"Your items are waiting in carts. Now make the sale."

[2013grotz]

I'm sure we've all seen the e-mails by now.  Ebay sends them and says your item is in a cart and they'll notify the buyer the deal got better if you lower the price by 5%.  Does following this out actually work for anybody?  I've tried it a couple of times personally, but never got a sale, so I've largely ignored them...

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

If you add up all the unsolicited type offers, this being one of them, my success rate is about 15%. On one notable particular occasion, I received an accept within 5 minutes of doing so on a rather expensive item. 

[katzrul15]

Yes, I ignore them.  Mostly as it seems they send me ones where my item is already on sale and I do not wish to lower it more.  No idea if they work - I just delete the emails.  Annoying. 

(btw, we get 2 kinds of these emails saying "in carts" and "there are eyes on your items" ~ cart ones maybe make sense - watchers, no.)