topic Best Offer is annoying in Selling

Best Offer is annoying

misterforgetfulsbooks — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:01:36 GMT

It takes days out of your life ticking the stupid "best offer" box so as not to get dumb offers cheaper than your item would cost to post.

You then inform the person offering the rediculous amount that your postage will cost you $13.40 and that an offer of $4 wouldn't even cover the free post. Only to have a reply commenting - isn't it fee post?

I just think to save time, the ticking the free post should be optional the other way around.

ie: unless people choose to have best offer on a listing, there would be no need to tick this infuriatingly slow online service that strips days off your life while you wait for the best offer to disappear from your new listing.

In some circumstances, I have to list something and then go back and revise the listing to remove best offer as I wasn't able to do so the first time around because the process is so slow.

IMO removing the Best Offer check box could speed up listing times by up to 2 minutes

Re: Best Offer is annoying

*sparklz* — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:11:25 GMT

It only takes a few seconds and if you do not want to see the stupid low offers then set it to decline under a set amount and problem solved.

No need to waste time dealing with those unwanted buyers.

I laugh at the low offers and send them a counteroffer just to show I am still an interested seller willing to make a sale at the right price.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

misterforgetfulsbooks — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:20:39 GMT

you must have faster internet speeds than me as it takes minutes and they add up when you are listing lots of items each day.

I haven't got the time to reply to each offer let alone set a upper and lower offer amount for each item, that would be even more time.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

phorum_junkie* — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:26:27 GMT

I have one id that I use specifically for BIN with Best Offer. It takes no longer to list that way than any other unless you mean the couple of seconds it takes to fill in the auto accept and reject feature so I never have to bother about people making offers below what I want to sell for.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

*sparklz* — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:03:43 GMT

If you are that time poor that you can not simply hit the decline button then just IGNORE any offers less than you would be happy to accept.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

black*poppy — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:10:43 GMT

Actually i agree with the OP, I know exactly what you mean. If i do one listing with a best offer, suddenly it's the default for every new listing. And it's not just simply a matter of unchecking the box; I get the swirly waiting symbol when I do this for as long as I let run. The only way to get around it is to press Continue to go to the next page, then Edit listing to go back. Then i can uncheck the box. It takes ages and is totally infuriating.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

davewil1964 — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:03:53 GMT

Use Turbolister, rama. You can set no offers as the defalt.

Plus, it's more convenient anyway.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

davewil1964 — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:06:52 GMT

Only takes about 15 seconds in my experience. If best offer doesn't uncheck in 5 seconds, I go your route.

But for the bulk of my listings I use TL.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

black*poppy — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:46:24 GMT

TL may be a good work around for some, but the point is that the lister in ebay should work properly, not need a work around. It is the life blood of the site after all.

Ebay is slow at the best of times - and I have really good ADSL2+ connectivity, often 1mbps download rate - why should I have to perform extra page refreshes and mouse clicks to perform the simplest, most basic task on ebay?

My only solution for this problem has been to relist something that doesn't have best offer already, making sure I edit the listing in some way.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

retailtherapist_8 — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:35:48 GMT

Doesnt seem to matter if I have best ooffer on my listings or not, people still send messages with offers. I am polite but there are the ones I would like to "let fly" at. lol

Just had a $45 non solicited offer on a $125 item.......yeah right thats gonna happen NOT .....

Re: Best Offer is annoying

cq_tech — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:04:58 GMT

I hope you blocked whoever made the offer, in case they buy it at full price and trash your DSRs.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

retailtherapist_8 — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:32:05 GMT

@cq_tech wrote:
I hope you blocked whoever made the offer, in case they buy it at full price and trash your DSRs.

I dont believe they believe it would be accepted. Every now & then someone has to try it on. I was polite in my response (through gritted teeth). I dont block low ballers as a rule (unless they are rude or abusive) as I have actually ended up selling other lesser priced items to several of them.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

saarzi — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:48:23 GMT

But isnt it free??

haha im so funny.

I have three different browsers (IE, firefox and chrome) open at the same time and flip between all three when updating listings. So I update at least three at a time. I unclick the Offer button, then flick to another browser to work on the other listing while it works. Sometimes Ill have 6 or 7 browsers open all listing at once.

No waiting for for the offer button, no waiting for pics to upload. No waiting for anything.

Also, you can opt to not accept offers below an amount you specify. You dont have to check / reply to every one - it happens automatically. If you need to change it, its not different to clicking it off again - just two numbers typed in.

Sooo... when Im listing/relisting I do my listings in batches. I have a quick look at what I have, list all the ones I want the same returns policy for and list them all together. then change the refund policy ONCE and list the next lot, etc. Same for Offer / auction length etc

Also, I copy and paste certain areas of my listings to every listing (for example, measurements template). I have these sentences or paragraphs pasted into an open notepad so I can copy and paste them fast.

They call me speedy.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

crystal777light — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:21:55 GMT

Lol multi tasker 🙂

Re: Best Offer is annoying

cq_tech — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:14:23 GMT

@retailtherapist_8 wrote:
@cq_tech wrote:
I hope you blocked whoever made the offer, in case they buy it at full price and trash your DSRs.
I dont believe they believe it would be accepted. Every now & then someone has to try it on. I was polite in my response (through gritted teeth). I dont block low ballers as a rule (unless they are rude or abusive) as I have actually ended up selling other lesser priced items to several of them.

I received a couple of unsolicited best offers only a couple of weeks ago and I too was extremely polite in my rejection, so you can imagine my horror and disgust when I eventually discovered that the buyer, who had bought both items the next day at the listed price, had completely trashed my DSRs and left me with 2 defects, despite the fact that the items were sent the very same day, and the postage charged was below stamp value. I've identified the buyer in my feedback for those who want to block her, and from now on, any buyer making unacceptable or unsolicited offers will be immediately blocked.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

retailtherapist_8 — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:22:19 GMT

OMG cq_tech, you poor thing thats awful! Absolutely so unfair. Yes that does makes me worry. This new defect system is painful.

Ironically the person who felt they had to ruin my perfect 5 stars was a very experienced Seller, who didnt bother to contact me.

Needless to say she now appears on my special list.

Re: Best Offer is annoying

cq_tech — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:46:07 GMT

It's a disgusting system and it's painfully obvious that eBay have set it up so that most small sellers will eventually fail and there's very little that you can do to protect yourself from rabid buyers (or in your case, sellers who should know better) who, for whatever reason, feel they have an axe to grind.

Needless to say, when contacted eBay weren't the least bit interested despite evidence that showed the buyer was clearly being malicious, so I feel it's only a matter of time before I'll be given my marching orders, not that I particularly care any more, because I'd pretty much planned on giving eBay the big flick anyway.