When I respond to a question I have the option to offer a coin at a lower price. I get offers through the ebay message system frequently, and sometimes they work.
@amwldcoin said:
I don't know. Since they have the option to make an offer through the message system I have used it quite a bit.
How do you make an offer through their messaging? I don't see this feature. Or do you mean "ask a question", select "other", and then send a message with an offer?
I've wondered about this because I see sellers saying "make an offer" and without the "best offer" configured.
Lance.
@Stork said:
Or, the seller will ship to a central location and eBay will ship to the buyer. Just like for their global shipping program. It only costs a small fortune. Last time I looked it was going to be something like $25 going to Japan. Insanity. All for 'our protection'.
"soon we are rolling out our own private delivery service that will meet all requirements, for a small increase in fees'."
@Andrew99 said:
I had someone ask to buy something on layaway. There is no way to even do that in ebay, so I ended it and told him how to send me checks. Ultimately, any successful auction must result in an exchange of contact information. If ebay tries to avoid this, they will become increasingly irrelevant.
@amwldcoin said:
I don't know. Since they have the option to make an offer through the message system I have used it quite a bit.
How do you make an offer through their messaging? I don't see this feature. Or do you mean "ask a question", select "other", and then send a message with an offer?
I've wondered about this because I see sellers saying "make an offer" and without the "best offer" configured.
Lance.
Now if a potential buyer contacts you through the message system there is an option for me as a seller to send the buyer an offer button. So if you contact a seller without a BIN listing through the message system and a new price is agreed upon, the seller can send you the "offer" instead of revising the listing.
Just be a little careful on local pick up. It is an option, all you have to do is click it on shipping options.
BUT, do not accept paypal. Paypal requires confirmation tracking. Does not happen on local pick up. They do not care about photocopy of a DL or whatever, your contract with them is confirmation tracking.
I do a lot of local pick ups (car parts can be big and heavy, and many times the shipping is more than the part) and I tell buyers they can pay me with paypal to keep ebay happy, but on pick up, it is cash, and I refund the paypal payment when they pay me.
Ditto on the 10% shipping fee. For a while, ebay was full of things like a Car Fender, buy it now $5, shipping $150, no local pick up. Pure and simple scam to avoid paying the selling fees.
Why do you have to sometimes pay for it right away, and sometimes not? Most common fail is someone copies someone else's listing, and the "Require Immediate payment on Buy it Now" is not checked.
Global shipping may not be the best thing, but for some of us, it is great, when dealing with large but lightweight parts. I recently sold an NOS automotive grill ($300 item) that was too big to be shipped by the post office, and FedEx was $230+. It only weighed about 2 pounds, and the shipping to Australia was less than $40. Ebay charges by weight, so big light things are GREAT to send that way.
None of my listings require immediate payment but some users have to pay immediately to end the listing. The only thing I can figure is it must have something to do with when you joined ebay.
@amwldcoin said:
None of my listings require immediate payment but some users have to pay immediately to end the listing. The only thing I can figure is it must have something to do with when you joined ebay.
This is not consistent from nation to nation of ebay's pages. For example, what I mean is that if a buyer is required to pay immediately using ebay.com, that is not necessarily true if the same buyer clicks buy-it-now on the same item but from another ebay nation site like ebay.ca or ebay.co.uk. Sometimes yes, sometimes no on this work-around. It is good to know for buyers who are picking multiple fixed-price items and want a combined shipping invoice instead of having to pay and then request a partial shipping refund after the fact.
I'm getting thos message from ebay everytime I answer a question now!
"We monitor messages sent through eBay for fraud, abuse, spam, and other violations of our policy."
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When I respond to a question I have the option to offer a coin at a lower price. I get offers through the ebay message system frequently, and sometimes they work.
"soon we are rolling out our own private delivery service that will meet all requirements, for a small increase in fees'."
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Now if a potential buyer contacts you through the message system there is an option for me as a seller to send the buyer an offer button. So if you contact a seller without a BIN listing through the message system and a new price is agreed upon, the seller can send you the "offer" instead of revising the listing.
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Thanks for that, amwldcoin and bigpst. I didn't know that as I rarely sell on ebay. Good info!
Lance.
Just be a little careful on local pick up. It is an option, all you have to do is click it on shipping options.
BUT, do not accept paypal. Paypal requires confirmation tracking. Does not happen on local pick up. They do not care about photocopy of a DL or whatever, your contract with them is confirmation tracking.
I do a lot of local pick ups (car parts can be big and heavy, and many times the shipping is more than the part) and I tell buyers they can pay me with paypal to keep ebay happy, but on pick up, it is cash, and I refund the paypal payment when they pay me.
Ditto on the 10% shipping fee. For a while, ebay was full of things like a Car Fender, buy it now $5, shipping $150, no local pick up. Pure and simple scam to avoid paying the selling fees.
Why do you have to sometimes pay for it right away, and sometimes not? Most common fail is someone copies someone else's listing, and the "Require Immediate payment on Buy it Now" is not checked.
Global shipping may not be the best thing, but for some of us, it is great, when dealing with large but lightweight parts. I recently sold an NOS automotive grill ($300 item) that was too big to be shipped by the post office, and FedEx was $230+. It only weighed about 2 pounds, and the shipping to Australia was less than $40. Ebay charges by weight, so big light things are GREAT to send that way.
None of my listings require immediate payment but some users have to pay immediately to end the listing. The only thing I can figure is it must have something to do with when you joined ebay.
This is not consistent from nation to nation of ebay's pages. For example, what I mean is that if a buyer is required to pay immediately using ebay.com, that is not necessarily true if the same buyer clicks buy-it-now on the same item but from another ebay nation site like ebay.ca or ebay.co.uk. Sometimes yes, sometimes no on this work-around. It is good to know for buyers who are picking multiple fixed-price items and want a combined shipping invoice instead of having to pay and then request a partial shipping refund after the fact.
I'm getting thos message from ebay everytime I answer a question now!
"We monitor messages sent through eBay for fraud, abuse, spam, and other violations of our policy."