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@m60driver wrote:I have no idea how to create a screen shot. But not that long ago I could see the zip code on the "response" page when I made an offer to an individual. That information was no longer showing the past two days. It may have just been a temporary glitch, a ghost in the machine so to speak. Fortunately the buyer did respond to my question and we were able to agree on a price between our two offers.
So another eBay seller (@penguins_dont_fly) here helped me to run a test and made an offer of $1.00 on one of my listings. Thank you @penguins_dont_fly.
In that offer the buyer's zip code as well as their city and state were visible.
But I have never seen what appears to be a newly added feature located on the right side of the screen Active on site, Views, Watchers, Similar Items Sold.
This leads me to believe that eBay has been doing some work recently to this best offer response window. This could be what has led to the buyer's location not showing up for you and other sellers.
Sometimes those kids at eBay break stuff even while trying to make things better. At least that would be my guess.
@earlyant-77 wrote:Gotta love ebay's helpful 'increase your offer' ........ gee - the seller is more likely to respond if you offer 10.00 on a 150.00 item than 1.00 ..........
Yeah … I was going to mention that 😞
Note the discrepancy on what go-bad sees as comps in their screenshot.
Buyer sees 10-500 on their original offer screen
Seller sees 40-500 on the review offer screen
😞
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
I'll do it 🙂
Offer sent.
Thanks for the help Penguin . $1.00 offer received.
Your location showed up for me.
So it could be a glitch or it might be a browser issue or it could be those gremlins at eBay.
Here's what comes up when I click the "declined" notification … the screen to make another offer.
This time the comps show 32-500
What I also noticed is that shipping is not shown to the buyer on the original offer screen anymore. Nor is the blurb about "offers are for the item only" 😞
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
Here's what comes up when I click the "declined" notification … the screen to make another offer.
This time the comps show 32-500
What I also noticed is that shipping is not shown to the buyer on the original offer screen anymore. Nor is the blurb about "offers are for the item only" 😞
The comps changing is very interesting. I have just changed my auto decline settings to $99.00.
Would you mind running one more test and just open up the make an offer window to see if the comps shown to you the buyer have changed in any way since I have now changed my settings? There is no need to actually make an offer this time but just open the window. I am curious to see if the price recommendations go up at all. If so can you take another screen shot?
@penguins_dont_fly wrote:
Well ... this is interesting … there are NO comps shown now.
That is very interesting. I am not quite sure what to make of that. I have to think about this for a minute.
If I had to guess I would say that some type of decision making tree was enabled after I changed my auto decline settings to $99.00 that made a decision that eBay's AI would no longer provide the buyer with price guidance comps, after I made those changes.
But at this point that is just complete speculation on my part.
