09-06-2022 01:50 PM - edited 09-06-2022 01:54 PM
I was browsing and put some things on my watchlist the other night, and logged back in today and apparently I made offers on all of them? I definitely didn't do that, just placed them on my watchlist, and it's apparently wasted a bunch of people's time and caused me to have a bunch of time wasted with spam.
Is this a new thing? How do I stop it?
edit: Ok, so in 'my ebay' all of these offers say 'offer received' and I interpreted that as they've received an offer from me, and responded, but does it mean I received an offer from them because I watch listed something?
That's super invasive, spammy, and time wasting and I really dislike it. How do I stop that?
on 10-06-2022 10:11 AM
I don't mind being sent offers. Sometimes I buy.
I don't know that much about the inner workings of ebay but all this spam you talk of, I am not sure if it is all originating from the sellers?
They certainly have the ability to send offers to watchers, I know that. But if you're getting a lot of emails after that, reminders and so forth, they could be generated by ebay itself, not the seller? All the poor seller has done is offer a discount.
I do understand being bombarded by unwanted emails though. Maybe you could do what i do. I have a web mail completely turned over to ebay, nothing else. It isn't my personal email that I use daily.
I rarely visit my ebay email but when I do yes, it is full of hundreds of emails from ebay, everything from reminders that a watched item is finishing to suggestions for other things. I don't even see half the headings I just bulk delete. It leaves your real email blissfully free.
on 12-06-2022 02:15 PM
You should be able to opt out of receiving such offers.
eBay allows sellers to make offers to users that add an item to a watch list, add an item to a cart, or view the item multiple times.
If you go to your communication preference settings under Buying Activity, there should be a checkbox you can uncheck to opt out entirely from receiving such offers.
https://commspreferences.ebay.com.au/commsprefs