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[carniland_market]

On average, how many of your buyers can you message via eBay per day?

[southern*sweet*tea]

I wouldn't know, I barely message buyers. I only message them if shipping is going to be delayed due to a USPS holiday.  Unless something drastic comes up you don't really need to send a message a buyer.

Now if a buyer messages you, then you would want to message them back.

[dbfolks166mt]

     I don't believe there is a limit but I guess the main question is why you would want to?

[mam98031]

As many that want to unless you have them blocked.  But I don't get but maybe one maybe two a week.

[inhawaii]

Why would you want to know what the "average" is?

How many messages did you want to send?

10? 100? 1000?

[fab_finds4u]

There is a limit. I don't know the number. 

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@carniland_market wrote:

On average, how many of your buyers can you message via eBay per day?

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[dnasilver]

As many as you have, but why?

[johnrj1226]

Don't think it is a good idea to "pester" buyers  or potential buyers with message - seems the world is inundated with "spam", "scammers" of unsolicited phone calls & e-mail.  Sometimes if I am in good mood i will  talk to them in a little Spanish  - like "no hablo de English" or if I ain't - speak in my well developed truck driver/sailor lingo that I picked up in the alleys on the south side of Detroit and later refined in the dorm rooms in K'zoo.

[ckimodog · Accepted solution]

I get a couple a week...maybe. Many of us answer more of the same questions here in the forum. 

I would rather focus on sales. 

[byrd69er]

I usually can pop off about three million messages each day.  Sometimes more. 

[soh.maryl]

What kind of messages are you needing to send to buyers?

AFAIK, there is no limit, although I supposed thousands might be a problem.

[johnrj1226]

Wow!! Amazing!! Awesome !!! - almost forgot >>>> Fantastic (f

reminds of a  joke from yesteryear - had something to do about going to  "Finishing" school - if you have gray in your hair you may know  what I am referring to  Hint:  "né - 1966 or 67 when I first heard it

Time to get entered into the Guinness Books of Records, me Thinks or Stop Drinking Guinness Stout.  Your call but you can only do !.

[mam98031]

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@carniland_market wrote:

On average, how many of your buyers can you message via eBay per day?

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It is about 10 per day.  If you are thinking of doing your marketing through emails, that is not likely a good idea.  Ebay has a limit so sellers can't spam buyers.  Besides unsolicited emails to buyers is likely to backfire on you.  Some buyers will take issue with it and report you to Ebay.  Others will just refuse to ever buy from you again.  Some won't care.

Spam (email)

We don't allow our members to send each other spam. "Spam" is an email (or part of an email) that is both unsolicited and commercial in nature.

Unsolicited means the person who received the message didn't request it. Commercial means the message discusses buying, selling, or trading of goods or services.

Some examples of spam include:

• Unsolicited email offers sent to potential buyers
• Email messages sent to a member on a mailing list without that member's prior permission
• Invitations to join a mailing list that aren't related to your eBay Store
• Offers to buy or sell off eBay
• Email sent using eBay Messages (or features such as the Contact member link) to send unsolicited commercial offers

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behavior-policies/membertomember-contact-policy?id=4262

[onefootflipper]

Looking at what you sell, impulse buy items drop shipped from China I can tell you that none of your customers are going to want to get any messages relating to them, nor are you selling the sort of item that gets repeat business. 

[carniland_market]

About 10 messages per day.