I always get a kick out of the ones who always diss best offer listings and say stuff like they just wont even try to buy from a best offer seller because it's a wasted of their time. Those buyers are most likely just bargain hunters.
Best offer has its advantages especially if your selling items that aren't common.
If someone makes an offer you can learn a lot about that buyer before accpeting their offer just by looking at the wording in the feedbacks they leave for sellers or if they leave too many negatives for flimsy reasons like the item arrived 2 days late.
Another advantage is if your selling something expensive that doesnt have a defined value on it but where past prices for it have been all over the map. Someone could pay $125 for it one day and $200 for it on another day. Thats where you could price it at the upper end of the scale and get an offer for more than you expected.
I mostly do auctions but whenever Ive done best offer listings they almost always sell way quicker then if I were to list it as a buy it now only. A couple years ago I tried a valuable antique toy as a buy it now with a fixed price. It sat there for 3 weeks. I took it off and relisted it as a best offer listing with a price about 30% higher and it sold in one day for an offer that I accepted that was higher than the price I had originally listed it for the first time with the buy it now only listing.
Best offer can work especially well for items you cant find everyday but not so well if its something common that you can find all over ebay.
