@feltfootball wrote:
Youve got it. That is exactly what is supposed to happen. Otherwise some sellers would become the worst rendition of that used car salesman that follows people off the lot, and around town all day long, and then knocks on your door at dinner time.
There has to be limits.
Two immediate thoughts on this...
1) There has to be limits? How about the same limit for sellers that there is for buyers? One and done, does not work. Why shouldn't the seller get 5 offers too? The only way to justify the current set up is there has to be some benefit to ebay to keep more items on their platform for longer periods of time. Otherwise, they'd want to facilitate sales not hinder them.
2) Why is there such a low opinion of sellers on this platform? Every ebay rule is skewed in the buyers favor. It's practically impossible for a seller to be a bad actor now. Most of the bad actors on ebay are now the buyers.
Lastly...Someone suggested I should list my items with the absolute lowest I would take? What kind of suggestion is that? That might work for commodities with well established market values. That doesn't work with the items I sell. In my market, the motto is "It's worth what someone is willing to pay for it".
@feltfootball
The objective here is for eBay to make money, using sellers as a tool to do so. You seem to be looking for spoon feeding of some sort, and that does not happen on this platform, not for sellers anyway, because they are a dime a dozen, and even that's too valuable.
Of course, you've been selling here for exactly two years... so you cannot be completely blamed for your naiveté and lack of perspective.
1. The reason that sellers are restricted to a single offer -- and I speak here from my own experience -- is because eBay wants us to feel the psychological pressure of being so limited, and to use that single opportunity to achieve the sale. eBay is kind enough to help sellers out here by giving us the option of allowing counteroffers. Telling everyone here to "make it make sense" (which I found so funny that I almost spit out my coffee on my iMac) and opining that "one and done does not work" simply shows that your understanding of how this platform operates is incomplete.
2. As for the low opinion of sellers... keep in mind that there is ZERO quality control in the seller onboarding process. It's VERY possible for a seller to be a "bad actor"... which is why I buy 99% of everything I need on the other big platform. And of course, like all e-commerce platforms, eBay is buyer-centric... again, not news.
And while your last point -- "It's worth what someone is willing to pay for it" -- is certainly valid, standing on principle here is a one way ticket to nowhere, unless you are comfortable waiting for years to sell something.
eBay seller since 1999. This is a posting ID.
