I get the distinct impression when I wend an anonymous offer it may go to a competitor and not a buyer. I've already seen this anonymous we don't trust you with info offer system can go to a buyer who is blocked(too many strikes). So I can't believe for 1 second Ebay is filtering things out.
How shall I define a competitor? I'd keep things simple. If the account doesn't buy, exclude them. This will hurt sales? If they're eligible to receive an offer they would have clicked your listing and nothing was stopping them from buying. Sending offers gets to be a waste of time but sellers without many sales find this is the only way to sell IF they actually have something on their bait worth dealing with. Don't say this can't be done. This site already does crazy google like things with search results, they can filter things and develop a more sophisticated offer system to maximize result and minimize negative effects on one's selling practice.
Everything we do effects how Ebay treats us. Ultimately Ebay will reward us most if we drive traffic to a listing and get a sale with 1 click. If someone clicks and doesn't buy, Ebay frowns upon us. They will scowl if we get lots of clicks, watchers and no sales. Sales conversion is very important. It's really not fair to ignore competitors and act like they matter. Ebay gives us very little analytics and mostly rewards high volume amazon prime dropshippers who don't even live anywhere near amazon. We sellers deserve better selling tools. I mean the goal is sales right? This is mutually beneficial, right? Well don't waste our time by misleading us. I also think it can get way more sophisticated that just filtering out accounts that don't buy. It can also filter out accounts you yourself just clicked on when you made your ad. Maybe you were copying some item specifics or getting a feel for price. You under cut that seller and now he's checking you out which prompts the offer. That just ruined my click thru rate/sell thru rate. That's lint in my pocket, not cash.
Oh I know, that's too complicated, stop worrying about what others are doing blah blah.....no I am a can do person. I do not believe anything is impossible. The system needs tweaking. I'm not being paranoid, I'm being realistic. I also have a lot of experience selling and seeing how often times you are dealing with spam or nonsense not customers. I find when I attract a real customer, the sale happens fast. I not only sense but see this offer system is mostly just competitors playing pong. It's highly unlikely ebay will share that data with me but they don't have to. They need to improve the offer system. This is a marketplace not social media. As it stands right now the offer system is just trolling. We can do better.
