11-12-2022 11:08 AM
My listing is the only one available on eBay. Only 1 listing under 'sold.' I posted mine asking $8 above the price of the last one that sold. I get an offer $80 below my asking. I counter $20 higher. My offer is still over $50 below the previously sold item. No sale yet. I think I am being very reasonable. Your opinion?
11-12-2022 11:12 AM
It doesn't matter what we think, what matters is what seller & buyer agree at. Period.
11-12-2022 11:21 AM
Well, the person who bought the Sold item already has one now. Perhaps there's nobody else out there who's willing to pay as much as that buyer, or even anywhere near what he paid.
11-12-2022 11:21 AM
X2. We don't have a dog in this hunt, so have nothing to really offer here. Any advice I could offer you would be akin to being asked what I thought of air pressure levels in the landing dock module of the International Space Station.
@titipeo wrote:It doesn't matter what we think, what matters is what seller & buyer agree at. Period.
11-12-2022 11:24 AM - edited 11-12-2022 11:28 AM
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11-12-2022 11:39 AM
@sakic92710 Because you are asking for opinions, I will offer this. If you can find only 1 prior listing that doesn't necessarily mean you have a great or rare item for sale. Perhaps it's simply unpopular, or something with an extremely limited appeal to only a few. If more folks wanted this, then there would most likely be more listings for one.
You apparently do not want this item anymore so have decided to sell it. Right now, you have someone interested in your item. An $80 less offer is pretty significant, but it may be that you are highly over charging for this item because you are basing it off of one particular sale. Do you really want to sell this and be done with it, or do you actually believe you are sitting on a fabulous find that someone out there will be willing to pay that price in perhaps a year or two?
There is a particularly rare and HTF doll which has sold as high as $5,000. I've seen this doll sold for $1,000, $600, and $500 in the past year alone. There is currently one of these dolls listed for $800. I purchased mine, the same exact rare HTF doll, for seventy dollars here on eBay. Sometimes it is a timing thing, sometimes it is meant to be. Only you can decide if you want to play the wait and see game or make a sale. Best of luck to you....
11-12-2022 12:50 PM
@sakic92710 wrote:My listing is the only one available on eBay. Only 1 listing under 'sold.' I posted mine asking $8 above the price of the last one that sold. I get an offer $80 below my asking. I counter $20 higher. My offer is still over $50 below the previously sold item. No sale yet. I think I am being very reasonable. Your opinion?
Reasonable or not, you countered the offer so there is nothing left to do but wait for a response.
11-12-2022 01:02 PM
It is a rare set. Even rarer if people break theirs up. Serial numbered. I only buy to resell. I don't keep anything if I don't have to. lol It isn't 'fabulous' but it is better than selling for cheap & giving eBay a chunk of it, too.
11-12-2022 01:04 PM
Our opinions don't matter. Your feeling about the transaction is all that counts. There is no eBay requirement that any seller appear "reasonable". You can make whatever deal is satisfactory for YOU.
11-12-2022 01:12 PM
@sakic92710 wrote:It is a rare set. Even rarer if people break theirs up. Serial numbered. I only buy to resell. I don't keep anything if I don't have to. lol It isn't 'fabulous' but it is better than selling for cheap & giving eBay a chunk of it, too.
Well then it sounds like you've made up your mind already, so you seem set. Hopefully your counteroffer will be chosen. Best of luck to you....
11-12-2022 01:25 PM
In my opinion, just don't let buyers make offers or counteroffers.
11-12-2022 03:40 PM
Your asking price is $215 so the offer of $80 less is an offer of $135. They average around $25 each so the total comes to $150. A $135 offer for a set that averages $150 is not that low.
11-12-2022 03:47 PM - edited 11-12-2022 03:48 PM
@sakic92710 wrote:My listing is the only one available on eBay. Only 1 listing under 'sold.' I posted mine asking $8 above the price of the last one that sold. I get an offer $80 below my asking. I counter $20 higher. My offer is still over $50 below the previously sold item. No sale yet. I think I am being very reasonable. Your opinion?
You either like haggling or you don't. My approach is to auction pieces for which I don't want to set a value (beyond having the opening price be whatever I would genuinely accept to sell it for if I only ever got one bid). All other items I sell as Fixed Price with Immediate Payment Required. I don't do Make Offers.
So, getting to my point at last: if you're entertaining offers, you should have some idea of what your bottom line really is, and if your buyer isn't meeting that, then he is not going to be your buyer. Don't get into the mindset of thinking that you're hearing from the only buyer out there. He's just the soonest to respond; that's all.
11-12-2022 04:03 PM
I think I am being very reasonable. Your opinion?
@sakic92710
I would say that your buyer haggler is interested in a CHEAP price as opposed to a REASONABLE one. You invite this sort of thing by using the Best Offer feature from the start. Now that I am no longer a seller here I do source product on eBay. I have made offers when they are advertised and invited as opposed to paying the full price. Often it is on things that are simply, in my opinion, just "ok" if I get it cheaper, if not, no harm no foul. These are items that I could resell elsewhere and make some $$$, but not worth much effort or expense in general. This is business, and we can not give you much validation for decisions you make that affect YOUR business.
11-12-2022 05:25 PM
I'd list mine for MORE than what the last one sold for ... but that's just me.
Any offer lower than that ... DECLINE! 😃