Buying and Selling on eBay: Tips, Tricks, Problems & Questions

[Fueco]

Is this still considered feedback extortion?

 

[kbadgley84]

Is this still considered feedback extortion?

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What doesn’t he just retract the bid his leg? I hate That **** man i alwyad Get the can you cancel my bid for me.
No do it yourself

 

[capnwes]

Sounds like it to me. There is also a report buyer option for this specifically....of course I'm pretty sure you can only report them if they win it, which is dumb.

 

[Fueco]

What doesn’t he just retract the bid his leg? I hate That **** man i alwyad Get the can you cancel my bid for me.
No do it yourself

That was how I responded to her first message. She had a lame excuse about having finished her Christmas shopping. Yeah, like that’s my problem.

Before her latest message, I was inclined to cancel the sale if she won. Now, I might let it go to let it go to an unpaid item case.

 

[Fueco]

The Chippewa boots I had the forced SNAD return with no reason given just sold again. Fingers crossed...

 

[kbadgley84]

Sounds like it to me. There is also a report buyer option for this specifically....of course I'm pretty sure you can only report them if they win it, which is dumb.

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Is this new? I’ve never seen this before

 

[capnwes]

Is this new? I’ve never seen this before

The report buyer feature has been around for years, but some of the options/reasons have changed in the last year or so.

 

[kbadgley84]

The report buyer feature has been around for years, but some of the options/reasons have changed in the last year or so.

Yea I’ve seen the report buyer before but never seen that option

 

[Steve Smith]

Question
Had a guy send me an offer on one of my items a couple of months ago, I countered, we went back and forth until he used up his 5 offers.
Now he messages me saying that he's willing to accept my final offer to him if i'm willing to sell it to him (which i am)
He can't send me an offer anymore - any way for me to send him one? otherwise i can just lower my BIN price and hope he snags it first

I have an idea. Lower the BIN price and don't give a **** whether he snags it first.

 

[kbadgley84]

I have an idea. Lower the BIN price and don't give a **** whether he snags it first.

I’ve done that before and people definitley have sniped the original person lol snooze ya lose

 

[Steve Smith]

I’ve done that before and people definitley have smiled the original person lol snooze ya lose

Exactly. Why give special treatment to someone who is milking 'make an offer' for all it is worth? If you want special treatment from me, buy a lot of stuff at my price. Those buyers sometimes get freebies thrown in.

 

[capnwes]

Is anyone else having trouble with the "make offers to buyers" feature? Ever since they added the counteroffer option, I have had several buyers tell me they don't have any options at all except to accept. No counteroffer or decline options. They are having to wait 2 full days, until my offer expires, to send an offer. I also have not received a single counteroffer on offers sent using the feature, though I've been sending out about 100 per day. The tool was working great before they added the feature. Buyers would just decline and send me a new offer.

 

[Fueco]

I haven’t used the counteroffer feature yet, so can’t comment on that. About 60% of my BIN sales this week were from offers sent out that way.

 

[capnwes]

I use the tool more as an advertisement, to try to get an offer out of the group of people who would normally never make an offer, but would rather wait until the item was reduced to their price point. I always send out just a 5% off offer with the following message "Offers welcome, combined shipping available on multi-item purchases. Thanks for shopping The SEAM Store" . It was working quite well before they "fixed" it

 

[SomethingsFishy]

BLOCK WITH PREJUDICE:

Buyer disregarded "Away from office" message over Thanksgiving holidays and got pissed when I hadn't shipped, even though I explained the delay through multiple prompt messages. Opened an item not received case, and is now threatening negative feedback because he's mad his Bally moccasins have "thin soles". (Brand... New... Bally... Slip ons... Have... Thin... Soles... )