Someone said that sales are slow in December, assuming that this is true, how long does the send offer feature persist for interested buyers so that I might send all of them in the beginning of January?
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:Seller initiated Offers are good for 96 hours. This also means there are some elements of your listing that you will not be able to revise during that period.
What I mean is that how long does the option to send offers linger before you actually send the offer?
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:Oh wait, I think you are asking how long a listing is eligible? As long as the watcher has not removed the listing from her watch list (and has not received an offer from you for that item), and has not changed preference to not receive offers, the listing will be eligible.
Though it does seem as though an interested buyer doesn't necessarily have to be watching an item to be considered an interested buyer who is eligible for offers in the eBay system, any knowledge of how these differences could affect the eligibility period?
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:An "interested" user can have the item in their cart. If they take it out of the cart, eligibility is over. If it's in the cart, still eligible. Can also be someone who has merely looked at the item , supposedly at least three times, but anecdotal evidence suggests ebay defines "three" rather flexibly. I think eligibility duration is the same: as long as they looked often enough (however many times that actually is), it will be eligible.
Note: Some people advise "striking while the iron is hot"---that is, people are more likely to actually take the offer if they recently looked at it and it is fresh in their mind. Making the offer a month later....they might no longer be interested, they might have bought from someone else, etc.
Ok. Kind of sounds like three viewings would potentially make the customer eligible for an offer for an indefinite amount of time.
