a BIN. And you don't have to be bothered with all the back-and-forth offers and eBay can't sneak in a BO without your knowledge. You might even get lucky as has happened to me now and then and the BO will be above your lowest price. I list auctions only but it works fine for me. It still can't stop nagging emails from problematic buyers, but that's what your BBL is for.

[penguins_dont_fly]

@liawrig.nq8rdwqa3 

List using the Business Tool instead of the Quick Listing Tool

eBay makes no "helpful suggestions" or changes to your listing when you use the Business Tool.

There are also more options available on the Business Tool.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/listing-tips/using-business-tool?id=4159

Even though it says it is for "high volume" sellers, it really isn't.  It is for any seller who wants control of their listings without eBay's "helpfuless".

[xedicl-0]

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@liawrig.nq8rdwqa3 wrote:

Hi everyone,

This is happening more and more.  I get an email from ebay that a listing has been relisted -- when I didn't relist it.  Or I get an email that I can now accept best offer -- and I never checkoff best offers on my auctions.  Is that happening to you too?

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No, it isn't.

I'm not letting ebay do that but in order for that to happen you have to do things a certain way.

[caldreamer]

All listing AUTOMATICALLY RELIST (that's part of EBAY...not something you can "opt out of").

When Buyers go to CONTACT SELLER...there is option "MAKE OFFER" (that's part of EBAY...not something you can "opt out of".

[penguins_dont_fly]

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@caldreamer wrote:

All listing AUTOMATICALLY RELIST (that's part of EBAY...not something you can "opt out of").

When Buyers go to CONTACT SELLER...there is option "MAKE OFFER" (that's part of EBAY...not something you can "opt out of".

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@caldreamer 

No, they don't

Good Til Cancelled is NOT the same as automatically relisting.

GTC Fixed Price listings renew once a month. They keep the same item number, view count, watchers and sales history (for multiple item listings)

Auctions relist when they go unsold after the auction ends.

They get a new item number and lose all history.

Sellers that use the Quick Lister or the App have no way to turn off auto-relist.

Sellers that use the Business Tool can opt to auto-relist or not.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/relisting-items?id=4147

Sellers that use the Business Tool can CHOOSE whether or not to use Best Offer on their listings.

Sellers that use the Quick Lister or the App cannot choose.

Nobody here is talking about the option to send an offer in messages ... we are talking about in the listing itself.