In case you’re one of the 3 guys that don’t do this on eBay.
JimTyler
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If you’re interested put it in your watch list. Sellers get notified you’re watching and even when they aren’t taking offers you might get a message with a discount. I wasn’t interested at $1500 but added to watch list got an offer for $1250. Still just a little high but very doable.
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Yes, I get offers often.
I have gotten offers on stuff I just looked at (no watch)
Offer of the year!
Is there really nothing that can be done to push back on this kind of stuff? I could be wrong but didn’t eBay used to disallow this?
I've gotten them as well, pass on all thus far, just saying
I sometimes get offers on items I didn't even add to my watchlist, I only looked at them. Somehow they know...
I regularly get offers, most with 5% off, and most, if not all, with reasonable prices based on the market.
Counter by asking for free shipping
I seem to get offers on almost everything that I’m watching.
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I cannot; he being so generous, and all, taking off a half-million. What a sport!
I am one of those "3 guys".
I stopped using Watch when I realized that my interest was observable by the seller.
I was using it for coins that I liked, but my price and theirs were too far apart to be bridged by the usual discounted offer.
Usually I prefer the seller to think there is less interest and they lower their price for the first of several steps until it gets into a reasonable range.
Or offer to pay more for express shipping...
I usually get laughable discounts but doesn’t cost anything to click. I was surprised to get $250 off. This seller seldom has coins and what peaked my interest he listed 4 gold coins in the holder with the series on the label and all 4 were sequential serial numbers.
I just noticed if that cl in click was any closer it would take on a whole new meaning.
Another tip that could be helpful to some is to not watch a BIN item until you're ready to buy it. If you watch the item and get an offer from the seller before you've saved up enough money for it, for example, there's no way to accept it after it's expired. The only disadvantage would be that it would require making a "watchlist" outside of eBay.
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Thanks for sharing this info here, I appreciate it
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5% discount is the minimum amount a seller can send an offer for.
I get offers all the time from sellers whom I merely visited their website. Not just watched auctions. Occasionally I accept.
Jim
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This might be more work than it’s worth, but you can have two eBay accounts. Watch the item on the first account. If the offer has expired and you later have the funds, watch it on your second account.
Alternatively, you can message the seller and most would likely lower the price to the same amount as the offer when you are ready to pay.
I think that's what the like it heart feature is for. It allows you to be able to easily find items you've looked at without notifying the seller or other buyers you're watching it.
I like that feature. I've received some great offers on coins I was following. I pulled the trigger several times.
Dave
I'll counter this, but point out that of the few items I sell fixed price, most have small margins where I'm not going to send offers (and a few in the past have had much larger margins where I built in the ability to offer a discount). If I see an item has a lot of views and watchers, that's a sign to me that my price is too high or there is something else "wrong" with what I'm selling or how I'm presenting it. On the other hand, if I have few views and few watchers, then for whatever reason, it just hasn't had the right eyeballs finding the listing. To that end, I'm more likely to realize I need to drop the price when a lot of activity hasn't led to a sale. Maybe other sellers will assume that some watcher will eventually bite the bullet at the original price, but I don't interpret things that way. Of course, if I have an item that I don't mind holding out on (some things I sell go at a constant rate, and I just ensure they're competitively priced with anyone else) then few or many views/watchers, I'm unlikely to change the price.
My price is based on my margin and/or my willingness to take a loss. I'm never adjusting prices based on perceived interest. I think most reputable sellers do the same thing. The game of pretending disinterest is only going to be helpful with a certain type of "aspirational" seller. [I know you weren't suggesting that game, just trying to support your position. ]
I get offers if even looking at something which are usually higher than I would pay / bid.
A half-million is unusually higher than what I would pay, too.
When I used Watch, it was indeed for "aspirational" sellers.
I was curious if the coin would really sell for anything remotely close to the asking price.
I was not expecting it to be deeply discounted into my acceptable price range.
Sometimes I take their offers (mainly non numismatic stuff).