posted on September 21, 2008 10:28:30 PM new
Could you educate me about how to use the Best Offer feature? I decided to use it for the first time and found I could not enable it and didn't know if I figured out to enable it, would I have to use it for everything in that catagory. Your help would be appreciated.
posted on September 22, 2008 03:05:05 PM new
Hello,
The Best Offer option is just above your Ship To location on the Sales Manager listing form. You will see it greyed out when your doing auctions, but available to use when you are doing fixed price listings.
The option is set on a listing by listing basis, so enabling it for the item your working on will only have an effect on that particular listing.
posted on September 22, 2008 04:31:12 PM new
Also, if you go to the My Account page > eBay Item Specifics, in the eBay Item Specifics
there is a section to enable Best Offers.
It reads "If you are selling Fixed Price listings in certain eBay categories you can opt for accepting alternative offers (Best Offers) from buyers. Check 'Enable Best Offers' below to enable this feature by default when creating listings. If Best Offers are enabled, you can opt also for automatic responding to Best Offers for the new listings (notice that the options below will only enable this feature by default in the new listings, but will NOT override the settings specified per listing). Offers will not be accepted automatically if the buyer has included a message to seller."
Then there is a check box to enable Best Offers whenever possible.
I think this may be what toyspast is referring to.
It appears that if you enable it on your site specifics, as above, you would have to use it in all FP and Store listings unless you un-check it.
But if you check off Best Offer in each individual listing, as Chris says, you get to pick and choose which items get the Best Offer option.
Which way you choose to enable the option would depend on if you want to use Best Offer all the time or sometimes.
posted on September 22, 2008 05:02:57 PM new
I can locate Best Offer at ebay Site Specifics in My Account. However, I am unable to locate anything similar to Chris's post. I find nothing on my Sales Manager form from which to list an item as Best Offer."
[ edited by ChristopherCS on Sep 22, 2008 05:12 PM ]