Usually with offers if they are extremely lowball, I’ll just straight up decline them. But if they’re a little bit closer to my asking price, I will counter offer.
We’ve offered a hundred bucks for a room in a 5 star hotel, regular price was 400.00+, LD looked at the manager and said here’s a hundred, it’s midnight- who else are you going to book the room to? They took it!
I leave offers on all items. If i get a low ball offer, i chuckle and make an offer maybe 5% off...just as ridiculous as the low ball. That still gives me the option take lower offers when i need sales and shows the "algorithm " that i am interacting with the buyers.
I used to do minimum offers, but stopped when I realized that I missed out on sales when someone offered just a dollar or 2 under my minimum, it auto-declined & I missed the sale. Instead, I could have counter-offered or just accepted a dollar difference. The ones that are huge lowball offers, I usually just ignore - I don't even decline, because it's still activity and interest on the item.
People send messages on items without offers open. I have people argue when I don't take their low offer. I moved my entire store to from ebay to Mercari with the import. Minimal problems.
Promoted Listing fees: eBay has been playing with their Promoted Listing policies this year, including one (as I recall) that if a buyer opens one of your promoted listings, then buys something else from you, they charge you the fee claiming the sale happened because of the original listings promotion, even when the buyer doesn’t purchase that first item. It’s a money grab on eBay’s part.
The only time limiting offers is valuable is if you're getting caught up dealing with bad offers instead of doing work. If you're selling that much it makes sense. Personally, I set 50% because anything less than that offends my wife and she wants me to block them. (Oh yes, we fight, and she wins.) Teresa, you're missing sales if you're setting things at 25%. Many times you can negotiate someone from 50% up to where you want it.
Offers & Haggling: both methods have drawbacks and rewards and remind me of the old Navy story about picking up “dates” at bars. It’s commonly said that if you don’t mind hearing 9 refusals the 10th response may succeed, especially at closing time. You just have to be willing to hear a negative response often and keep asking. 😉
Super other note: if anybody sees an item in your store with a promoted listing ANYTHING they see AFTER in your store (relisted or even tag as a private deal) that is bought if they do under a promoted listings they looked at EARLIER (leading them to your store) is going to be sold as “promoted”. Added the COST as promoted.
Sole seller here, and yes, I argue with MYSELF. This is one area where I agree with both of you! I vacillate between putting a minimum and not for the exact same reasons you make. I get upset by lowball offers. If they’re truly insulting, I counter for a dollar less than I listed it. I’ve got one golf shirt that the same buyer keeps lowballing me on and we’ve haggled until he blows off when I won’t come down to less than market price. Then he comes back the next week and tries again. I’m this close to blocking him. After dealing with a low baller, I start putting minimums on my listings for a while but eventually start worrying that I’m missing opportunities. Hope you two reach a happy medium.
I agree with Pops on all the offer convo & maybe a algorithm bump on item when lowball offer received 🤷♂️ I do make offers in major stores sometimes when interested in buying in bulk. Recently purchased all metal signs at a Tractor Supply Company by making the manager an offer
My struggle too! I'm the sole seller in my house. I could not make myself allow offers without having the low minimum accepted. Perhaps half the sales I made with offers, the buyer tried 3-4 times with offers before, and they evidently was auto-denied. Their offer finally came through when they got high enough. Then I got to wondering what if I'd not have had a lowest price accepted? So this month I'm taking off all minimums. We shall see if low ball offers come in and if I counter offer, it comes to a sale.
I have a store with over 8000 items. I tried both ways and I like offers better. If it’s a low offer I will either decline or counter. It takes seconds.. I never put a min offer, I also never let low offers bug me at all! I counter or decline and move on.
My kids use to work at a theater & when my husband & I was in high-school we worked at one. The employees get dibs but there is a room of merch the manager will sell after the movie is no longer showing
I am self as a family on Ebay selling. I am team Teresa, i put a minimum offer in listings. Believe it or not, most people just pay full price. Offers increase alg to Ebay and most buyers dont see offers accepted. They want what they want NOW. Plus after working 10 hours i dont need the low ball.
I don't like the make offer feature because it basically means you will never get your asking price. Why would anyone hit "Buy Now" when they can take 10 seconds to make an offer and save money. Also, the few times I've ran into scammers or problem buyers they were all buyers that tried to haggle using the "Make Offer" feature. I think people that like to argue or scam will attempt to do it on both ends, the initial purchase and a return or refund scam.
You list for what it's worth, but some buyers want to probe with a low offer to see what the seller is thinking. I've sold some things WAY under my original listing price because I just needed it GONE.
You guys are the best channel on RUclips, hilarious. I agree with you both I don't mind offers but low offers piss me off. When I get a lowball offer I just decline it cause I ain't messing with them. Lol, you and Teresa are the best wish y'all lived closer I know we would hang out!!!(
I turn offers on, and set a minimum, might try to leave the minimum out on a few listings, but it seems stupid questions come with lowball offers, like i sent you a $5 offer on a $70 item that is 5 pounds, wound you take $10 and do free shipping.
I leave best offers on w/ no minimum. I want the opportunity to make a sale. What if they offer $1 less than your min? Would you lose the sale over a dollar? Your promo issue is because they probably clicked on your original listing via a promo. Per ebay rules, if they do that then buy from you in the next 30 days, you will be charged the promo fee. Their reasoning is that the original sponsored ad brought them to your store in the 1st place. I had a similar situation with an order and they would not reverse the $90+ promo fee they charged.
I'm betting you don't have time to play Dungeons & Dragons, but do you and Teresa like RPGs? Another great video. I'm like Teresa, I'd probably have a negative reaction to a low-ball offer, but I like Corey's opinion that you want the option to recieve the offer. It's too bad jokers ruin it for genuine offers, but that's the good with the bad. Thanks for another fantastic video.
💯 in the same offer situation. I don’t use minimum offer, and he does. And he gets so irritated when a low ball comes in. Does T check their feedback to see what they’re all about?
Q: What are the benefits of using pirate ship versus eBay internal shipping? does pirate ship make more work Downstream as in adding tracking numbers to sales and stuff like that thank you you guys are great!
If the guy initially discovered anyone of those shirts through a promoted listing then Yes eBay has the right to take promotion fees if You promoted those shirts in the first place? Only the guy can tell you how he came across your items to begin with.
She's right. Your wasting your time with low ball offers. If you have a $200 item and someone is offering you $20, you won't arrive at a sale 99% of the time. So why waste your time? If you respond to three of these, you wasted your time and could have used it to list another item. But you will waste your time 99 out of 100 offers, and you could have listed 30 more items. Offering a $1 offer on a $200 item is not "10% off" like you were talking about asking target. Seems like a 25% off low offer is totally reasonable.
Sorry but your haggling example is silly. A used marketplqce is not walmaart or target. YOU haggle at yardsales too and offer well below the market value to resell. So why be uoset when someone tries it on you? Its part of the game :-)
but you're not walmart or target! you're a flea market, compare yourself to a flea marker or a pawn shop, not a walmart or a target. sorry but just enable offers and don't set a min.
I accept offers on my listings but I don't put a minimum. If someone comes in a penny under you minimum, you may have been willing to take the offer but you'll never get the opportunity to accept.
I agree with Pops on all the offer convo & maybe a algorithm bump on item when lowball offer received 🤷♂️ I do make offers in major stores sometimes when interested in buying in bulk. Recently purchased all metal signs at a Tractor Supply Company by making the manager an offer
Usually with offers if they are extremely lowball, I’ll just straight up decline them. But if they’re a little bit closer to my asking price, I will counter offer.
We’ve offered a hundred bucks for a room in a 5 star hotel, regular price was 400.00+, LD looked at the manager and said here’s a hundred, it’s midnight- who else are you going to book the room to? They took it!
I leave offers on all items. If i get a low ball offer, i chuckle and make an offer maybe 5% off...just as ridiculous as the low ball. That still gives me the option take lower offers when i need sales and shows the "algorithm " that i am interacting with the buyers.
When you said RBR Tanya and I looked up from our work and busted out laughing because that is the exact same dynamic with us! Love it.
I used to do minimum offers, but stopped when I realized that I missed out on sales when someone offered just a dollar or 2 under my minimum, it auto-declined & I missed the sale. Instead, I could have counter-offered or just accepted a dollar difference. The ones that are huge lowball offers, I usually just ignore - I don't even decline, because it's still activity and interest on the item.
People send messages on items without offers open.
I have people argue when I don't take their low offer.
I moved my entire store to from ebay to Mercari with the import. Minimal problems.
Promoted Listing fees: eBay has been playing with their Promoted Listing policies this year, including one (as I recall) that if a buyer opens one of your promoted listings, then buys something else from you, they charge you the fee claiming the sale happened because of the original listings promotion, even when the buyer doesn’t purchase that first item. It’s a money grab on eBay’s part.
The only time limiting offers is valuable is if you're getting caught up dealing with bad offers instead of doing work. If you're selling that much it makes sense.
Personally, I set 50% because anything less than that offends my wife and she wants me to block them. (Oh yes, we fight, and she wins.)
Teresa, you're missing sales if you're setting things at 25%. Many times you can negotiate someone from 50% up to where you want it.
Offers & Haggling: both methods have drawbacks and rewards and remind me of the old Navy story about picking up “dates” at bars. It’s commonly said that if you don’t mind hearing 9 refusals the 10th response may succeed, especially at closing time. You just have to be willing to hear a negative response often and keep asking. 😉
Who doesn't like hot sauce? Serial Killers. That's who! Oh yeah, not watching. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtains.
Super other note: if anybody sees an item in your store with a promoted listing ANYTHING they see AFTER in your store (relisted or even tag as a private deal) that is bought if they do under a promoted listings they looked at EARLIER (leading them to your store) is going to be sold as “promoted”. Added the COST as promoted.
Sole seller here, and yes, I argue with MYSELF. This is one area where I agree with both of you! I vacillate between putting a minimum and not for the exact same reasons you make. I get upset by lowball offers. If they’re truly insulting, I counter for a dollar less than I listed it. I’ve got one golf shirt that the same buyer keeps lowballing me on and we’ve haggled until he blows off when I won’t come down to less than market price. Then he comes back the next week and tries again. I’m this close to blocking him. After dealing with a low baller, I start putting minimums on my listings for a while but eventually start worrying that I’m missing opportunities. Hope you two reach a happy medium.
I agree with Pops on all the offer convo & maybe a algorithm bump on item when lowball offer received 🤷♂️
I do make offers in major stores sometimes when interested in buying in bulk. Recently purchased all metal signs at a Tractor Supply Company by making the manager an offer
Field Trip! Field Trip! Field Trip! I would love to see a haggling at Target video 😂
Ooooooo- hot sauce and stickers!! I’m on board!
I do ebay as a retirement hobby and the unreasonable offers make my eyeballs roll back in my head so I mostly do not use offers.
Thanks for these videos you guys rock!
My struggle too! I'm the sole seller in my house. I could not make myself allow offers without having the low minimum accepted. Perhaps half the sales I made with offers, the buyer tried 3-4 times with offers before, and they evidently was auto-denied. Their offer finally came through when they got high enough. Then I got to wondering what if I'd not have had a lowest price accepted? So this month I'm taking off all minimums. We shall see if low ball offers come in and if I counter offer, it comes to a sale.
I have a store with over 8000 items. I tried both ways and I like offers better. If it’s a low offer I will either decline or counter. It takes seconds.. I never put a min offer, I also never let low offers bug me at all! I counter or decline and move on.
My kids use to work at a theater & when my husband & I was in high-school we worked at one. The employees get dibs but there is a room of merch the manager will sell after the movie is no longer showing
I am self as a family on Ebay selling. I am team Teresa, i put a minimum offer in listings. Believe it or not, most people just pay full price. Offers increase alg to Ebay and most buyers dont see offers accepted. They want what they want NOW. Plus after working 10 hours i dont need the low ball.
I finally made it to Padres! Good spot for me!!
Please record the target haggling. It's precious footage!
Oh my gosh! My husband buys their hot sauce! 😂
I don't like the make offer feature because it basically means you will never get your asking price. Why would anyone hit "Buy Now" when they can take 10 seconds to make an offer and save money. Also, the few times I've ran into scammers or problem buyers they were all buyers that tried to haggle using the "Make Offer" feature. I think people that like to argue or scam will attempt to do it on both ends, the initial purchase and a return or refund scam.
You list for what it's worth, but some buyers want to probe with a low offer to see what the seller is thinking. I've sold some things WAY under my original listing price because I just needed it GONE.
You guys are the best channel on RUclips, hilarious. I agree with you both I don't mind offers but low offers piss me off. When I get a lowball offer I just decline it cause I ain't messing with them. Lol, you and Teresa are the best wish y'all lived closer I know we would hang out!!!(
I turn offers on, and set a minimum, might try to leave the minimum out on a few listings, but it seems stupid questions come with lowball offers, like i sent you a $5 offer on a $70 item that is 5 pounds, wound you take $10 and do free shipping.
I'm so glad to have started watching you both. I really like your energy & content
I leave best offers on w/ no minimum. I want the opportunity to make a sale. What if they offer $1 less than your min? Would you lose the sale over a dollar?
Your promo issue is because they probably clicked on your original listing via a promo. Per ebay rules, if they do that then buy from you in the next 30 days, you will be charged the promo fee. Their reasoning is that the original sponsored ad brought them to your store in the 1st place. I had a similar situation with an order and they would not reverse the $90+ promo fee they charged.
There are soooo many low ball offers these days...did not used to be this way.
I'm betting you don't have time to play Dungeons & Dragons, but do you and Teresa like RPGs? Another great video. I'm like Teresa, I'd probably have a negative reaction to a low-ball offer, but I like Corey's opinion that you want the option to recieve the offer. It's too bad jokers ruin it for genuine offers, but that's the good with the bad. Thanks for another fantastic video.
Haven’t played since high school but we own an escape room business so we’re kind of the ultimate dungeon masters!
Agree with pops. What if they offer $1 below your minimum. You will never see it.
Awesome job U2
I ha e to say Theresa's personally is very mirrored with mine lol 😆
People want a deal and will pay if they think they got a deal. Oldest trick in the book.
Do you guys have any idea if ResellCNY is coming back or what happened to them?
I wish we knew, we haven’t heard anything
it's more work to set a min, offer to hundreds of listings rather than respond to offers for a few, way less time invested
💯 in the same offer situation. I don’t use minimum offer, and he does. And he gets so irritated when a low ball comes in. Does T check their feedback to see what they’re all about?
Q: What are the benefits of using pirate ship versus eBay internal shipping? does pirate ship make more work Downstream as in adding tracking numbers to sales and stuff like that thank you you guys are great!
Not sure if it is same, but I think you cannot sale bubble christmas lights on eBay is that correct. Just not sure.
100% correct, but they do sell on Mercari
Do you promote all of your listings ? What % do you use if you do ?
Twice I’ve tried to do the quick eBay to Bonanza transfer and nothing transferred. “When I have time” I’ll go back and trouble shoot.
I am Team Teresa on this one. Low ball offers make me fume!
Does Bananza still make you ship through them and then charge extra to ship there?
If the guy initially discovered anyone of those shirts through a promoted listing then Yes eBay has the right to take promotion fees if You promoted those shirts in the first place? Only the guy can tell you how he came across your items to begin with.
She's right. Your wasting your time with low ball offers. If you have a $200 item and someone is offering you $20, you won't arrive at a sale 99% of the time. So why waste your time? If you respond to three of these, you wasted your time and could have used it to list another item. But you will waste your time 99 out of 100 offers, and you could have listed 30 more items.
Offering a $1 offer on a $200 item is not "10% off" like you were talking about asking target. Seems like a 25% off low offer is totally reasonable.
How can i send in a sticker for my resale channel?
You can send it to the address in the description.
Sorry but your haggling example is silly. A used marketplqce is not walmaart or target. YOU haggle at yardsales too and offer well below the market value to resell. So why be uoset when someone tries it on you? Its part of the game :-)
Offers... I am not a fan.
Did Grams just brag, about not being a bragger?
but you're not walmart or target! you're a flea market, compare yourself to a flea marker or a pawn shop, not a walmart or a target. sorry but just enable offers and don't set a min.
Too long, didn't watch.
Me neither!
Good. Bye, Felicia!
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I accept offers on my listings but I don't put a minimum. If someone comes in a penny under you minimum, you may have been willing to take the offer but you'll never get the opportunity to accept.
I agree with Pops on all the offer convo & maybe a algorithm bump on item when lowball offer received 🤷♂️
I do make offers in major stores sometimes when interested in buying in bulk. Recently purchased all metal signs at a Tractor Supply Company by making the manager an offer