eBay "Make an Offer" Changed ?

Jono8 said:
Better as a seller. Ive had to chase people a number of times to actually pay after accepting their offer....
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I think I've had other sellers with similar items start an offer/pay process just to mess up my item so theirs sells first.

My other pet hate is buyers trying to use the messaging for offers so I always state not to do this these days.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Because theres always someone who will just pay the higher price? Why cut your nose off to spite your face.
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Maybe I'm doing it wrong then as the few occasions sell my computer stuff I set a buy it now price and have no offers and the vast majority of the time anything will sell in 1-3 days and anything that gets lower intrest and I need to sell I'll drop about £10-15 and it gets sold within a couple of hours.

Using the Buy it now allows one to set it to require immediate payment for the purchase as this has pretty much stopped the very few times I got messages and low ball offers that get ignored anyway, auctions that finish and offers that get accepted where the buyer ends up not paying, asking for it to be cancelled or they was fishing for the lowest offer realising the item was never going to sell for the price they wanted it for.

I did not communicate it well but I'd rather just take the possible £10 hit rather then open the auction up to offers and deal with the problems above.
Jono8 said:
Better as a seller. Ive had to chase people a number of times to actually pay after accepting their offer....
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Yep as the make an offer should be a commitment to buy and providing a payment method upfront should help reduce the number of sellers wondering if the buyers going to pay and it should also reduce the amount of low feedback alt accounts fishing for the lowest price with offers and then not making payment.
 
This seems like a great idea, I've just used the 'Make an Offer' feature on something I had on my watch list. I only had to Log In once to make the offer, they accepted and the purchase is done. Brilliant!
 
I made an offer for something last week and no payment was required until it was accepted - maybe it's an option the seller can set?

It does seem a better way of doing it though, I've listed stuff during discounted selling fee promos, accepted offers which then haven't been paid, and then been unable* to relist the item for several weeks until the next promo



* Obviously I could have done, but then would have had to pay lol worthy fees
 
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I've had buyers make offers in the past I've accepted and then they've refused to pay. It's a total ballache because then you have to wait 1-2 weeks for another listing offer to make it worthwhile selling again. This should stop that.
 
iseedeadpixels said:
Brilliant idea, far too many dreamers on ebay
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True, I was looking for a used item that cost £45 from CEX before shipping. I saw a few on eBay going for much higher and that was with missing power supplies. Utterly delusional sellers just put what they want for items, not what they are worth.
 
Hi all sorry to bump this but thought better than making a whole new post.

I'm selling something on eBay and I had an offer for the price I wanted. Offer said 24 hrs expiry.

So I don't rush to log in and accept it but in the meantime someone makes a starting bid on my item. Now I can't accept the offer - auction bids seem to nullify the offers.

There doesn't seem a way to get this offer back now. I'm thinking of ending the listing and relisting it. Do I have to pay anything to do this?
 
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