sending offers to items on watch lists

[keziak]

I send offers to pretty much every listing in that section under Active. Exceptions are when ebay wants to require me to discount too much.  Some of the time I don't discount much but usually I try to be somewhat generous. A lot depends on whether the listing is stale. 

I was reading an (old) article about it I found using a Google search. That  person recommended attaching a short note to the offers. Can't say I ever do that. They claim it helps close the deal. Do any of you do this? I may try just thanking the people for putting my listing on their Watch list. OF course any number of those watchers may be the competition.

[dhbookds]

@gurlcat 
Want to do an experiment with me?

I will...........send me an item url and I'll put it on watch............then  you can lower the price and we'll see what happens....

[brightlightbookseller]

I use the default text for seller-initiated offers.  I don't have time to add notes, we do too much else around here.  I can't imagine it would make much difference, we let the price speak for itself.

For those who ask why use seller offers, we use them exclusively on older items we're okay with moving, and we do it before we lower the price as well as after (until we get to our floor, our lowest price we'll accept before we would prefer to purge the item from our inventory).