Why does eBay make sending offers so difficult?

[feltfootball]

Isn't the goal here to sell things?  Limiting the seller's ability send offers just makes no sense.  If I send an offer and nobody bites, I'm not allowed to send another offer?  

Make it make sense.

[fbusoni]

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@feltfootball wrote:

I think you've actually just solved the mystery of why eBay policy hinders sales instead of faciliating them.  

They want sellers to get frustrated and use their promoted listings feature so they get a bigger cut.  Now it's starting to make sense.

And to think...I got so many responses and not one person knew this.

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@feltfootball 

You have selected the "answer" that is most suitable to you / comports most closely with your search for some sort of conspiracy, and have praised it as having made the most sense.

Stop, you're killing me!   

🤣🤡

[fbusoni]

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@gator08041971 wrote:

Oh, they probably knew it, but never bothered to consider it important enough to say anything because it was obvious.  Or so I thought. Maybe not?

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@gator08041971 

Buying software from the cloud because you cannot send more than one offer?

I reckon no one mentioned it because the connection is so tenuous as to be nonsensical, if not outright irrational. 

Which explains why the OP thinks it makes the most sense.  😁

[feltfootball]

Buying software from the cloud because you cannot send more than one offer?

I reckon no one mentioned it because the connection is so tenuous as to be nonsensical, if not outright irrational. 

Which explains why the OP thinks it makes the most sense.  😁

Actually no...Please allow me to dumb it down for you.  If you can't send more than one offer, it becomes harder to sell items.  Items sit longer.  Sellers get frustrated.  Some may even say the heck with it and give up an even bigger cut to promote it and get it sold.  Others however, have thin margins as it it, thus not an option.

If you need to be educated on any other points, please let me know...or let "us" now.  Just in case "us" really exists.  🙂

[grandmasjewelry123]

Thanks for sharing that sending offers is like sale pending. I will be very cautious sending any more offers, since they can only go to one person and stop others from purchasing.

I was trying to get clarity on which second item the customer wanted, and ebay blocked conversation until the first item was shipped. So go figure. Ebay lost and I lost, and the customer lost.

Who cares right? It's always the sellers error, never something ebay could fix.

I don't know why ebay decided to change the model that was working until 2022, but ... these constant fees and more fees really doesn't work well, for whatever thats worth.

[gator08041971]

@grandmasjewelry123 

Thanks for sharing that sending offers is like sale pending. I will be very cautious sending any more offers, since they can only go to one person and stop others from purchasing.

Um, no, not exactly like that.  Here's the thing:

I have sent multiple interested buyers all the same offer on a single item.  The one that pays first, gets it.  eBay's offer system just sends the offer to every interested party automatically for you when you are manually doing these.  It looks like this:

That represents two different times I had sent out offers on that item.  But more than 1 person each time received the offer.

Now that said,

Having a pending offer does put the item into a state not unlike that of an item that has bids on it.  You can't change the item details, and the offer must be completed (accepted, denied or timed out) before you can do anything else.  As for sending offers, the system won't let you send an offer to a new person, while current offers are still pending for the same reason.

@grandmasjewelry123 

and ebay blocked conversation until the first item was shipped.

This I'm not sure I'm understanding, as I have always been able to communicate with a buyer before, during and after an item sale.

Now, if you were trying to talk to the buyer via the offer page, yeah, that might not work if an offer is on-going. But direct messaging should have.  So not sure what happened to you there.

[feltfootball]

Now that said,

Having a pending offer does put the item into a state not unlike that of an item that has bids on it.  You can't change the item details, and the offer must be completed (accepted, denied or timed out) before you can do anything else.  As for sending offers, the system won't let you send an offer to a new person, while current offers are still pending for the same reason.

Like many features on the ebay site and app...This one doesn't seem to be functioning properly.  I was looking at items this morning that I made offers on over a month ago and not only can I not send new offers, I can't update some of the details of the listing.  Why would that be?

[simba6]

Some are watching because they have one like it to sell and want to see what it goes for.

[fbusoni]

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@feltfootball wrote:

Like many features on the ebay site and app...This one doesn't seem to be functioning properly.  I was looking at items this morning that I made offers on over a month ago and not only can I not send new offers, I can't update some of the details of the listing.  Why would that be?

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Operator error most likely.  

[papayadog]

Some are watching because they have one like it to sell and want to see what it goes for.

Yes...I do that as well and my response to it is so what?  What's that got to do with sending offers to buyers?