Why a Limit on Offers?

[pstgh]

When someone has a 'Make Offer' option selected, why do you limit how many offers I wish to make?  I get that it could be annoying to have someone constantly lob a silly offer, but if that is the concern, couldn't you just limit how many offers per day or week someone can make?  I watch certain mis-priced (in my opinion) items that just sit there for weeks on end and if I could make an offer every week (as an example), the seller may eventually come around to reality.

[anhers_58]

Or the seller would block you

[correspon_48]

On a side note, I wonder why some sellers are giving the option to make an offer. Happened to me several times already that sellers are rejecting my offer, even if that offer is just 1 euro, pound, or dollar lower than their asking price.

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

eBay is adding Best Offer to some listings without asking the seller. 

If it takes more than five Best Offers then you’re too far apart

[woodland_gnome]

Best Offer was never intended to be an unlimited negotiation.   When it was rolled out, there was only ONE offer allowed, and no counteroffer.  "Best Offer" meant just that: YOUR BEST offer.   Then it became best, bester, bestest but that still wasn't enough for some buyers, so it grew to best, double best, double dog best, triple best, and triple dog best.   I think it's up to 10 now in some categories.

[lex-talon]

It would annoy me a bit if a bit if a buyer had unlimited offers.

You just have to make your offers reasonable enough and hopefully the seller accepts your offer. 

[7606dennis]

If memory serves, the original best offer option was limited to one and done.  Only later did it become the tool of haggling. 

OP! You do realize that a seller does not even have to acknowledge your offers and merely let them expire until the listing ended or they timed out.

When you make an offer, you are asking the seller to do you the favor of allowing you to buy from them what they have already set a price on for less than that amount.  Do you think that to keep bombarding the seller asking for such a favor is going to somehow convince him to do you that favor? 

[mudshark61369]

@pstgh,

  "When someone has a 'Make Offer' option selected, why do you limit how many offers I wish to make? I get that it could be annoying to have someone constantly lob a silly offer".

If you get that it could be annoying for a seller to have to deal with a bunch of low ball offers, then why not lead with your best offer, not the I hope to get it dirt cheap one? 

FYI what you pay the seller is not what they receive after eBay's and PayPal's fees.

Say you make an offer of $40 (20% off) on a $50 item with free shipping. After the fees $5.46 the seller receives $34.54 and still has to pay the shipping cost.

[*madison]

Then it became best, bester, bestest but that still wasn't enough for some buyers, so it grew to best, double best, double dog best, triple best, and triple dog best. 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[hawkwind5454]

---

@lex-talon wrote:

It would annoy me a bit if a bit if a buyer had unlimited offers.

You just have to make your offers reasonable enough and hopefully the seller accepts your offer. 

---

Exactly. There are many would-be buyers, who peck away with *nickel-and-dime [ie: petty] increment offers, because, heaven forbid they should have to pay absolutely $1 more than what they could have gotten away with doing.

[u_cant_take_it_with_u]

---

@pstgh wrote:  I watch certain mis-priced (in my opinion) items....

---

Just curious here, but do you ever run across a listing where you feel an item is way UNDER priced? 😄

[penguins_dont_fly]

---

@u_cant_take_it_with_u wrote:

---

@pstgh wrote:  I watch certain mis-priced (in my opinion) items....

---

Just curious here, but do you ever run across a listing where you feel an item is way UNDER priced? 😄

---

I have 🙂

Those are the ones I buy and resell LOL