Proposal for new feature - Make offer at a programmed time.

asgardianboy · Guest

This is a proposal for a new feature.

I'd like to have the possibility to make an offer for some eBay listing after some event (time lapse or losing an auction). This might even more useful if different time zones are involved (you want things to get going ASAP & don't want to wait for the next day for you to wake up & make the offer: the offer would be already made while you sleep, maybe accepted, maybe automatically paid for via e.g. Paypal, maybe even shipped away, & that would be very cool).

Gixen automatises bidding. Could it also automatise offering?

Please LMK.

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7186

It might, but here is the problem. Almost no one needs this, and it would confuse existing users. I added some advanced features in the past after such requests and considerable effort, and no one is using them.

percept · Guest

This would be very useful to me and I would pay extra for it.

Most of the items I buy have \"best offer\" enabled.

But, you have to go back and forth with the seller, and this is very inconvenient. I would like to be able to escalate from say 60% to 80% of the price and get the lowest possible offer.

Being able to delay an offer until the item has been up for a couple days would be useful, because a seller will not usually take offers immediately.