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Actually, it's clear the author doesn't understand how to list an Ebay auction to accomplish what they're trying to do. Here's how you could have done this EASI
by calbear81 9y ago
Actually, it's clear the author doesn't understand how to list an Ebay auction to accomplish what they're trying to do. Here's how you could have done this EASILY:
1) Allow local pickup as an option on your listing (Does not cost anything!)
2) Put a Buy It Now Price and open it up to Allow Offers to be made.
I'm not sure why a buyer has an incentive to go off platform since after all there is no fee for a buyer to pay through Ebay. The seller pays all the fees so for a buyer to ask to go off platform usually is a red flag for me (scam, wire transfer, etc.).
- jstanley 9y agoAdding a buy it now price costs 50p upfront, whether it gets used or not, and the buy it now option disappears as soon as any bid is placed. What you describe might work if I removed the auction component entirely. Also note that the closest thing to a "scam" that I was subjected to was the on-platform non-paying bidder. The off-platform experience was just 2 honest individuals conducting a transaction without trying to cheat each other.
- calbear81 9y agoThe setup I normally use now if I know how much I want for an item is to do fixed price listing and not an auction and set it at an upper bound of what I would like to get but allow offers so it's sort of like an auction.