Send Offer to Buyers - Any Success

[whoisbiggles]

Is anyone willing to share their levels of success with using the "send offers to buyers" feature?

I'm currently at 0 sales from 22 offers sent.

I usually knock 10 - 15% off the BIN price. Still no interest from the watchers.

Funny thing is 6 of the items I sent offers to, have since sold at full price.

[fastbuyer777]

it depends on the buyer sometimes i get these offers and accept them it depends how much the watcher is innterested really sometimes 5 - 10% might only be a dollar or so depending on the item price.

[sugar249]

I get about a 10% success rate on offers I send out.

Example,  Yesterday I had 33 items which were eligible to send offers on,  of those 12 I would never reduce the price on, so ended up sending offers on 21 items,  which each had between 1 and 4 buyers receiving the offers.

Already today I have 4 parcels to take to the post office and just holding off to see if I get more.

The time it takes to send the offers was about 30 seconds, including unticking the ones I didnt want to send.   So 30 seconds to gain 4 sales is worth it.  Sometimes I get zero sales,  but 30 seconds for zero is still an acceptable time, I take that long scratching my nose.

To the people saying it annoys the buyers,  really who cares, they are most likely window shoppers or competitors who were never going to buy in that case anyhow.  I'll happily take 4 sales and annoy 2 people.

The important part about running a business is picking up sales,  

[paisleyties45]

My experience has been that I have not, as yet sold an item by sending an offer to buyers. On the other side, when I myself am watching an item , I  find it annoying when I keep receiving offers for my own watched items as a buyer.  I often wonder whether the potential buyer actually receives the offer... All in all, I don't believe it is worth doing, so I've stopped sending offers 

[davewil1964]

Your experience is probably not relevant to the situation SIX years ago, when eBay didn't have their fee-inflating 'promotions' kicking every seller in the face.