Making Offers

[befe_1556]

Quick question why do sellers offer “Make an offer” when there not willing to sell it for less? I’ve made two offers today that automatically declined . Both were for blu rays asking price $15, I made offers of $13. I thought the seller would least make a counter offer, but nope 👎 just automatically declined.  Also a while ago I had a seller selling another blu ray for $17. We went back and forth on making an offer to counter offers.  My final offer was $16.50 on a $17 blu ray and the seller made a counter offer of $16.75. I ended up declining the offer. If the seller wasn’t even willing to sell it 50cents cheaper then why offer the “Make an offer” feature? 

[redmodelt]

Seem kind of a waste of time to haggle over $1 or .50 cents. 🙂

[downunder-61]

1. eBay is notorious for adding BO to sellers listings without their knowledge, so sellers counteract the need to check each and every listing by setting the ''lowset auto decline'' at almost the listed price.

2. A seller may have set an ''auto decline'' limit, then reduced the price of the item at a later date and not amended the auto decline amount.

Remember sellers have 4 options in dealing with Offers as per eBay rules:

Ignore

Accept

Decline

Counter

Just move on and find a seller who does accept offers.

[ed8108]

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@befe_1556 wrote:

My final offer was $16.50 on a $17 blu ray and the seller made a counter offer of $16.75. I ended up declining the offer. If the seller wasn’t even willing to sell it 50cents cheaper then why offer the “Make an offer” feature? 

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You need to ask the seller !

Perhaps a seller may have an emotional attachment to a particular item & decided not to part with it for more than a few cents under their buy now price ?

[mudshark61369]

@befe_1556, 

As at downunder-61 alluded to, some sellers use ebay's quick listing tool which automatically adds best offer to a listing, whether the seller wants to accept offers or not.

  When you receive a message immediately after making an offer it means the seller has set up the auto accept/decline option. Those who use the quick listing tool and do not want to accept offers can set the automatic decline price at a penny less than the asking price.

Since you have not sold anything on ebay before, you may not understand that the price you offer is not how much a seller receives, after paying ebay's fees.  Using your example of making offers of $13 on blue rays priced at $15.

   That is approximately a 13% discount. If accepted, out of the $13 ebay would take 13.5% + .30¢ about $2 in fees.  If the seller has free shipping, they still have to pay that cost out of the remaining $11.00 which on average is about $4. In the end they receive about $7 for the disc. Just something to keep in mind.