eBay

goldunltd · ‎02-02-2021

I've been a Seller on Ebay since 2005. I've gone through periods of being a Top Rated Seller, to listing much less, due to lack of supply or spare time. I retired last year and I'm getting back up to selling again.

How can I stop Ebay from adding "Offers" on my Buy It Now listings?

I spend hours doing listings (from photos to text) to get them set up as "Buy It Now" and within 48 hours, Ebay switches them to "Offers." I have to spend more time revising my listings as I originally posted them! Bad enough they took away the ability to do creative listings, use GIFs or even have colored text. I sold much more when I could do interesting listings!!

When doing Listings, they ask for my Feedback, which I have given 3-4 times, asking them to STOP changing my listings to allow "Offers." It does no good.

Is there a way to make Ebay STOP doing this?? Or just bite the bullet?

team_akira · ‎06-01-2021

@inhawaii wrote:
I don't believe these changes are happening AFTER you make the listing. I believe they happen WHEN you make the listing. But that's a whole nother debate/discussion.

I believe that when you are CREATING A NEW LISTING it will sometimes default to accept offers and if you don't catch it you will have a listing that accepts offers.

I went through this a couple of times. The remedy is to be careful and double check your listing/settings before you enter them.

Good luck and stay safe.

No, eBay is changing best offers AFTER listings are created. It has been going on for quite some time now. And it gets very annoying since it's done without the seller's consent. I'm surprised it hasn't happened to you yet.

team_akira · ‎06-01-2021

@bimm_corp wrote:
@goldunltd
>How can I stop Ebay from adding "Offers" on my Buy It Now listings?

You can use eBay's mania for "Best Offers" to your advantage, whether you list with auction or BIN.

1> In the Selling Details section of the listing form click on the Best Offer click box
2> Just below that you will see two click boxes marked "Automatically accept offers of at least" and "Automatically decline offers lower than"
3> Click both these boxes and enter your lowest acceptable price in both

Now 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.

https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/BuyerBlock

You're seriously missing the point here. We know we can setup automatic accept/decline offers, but that's a lot of extra unnecessary work for the seller. For example, if a seller has 1,000 listings and eBay decides to add best offers to 300 of those, are you saying the seller should spend the time to modify 300 listings? How long will that take? What happens next time when eBay decides to add best offer to another 500 listings? Sellers know their inventory and the prices they want to sell at. If they wanted to receive offers, they would have created them that way in the first place.

sincityelectronics · ‎06-23-2021

So many commenters here are missing the point entirely. It’s not an issue in the sellers method of creating the listing, and it’s not a glitch in ebays system. eBay straight up sends me messages every other day that they’ve altered my listings. I’ve called customer service a couple times only to get scripted responses on how it leads to more sales, how I don’t have to click accept offer, blah blah blah. They just deflect and refuse to even acknowledge the issue at hand. And I’ve had several buyers get annoyed when I decline their offer and go in and revise the listing to remove the offer feature. One even messaged me with something to the tune of “why would you even have offers if you don’t want to even respond to them”. And of course they don’t believe me when I say this is something eBay has added without my consent. Think they’re still going to buy from me now?

2013grotz · ‎06-24-2021

Stuff like this is the point behind the thread. If I make a listing a particular way, I don't want ebay going in and changing things. Unfortunately, we'll hear of them enrolling listings into "Easy Pricing" or whatever it is they push at you after you make a listing. Assuming they even give you the courtesy to know that they altered your listings without your consent.

Anything for FVF, even if the sellers lose...

mtnlooks4less · ‎07-07-2021

Actually I am having a chat w an ebay customer service rep right now about this very issue, and he is telling me that ebay DOES do that automatically to newer sellers. It should stop doing that once you are NOT a new seller, at least by 4 mos. Direct from ebay. Since this is still happening to me, he's going to submit it to the technical team to hopefully resolve soon. I am very careful when making listings that that box is NOT marked, since I hate that option.

2013grotz · ‎07-07-2021

@mtnlooks4less wrote:
Actually I am having a chat w an ebay customer service rep right now about this very issue, and he is telling me that ebay DOES do that automatically to newer sellers.

E-bay CSR lied to you. I'm very much NOT a "newer seller" and it happened to mine.

craftyjojo1220 · ‎07-07-2021

I agree!

I have been a member since 2006! I am not a big seller, but I'm not new either.

Just last week I got the email that they changed one of my listings, that had only been up about a week!

If I want offers I would set it that way!

I am fed up with it too!

monicap29 · ‎08-14-2021

Wondering if you found a way around this. I have now put in a minimum offer price close to my asking price because when ebay changes it they put a LOW minimum that just wastes my time to counter because they never buy unless it's 50% off.

shado-x · ‎08-14-2021

How can I stop Ebay from adding "Offers" on my Buy It Now listings?

On your Seller Hub, click listings, select all, click edit, select "edit selected" in the mini dropdown menu, wait for the page to load, and then go through each listing by scrolling down and deselect the "Make Offer" section. Do that for all, and then check that next time you sell something ... better, use a "sell similar" page where "Make Offer" has been deselected. If a machine is giving you an itch, just be a smarter machine.

lah-6038 · ‎10-04-2021

They happen after I make a listing. I always make sure I select "do not accept offers", and I always check the listing after posted to make sure it's no offers accepted. Then sure enough, a few hours later or the next day I'll check again and it says accepts offer, and it sets the least offer I'll accept ridiculously low, once for $2.00 for $50 piece of antique glass.

scitsal · ‎07-24-2022

Today is 07-25-22, so I know your question is from more than a year ago, but in case you didn't get a decent answer, or someone else comes here, I was really mad that I got a bunch of ridiculous offers when the price was firm. I did not want offers. When I relisted the items I had to click on this arrow in Pic 1 and then uncheck the box in Pic 2. Good luck!

scitsal · ‎07-24-2022

The problem is that if someone does a quick listing they tend to scroll past the little thing I circled in red here, which is what you click on to open another page, where you can find will find the "accept offers/do not accept offers" box. 😉