IHow do you handle "Make an offer" auctions?
Quote from: Yadda on October 22, 2017, 01:13:39 AMIHow do you handle "Make an offer" auctions?I handle them like a penny pinching miser would; I offer what I'd like to pay if I were running things If anyone on the bay were to chastise me for playing the make offer game on an auction they made make offer I would withdrawn offer and NEVER deal with that seller again.
I've gotten similar responses myself. Some people don't get how it works apparently Offer - counteroffer repeat until a deal is made or not
When I was buying a lot from fleabay I also did pretty much the same as you Yadda. I never worried about offending the seller since they posted the ad with a "make an offer" option. Could very well be that the seller had received several offers lower than expected and got annoyed. Not saying a rude response to your offer was warranted, just thinking aloud. In any case I'd probably not spend my money with that seller unless they had something I really wanted and priced to my liking. On a side note, I've offered much less on a few occasions and surprisingly was accepted so......... Heck you just never know. Happy fleabay hunting.
Retract the offer. If he doesn't want to take less, he should just put a flat price on it. I might have asked how much his mother was offered nine months before he was born, but I'm a smurfhole.
Quote from: ironraven on October 23, 2017, 02:15:52 AMRetract the offer. If he doesn't want to take less, he should just put a flat price on it. I might have asked how much his mother was offered nine months before he was born, but I'm a smurfhole. That's the best thing I've heard all day.
My thoughts on it?Smurf him right up his smurf hole with a smurf. Sideways. There is no excuse for being rude to people IMHO, and I used to make a living getting punched by people. If he wants to be a Smurf about it then Smurf him. There are lots of dealers out there that will be very happy to take your money and treat you with respect.Def
I have never had a seller accept an offer from me, although I usually ask for around 80% of the full price.As a seller, If I allow offers (I usually do), I set it to auto-reject any offer less than 50%. This weeds out 90% of the offers I get, and allows me to "gauge" the remaining 10% of the market interested in my item. I usually counter offer around 85% of the list price, although often these items get bought at full price before I get any takers on the counter offers.
Quote from: sLaughterMed on October 24, 2017, 03:25:19 PMI have never had a seller accept an offer from me, although I usually ask for around 80% of the full price.As a seller, If I allow offers (I usually do), I set it to auto-reject any offer less than 50%. This weeds out 90% of the offers I get, and allows me to "gauge" the remaining 10% of the market interested in my item. I usually counter offer around 85% of the list price, although often these items get bought at full price before I get any takers on the counter offers.Some sellers also apparently can set the auction to auto accept too? I usually add a penny to my bids so that if it is an auto accept I have a chance at getting it at the best possible price without a second bid.
Quote from: sLaughterMed on October 24, 2017, 03:25:19 PMI have never had a seller accept an offer from me, although I usually ask for around 80% of the full price.As a seller, If I allow offers (I usually do), I set it to auto-reject any offer less than 50%. This weeds out 90% of the offers I get, and allows me to "gauge" the remaining 10% of the market interested in my item. I usually counter offer around 85% of the list price, although often these items get bought at full price before I get any takers on the counter offers.Wow! That is a record. No accepted bids?
Quote from: Yadda on October 25, 2017, 02:10:59 AMQuote from: sLaughterMed on October 24, 2017, 03:25:19 PMI have never had a seller accept an offer from me, although I usually ask for around 80% of the full price.As a seller, If I allow offers (I usually do), I set it to auto-reject any offer less than 50%. This weeds out 90% of the offers I get, and allows me to "gauge" the remaining 10% of the market interested in my item. I usually counter offer around 85% of the list price, although often these items get bought at full price before I get any takers on the counter offers.Wow! That is a record. No accepted bids?There have been some. 90% of my ebay selling has been Buy it Now sales of desirable, rare NIB knives & tools (I got very lucky at a Mom & Pop gun shop), so my experience may be a little atypical. I spent a lot of time researching the market pricing, and I always tried to place it near the third quartile of the range of past sales of that same item (so if past sales indicate the item sold from $100-$200 in the past, I would price mine at $175). I have no problem accepting reasonable offers, and one person I even gave a 30% discount off just for buying a dozen different knives at once. Very few items sold right away, but most had sold at or near the price I set before the 30 day time limit expired.
Send your lowball offers in if you think the price is fair it’s ebay. Don’t worry about what the seller says. At the end of the day it’s your money and your not a charity.The seller has no idea how eBay works he should have auto reject on to reject low offers and should have responded with “I have received mtiple offers between 60-65 and countering all of them with 68$ first one to accept gets jt.” Or something along those lines.There’s good deals to be had especially when the seller isn’t specialized and is one of those estate/garage sale hunters where they will list on eBay with Doing minimal research.