on โ21-06-2019 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 โ22-06-2019 10:11 AM
Thanks for that! It's not so much big, it's just got taller. The stem under the lowest living leaves is around 2 inches. It's a hungry little sucker too. I have them all on a sunny window sill inside and over summer, it scoffed way more flies and bugs than the Sarras! The Sarras are outside for the winter so they can go dormant, but the Drosera's are inside because I live in a cold climate area. Even now the Capensis is still catching lots of bugs. At one point, all its leaves were curled up with a fly or bug of some description.
Good to know about growing them from cuttings. I might have to go get some potting medium and give it a go. All my Sphagnum died, so I'll have to go buy more.
on โ22-06-2019 10:18 AM
on โ22-06-2019 10:22 AM
I don't know if there is any way other than checking each listing. I'm pretty sure at some point that those that do have best offer enabled, were finding eBay inserting an auto accept, sometimes for half the price. Those members didn't have auto accept/reject enabled. I think they found out when they received a few sales, for a fraction of what their price was.
Could be worth doing a search of the forums for the threads on this subject. I'm pretty sure it was happening last year, rather than early this year. If you just search for Best Offer to start with, see how you go. If you get too many results, add some more keywords.
on โ23-06-2019 09:17 AM
Yes, a search of older threads shows that early last year eBay was activating best offer on some members listings and they were having items sold at way less than the asking price before they had a chance to change them back. It really beggars belief that anyone at eBay HQ could think this was a good idea. End result: angry buyers being denied the bargain they thought they had just nabbed, or angry sellers having their goods sold out from under them at a loss.
This place is a mess.
โ23-06-2019 05:33 PM - edited โ23-06-2019 05:34 PM
@*tippy*toes* wrote:I don't know if there is any way other than checking each listing. I'm pretty sure at some point that those that do have best offer enabled, were finding eBay inserting an auto accept, sometimes for half the price. Those members didn't have auto accept/reject enabled. I think they found out when they received a few sales, for a fraction of what their price was.
Could be worth doing a search of the forums for the threads on this subject. I'm pretty sure it was happening last year, rather than early this year. If you just search for Best Offer to start with, see how you go. If you get too many results, add some more keywords.
It was still happening a lot more recently than last year. It only, finally (and gradually) stopped on my items a couple of months ago. That was after a lot of promises that it would finish immediately. I'm dubious that my phone calls had much to do with it ending.
So far - touch wood - I haven't had one of those dreaded 'your listings can now accept offer' messages since then. It was bad enough when I only had dozens of items - going through them nearly every night after many of them had been randomly slugged with that automatically-accept-offers-at-half-price business. I'm on the point of opening a store, and if it started again with hundreds of random items, it'd be more time and stress than I can deal with at the moment.
on โ01-07-2019 01:25 PM
on โ01-07-2019 01:40 PM
on โ01-07-2019 02:00 PM
i have now relisted my items, if i get any changed by ebay to 'make an offer' i'll delist them all imediately.
not having any of that.
on โ01-07-2019 02:45 PM
Far out (to put it nicely)
I'll keep and eye on mine
eBay can't keep their fidding fingers to themselves for 5 seconds
on โ01-07-2019 02:51 PM