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Valued Member
United States
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Anybody else have a problem with this. The items in particular aren't coins. They are crafts my wife makes. She does it more for a hobby than profit. But if we take offers we would be losing money. The one coin I do have listed is a higher end gold sovereign. And I do want to accept offers on that. But most of my other coin listings are not that expensive, so I don't. But every time I have to open that additional info in the pricing section, and uncheck allow offers. Any way to change that? The message I got from ebay this morning listed 16 items that they had added "allow offers" to. The person I chatted with said that was the way the system worked if your item hadn't sold in seven day. So your item will sell quicker. Which I suppose benefits ebay, but sure doesn't benefit us. He claimed that now that I have changed those 16 back, the default should be changed. We'll see. I told him that if it didn't, we will switch our listings to Etsy. Not that they don't have their problems too. But right now it seems to be picking the lesser of two evils. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The person I chatted with said that was the way the system worked if your item hadn't sold in seven day. So your item will sell quicker. ebay has the right to do this as it is their website with their own rules. However, they have long been at the point where their own greed makes them into dictatorial overlords more and more (again...their right on their own site). And they know the masses won;t switch to someplace new since money is involved and people don;t want to risk making more money (despite not actually making more money) In the 90's while ebay was growing to the powerful company it became, it was infinitely better in that the seller had control of everything. One instance of this was ebay allowed anyone using ebay to freely email one another about anything. Another such example was it cost .25 to list anything and the percentage taken from profits was a lot lower. That was the system that grew ebay to the giant it is. incorporation brought in the greed factor, very restrictive regulations on sellers, and situations like you are facing. Switch. Unless somehow another company can start up again like ebay did by making sure the seller really felt they were getting a great service and found nothing to criticize the system for, then ebay would fade into its corporate greed. It used to be ebay sellers LOVED ebay for what it could help them sell/accomplish. Those were GREAT days indeed. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Yes. I've experienced the same thing. Frustrating.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You aren't required to ACCEPT an offer. Make sure there is no automatic acceptance set and politely decline.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Valued Member
United States
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It's happened to me; I never once got an offer I felt realistic. All were from low-ballers offering five bucks for a three figure item.
Edited by Coins1989
06/24/2020 8:27 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Another way to deal with this problem is to select allow offers when listing an item, but then set your minimum offer level just below your lowest bid amount. In other words, set your initial bid at, for example, $10.00 and then allow offers, but nothing below $9.95. ebay will automatically reject any offer made below your minimum on your behalf. That weeds out the low-ballers, but allows legitimate offer makers a chance. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The problem with that strategy is you are essentially selling it for the opening bid unless somebody bids before the first offer.
People also set an opening bid of say $20 and BIN of $50, but there are people who will bid $49.99 just to be, um, redacted.
-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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No, not at all.
You can always reject any offer, for any reason, even an offer over your opening bid. Your opening bid is the lowest you'll accept and the item only sells for that amount if you get only one bid.
This strategy simply weeds out any offer lower than your opening bid so you don't have to waste your time dealing with them.
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Pillar of the Community
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I got really upset with this at first. I do allow e-Bay to directly e-mail me because I was missing certain promotions and I'm not one to check messages on the site itself. When they e-mail me that they changed a listing to accept offers, I just follow their link and change it back. They make it easy, but then again I don't list a lot of stuff. I have never known them to pull this twice on the same listing.
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