@femmefan1946 wrote:So, are we now able to make them without watchers?
If the seller uses Fixed Price, a watcher is someone who isn't going to buy, or they already would have.
Not at all true. As a seller I get a decent percent of takers on my sent offers so clearly those people wanted to buy, but either the price was just a bit too high or they put it on watch but then forgot about it until my offer reminded them.
As a buyer (and I've seen other buyers say this), when I see a fixed price item that is priced too high and doesn't have 'make offer' enabled, I may put it on watch just to see if the price comes down later, or if I'll get an offer from the seller. If I do get an offer but it's just a piddly 5% off or something, then I realize their expectations are far too high for me, so I un-watch the item at that point.
-For my listings, I do enable 'make offer' on most of them, and I use the auto-reject and auto accept features, in fact I make those the SAME amount (I don't see the point of a "maybe" range). So, if someone makes an offer below my minimum they get an automatic 'no' and I don't even have to know about, but if their offer is above minimum they get an immediate YES and the item is SOLD. But here's the funny part: for some reason, there are buyers who just apparently don't make offers, rather they just put the item on watch and wait to receive a seller offer.
Quite often I will send an offer that isn't even as low as my auto-accept minimum, and someone will take it! This happened just a couple hours ago. I had this fixed priced at $479.95 but the auto-accept amount was $400. It's been listed for almost a week and I was getting sick of seeing it on the 'Add Item Specifics!" thing on my home page every time I logged in, so today when I realized it had 8 watchers I figured it was time to try sending an offer. I got a taker in 2 or 3 minutes. But remember, they could have gotten it for $400 if they had just made that offer, ha!
