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

[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.

[mannequin1]

Here's a great example: COMC, the biggest sports seller on ebay had 31,000 feedbacks within the last month. Sounds great right? Nope. They have 6,600,000 items so that's a sales rate of about half of 1 percent of their inventory. There are sellers on ebay with only 200-300 items that move 10-20 percent of thir items and some even a lot more in auctions.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by mannequin1

Here's a great example: COMC, the biggest sports seller on ebay had 31,000 feedbacks within the last month. Sounds great right? Nope. They have 6,600,000 items so that's a sales rate of about half of 1 percent of their inventory. There are sellers on ebay with only 200-300 items that move 10-20 percent of thir items and some even a lot more in auctions.

COMC is probably selling a lot more from their own website than on eBay since it's cheaper to buy directly from their website.

[Chicosbailbonds]

Originally Posted by jayshum

COMC is probably selling a lot more from their own website than on eBay since it's cheaper to buy directly from their website.

Ironically you get your faster if you buy from eBay. They prioritize the eBay orders.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by mannequin1

Here's a great example: COMC, the biggest sports seller on ebay had 31,000 feedbacks within the last month. Sounds great right? Nope. They have 6,600,000 items so that's a sales rate of about half of 1 percent of their inventory. There are sellers on ebay with only 200-300 items that move 10-20 percent of thir items and some even a lot more in auctions.

Ya, but if someone buys 20 items and leaves feedback for all 20, ebay will only count it as 1 feedback since they're all from the same buyer in the same month. Also, a small fraction of buyers even bother to leave feedback in the first place. So that 31,000 feedback likely represents hundreds of thousands of card sales.

[mannequin1]

Originally Posted by Snowman

Ya, but if someone buys 20 items and leaves feedback for all 20, ebay will only count it as 1 feedback since they're all from the same buyer in the same month. Also, a small fraction of buyers even bother to leave feedback in the first place. So that 31,000 feedback likely represents hundreds of thousands of card sales.

Selling 20 items to one person may count as only 1 sale in their feedback score/total but many people leave feedback for each item. Of course, many people don't leave feedback at all. I sell at least 10% of my items each month. A half of a percent is terrible. Okay let's say only half the buyers left feedback, so then it's 1 percent of 6-7 MILLION items. Their prices are often outrageous because their sellers ask ridiculous prices. There are sellers who only auction and put low minimum bids that may sell 90% of their items.