Hmmm automagic offers, might not always be a good idea | Selling

ricarmic · 2025-04-12T18:25:05.982000Z

I have a number of "watchees", folks that I watch to see how the stuff they're buying and reselling from me, or stuff similar to what I'm selling is doing, to get a sense of the market. One of my watchees must have automagic offers enabled because virtually always I get a 10% offer within an hour or so of looking at one of their lots. This autoffer might seem like a good idea from their perspective but if I was a valid buyer I would NEVER buy something outright from them, I'd just look at the item I'm interested in and await the 10% off coupon that I know would show up shortly thereafter. This probably also is why they've got so many offer accepted sales - I suppose one could just boost prices 10% knowing buyers would be doing this, in fact it reminds me of a buyer I had years ago who would not purchase something if s/he couldn't get a discount (I very very rarely sell stuff via offers). They were spending decent $$$, always only after significant haggling, and I came to understand what they wanted, so I boosted the price so that the haggle process arrived at or close to my normal retail price. They bought quite a bit under this scenario.... seemingly everyone was happy. Now because I'm basically only vouyering there stuff, something might be happening in my particular situation that doesn't happen in a normal buyer shopping situation, but I thought it worth mentioning.

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