posted on May 23, 2011 09:07:00 AM new
To stir up some sales, I decided to use eBay's Markdown Feature to run a Sale on my Fixed Price items.
With my fixed price listings, I have Make an Offer with preset auto accept pricing.
My Sale pricing is below the Make An Offer auto accept prices... but eBay still allows buyers to make offers. Most of these offers are well below the sale price.
You would think (obviously nobody at eBay did) that you could either 1) turn off the Make An Offer through the Markdown settings or 2) eBay would automatically eliminate Make An Offer if the Sale price is below the auto accept pricing.
So, the sale has stirred very little interest in actual purchases. Instead, the Offers are even lower than before. I really hate bottom feeders.
posted on May 23, 2011 11:47:13 AM new
I agree, the option to turn off the Best Offer option would be great.
When picking the Sale Items, I wish we could at least see which ones have the best offer option. As it is now we cannot.
I would prefer to pick the items that are straight FP with no best offer option, cause sale or no, my lowest best offer price is still going to be my lowest best offer price.
But I just can't spend the time running through each item to see if it has a best offer or not. As the system is now, I just have to guess.
posted on May 23, 2011 07:14:51 PM new
Yes, I can see the Best Offers in my eBay, but I am not checking off my sale items in my eBay.
It would make sense to include the Best Offer detail on the page where we check off the items to include in the sale.
Switching between two windows to do something that only takes two minutes is cumbersome and time consuming.
It is the same list...it should not be difficult for the same detail to be included in the programming for both pages.
posted on May 24, 2011 01:50:07 AM new
I can see you point.
I guess it's not as hard for me as I accept offers on all my BIN's and rarely use the marketdown.
posted on May 24, 2011 06:12:23 PM new
Yes, you are right. If I had best offer on all items, it would make a difference and I probably wouldn't bother with sales then either.
