Missed offers

I have few bits and pieces listed and I check them every few days.  Today I noticed I had expired offers done on 23rNovember.  I have not received notification from eBay about these offers; I checked again.  The ID of the buyers comes as *....*945.  I am furious,  Is there any way to contact these buyers?

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@*kazumi* wrote:

@brerrabbit585 wrote:

If you've got offers enabled on your listings you should be signing in to check every day. You should probably be checking in even if you haven't enabled offers. Ebay regularly has glitches where emails aren't sent so it never pays to rely them. They could easily go to your spam folder so it's not always ebay's fault we don't get them.


The notice should be in eBay messages an i do check my spam before deleting it..  I did not have "make an offer" option, but I know that eBay prompts people to make offer anyway.  I noticed that happen on item I am watching even when the seller has not make an offer in the listing.  That's probably the sellers sending offers to watchers (the sellers don't know who's getting the offers.) An i do check every day anyway; in the past the offers were visible when you looked at your active items; this is what it looks like now:

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When I click on the drop down menu, that is where is the option "manage offers", and there is no option to send offer to the 2 watchers.  I now put the price own to the $ that were offered.  The question is; does eBay let the watchers know the price was reduced?
I think they have to be listed 7 days before you're able to send an offer to watchers, so that may be why there's no option showing.  I don't know whether they send all watchers a message to say the price has been lowered but they do send out a LOT of those emails.


@brerrabbit585 wrote:

 

In my experience (it may be different for others) about half of the second chance offers I've made don't result in a sale. Some people decide later that they didn't really want it after all, but would have paid if they'd won the auction.

 

 


Yes, you are right, many people do not take up 2nd offers, that is why I did not worry too much, past being angry I gave her 3 days, and she did not refuse it, so I had to wait till the offer ran out. Now, after realizing I did not get the notice,  I just wonder if she got it.  It does not matter; that item (my selling ID) was re-listed on Sunday, and sold @ the BIN price as soon as I listed it. 

 

 

 


@brerrabbit585 wrote:
 

You could always put a note in the relevant listings asking people to make their offer again because you missed it.


I thought about doing that, but I doubt people come back to read the decription.  I just reduced the price to their offer.

I also contacted eBay.  Hope they fix it.


 

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