Offers nonsense

[spence0175]

Is it just me. Why am i receiving offers on something that i just looked at.... not even in my watch list. Then when i go to decline it, the box to decline is missing. The only options are to buy it or counter offer. its really getting on my nerves and it just seems my summary page is just filling up with  offers that i have no interest in. 

Cannot delete it  until offer expires... 

[style_wise]

We're bombarded by unwanted data in the modern world, to save my time and sanity I just try ignore them!

[spence0175]

Yes we can delete them from view in the real world, I just dont want them on my summary page and no way to delete them until the offer expires

[guymafo]

Yesterday I had notifications that someone had made ‘a competing offer’ on an item I was watching, I hadn’t made a bid or offer. 
I will return to bookmarking rather than watching, it’s of no interest to me to receive these messages. 
GM

[ed_58611]

I was conducting a fairly robust search last Sunday and received an offer on every single view of one particular item, sometimes within a minute or less, which has not happened heretofore.

The only way to remove offers before they expire is to review/refuse them and then delete, but when I looked for the decline button it had dropped off the bottom of my page view, and only reappeared when I reduced the zoom function of my browser to 90%.

First world problems I do realise, but really still too much unnecessary faffing about... 

[davrman]

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@guymafo wrote:

Yesterday I had notifications that someone had made ‘a competing offer’ on an item I was watching, I hadn’t made a bid or offer. 
I will return to bookmarking rather than watching, it’s of no interest to me to receive these messages. 

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That's a good idea. You can also avoid this blizzard of offers by browsing and searching in a private or incognito browser window. As you're not signed in, eBay can't track what you're looking at. 

[spence0175]

Thanks for that. I had not thought of it.

If EBay are doing this on every time you look at something then to me it seems desperate on their part.

[masonskingsshop]

It's not eBay directly. If you go to your shop as a seller you will see a filter for "listings eligible to send offers". 

As soon as the seller clicks on the eBay messages a whole bunch of people who have seen the listing. 

It's always the sellers choice to send offers. 

[spence0175]

As far as I was aware, you offered people offers who were watching your item, not just to anyone who has viewed an item.

i view lots of items. I would not want to have an offer sent on everything I view. I would be inundated