eBay regularly send me unsolicited offers, sometimes for items that are in my watchlist, sometimes for items that I have only momentarily glanced at.
The algorithm really annoys me in a number of ways.
1) You can’t delete offers that you are not interested in until they expire, so I have all these unwanted, unsolicited offers cluttering up my account.
2) The algorithm will send me offers for items that I have only momentarily glanced at and not not in my watch or wish lists.
3) The algorithm is dumb, it will send me multiple offers, from different sellers, at different prices. Why on earth send me a higher offer for an item when I already a lower offer. eBay claims to use AI, they should really call it AS (Artificial Stupidity).
4) And here is the one that really annoys me. There is an item that I am interested in and I receive an offer. The problem is that the notification of offers is really subtle, so I don’t notice it until it is expired. I contact the seller saying that I would have bought at the offer price but didn’t see it until too late. The seller says “no problem, I will resend it”, but it never comes. The only explanation is that the eBay algorithm must block offers being reissued. This has happened more than once. The sad thing is that I would have bought at full price, but I won’t now because I know that the seller is making offers. The result, the seller doesn’t get a sale, I don’t get an item and eBay doesn’t get fees.
Personally, I dislike offers for the reasons above and would prefer to not have them, but I can’t see any way of turning them off.
