Ebay now forcing 5% minimums when sending offers for listings over $1000

[iwasl_55]

According to ebay,

"The amount in your Offer to buyer must be lower than the Buy It Now price in the listing: at least 5% lower for items under $200. at least 3% lower for items between $200 and $1,000."

but now I'm being forced to give 5% minimum offers, no matter what the price is. 

[sin-n-dex]

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@stainlessenginecovers wrote:

If a $100 is not $80; I don't care and am annoyed

If a $40 item is not $35, I don't care- and am annoyed

If a $3 item sends me an offer- I would just giggle and delete. 

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I would give you the $80 and $35 discounted offers...

As for $3 item offers, I stopped sending them. There's a guy who buys my Australian stamps who will accept 12 offers and pays for the individually (probably because eBay is forcing that now), and I'm the one who's annoyed. I am just letting items get added to the eligible offer list and doing nothing about it. I might send some offers after time away, right now the less I have to worry about packing and shipping the happier I am.

C.

[sin-n-dex]

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@yuzuha wrote:

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@asset_liquidators wrote:

I wouldn't even bother sending an offer if it wasn't at least 5% off no matter what the items price. Even if it was a $2000 item I am not wasting my time or anyone elses by sending less than 5%.

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Agreed. If I'm sending an offer, it's because I want to move that item on out and get rid of it. I don't send less than 15-20%.

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I have too many items, so I always want to get rid of stuff... unless it's an easy sale and I know I'll get full price fairly soon.

C.

[chapeau-noir]

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@simba6 wrote:

Offers much under 30% are just a waste of time anyway.

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I do really well with offers of 15-20%.

5% I wouldn't waste my time on, though.

[iwasl_55]

It doesn't matter if you'd be insulted by the offer or not. That's not the point. 

[iwasl_55]

It's not that way anymore. Ebay isn't letting me give an offer for 2% on a $1000+ item. 

[iwasl_55]

It's forcing me to do 5% on items $200+ which is not what it's supposed to be. 

[luckythewinner]

Thank goodness eBay got rid of trivial offers and counter-offers from sellers. IMHO those sellers should just lower their price. 

[iwasl_55]

They aren't trivial. Because 2% off is a lot of money on a $5000 listing. 

[dhbookds]

but now I'm being forced to give 5% minimum offers, no matter what the price is.

I tested on a $300 item..........can send an offer at 3%.......but not at 2%. 

[wpt05]

Anything less than 5% would be spam in my opinion. I believe many others would agree.  

[mwsales05]

It's the same for me as well. I was hoping it was a bug but I'm guessing this is the new norm and they haven't bothered to announce anything or revise the website. 

[valueaddedresource]

@iwasl_55 are you trying to send offers in the app or desktop/web experience?

I've heard from some other sellers who are getting a very strange message in the app when trying to send offers that is telling them they have to give a discount of 18.38% or $18.38.

Pretty clearly a glitch, and not exactly what you are experiencing, but I'm wondering if there may be something going on specifically with the app in your case too.

[myss2638]

I was running into the same issue. It seems this is a bug in the mobile app. It forces a 5% offer no matter what the price is. If I go to the desktop version of ebay (not the app) I can send 2% and 3% offers. 

[iwasl_55]

App. I've only ever sent offers through the app. I don't even know how to do that on desktop. 

[iwasl_55]

Now im getting complete nonsense glitches.