Personally, I think this is just as stupid as most of eBay's ideas have been recently--like buyers need to be pestered any more than they already are here--endless emails, notifications, and constant reminders already of what you are watching, looked at, thought about, etc.
What could possibly be the benefit here for the buyer? Obviously, a seller who has "Best Offer" on their listing is open to offers --or is willing to negotiate (unless, of course eBay has added "Best Offer" without the seller's knowledge or consent)--and buyers certainly don't have any issues asking me to negotiate (even if I DON'T have "Best Offer" on my listings). If a buyer is really interested, I am quite sure they can click a few buttons on their own, and make the purchase happen. I mean really--how ignorant does eBay think we are? Don't answer that.....
I was looking at something recently, and I put it on my watch list as a possible Mother's Day gift, as they had a lot of them, and I obviously don't need to purchase a gift right now. I was then sent an offer every couple of days--always for the same amount--a whopping ONE dollar off, as if that is going to make me hurry up and buy. I ended up getting so annoyed, that I instead took the item off my watch list.
I don't appreciate being "reminded" into buying--I am perfectly capable of making offers, negotiating, and reminding myself what I am interested in purchasing. Furthermore, the fact that they were sending out the same old boring offer over and over really wasn't enticing--not only was it irritating, but it also gave me nightmares of every seller sending offers on every item I am watching, every week--what a message-clogging mess.
This site can't keep our unsold listings available for us for over what--60 days? They evidently can't show everyone's listings in a search, as they are constantly showing only a handful of items, and leaving the other 90% of items invisible to buyers. Yet they have enough memory space to seriously entertain sending millions more messages? Wow--this is what we gain from losing so many other great features?
I really wish people would stop jumping on board with whatever eBay throws at them--ever notice how all these "great" ideas are only good in the short term? However, when applied site wide or for any length of time they quickly turn into at best, a nuisance, and at worst--a nightmare. Stupid idea--from some stupid corporate shirt--who has probably never bought OR sold on here. And those of you who are looking forward to using this idiotic feature--be prepared to lose more sales than you ever get--because as soon as everyone starts doing this, it will get old real fast--just like every other stupid, visionless, short-term, jump-through-our-hoops, idea that eBay has had the last two years.
