Okay, I need some brains to help out...

[5kazam]

....I'm in the process of editing and relisting heaps of items (150 free, so I'm going for it).

When I click on 'Relist, 'Best Offer' has been ticked - not by me, but by eBay.  Also, although I made sure it was unticked when I last edited items, the 'Auto Relist 3 times' has been ticked again by eBay.  I do not want either of these.

If I had gone for bulk Relist, I wouldn't have realised about the 'Auto Relist', and would have spent a lot of time getting rid of 'Best Offer'.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of both of these in one go.

[pennyforum14]

As far as I know you can't bulk dit to remove either of these options.  While I can understand why you might want to remove Best Offer, I'm curious as to why you don't want three free relists?

As an alternative, I tend to relist individually from MySelling/Unsold using the relist option at the right of the item, it brings up a pop up with the basics showing that you can change without having to go through the two page listing process.

[curraone]

bulk edit will enable you to get rid of the best offer option - but I don't know about the other.

[5kazam]

I don't think that it is right for eBay to TAKE OVER how someone does their re-listings.  If I haven't ticked BEST OFFER, it is not up to eBay to make that decision for me.  These are MY listings, not eBays.

As far as the 3 free relists are concerned.  Been there done that.  Complete waste of time.  I did it once, deliberately, and sold one item in the additional three weeks.  Next time, I did a bulk re-list, and didn't know that eBay had ticked that box until the listings ended and relisted straight away.  Minimal sales.

I believe that sometimes it is better to no list anything for a couple of weeks to get new eyes on listings instead of having the same ol' same ol' in buyers faces.  They tend to scroll past.  That comment of course depends on the categories that sellers list under.  But it is not an optiion I would select in the future.

I have been doing exactly as you have said - click on RELIST on the RHS of an item.  That was when I discovered that eBay had ticked the 'BEST OFFER' box.  Not acceptable IMO.

I'm contemplating starting up a new thread for members to post what they don't like about all these new system updates, eg. changes to feedback dating, plus obviously, my two little gripes about eBay thinking they know better than me about how I should relist my items. Had a funny eBay comment - item listed for $150.00.  eBay suggested I should start it at $14.99.  Those robots should get a life...!!!

[5kazam]

Thanks for that.  But given the 3 Free bit, I think I'm still going to have to edit each and every one of my listings.  Just wish eBay would butt out of what is NOT their business - ie how someone relists.

[ms_aussie]

I always laugh when eBay suggest to lower the price of an item that doesn't sell. DUH!!! Keep lowering the price and someone is sure to buy it. Whay about our profit margin??? Bright eBay 🙂

[englishrosegardens]

If you bulk relist you don't have to worry about removing Best Offer at all.

The quickest way to remove the auto relist is to open each listing in a new tab (the same page will do but it's slower) and then click on Relist at the top.  That'll take you to the second page of the listing process where you can untick the auto relist box before you confirm.  If I'm not mistaken you'll also find that they don't add best offer this way either, as this is the way I do it when I don't do a bulk relist.

If you don't want things listed for a long time, have you thought about doing 3-day listings and allowing them to relist 3 times, which means they'd only be listed for a total of 12 days before they drop into unsold?  It'd save you having to do all the work of unticking the auto relist, so you could just bulk relist and not have to worry about changing anything.