Buyer making an offer on a buy it now listing

[heidiho33]

I have not sold on ebay in quite some time, and have only sold a couple of items in the past.  Today I added a buy it now listing without an option for making an offer. Very soon after, I received a message from a buyer offering a lower price that (s)he would pay immediately.  I thought this was against ebay policy, and was confused as to why my reply box had a button for me to make an offer.  I told the prospective buyer that I was going to let my listing run as is, and that, if I could not sell at the given price, I might change the listing to allow "make an offer" later.   Am i missing something?  Are you actually allowed to accept a lower offer on a buy it now item?

[ed8108]

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@heidiho33 wrote:

I have not sold on ebay in quite some time,   Are you actually allowed to accept a lower offer on a buy it now item?

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Yep , you sure can sell it for less

[heidiho33]

Thanks.  That's news to me as both a seller and buyer:)

[this*old*attic]

If you set permission for Buy It Now yourself, you can prevent super lower offers by setting an amount you’d actually happily take.

It is no longer against EBay rules, BTW,  to email a seller randomly to ask if they’d take an offer.

[heidiho33]

Where do you set the amount you would take?  I didn't see that when I filled out the form.

So, it is not against the rules to ask the seller if they will take a lower offer.  If I want to take an offer, do I hit the  button to make an offer in my reply email?  ie is this the mechanism to do this?

[castlemagicmemories · Accepted solution]

There should be an option to send the buyer an offer on the first message that they sent you.  If they accept, you have a sale.

[anjpaterson]

Yes buyers can make an offer on anything, as long as the sale is conducted through the site. And applicable fees are paid etc. It’s against eBay rules to make the sale outside of the site..eg send me the money and I’ll #hip you the item....I get offers weekly on my buy it how’s, that don’t have “ or best offer” and the site gives you an option to reply with offer. Example ...my listing is for $10 plus shipping. I get an offer for $7 and via make offer tab I’ll reply to prospective buyer with $8. Normally this has resulted in a sale. One thing that irks me re offering “best offer” from the get go, is I often receive offers of half price from newbie ebayers, it’s like they’ve read a cheap manual that suggests they make 10 half price offers a day.

[this*old*attic]

Without opening up a draft listing, it’s either in the price area or the format/duration area.

You may or may not have to expand the section.

You can check “allow all offers” or set to automatically deny anything under $XXX (you decide).

With BINS, obviously, you are choosing a realistic lower price you’d be willing to take.

Now here’s something new - on the phone app, at least, you can add “make an offer” to AUCTIONS. I just experimented with this, and set the deny feature at exactly the listing price. On auctions, I didn’t want to accept or even field, offers below the opening.

I already sold one in less than 24 hours.

When make an offer is enabled, you get a button to review the offer, and you decide whether to accept or make a counter. I think the system allows 4 tries back and forth.

If you get a random inquiry, you have to go in and revise the listing to allow make an offer.

[this*old*attic]

When make an offer is enabled, you get ...AN EMAIL WHICH HAS... a button to review the offer, and you decide whether to accept or make a counter. I think the system allows 4 tries back and forth.