No counteroffer snooty sellers
Ok… so there’s an auction on a vintage toy for $14.99 with two days and some hours remaining. No followers. There’s a best offer option available. Sent my 12.99 offer that the seller declined less than 5 minutes after. No counteroffer. So messaged the seller asking how much they want so I can make a better offer. Crickets… so why even have a best offer option if you are not willing to negotiate or make counteroffers.
30 comments
christworks
·4 months agoSome buyers are entitled little _________________
grann-4629
·4 months agoSome buyers are entitled little _________________ < <<< Anagram for <bleep>
house*of*paws
·4 months agoShih Tzus? 😋
mudshark61369
·4 months ago@alfre-girau ,
"so why even have a best offer option if you are not willing to negotiate or make counteroffers".
Sellers who use ebay's basic listing tool have Best Offer automatically added to their Buy It Now and Auction listings. whether or not they want to accept offers. Looking at a seller's other items for sale can tell you if they use that tool or not. Your seller was nice enough to decline your offer. Many do not respond at all and let them expire after 24 hours.
Before you ask, why don't they stop using that tool if they do not want to accept offers? If things haven't changed, when a seller tries to switch to the Advanced/Business listing tool where Best Offer is only added If the seller selects the option, they will see a note saying the advanced tool is only for high volume and/or business sellers. It's not really, any seller can use it.
I'd be interested to know how you would have reacted had the seller's counter offer been for $30.00? I'd say the last sentence in your post, could be applied to buyers who think a seller is willing to accept less than their starting bid price for an auction that has Best Offer on it.
krazzykats
·4 months agoI usually offer around 10% less when I expect it to be accepted, and it’s been very rare for it not to be.
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ccomic
·4 months agoFirstly, declining after 5 minutes is vastly better than ignoring the offer and tying up your offer for 24 hours, so I think the seller did fine. No counter means they want $14.99
I do tend to agree that some sellers do seem to turn on "or best offer" when they really have no intention of taking offers, especially on a "buy it now". On a normal auction, I'm sure they are looking for an offer above well above the opening bid price. But turning down $13 on a $15 "buy it now" with "best offer" enabled, is a bit of a head scratcher. What offer were they expecting? $14.97?
ed8108
·4 months agoIt's not rocket science , enter a bid or move on
simba6
·4 months agoThat is another eBay turkey shoot. Some sellers take the offer and others are outraged. Why they even use that option?
kathiec
·4 months agoMany of them don't, not willingly anyway. EBay is notorious for adding Best Offer to listings when the seller hasn't actually added it.
kensgiftshop
·4 months agoThey do auctions to try and get the most out of the item, not less.
A lot of buyers don't start bidding until towards the end of the auction.
kickin.assets
·4 months agoRolling Stones 4:52
https://youtu.be/3dfYcQ_r_x8?si=xnYGECnfGfMFjK0Z
grann-4629
·4 months agoAWESOME !!!
powell-collectibles
·4 months agoI will often offer less than the starting bid when "best offer" is enabled on an auction. Usually, no bites, and that is okay. I really don't expect a response, let alone a counter. I got lucky last week - I really thought no way I'd get something for 15% below the minimum bid.
No response shouldn't be taken as an insult. Heck, seller might have been offended by your offer. Truly, when a seller has an item up on auction and best offer enabled, the CW is that you offer more than the minimum bid amount as an enticement to the seller. The rationale is that the seller thinks that he will at least get the min bid amount, hopefully much more. Your best offer should make the seller decide between your offer and what he hopes to get after the auction is done.
msha3839
·4 months ago1. Seller hopes to get more for the item.
2. If item not sold/no bids, seller most likely will contact you with offer..
3. Now your choice to accept offer or let seller know that you’re not interested any longer…
Your decision…🥃
krazzykats
·4 months agoThe seller might have set an auto-decline amount, which is the minimum they’re willing to accept.
This means no direct communication is necessary and you’ll simply get an automatic decline message from the eBay platform. Seller never even sees it.
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soh.maryl
·4 months agoThe seller is not required to accept any offer. The seller is not required to counter offer.
What part of this makes this person a "snooty seller"?
policequilts
·4 months ago* When I use to sell on eBay, I always had "Buy It Now" .
* During the last couple of years on eBay, I would get offers and would say no thank you.
* That's when I started to see that some of my listings would also have the option = Make an Offer.
* I never used that option. I noticed each month a few of my listings some how changed to an "make an offer on.
So it may be the eBay glitch factory that is doing this.
monroe67
·4 months agoWow.
My selling ID once had an item listed at $99.99, BIN. A potential buyer offered $20.00. For the item itself.
Way, way, waaaaaayyy below my cost of goods.
My selling ID responded, simply, "No, thank you."
That potential buyer apparently accepted that response and the conversation was over.
If he or she thought to himself/herself later on, "What a Snooty Seller!", that thought was not posted in any of the eBay Community Forums.
Yes, I guess a whole lot of eBay sellers are "snooty." Many eBay sellers put a great deal of thought into pricing their listings. Many eBay sellers operate on a shoestring, even a frayed shoestring. Many eBay sellers just say what they mean and mean what they say, even in their eBay listings.
You can't always get what you want.
grann-4629
·4 months agoYou can't always get what you want.
But if you try some day, you just may ...
lovefindingtreasures2
·4 months ago"Ok… so there’s an auction on a vintage toy for $14.99 with two days and some hours remaining. No followers. There’s a best offer option available. Sent my 12.99 offer that the seller declined less than 5 minutes after. No counteroffer. So messaged the seller asking how much they want so I can make a better offer. Crickets… so why even have a best offer option if you are not willing to negotiate or make counteroffers. I swear some sellers are dumb as rocks around here…"
Why would the seller take less than their lowest starting price? With 2 days to go on an auction anything can happen and usually does in the last 45 seconds. If this is the sellers first time running this vintage toy at auction, they are going to see how the auction plays out. I know I would.
Best offer on an auction usually means the seller will consider a buy it now price if that price is close to what they hope to get at auction. Maybe your seller thinks you are not serious or that you and they will not reach a price since you are asking for a below starting price.
house*of*paws
·4 months agoHi @alfre-girau
As a buyer only, if I ‘make an offer’ on an item at auction … I will ALWAYS offer more than the Starting Bid amount, which technically is the lowest amount the seller is willing to accept for the item.
Only a confused or desperate seller would accept an offer lower than the Starting Bid … especially if the auction still has a few days left to run.
NOTE: When a seller includes a ‘Best Offer’ option with an auction … they are hoping to receive an offer high enough to entice them to stop the auction and sell the item immediately.
Making an offer lower than the Starting Bid often results in the buyer being put on the seller’s Blocked Bidders List … which would result in the seller NOT receiving any of the buyer’s subsequent messages.
msha3839
·4 months agoSometimes not as black and white…sellers facing decision to accept offer or wait to the end of the auction…what happens if item not sold but potential buyer who submitted offer, bails out? P.S. only low intellect seller can put potential buyer on BBL for lower offer..you know why? Because many sellers have no knowledge of what they selling and the prices of the items, especially in collectibles…it works both ways..I bought items that worth thousands for practically nothing…
pickapaper
·4 months ago@msha3839
I know that many people use eBay as a source for inventory, i.e. find things cheap and turn around and resell them for a profit. In all those items that you "bought for practically nothing that are worth thousands", did you resell them and actually make thousands profit on them? How many "items" were you able to do this with; you said plural "items" which I take to be more than two?
I'm going to assume you are an older person and are more familiar with things we used to sell that we got a lot of money for. I agree that a lot of sellers don't know what they are selling and don't bother to find out; many don't care. They just want to sell it quickly and make a few bucks.
msha3839
·4 months agoI don’t resell anything but buying for enjoyment…so far, about 13 items that was purchased for less than $100 and the most valuable worth about $9K…all in the collectibles category..regarding sellers want to sell quickly…in collectibles , especially unknown, homework and research is a must..and the funny part that most of the high value items was purchased from the sellers who were bragging about their experience and expertise in particular field..🥃
stainlessenginecovers
·4 months ago@alfre-girau
1.) 'best offer' is sometimes added by ebay without sellers knowledge
2.) best offer for an item at 'auction' (with no reserve) usually would be an offer for MORE than the lowest price shown, so you either bid $14.99 and wait or offer higher to get seller to sell now. You may get what you get when you offer less, just depends on how long seller has been trying to sell etc.
I've seen auctions for $15 not sell (no bidders). Seller relists at $25 Buy It Now...and it sells. Just depends on who sees it and how many 'others' are out there, as well as 'how good of a 'shopper' is said buyer.
alfre-girau
OP4 months agoSeller could still send a counteroffer… if they had time to decline they could have stated what they were willing to accept.
house*of*paws
·4 months agoThe Starting Bid is what the seller is willing to accept for the item. Why would they need to repeat themselves?
kensgiftshop
·4 months agoSeller might have put you on their blocked list.
gone.c-33
·4 months agoa) how long did you give the seller to consider your offer?
b) sometimes no answer is the answer.
alfre-girau
OP4 months agoMeant two days and some hours remaining.