John, I am sorry that I am not as conversant on the MOTO (Make Offer to Owner) program yet, but will try and get up to speed on the price points at which it is automatically applied to a poster and can get back with that. I know that the buyer can go in and request the feature on items above a certain price they have purchased and also put in a But-It-Now price on the items they have purchased through us. I have seen some of that going on and the purchases being made. As you and I know, as we had an instance of late where you asked me if an item might be available and I was able to acquire the item for you from the buyer, but that really isn't practical for me on a wide scale. I am happy that this is available as I have had many, many requests over the years from people wanting to make offers to the buyers to acquire items they missed in auction. Will let you know the details soon. Merry Christmas!!
From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:53 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] Heritage Make an offer Hi Jim I know your original email was sent by mistake but I think MoPoers would be interested in the new Heritage "Make an Offer" system. At the moment it only seems to apply to higher value material over a certain amount but there are many items which have slipped through the net over the years and sold for quite low prices which would attract significant offers now. I guess it might not be practical to allow offers on all items but maybe Grey could comment on that. Regards John ----- Original Message ----- From: James Gresham<mailto:jamesalangres...@gmail.com> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU<mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Make an offer Sorry Mopo members, I accidently sent a private email to the listing. Jim On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:31 PM, James Gresham <jamesalangres...@gmail.com<mailto:jamesalangres...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hey Grey, thanks for checking on this. Mostly what I have gotten back is that notice that says the owner didnt respond within the 72 hours. That made me think maybe they weren't going thru. I did get that one quick decline, and I thought that was good, as it indicated that the owner did see it. I also got one counter offer that told me the guy got it. Mostly, however the 72 hours expires with no response. Those indicate to me that the owner might not be getting them. But, if you think the system is working, thats great. However, I have some more offers that I recently submitted that will most likely expire without a response. It just seemed to me that if they were receiving them, they would either reject the offer, or counter it. Again, thanks for checking. Merry Christmas Grey! Jim On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Smith, Grey - 1367 <gre...@ha.com<mailto:gre...@ha.com>> wrote: Jim, They researched the issue when you asked this question and sorry I have not responded since they reported back. I am quoting here from the tech: " I've found no evidence of a problem. I've confirmed that all e-mails for at least all offers Mr. Gresham made within December were sent instantaneously. There was one instance on December 7 of one of his offers being rejected by the owner after about half an hour; this by itself proves that this part of the system worked as designed. I did not check the rest of the offers to see whether they were rejected automatically or not. Because MOTO is a hit or miss system, the client's experience is not unusual. As you know, there are many reasons why e-mails might not be delivered, ranging from spam folders to bad addresses to the recipient simply (and possibly unwittingly) ignoring them." I understand Jim, that some may not have reached some such as John but I also know that John has two emails registered with us and by chance the offers could have gone to the one that is no longer operable. I will inquire. Have you received no non-acceptance notices? From: James Gresham [mailto:jamesalangres...@gmail.com<mailto:jamesalangres...@gmail.com>] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 5:11 PM To: Smith, Grey - 1367 Subject: Make an offer Hi Grey. I have submitted a whole bunch of these. Grey, do you think the owners are actually getting the offers? I know one owner didnt get two offers I had made on a card he owned. But, do you think for the most part the system is working? 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