Okay, here’s a context. I have several smart groups that track interest to my listings and group together listing with high/med/low buyer’s interest. I want to send offers to watchers in each group with different % discount, let’s say 5%, 10%, and 15%. If I select all listings in a group and then click of “Send Offer to Watchers from X Listings…” menu option then I get a window with all the listings I selected and then I have to walk through the list, set the desired % discount and click on check box to enable sending of an offer. And this must be done for every single listing in this dialog! This is unmanageable, how do I set this % for all listings I selected and enable offers for all, i.e. just do a bulk operation? Please advise, thank you!
I currently don’t have any running listings with watchers so I can’t really try it by myself - but can’t you use the “preset” option for that? (At the bottom left of that window.)
https://manual.iwascoding.com/gs8/en/Listings_Section-Send_Discount_Offers_to_Watchers.html
Let me try, thank you for the suggestion!
Nop, it does not work for sending offers in bulk. With a preset you still have to go listing-by-listing and for each of them do 4 clicks: check the box on the left of the listing and then click through “Offer Presets”->“Apply Preset”->“Preset”. And I need to do it for 100 listings 
. Any other options to do this in bulk?
I think, using a predefined %-preset is still the way to go. Actually it’s just one click if you keep the mouse pressed and browse your way through “Apply Preset” > “Preset”.
Also, doesn’t the panel remember your last settings? This might help as well. Again, I currently have no means to test it, unfortunately.
Regarding the selection of the checkbox next to each listing: I can’t test it right now but does it maybe already work to select all checkboxes at once if you hold down the option key on your keyboard while you click on one checkbox?
I am curious how many of these are legit people interested in your item as I do many searches on eBay looking up prices for similar items to what I sell (vintage and antique) t hat result in false impressions being sent to the sellers of these items.
I get many messages on these items even though I am not watching them and nor am I interested in buying them.
Each email starts with the following…
" Because you viewed this item, here’s a special offer."
Personally I do not use offers. The buyer can pay the price I want or risk not getting the item before someone else. Taking groups of items off eBay for a couple weeks tends to generate sales once the items are relisted as buyers get the message that they may disappear at any time.
Currently 13.5% of all my items have watchers, but you would think if these are legit watchers at least one would send a message asking if the item was still available. That has only occurred a few times in 26 years.
I do as @uladz does and it results in quite a bit of sales. But I use the eBay website since managing the quantity of offers sent in GS just doesn’t work [as this post shows]. You can bulk send via the eBay app and eBay website which works well for me.
I do not have Best Offer enabled on my listings so the only way one has to get a better deal is for me to be proactive. For some of my items, I build that in, knowing I will accept X % less and send offers to would be buyers. The buyer feels like they’re getting a special deal and nabs it. For some of the categories I sell in, doing this will result in 75% of the time the item selling at either the offered price or the asking price [because eBay will let folks who have viewed the item know that offers have been sent to others and they may want to buy the item now before it disappears].
Using Safari’s Profile feature, I use a 2nd eBay account do do my browsing/research of items so that way offers and such go to that account which I never monitor. And when I buy an item, 99% of the time, I use my personal account so that way if I have a serious enough issue with the purchase that I leave negative feedback [it takes a lot to get to that point], someone can’t be vindictive and buy something from my biz account for the purpose of leaving negative feedback. Having multiple eBay accounts is allowed and if you sell a lot, it is highly recommended so you aren’t “spammed” by eBay with offers from other sellers on things you have researched prices on.
Going back to the issue at hand, I played around with using the send offer feature in GS but in the end abandoned it because it had no way to do that in bulk, but eBay offers that feature on their website, so I just use it there. 
Unfortunately, selecting ALL listings in this “Send Offers” dialog is disabled, and you can have only one listing selected at one time. So you still have to go one-by-one. Still, the point is to be able to select all listings, enable to send offers and apply a preset to all in a bulk. And this is not possible in the current implementation. Hopefully you can fix it in the next release if possible. Thank you!
I recently tried to send offers on a few items, and I’m getting pretty good results with about 50% of offers resulting is sales. Granted, this is a small scale tests for items that already had quite high interest, but I read somewhere on Reddit that in general send offers to watchers result in about 20-30% sales. I’m going to test this today (end of the month) and see what’s the outcome. I will report back here my experience with this experiment :).
Neat idea about the 2nd eBay account, I don’t do it, but I might just follow this path. Friendly speaking, if I come across a buyer or a seller who is a real PITA and makes my life harder by demanding something unreasonable or just trying to defraud me (yes there are such guys of course) and we don’t resolve our dispute nicely, I normally simply bad him to never deal with again. Therefore he would not be able to buy anything else from me anyway.
I have viewed many items while doing price research and have never received a notice that offers were sent on a item.
I get notices simple because I have viewed the item. I do not watch any items and I have all notices disabled in my eBay account.
eBay is falsely communication to these other sellers that I am interested in the item and wasting their time when send out offers.
The listing page includes the number of watcher on a item below the BuyItNow button and above the shipping details. So how many of these "watcher"s eBay is claiming are actually people who just looked at the item without watching it? eBay is also lying to sellers about people being interested in items when they are only do research so would eBay also lie about the number of watcher?
“Hurry before it’s gone. 1 person is watching this item.”
eBay is not “falsely communicating” anything to other “sellers”. eBay doesn’t lie to sellers about who is “interested”. Again, I think you have such a negative view of this marketplace that it shocks me that you still want to sell on it. Nothing you said was true, but also nothing you said concerns Garage Sale, so I won’t reply to future messages about things that you bring up that have nothing to do with how GS works. The issue here is that GS doesn’t handle bulk sending of offers like it does with bulk sending of feedback. That’s an issue that the GS developers need to work on if they wish to support that feature.
I currently have 3 offers in my selling account.
These are all items that I examined because I have something similar to sell and what determine what condition the competing products are in so as to price mine.
I have ZERO interest in buying any of these items!
I do not watch items on eBay!
I also get a eBay message for each of these offers stating:
" Because you viewed this item, here’s a special offer."
eBay falsely communicating to these buyers that I am interested in these items simply because I viewed them. I have no interest at all!
Your choice if you want to keep head buried in the sand.
eBay lies all the time - I’ve got copies of many messages and recorded phone messages proving that.
Ask eBay about how they compute STR on their research tool. I was provided with 8 different answers. If any of these answers are true eBay is guilty of massive fraud in reporting STRs. eBay customer service is too stupid to realize that the answers they are providing fail grade school math skills.
jfs is a trouble maker. Report his posts and he will be removed. His previous name was “WOOD”. He hates ebay and comes back under new names after being removed by moderators.
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