Comments on: Best offers not showing in My eBay

By: ebuyerfb

ebuyerfb — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:16:33 +0000

Yeah but did you hear about what happened to “Best Match”? Auctionbytes has an interesting story.

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:12:17 +0000

Yipeee!!! They’ve fixed it at last

By: Josordoni

Josordoni — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:50:31 +0000

I’m just checking my messages a couple of times a day and hoping they will come through. A couple have and I don’t get that many so hopefully I am not missing too many…

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:34:47 +0000

AM said they’d report the problem and let me know if/when they get an answer. Like North says it’s impossible to keep track without being able to find outstanding best offers

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:36:12 +0000

to be honest I used best offers a couple of times to test it out at least a few months ago and they never showed in my ebay then,

I would came across an email ,or happened to click on the items deal sheet out of curiousity, and an offer would be sitting there,
as I only had a couple of best offers listed it was easy to keep an eye on.them
it would have been impossible otherwise

By: Josordoni

Josordoni — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:33:51 +0000

This really is too long. What does your AM say about it?

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:02:26 +0000

Another week and Best Offers still aren’t showing in My ebay. Just found another one and accepted it.

By: Whirly

Whirly — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:23:52 +0000

#18 thats a bit like a B&Q half price sale, they have some make believe RRP of Â£1800.00 slash it by 50% and sell it for Â£900, they buy them from the same place I do for Â£200.00. Lol.

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:04:26 +0000

A friend of mine sticks his Diamonds and things in an ebay shop,
with vastly inflated telephone number prices ,every month or so some nit wit makes what they think is a daft offer,
they get the shock of their life when its accepted lol

By: Whirly

Whirly — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:35:44 +0000

#15 I use it Norf because auctions are dead ducks these days in my Cat. offering best offer encourages communication and stimulates interest with the buyer, I price accordingly when offering best offer on a listing so I am always happy with the result. Plus I am a sucker for doing a deal, I’d rather make Â£20 less and wheel and deal and have some fun otherwise it would just be like amazon and bore the crap out of me.

You might also be suprised just how many people click buyitnow and dont bother with offers. On the other hand sometimes it’s a pain in the donkey when you get some bright spark offer you a pound for a Â£500 bath but they tend to be newbies and I get the impression they don’t really understand the concept.

I had some hints last month from my AM that they will be relaxing the rules around best offer so some communication will be available with the buyer instead of just batting numbers to each other.

By: just john

just john — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:28:44 +0000

#15

I sell to a lot of fools

A lot of my stuff is ‘time critical’ so if buyers need it quickly they will often pay the asking price rather than waste a day bandying around best offers!

I have even had someone put in a best offer of higher than the asking price :

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:24:26 +0000

I just cant get my head round the ethos of best offer
if you list an item at a price and also include a best offer option, , only a fool would pay the asking price ,
so why muddy the water, I just ask my best price in the first place
and a real good tried and tested way to get the best offer is to auction the item

By: just john

just john — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:48:43 +0000

I get aprox 6 offers a day , and yes half off them are from muppets. But the other half are ok.

I currently have 500 auctions on the go. I am dodging snp ,monitoring dsr’s and got this carp too deal with.

And ebay want me too list my full inventory 1000+ auctions. mmmm is the risk worth the gain?

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:43:06 +0000

best offers are barmy anyhow
it encourages pikeys

By: just john

just john — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:38:12 +0000

This is a disgrace. No emails. And its still not working. If ebay was the real world there would be an uproar.

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:54:05 +0000

#10 Doesn’t work. For those who best offers aren’t showing customisation does nothing, and it also doesn’t show in the summary.

I went through it with my account manager this morning and he can see exactly the same as me…. no best offers showing in My eBay even though there’s a listing with an outstanding best offer.

By: ultrabite

ultrabite — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:40:00 +0000

you need to customise your selling view to show the # of offers

By: Whirly

Whirly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:39:45 +0000

Best offer missed.

PS support told me I should have replied to the offer before it expired ?!? Yawn….

By: just john

just john — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:16:54 +0000

#7 You are joking?

Next you will be wanting some compo or some reliability in service.

Not a major prob for me holding off listing at moment

By: Whirly

Whirly — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:04:02 +0000

FFS, any offical announcement yet on whats going on.

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:41:12 +0000

Best offers are still broken – just accepted another fifty quids worth that’s not showing in My eBay

By: whirly

whirly — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:08:34 +0000

With the best will in the world Chris I would be more interested in how much it cost me, not ebay. I dont get this problem with amazon.

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:01:23 +0000

Well I caught about fifty quids worth of BOs as well, I wonder just how many have gone un-noticed site wide and how much it adds up to in lost revenue and lost FVF for eBay

By: whirly

whirly — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:46:44 +0000

Thanks Chris, had 3 offers in, one I accepted which was just about to expire.

It also highlighted just how much the credit crunch is hurting the UK, I had a suite on at 570.00, and had a best offer of a tenner rflmao.

By: just john

just john — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:07:51 +0000

Thanks for that.

Caught about 100 pound of sales

Nice quality service i get for my ebay fees. Customer service email would have been nice. Ill file a claim for loss of earnings using the standard claim form.NOT! Due too a faulty service. Wonder if i could do a paypal charge back for the fees.NOT