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panzerzwei · ‎03-19-2024

I feel that sending offers to watchers for me is a waste of time. In the last year when I have done this, they never buy the item. Perhaps they have a similar item and see if your item sells at a certain price.

albertabrightalberta · ‎08-19-2024

@panzerzwei wrote:
I feel that sending offers to watchers for me is a waste of time.

Easy answer: So don't send offers.

In my experience, I send offers figuring that I have nothing to lose. I find that about 10% of offers sent result in a sale.

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reallynicestamps · ‎08-19-2024

When a member puts something on their Watch list, it stays Watched until the member removes it. For years in some cases.

When a member Views something, that View is only noted for 30 days.

Don't bother sending Offers to those stale Watches.

Send them to the recent Viewers.

theteamsetguy · ‎08-19-2024

@panzerzwei ,

How much of a discount are you doing with your offers? You have to offer a big enough discount to entice the buyers.

meekamaye · ‎08-19-2024

I very rarely send offers as I don't have any luck. Usually they send back a counter offer that is a 60-70% off the original price.

luckythewinner · ‎08-19-2024

@reallynicestamps wrote:
When a member puts something on their Watch list, it stays Watched until the member removes it. For years in some cases.
When a member Views something, that View is only noted for 30 days.
Don't bother sending Offers to those stale Watches.
Send them to the recent Viewers.

If you have a listing with recent views that also has watchers, how do you direct the offer to one and not the other?

fbusoni · ‎08-19-2024

@iguana69art wrote:
lol, I have watchers on 1.99 items with real shipping charges ..... they will never get a discount offer . You can't tell me they can't figure that out ...

You should never, ever underestimate... never mind.

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