Is it now compulsory to send an offer to a "watched" item ?

[francapossum127]

Is it now compulsory that if an item is  "watched" that the seller must make an offer to potential customer?  Its happened to me a few times recently.   Unless I send an offer Im not able to view my listings.  Has anyone else had this happen to them?

[papermoon.lady · Accepted solution]

I have received offers for watched items, but I also have watched items for which I have received no offer. It is just an option sellers have, but it is not a must.

[motor*magz · Accepted solution]

Nope, I can still view my listings with ebayers keeping watch.

I ignore ebays suggestion to send them an offer, coz I don't want to sell it for less.

Plus I reckon it would annoy them if i did. 

[curraone · Accepted solution]

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@francapossum127 wrote:

Is it now compulsory that if an item is  "watched" that the seller must make an offer to potential customer?  Its happened to me a few times recently.   Unless I send an offer Im not able to view my listings.  Has anyone else had this happen to them?

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No it is not compulsory.    And I can still look at any of my items that have watchers, or are eligible for me to send an offer.    You should be able to view your own listings.

[sugar249 · Accepted solution]

no

[francapossum127]

Yes I agree motor*mags

I think it puts people off when sending potential buyers an offer.

I will see if ebay makes me send offers to cutomers today.  Hopefully it was just a glitch

Thank you everyone who took the trouble to reply 

[sugar249]

Motor mags,  It doesnt annoy my customers, I get a good return rate on offers I send.   And in reality if they were annoyed they are just window shoppers anyhow,  we don't need them, it dirties the windows

[motor*magz]

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@francapossum127 wrote:

Is it now compulsory that if an item is  "watched" that the seller must make an offer to potential customer?  Its happened to me a few times recently.   Unless I send an offer Im not able to view my listings.  Has anyone else had this happen to them?

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If you're prepred to drop the price, by all means!

Items get watched for a few reasons. I used to watch an item just so I could see how much it would fetch.

Either because I had the same item or just curious what the market will pay.