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squishmanism · ‎06-12-2023

It drives me nuts to click on something out of curiosity or when I watch an item because I want to see how it goes with zero interest in bidding and then I get offers to buy it! How do I turn those off off?

janet9988 · ‎12-13-2023

@shortcircuitstnm wrote:
honestly, this is just a full blown mess. eBay doesn't care, they need the money. I got hit with negative feedbackas a seller because someone waited 38 days after receipt of item to claim it was missing something. I didn't have to honor the return, but she was allwoed to leave negative feedback for her own incompetence. I've been browsing a lot for Disneyland stuff for a trip in 2 months, and I've had well north of 60 offers this week on stuff I looked at, never liked, and have to have my phone go off all day, as well as come back in to the app or website and delete the offer, which puts it back in the recently viewed section. every company is getting worse about ramming this stuff down everyone's throats, and after 10+ years on eBay, I'm about to just pull the plug on buying and selling. They don't want to listen to the people making them money.

Your post has nothing to do with the OPs opening post.

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ebooksdiva · ‎06-12-2023

In your account settings under Communication Preferences Under buying preferences offers

you can turn off by unchecking the boxes.

southern*sweet*tea · ‎06-12-2023

account settings>communication preferences>next to buyer>buying activity click edit: https://commspreferences.ebay.com/commsprefs

Turn off what you want to turn off. To stop receiving offers uncheck offers to buyers. This will stop all offers - ones sent directly from the seller when you put something on your watch list or in your cart and the pain in the butt ones that Ebay automatically sends when you look at something.

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.

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squishmanism · ‎06-12-2023

Thx Ebook and Southern. I just did that. I saw the box, but I did not consider myself a "buyer", just a looker! So I passed it by. Anyway, glad I asked!

fern*wood · ‎06-12-2023

I hope you don't then decide to buy something and miss out on a discount.

ebooksdiva · ‎06-12-2023

You’re considered a buyer. Even when you’re just looking.

squishmanism · ‎06-12-2023

Of course. Just saying.

squishmanism · ‎06-12-2023

So I just got a #*@% offer! Why, after unchecking the box? Maybe it doesn't take right away?

squishmanism · ‎06-12-2023

It is possible I didn't click "save". It was still unchecked though.

squishmanism · ‎06-12-2023

I just got another offer on a part I just watched a couple minutes ago. What's up w/ that?

southern*sweet*tea · ‎06-12-2023

@squishmanism wrote:
I just got another offer on a part I just watched a couple minutes ago. What's up w/ that?

Okay, try this:

On that same page scroll down to marketing communications and click edit. Uncheck general email promotions and save. That should work.

That said, any emails that are already in the server to be sent won't be stopped, so you may get emails for a bit before they stop.

The easier you are to offend the easier you are to control.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did. - Thomas Sowell

ms.rodriguez* · ‎06-12-2023

Learn to ignore them. Most of the time I watch to see if the item sells since I will be listing the same item. I don't turn it off because sometimes the deal is great.

As a seller, I love best offers. More then 50% of my sales are best offers. I either I sent them or the buyer asked. I have learned to totally ignore ridiculous offers too.

squishmanism · ‎06-12-2023

I hate 'em! I also don't like to see a list of offers on your page that you cannot delete until you view the offer, then confirm, yeah, delete offer! So lame.