on 21-06-2019 12:54 PM
This morning eBay have ever so helpfully added 'best offer' to some of my listings without any consultation or warning, and then sent me a message telling me they have done so. I have had to go into each listing and manually switch it off. I AM ANNOYED! I list my items at the lowest price I am willing to accept and any offers I might have received would have been declined, potentially ticking off a prospective buyer.
How does eBay think they are helping sellers by changing their listings behind thier backs?! Imagine if you walked into a bricks and mortar shop and stuck a 'make me an offer' sign up in the front window. You'd be put in a headlock and dragged out onto the street!
on 21-06-2019 01:12 PM
on 21-06-2019 01:39 PM
Keep an eye on your listings as they have been turning them back on again after a couple of days.
You might find it easier and quicker to Bulk Edit all the listings to turn the Best Offer off.
on 21-06-2019 02:20 PM
@terroxyboy wrote:This morning eBay have ever so helpfully added 'best offer' to some of my listings without any consultation or warning, and then sent me a message telling me they have done so. I have had to go into each listing and manually switch it off. I AM ANNOYED! I list my items at the lowest price I am willing to accept and any offers I might have received would have been declined, potentially ticking off a prospective buyer.
How does eBay think they are helping sellers by changing their listings behind thier backs?! Imagine if you walked into a bricks and mortar shop and stuck a 'make me an offer' sign up in the front window. You'd be put in a headlock and dragged out onto the street!
Don't tell me they're back with this rubbish again. After many phone calls and promises they'd quit it, they finally (and very gradually) stopped putting it on my listings a couple of months back, and it's been quiet since. Either they're back at it, or they simply randomly rotate the people they pester with it.
FWIW I actually told them that I was going to add a disclaimer to all my item descriptions that I would not honour any 'offers' accepted by ebay on my items, since I didn't ever use the 'best offer' option, and pointing out that this was arbitrary nonsense that ebay attached to my items without my consent - and the csr said that was a good idea. So I proceeded with disclaimers on all my items for a couple of months, with ebay's blessing.
I only took it down last week....
on 21-06-2019 11:30 PM
Ebay kept doing this with one of my listings. I would remove it, a few days later it was back. It kept going and was becoming a battle of wits. So, I decided to play them at their own game. Say the BIN price was $40. I set the auto decline to $39.97 and auto accept at $39.99.
The thing you really have to be careful of is, they don't just add the best offer, they also add an auto accept amount, which is generally 50% of your advertised price. Hence why I added my own auto accept/decline amounts, which stopped them fiddling with it.
on 21-06-2019 11:43 PM
If I woke up tomorrow to find that some of my items had been 'sold' for half the listed price as a result of ebay fiddling with my listings without consultation that would be the end of it for me. Does that really actually happen to some sellers? What the hell is going on with this place?
on 22-06-2019 12:11 AM
Sadly, yes, it's true. It was happening to quite a few sellers. There were numerous threads about it from last year. They have absolutely NO right to fiddle with listings like that, but they did, and it looks like they're doing it again.
on 22-06-2019 12:19 AM
Going off topic Terroxy, can I pick your brains? My Capensis has turned into a palm tree. Sould I repot it into a deeper pot and plant it up to the lowest living leaves? It's otherwise super healthy, but I don't want it to topple over. Thanks!
on 22-06-2019 06:56 AM
Do you have a Drosera Capensis typical form? I've never grown one so big that it's toppled over so you are doing well. I wouldn't repot and bury up to the lowest living leaves, this could perhaps cause the stem to rot in the damp soil. Maybe just put a wooden skewer in the soil like a stake if it really does look like the weight of the leaves will make it fall over. P.S....if you want baby capenis you can cut a leaf off and lite it on top of the soil and it will grow new plants from the leaf cutting
on 22-06-2019 08:27 AM
Never plant any plant upto its lowest leaves always plant just above the root system.
When re potting you could add some ash or small pebbled rocks first for extra drainage and then the soil/mix.
I then usually add some decorative rocks around the top for extra stabilization.