sending offers

[keziak]

REcently someone here made a remark about sending offers but I'm not sure they meant the small number where Ebay allows making an offer or the bigger lot of listings on the list of watched items. Does anyone do the latter and if so what is your tactic? Sending watchers a message? thanks.

[mtgraves7984]

Sending watchers a message?

@keziak 

I don't think you can send watchers anything but an offer, no?

[pls-consignments]

If you're referring to Seller Initiated Offers (SIO's), yes, I do them regularly. My sales from SIO's average 10-15%.

[femmefan1946]

I have Best Offer on almost all my listings, and have opted for an automatic Accept/Refuse based on the offer from the customer.

I find that many acceptable Offers have had two or three refusals before the sweet spot is reached.

In addition, I occasionnally will go to Active Listings-> Eligible for Offers and send an Offer that is less than I would accept as a Best Offer.

Like @pls-consignments  I find these to be successful about 10% of the time. Which is 10% more sales than I would get without the Offers.

[mam98031]

@keziak 

This can be helpful to increasing  your sales.  It sometimes work and it sometimes doesn't, but I personally think it is worth your time and overall you will likely make more sales.  I rarely give more than about a 10-15% discount.  You don't have to give your stuff away unless you want to.

Go to your Seller Hub, then to your Active Listing.  From there you will see a tab called OFFERS.  That tab will tell you if you have any listing available to have an offer sent and ones you currently have offers sent [they last 96 hours].

[keziak]

yes, I know about the feature for sending offers and use it all the time. I was just under the impression that someone said they send offers to other watches. Now of course  I realize that those do not show the name of who is using the watch list. so it was a dumb question.