Why is my account saying I made offers on things I just put on my watchlist?

[pix3lpixie]

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?

[springyzone]

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.

[eburtonlab]

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