Opting out of “make offers “

[26667]

Last week, I listed seven or eight items with a buy it now price. After checking my listings, I noticed that they all had a “make offer “ button included. I went through and deleted all the offer options, and tried to find a way to prevent this from happening again when I list an item.  No luck. Fast forward a week, I get an email from eBay telling me that my customers can now make offers on my items! **bleep**?! Now I have to go back to each item and delete these offers again. Is there any way to stop this process? I know how I wish to sell my items , I don’t like my listings being changed. Please help! Thanks joe 

[adaecomsales]

Enter in the description YOUR OWN RULES, Contact Ebay for your discount, No Offers accepted PERIOD, let them expire? But does this mean some other buy then can't buy it? All in all another Stupid move by Ebay management.

[7606dennis]

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@26667 wrote:
The whole offer situation should be up to the seller, not eBay. Everyone has their own style that works for them. I don’t know what 180 turnaround means, since I don’t know what the old policy was. You should be able to turn this option on or off to suit yourself. It should not be foisted onto the seller. As a buyer, I certainly will take advantage of the offer option, who wouldn’t 😁? I don’t like to be ignored when I do submit one, but this rarely happens. Thanks for your response!

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A 180 refers to a 180 degree turnaround or complete reversal.  If someone does a 180 they have completely reversed direction and are heading in the opposite direction from the way they were heading.  I this case eBay has reversed its policy and the policy is precisely opposite of what it was.

Under eBay's old policy, for someone to make an offer on an item when the seller didn't include the Best Offer option in the listing was considered an attempt to arrange an off eBay transaction and the punishment could severe which even result in being kicked off the site.  As you can see, this isn't consistent with eBay adding the BO option without the seller's knowledge or consent.

[claudia113003]

I find it super annoying too.  I don't think it should be allowed by the FTC.  It's overreaching on Ebay's part.

Even if you let the unwanted offers expire, you are signaling to buyers with the existence of a best offer option that your price is soft and that they should not have to pay full price.  If I decide to accept offers on an item, obviously I set the price higher since everyone is looking for a "deal."  I have to go through my listings every few days to take out the offer option, but I do it, both on economics and a matter of principles.  Shame on Ebay for doing this to sellers.  They will drive people to other sites.

[mr_lincoln]

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@claudia113003 wrote:

I find it super annoying too.  I don't think it should be allowed by the FTC.  It's overreaching on Ebay's part.

Even if you let the unwanted offers expire, you are signaling to buyers with the existence of a best offer option that your price is soft and that they should not have to pay full price.  If I decide to accept offers on an item, obviously I set the price higher since everyone is looking for a "deal."  I have to go through my listings every few days to take out the offer option, but I do it, both on economics and a matter of principles.  Shame on Ebay for doing this to sellers.  They will drive people to other sites.

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You bring up a really good point, if Best Offer is on a listing to me it means the listed price is not the price and that the price lies somewhere below that amount.

I only use to it set up a special deal for an interested Buyer but it is a rare thing ... maybe 1 in literally hundreds (I may have used it once for sure and maybe twice this year).