Making offers – would like some modification

[gfd_622]

So, I love giving offers for things I’m selling.  My store is comprised entirely of random things I scavenge from all over the place (much is my own, but there are other things I’ve picked up).  I tend to price high with the option to make offers – but I do have a few things that I have priced ridiculously low, also with the option to make offers.

I get notifications telling me that I have items available to send offers.  There are some items I would like to mark as complete – but not send an offer (I pass).  I don’t mind if people make me offers, but I feel the price is low enough that I just don’t want to put an offer out there (difference between 9.75 and 9.25 I feel is not a big deal, and I’m not going to take $4 off or so.

So we should have the option to pass on making an offer.  I still want offers available on those items, people can give offers to me (and if they catch me on a good day – it’s theirs), but I don’t want to give out offers on some items.

I know I can ignore them, but like most things I just want it to be clean and go away – let me focus on the ones I want to give out offers on (over $15 or some threshold).

Just a random rant – no worries and it’s really not an issue.  Just a little annoying

Enjoy and stay safe all.

[Sharyn]

Are you talking about the make offer function? You press on “Send Offers Eligible” and up comes a list of the items where you can make an offer. If you don’t want to make an offer on an item, it stays in that list until some point – not sure what that is – where eBay feels it has been on the list for too long.

I agree; I would like to get that item off the list. What I have been doing is giving the lowest possible offer of 5% off and unchecking the “allow counteroffers” box. I do that just to get them off the list.

There have been a few inexpensive items where I really didn’t want to give an offer, so I just ignored them. I didn’t like seeing them there, but I didn’t have any other way of removing them.

[debitendcredits]

I agree.  Those dangling “make offer” lists are annoying.

I have a few techniques to reduce the list but there are still somethings that still get left behind.

I am continually running “a buy one get one free” sale on my laserdiscs.  So when ever a laserdisc pops up on the list I send a 5% off offer with the following message:

As laserdiscs are labor-intensive to pack & ship, I can’t offer much of a discount on a single item.

Instead of a 5% discount consider my buy 1 get 1 free offer – just click on the link at the top of the listing.<span class=”Apple-converted-space”>   </span>

That turns my useless offer into a free advertisement.

If I have free shipping of the item I may also send the 5% off with a note “now with free shipping” (doesn’t matter if it was always free or not).  Sometimes these notes push the wimbling watcher over the edge.

 

 

[sonia]

+1

[declutter978]

I have the same, some too low to make offers. Sometimes I raise the price so I can drop it, lol.

[Lauren]

I send offers too, and it seems like more often than not I send an offer, and then recieve an even lower counteroffer. I wish there was a way to turn off “recieve counteroffers” when I send one.

[Sharyn]

When you get to the part where you put in a price or percentage off, look for a checkbox for allow counteroffers and uncheck it.

[Lauren]

Oooh, I’ll have to look for that.  Thanks!

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