READ & WEEP EBAY YOU ARE GETTING MORE "SPECIAL" BY THE DAY

[izzame]

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2018/03/05/two-new-features-coming-ebay/

Kind of "special" how sellers are always bearing increasing fees etc. ebay is great at dishing out the medicine. How about for a change they take their own advise to sellers and start lowering costs for the seller in every area. It continuously amazes me how they continue to tell us what to do with the items we own. Believe me, the day will come when they are scratching, duh, what went wrong, were is everybody. 

Most testing comes to be. This time, because they have taken a lot of heat of not announcing testing they covered their back by announcing .

[momcqueen]

“You need an answer at 3 am, I am your man.

Don't you mean, I am your woman?”

You missed the thread about the study that claimed female sellers fared worse than men at selling prices for auctions. From here forward, I wear a big fake bushy mustache online. I’m Mr. McQueen.

[silverpinups]

Change your avatar to a picture of Steve McQueen and see if that helps increase your sales... lol.  

[ricarmic]

I was going to say "I'm your man" would mean you'd get 10% more but I refrained till now 😉

[pjcdn2005]

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@ricarmicwrote:
Personally in my world, I can't imagine many if any buyers would care about the time to respond to offers, but I could be wrong.

Then again I don't care how long they say I take to respond to offers because I'll respond when I respond, I can't imagine I will lose many if any sales because of it. But I could be wrong....

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Of course buyers care! Once they have made an offer their hands are tied until the get an answer (accept or decline). While they wait for an answer they may find something else similar to buy or make an offer on but can't because if the seller accepts their offer 36 hours later they are committed to purchase (this is why BO's get more UPI's and buyer requested cancellations).

What if you make an offer and the seller waits two days to decline the offer, perhaps that other item the buyer was considering has been sold in the interim.

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 I agree that buyers do care that the seller replies quickly.  Some sellers will not reply or wait a long time to reply if they think that the offer is out of line and way too low and imo that isn't a good way to handle it. If  they don't like the offer then decline it or counter. I don't see the point in making them wait.

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[retroman_studios]

I've seen many items get reduced in price that I've watched and I can count on one hand the number of emails/notifications I've received from eBay. However, another merchant with whom I also do business at a yearly expense sends direct notifications and e-mails whenever a sale or an item I want is back in stock etc...

It seems eBay is outgrowing it's foundation. If eBay were a house, it would be like doing a extension in every direction every month and wondering why the building always has issues. At some point you have to knock the house down and rebuild. There are other platforms which are outpacing eBay.

On the subject of Best Offer, my strategy when I do sell is that I set to automatically accept a Best Offer that results in free shipping. If they don't ask for a discount and are happy to pay full price plus shipping, perfect. If they want free shipping, I make it easy for them. If they want more...depending on the offer I will make it happen. Low balls are immediately denied.

My day to day work is at a Pawn Shop so it's sorta similar because folks always want a deal...which for the most part I'm happy to give but within reason. You never offer a discount, but you make it a possibility. The customer gets that warm feeling that they got a good deal, and you are happy because you got a sale. 

Contrast with my past job at a Mom & Pop Computer shop where the boss would always give discounts even to complete strangers who walked in. 

[momcqueen]

Sellers aren’t necessarily happy with this feature.

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2018/3/1520561184.html

[recped]

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@momcqueenwrote:
Sellers aren’t necessarily happy with this feature.

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2018/3/1520561184.html

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Is that because they are incapable of saying "no thanks"? Or is it because they think some sellers will say yes and make a sale while theirs will languish in a cart.

[momcqueen]

I think its opponents resent what they say is ebay interference with their pricing. Certainly, I don’t think it’s a necessarily bad feature. I’d be interested to learn my Item was sitting in a Cart. It doesn’t, however, automatically mean I’d discount it further. I’d think about it. That information is power. New knowledge is power.