What happened to people making offers and asking questions on ebay?

[Kingcobb]

I think there is something wrong with EBAY's sellers dashboard. I listed 10 items last week 6 of them sold. On the sellers dashboard it showed no views or watchers for the 6 items I sold how is that possible?

Daryl Fraley

[Directly]

I have posted items on eBay Buy it now-no buyers, reposted as an auction, sold for more than my original Buy it now price, this happens all the time. I'm curious if eBay favors auctions and has those more visible to buyers.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Directly

I have posted items on eBay Buy it now-no buyers, reposted as an auction, sold for more than my original Buy it now price, this happens all the time. I'm curious if eBay favors auctions and has those more visible to buyers.

I can’t speak for eBay’s search algorithm, but buyers favor auctions over BIN museum pieces.

Rick Probstein recently started converting everything to auctions. Great move IMO.

[Exhibitman]

Do you have an auto-reject floor set on your offers? If so, you may be getting offers that you never even see.

[bigfanNY]

I think the OP 's question has more to do with people's lack of overall communication skills. These days when I send a 2 line text I often get back " so and so liked your text" rather than a 1 or 2 line reply. Just the way it is..
To be honest when I do send an offer or ask a question I do keep it very simple. Just to easy to offend or feel offended these days.

[Yoda]

Ebay BINs seems to be the pricing norm at big shows these days, at least in my experience. Dealers seem to be firm with their asking price with little flexibility, particularly for big items. Last year, I bought nothing at the National, which was a first despite having been to many.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Do you have an auto-reject floor set on your offers? If so, you may be getting offers that you never even see.

I do, but I check my offers often to see if I get any auto rejects. I almost never do. And when I do get one its not close to a realistic price. Say $250 item and the auto reject is $25.

[MooseDog]

If you are leaving your items up for months at a time I think the algorithm is working against you. There was a rumor around that if you list for 30 days, end, then relist that you reset the algorithm in some way. I can say from my own experience I have sold more things by using this method than just leaving them up to auto-relist.

As for auctions, I can concur with everyone else that those seem to get more action overall.

Also I have been sending offers (when you look at your Active Listings, one of the buttons at the top will say "Sending Offers Eligible") at 20-35% off with some success...these being items I am happy to get rid of at any price...

[tjisonline]

Agreed. Most buy it now prices are ridiculous for even low to medium eye appeal cards regardless of grade. For the higher end stuff regardless of grade, forgot about it. Wait for an auction house or trusted IG / FB / Net 54 seller.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by MooseDog

If you are leaving your items up for months at a time I think the algorithm is working against you.

Yes, it does. Your sell-through rate matters, as does your click rates and transactions per click rate, duration of time an item has been listed, total sales volume, feedback score, transaction defect rates, on-time shipments, etc. Those all affect ebay's "Best Match" search results algorithm.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

Rick Probstein recently started converting everything to auctions. Great move IMO.

That's because he sells other people's cards and storage space comes at a cost to him. I guarantee you he isn't auctioning off his own high-end cards on ebay.