Today I received a message from a buyer on one of my active items.

See that in blue?  "New! Now you can send and offer directly to the member for this item"  I'm pretty excited about this new feature.  I had no idea that eBay was going to do this.

When you click on the link it takes you HERE:
You can put in your offer price and send the buyer a message.  I like this.. a lot!