eBay now reverts fixed price listings to allow 'best offers' after 10 days

Lkwijybo on 13/09/2018 - 11:02
Last edited 13/09/2018 - 14:00

A PSA for occasional sellers on eBay that they've found a new way to be absolutely useless. I have received this email the last two days after taking advantage of $1 fee Sundays promotion to pay for a weekend away.

Hi ———-,
Buyers can now make offers on your listings.

Your listings that accept offers from buyers have a higher chance of selling because they provide you more opportunities to attract buyers and to make a deal. If you haven’t already, be sure to download our app, so you don’t let any offers pass by. Every offer is an opportunity!

If you don’t want to receive offers, go to manage offer settings to update your preference.

Live chat says this is a eBay's new 'help'.

Murvin
10:41 AM
Got it, I've already checked the items you mentioned and it seems that this is eBay's way of helping your items sell quickly.

Murvin
10:42 AM
For now we have no control in opting out automatically, so you have to do it manually.

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  • Bid Sniper on 13/09/2018 - 11:12
    +1

    Yeah its annoying as I have a lot of listing and cant disable globally, so have to go back and do it on each damn item. I get heaps of lowballers thats why I sell on Ebay and not Scumtree

  • BlazinPast on 13/09/2018 - 12:29
    +1

    There was a period of a few months where even if I disabled offers when listing an item, it'd still add it in anyway. I would have to edit it and disable it again. So many lowballers on eBay.

    • kwijybo on 13/09/2018 - 13:06
      +1

      The only reason I’ve stuck with using eBay was so I could weed out the lowballers since few bother messaging with offers.

  • Diji1 on 13/09/2018 - 12:40

    Hmm, I've never had this issue. Is it because you used the $1 fee offer?

    • kwijybo on 13/09/2018 - 13:10

      I’ve used the $1 fee offer quite a few times before and never had it previously. I haven’t listed anything outside of selling promos for a few months though so can’t confirm about full-fee listings.

  • Sage on 13/09/2018 - 13:03

    Had this happen. People low ball your price, it's annoying.

  • JimmyF on 13/09/2018 - 13:43

    eBay now reverts fixed price listings to accept 'best offers' after 10 days

    well 'accept' isn't really the right word, I'm LIKE WHAT you really meant OFFER. After 10 days ebay changes your listing so its open to offers.

    You as the seller don't have to accept any 'best offer' put forward. So ignore the low ballers.

    • Sweet3st on 13/09/2018 - 20:08

      True. But if your item is 'open to offers' people expect to be able to low ball you…

      • JimmyF on 13/09/2018 - 20:22

        True,but even without open to offers turned on, you get low ball offers sent as messages

  • Herbse on 16/09/2018 - 10:46

    This is really annoying.

    If you list an item using their promotion $1 final fee, and then edit the listing, you lose the promotion and have to pay the fee.

    So I'm stuck with this crap

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