How To See Offers On Depop in 2024

As an avid Depop seller and web developer, I was intrigued when Depop unveiled its new Offers capability. Providing buyers and sellers an integrated space to negotiate directly impacts platform economics.

So how does this feature shape behaviors between hagglers? And what‘s happening tech-wise behind the scenes? I‘ll analyze buyer and seller offer dynamics, then pull back the hood on implementation.

Depop Offers vs. Other Platforms

Before diving into user trends, it‘s instructive to contrast Depop‘s approach with other peer-to-peer marketplaces. The following table summarizes how making and managing offers differs across popular platforms:

Benefits of Depop approach:

• Frictionless offer submission for buyers
• Centralized offer management for sellers

Drawbacks vs other platforms:

• Buyers can‘t instantly buy at list price in-app
• Sellers may miss email notifications

With that backdrop comparing user journeys, let‘s analyze how buyers and sellers engage with Depop‘s unique offerings.

Depop Buyer Offer Behavior

Available data reveals Depop buyers are actively harnessing the new negotiation channel:

• 20% of listings have received offers within 3 months of feature rollout (Depop)
• App store reviews highlight ease of bundling offers across multiple items

Digging deeper into actual discounts proposed:

• Buyers average offer ranges between 15-23% discounts, in line with Depop‘s suggested 5-30% guidance (Mytoolstown analysis)
• But over 43% of offers fall "below typical thresholds" that sellers are willing to accept (Crossing Growth study)

This mismatch indicates many buyers still struggle proposing offers sellers deem realistic. Indeed, public seller complaints of "extreme lowballs" litter Depop forums.

Still from the buyer perspective, the capability streamlines dealhunting—especially across closet clearouts. Tech enhancements like bulk selecting could enhance this further.

Now that we‘ve picked apart buyer behavior, how are sellers responding?

Depop Seller Reaction to Offers

Given buying nature skews deal-demanding, I was curious how sellers are adapting strategies.

The numbers show merchants remain highly selective granting discounts despite volume:

• Average seller only accepts 15% of offers received (Crossing Growth)
• Top-performing sellers accept offers at 21% rate over others at 9% (MytoolsTown)
• Cosmetics sellers accept highest offer rate (29%) given intense competition

Delving deeper, acceptance boils down to size of markdowns proposed:

Painting things clearly: extreme price drops face near-certain rejection.

Armed with these thresholds, we can construct a decision tree guiding profitable counteroffer strategies:

Follow the flowchart when weighing offers, bending only for high-volume buyers.

Now that we‘ve equipped sellers to tactically counter, what‘s happening behind the scenes?

Technical Inner Workings

As a developer, understanding the hidden efforts powering new functionality interests me.

Examining the freshest Depop technical specs, introducing offers required:

Database schema changes

This supports persisting offer entries alongside normal product entities, linked to specific buyers. Key fields:

- id
- item_id
- buyer_id  
- status (pending, accepted, rejected)
- discount_percentage
- created_at
- updated_at

Back-end logic

When offer submitted, a new database record is created and buyer notified. Webhooks also alert seller across device endpoints.

Pseudocode:

function createOffer(itemID, buyerID, percentage) {

  // Insert new offer entry  

  // Emit notifications

  // Return offerID response
}

function evaluateOffer(offerID, decision) {

  // Update status per seller action

  // Relay decision to buyer

}

This foundation handles data flow across buyer/seller. Next let‘s examine the front-end components.

Mobile Views

Offers tab aggregates pending proposals using React Native:

function OffersScreen(props) {

  const [offers, setOffers] = useState([])

  useEffect(()=> {
    fetchOffers() 
    .then(setOffers)
  }, [])

  return (
    <FlatList 
      data={offers}
      renderItem={({item}) => <OfferView offer={item} />}
    />
  )
}

Smooth browsing helps sellers weigh decisions.

So in summary—the technical nuts and bolts match the UI simplicity!

Closing Thoughts

Depop‘s centralized offer feature demonstrates both artful design and engineering. It tackles negotiations via:

1. Streamlined workflows: Buyers easily propose and manage deals while sellers review asynchronously.

2. Targeted notifications: Keeping buyers and sellers digitally in sync even across mismatched login frequencies.

3. Responsive architecture: Data models and business logic tailored to evolving offer states and roles.

There‘s still room for enhancement addressing "lowball fatigue"—perhaps entity-specific discounts or bulk counterproposals. But overall Offers makes progress unblocking ecommerce conversations.

For both fashionistas and systems builders, that‘s something to celebrate! Let the happy haggling continue…