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First time I’ve seen this – eBay obviously doesn’t agree that the buyer’s offer was reasonable. Nice that they’re on the seller’s side, for a change!
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I haven’t noticed that line, but I have noticed that when I make a counteroffer eBay might make a suggestion that I lower my counteroffer, which I ignore since I know my business better than they do.
I’ve also noticed that when I make an offer Big Brother seems to want to coach me on increasing my offer. All I use that for is a quick glance to verify I didn’t make a typo, then send and done.
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Amatino, I’m getting the same message from eBay on offers I’m receiving now. I assumed eBay just changed their wording. Are you still getting any offers without that wording from eBay? I wouldn’t think that eBay would be able to determine if an offer is reasonable or not and change their wording based on the offer amount.
Sometimes I think that eBay must change things by regions and at different times ie: I’m not dealing with the same glitches as other sellers or I’m experiencing glitches others aren’t (like when eBay was sending my Global Shipping buyers messages that their items had been delivered, but the items had actually only been delivered to eBay in Kentucky, not delivered to my buyers overseas). When I was asking about that problem on the forum nobody else had experienced it but it happened to me several times; luckily now that glitch seems to have been fixed.
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VintageTreasures,
I think you are right…this is just some new wording from ebay, but it is independent of the buyer’s actual offer…the offer could be a terrible low ball, or a completely reasonable offer, and ebay will provide the same advice to the seller.
Since I usually have a fair bit of wiggle room, before I respond I’ll often check to see if there are currently any identical or similar items listed, and at what prices. As a scavenger seller, some of my stuff has been sitting a long time, and price points can change over time.
I started out, long before ebay existed, as a flea market seller, and so low ball offers don’t bother me , it’s just part of the game.
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VT, could well be. I’ve received offers every day this week, most of them only a few bucks off, and that line didn’t appear. It popped up today, so it could just be that today was the day the rollout came to my pixel of the interwebz. Will monitor future offers and see if it shows up again and revert.
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Amatino, I’d be interested to know. I’ll keep an eye on it myself and see if I only get the new style wording or if I get both in the future. I also tend to get offers almost every day so it should be easy to check it out.
My Cottage: I do the same, check out the current competition for my item before I respond to the offer. Sometimes my item isn’t worth as much as it was when I listed it and I take the offer; sometimes I can confirm that my item is worth a lot more than I’m being offered so I counteroffer. I am getting better at not thinking WTF when I get a 20% offer on my already lowest priced on eBay item. Some people just like to test the water and really believe in “If you don’t ask, you won’t get”.
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