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ten_o_nine · ‎05-30-2018

I used to counter offer with what I would accept, but since I had no luck with those counter offers, I decided to just ignore them, just like this one ebay sent me a reminder on today, it's listed for $49 with free shipping and the offer was $12 .

I know I can set my best offers to auto accept/decline but wanted to evaluate each offer based on product/demand/inventory, I also know I can reject but that only means a $13 offer is coming and if I reject again, it creates a "not so good feeling about transaction", so what do you do? Should I reject or Ignore?

rixstuff · ‎05-31-2018

I sell on another site where one puts all the items in your cart then makes an offer on ALL the items. That's fine (because of the flat rate shipping charged by the site) but individual items under $10? No offers...unless you find several other items to buy with it. The site's fee structure is 25% fvf or a minimum of $3 so I would get a whopping $1.25 taking an offer on a $5 item and they would STILL have to pay $7 shipping.

turquoisetulips · ‎05-31-2018

they'll buy the item at the agreed price and then will pull a fast one with a SNAD case to get more money off. I've had that happen quite a bit - blacktoautoparts - unquote ---------------------

True,, those things do happen . However the question to consider is how often ? How often in comparison to how many times they don't happen ? I think its more reasonable to stand on the side with the best odds . By blocking potential buyers just because they start out with a lowball offer could very well be costing sellers who react this way some serious sales without very little risk involved . tulips

cherry*fizz · ‎05-31-2018

Maybe it doesn't feel like games to you, but to those who don't like that kind of negotiating, it does. I can't stand haggling, and it's not part of the culture here in the US. I get that some people like that or grew up with that, but not me. That's why I don't offer the BO option. I just wish people would respect that and not send them anyway. And now they are going to make us look bad by putting that we don't respond? Why would I respond to something I want nothing to do with and that I didn't ask for?

cherry*fizz · ‎05-31-2018

@rixstuff wrote:
@jason_incognito wrote:
I think maybe I'll always start with a low offer.

The kind of seller that blocks is the kind of seller I don't want to do business with,

So many sellers with the block block block attitude? Please put that in the listing and it will prevent me from bothering you. Even if that meant I was gonna buy it outright and not even make an offer. Wouldn't want to offend you by somehow not going through all the steps exactly as you have decreed.
I agree. I cant for the life of me understand PREVENTING people from buying. Maybe the price is too high and I just want a reasonable discount. Sellers may see the offers as "lowball" but if you get enough of them, the market is TELLING YOU what the price should be. $200 may in fact be too much for that ratty old shirt but lower it to a reasonable $20 and it may fly out the door. My granddaddy always said an unsold item is WORTH NOTHING and any item is only WORTH what someone will pay you for it.

If a seller is dumb enough to list a shirt worth $20 for $200 why would you want to buy from them anyway? If it's that overpriced there must be others in the right range? Most sellers I talk to research their items and price them competitively. I always make sure my listings are the lowest or in the lowest 10% of the sale prices for that item. So why would I want to take an offer. And again, not to mention that I don't offer that as an option. It kills me that eBay will add it on when they think it's too expensive. How can it be too expensive when it's the least expensive one? Partly because they are comparing it with knock-offs from China. But I digress.

turquoisetulips · ‎05-31-2018

So many sellers with the block block block attitude? jason incognito -- unquote ----------

I've never understood that either . It seems some sellers will block potential buyers for just about any reason . I've seen sellers threaten to block posters on these boards over a minor disagreement and that actually falls under the title of revenge ,, not good business sense . tulips

turquoisetulips · ‎05-31-2018

The only time we put someone on the blocked list is if they have a history of wasting our time with consistent, chronically low offers. terrycanarsky - unquote ------------------

. There are very legitimate reasons to block a buyer or potential buyer in like what you just mentioned . However blocking people for some of the reasons I've seen make very little sense ,, to me . tulips

ten_o_nine · ‎05-31-2018

and I've found that people who are silly enough to make an offer like that often prove to be a PITA from beginning to end

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I really never thought of BBL someone because of that , but you're right, most of them are problems buyers from begining to end.

ten_o_nine · ‎05-31-2018

If you are asking $100 and not willing to take less than $98 you arent really negotiating so best to NOT use best offer.

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I am willing to take $75 even $65 on $100 but won't $24 or $25.

tellmemama · ‎05-31-2018

@jason_incognito wrote:
I think maybe I'll always start with a low offer.

The kind of seller that blocks is the kind of seller I don't want to do business with,

So many sellers with the block block block attitude? Please put that in the listing and it will prevent me from bothering you. Even if that meant I was gonna buy it outright and not even make an offer. Wouldn't want to offend you by somehow not going through all the steps exactly as you have decreed.

I sell vintage and research current and recent sold prices pretty thoroughly so my items are usually comfortably in the middle range of my competitors. Never had best offer in a listing ever. But what happens when I do state in the listing that offers are not being considered but people send them anyway? Just got three today.

Granted, I don't sprint to the BBL but the only message I get is the "buyer" clearly did not read the listing. So if s/he can't bother to read a single sentence in 14 point font which immediately followed a concise bullet pointed description , how can I be sure they bothered to read anything?

Some sellers might want customers like that. I don't.

Joe

mg152 · ‎05-31-2018

I do not ignore any potential buyer

Patricia
eBay member for 25 years

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hardyjewels · ‎05-31-2018

I always thank the bidder for their offer first; then I advise it is too low to counter. But you can set an automatic decline price so that those low ball offers don't get you distracted and insulted. They are not insulting but many bidders are re-sellers too. Oh, you can also set a limit for Auto accept and there is a way to make your payments required immediately but that is in another chat. Good luck selling.

membersinceaug2001 · ‎05-31-2018

Yep, I ignore the lowballers.

Some people seem to think the shipping folks work in some magical free world.

blacktopautoparts · ‎06-02-2018

Some in here are missing the point. How about us sellers that do have items priced correctly at the market price, yet you have clowns trying to buy them from you for less than half the cost. Now those are the lowball offers I’m talking about and not the ones where they ask for $10-20 off.