albertabrightalberta | Volunteer Community Mentor
when the seller posts a listing you ASK THEM what's the lowest you'll take since you enabled the offer button?
If a seller doesn't have a b.o. option on the listing, asking them can result in your being put on their BBL (blocked bidder list).
If the seller has a b.o. option on the listing, no smart seller will tell you their lowest acceptable price. Why would they do that not knowing that you might be willing to pay a higher price? If there's a b.o. option on the listing, put in your offer. Seller can either ignore (if too lowball), accept or counter.
this FREES UP the buyer to purchase from someone else instead of being LOCKED IN to a 24 hour cycle waiting to hear back from the seller
Neither buyers nor sellers are online 24/7 and shouldn't be expected to immediately accept or decline an offer. But even if the offer is pending, awaiting acceptance, you can buy it from another seller and if the previous seller accepts, the item isn't "sold" until paid for. So if you've purchased elsewhere, the listing remains active and available for another buyer.
this keeps from pestering the seller having to MANUALLY approve or decline offers instead of spending their valuable time processing orders and listing new things
A buyer who "keeps pestering" a seller is likely to be blocked and unable to purchase from that seller! If you can't wait, go to a B&M store where you can see, feel, examine and pay for the item immediately.
No thanks, I want to decide my own offer settings. If an offer is close enough to my listing price, my settings auto accept it. If it’s too low, it’s auto rejected. But there’s a wide range where I want to assess the performance of the listing and the amount of the offer before I do anything, and often I’m going to counter offer instead of either accepting or declining. I definitely don’t want any automated system counter offering for me.
