What constitutes an "Interested buyer?"

[iamcara]

Seems like people do not have to necessarily "watch" or bookmark your items to be considered an "interested buyer" that you can send bulk offers to. Anyone know what makes a potential customer an "interested buyer" in a technical sense?

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques · Accepted solution]

@iamcara I believe ebay has said in the past that anyone who has viewed (clicked on) an item three or more times is an "interested buyer". However, anecdotal evidence suggests that ebay has reduced that to 1 or 2 times without bothering to tell us. 

It has become a sore point for some people who do NOT want to receive offers for things they've merely clicked on. 

[frugalmarketplace]

@iamcara 

I genuinely dislike looking at an item and getting an offer. I only look at another item to gauge pricing for a similar one I might be listing…or if I see something that is obviously fake. 

Yes my settings are correct. However I consider it to be junk mail. Very intrusive. 

[iamcara]

Good to know. To be honest I don't like having items on my watchlist for this exact reason.

For one we are not able to disable the push alerts about watched items on the eBay mobile app, and I really only want that app to give me notifications for sales.

[lux.ra_14]

eBay seems to have a very broad definition these days.

I've become an interested buyer simply by clicking on a listing, seeing that the condition or some other detail wasn't acceptable, and then almost immediately hitting the back button.

There's no way to quantify it, but the relentless spamming of casual browsers has to be turning off a lot of people. 

[bashort]

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@iamcara wrote:

Good to know. To be honest I don't like having items on my watchlist for this exact reason.

 I now routinely put things that I 100% plan to buy on my watchlist for a couple days just to see if I get a offer., if I do not get one I go ahead nd buy

[hartungcards]

Technically, an "interested buyer" is someone who pays you for it.

[meme6253]

That's the only type of interested buyer i want, Is the one buying it!

[johnrj1226]

Your listing is your  best sales person.  An interested watcher is  one that pays for an item.  When I buy stuff on  eBay - if the   listing  lacks  even  semi professional  appearance and minimal information and just do the walk on buy no matter  what the $ level is..  Don't wish to get caught up in a myriad  of eBay Message exchanges.  Have a life out side my "smarter than me" phone.

As a seller very often watched/viewed other seller items  as a competitor to  get some  G2. (i,e,  information) to give me some ideas the build my  listing - never did a copy & paste.  Definitely  other  peddlers do the same.

One last thing there are about 330 million people in the US .  We are all individuals, what  motivates us to buy  varies greatly depend in many variable  - $, age, experiences, education, where we  have lived etc. - in  a nutshell we are not all  like  a vanilla ice cream cone or want an EV etc (especially in places like Minnesota, Dakotas or Alaska in January