@mooncat_watches wrote:
So I went to send an offer on an item that has 2 watchers, but it said:
Send offer
1 interested buyer
Why the discrepancy? I've seen many times where there were no watchers but 10 interested buyers (because they clicked on it at least twice), which makes sense, but never the opposite.
Because not all watchers are eligible to receive offers. Some of the reasons include:
- The watchers have opted out of unsolicited offers
- The watchers have already received an unsolicited offer on the item they are watching
- The watchers have received too many unsolicited offers in general
Watching was originally a buying tool for BUYERS to use. It was not originally intended as a marketing tool for SELLERS to use.
An offer to an anonymous watcher (or viewer, in some cases) is an "unsolicited message of a commercial nature". That is one of the definitions of "SPAM".
For this reason, eBay very wisely controls the amount of SPAM that it allows sellers to inflict on buyers.
