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jewelbiz · ‎10-13-2023

Hoping to shake up watchers and viewers added make an offer to all my 108 items…..

I never did this before…

Nothing, Zilch, no offers, empty, barren, failure, dismal, losing, bombing, zero…

No good..

drinkwine1204 · ‎10-13-2023

I have make an offer on all but one or two of my 220+ listings, hasn't brought me any riches either so I understand your confusion. I also thought this would help, well, back to the drawing board. Best of luck to you in Q4

vintage-camerastuff · ‎10-13-2023

Yes a BIG goose egg. Even if you received an offer it would be around 10 cents on the dollar. If you listed a $100 dollar item for $10 someone would want it for $5 with free shipping. This is what ebay has become.

sakic92710 · ‎10-13-2023

I always have OBO available on my listings & lucky to get 10 sales a month now. On my 8th straight day without a sale. 3 in October. I have zero expectations that this dismal site with improve. 22 year seller with 2 straight years of failure. Of course, I get a lot of advice as if I've been an active seller for 5 months. 😛 Best of luck to everyone. 🙂

drinkwine1204 · ‎10-13-2023

If I may, shipping seems quite high. $15 to ship a ring USPS ground, are you adding signature required or something else? Just my opinion. Have a great weekend.

sakic92710 · ‎10-13-2023

Exactly! I have a listing that is $15-20 lower than anyone else's & lower than any sold listing. I get offered less than 50% of my asking price. Expect people to come on here to tell us to just set the price at the lowest we will take & get rid of the offer option. I'm not here to sell everything at the lowest price I will accept.

worldcoinauctions · ‎10-13-2023

I used to do this on my fixed price items. I would set my best offer to accept anything over my minimum on the items and automatically reject anything lower (who even wants to read the 10 cent on the dollar offers?). Earlier this year I just reduced my fixed price listings and took best offer off. I don't know, seems to make no difference either way so I don't use it anymore.

fern*wood · ‎10-13-2023

I don't usually have best offer on my listings. My husband may have on a couple of his, but we get nothing on those. I do get a decent response from sending offers myself when I can. It takes little of my time to do this about once a week.

ittybitnot · ‎10-13-2023

Hoping to shake up watchers and viewers added make an offer to all my 108 items…..

@jewelbiz

Did you change the default preferences eBay placed on your account regarding offers (and bids)? Now that they have forced all buyer IDs into providing a payment source in order to make an offer to sellers that retained the eBay default, many no longer bother.

These settings restrict the payment options available to buyers, but also eliminates combined shipping. Buyers are required to pay full shipping price for items from the same seller if they make offers that are accepted. They all become individual transactions.

If you don't want to encourage multiple sales from the same buyer, by all means leave the blocks in place.

This was pitched to the buyers as new improved smoother checkout for their convenience. Word got out, however, it was not smoother and not convenient, and buyers are simply not interested in playing this game.

https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements

Buyer Payment Requirements

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they place a bid.

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they make an offer.

luckythewinner · ‎10-13-2023

@jewelbiz wrote:
Hoping to shake up watchers and viewers added make an offer to all my 108 items…..
I never did this before…
Nothing, Zilch, no offers, empty, barren, failure, dismal, losing, bombing, zero…
No good..

Instead of 'Make An Offer', why not just lower your prices to whatever discount you would have accepted as an offer?

That is a much more straightforward way to stimulate sales.

And just curious ...

In your completed items, I see two sales in the last 90 days. If your sales are that slow, why would you consider the failure of Make Offer to stimulate sales an "ignominious defeat" or "dismal"?

selsa84 · ‎10-13-2023

Try ending and relisting some with the or best offer added.

luckythewinner · ‎10-13-2023

@selsa84 wrote:
Try ending and relisting some with the or best offer added.

Also, your 'What To Photograph" book is $30, but in the last months it has been listed twice by other sellers for $5.99 and it didn't sell.

Perhaps you are simply overestimating demand for your items?

selsa84 · ‎10-13-2023

With the changes made to search having the lowest prices item is irrelevant now for ALOT of things, especially when I search by lowest and eBay weeds out a large portion of items , many of which are in fact lower prices.

redlinear · ‎10-13-2023

Been my experience people that make offers and going to make them regardless of any official method.
Saying I do, or don't accept offers makes no real difference.
My best method to shake things up a bit (in recent few years) has been to send offers to watchers of a % Off.
5% seems to do as well as 10% also.
It's in their watch list, they were interested, they have probably forgotten about it.
The 5% offer is "something for a discount" and most importantly it's a reminder.

That tends to rattle cages a little bit and squeak out a few more items of the next few days.

But to really set the world on fire? With what you already have listed?
I'm just not sure that's possible any more given the way search results work now.

lakefor94 · ‎10-13-2023

"Instead of 'Make An Offer', why not just lower your prices to whatever discount you would have accepted as an offer? That is a much more straightforward way to stimulate sales"

This is what I have done with decent success on long tail items. Having markdown sales with no best offers. I have them priced at what I can take for the items. Running 3% PL's that do assist with sales. Have 590 items listed this way.

Going to continue with this strategy.

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