Ebay now forcing 5% minimums when sending offers for listings over $1000

[iwasl_55]

According to ebay,

"The amount in your Offer to buyer must be lower than the Buy It Now price in the listing: at least 5% lower for items under $200. at least 3% lower for items between $200 and $1,000."

but now I'm being forced to give 5% minimum offers, no matter what the price is. 

[valueaddedresource]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

It's tiered based on item value - that's not new. The quoted text has been in effect for as long as I can remember.

The amount in your Offer to buyer must be lower than the Buy It Now price in the listing:

at least 5% lower for items under $200
at least 3% lower for items between $200 and $1,000
at least 2% lower for items over $1,000

Edit to add a discussion from 2022:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/5-minimum-for-sending-an-offer-to-a-buyer-is-a-rip-off/m-p/328...

And here's a link to the Seller Center page with a screenshot:

https://www.ebay.com/sellercenter/growth/seller-hub-discounts/offers-to-buyers-best-offer

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@wastingtime101  looks like we have another intentional change with stealth policy update 😞  That page now says this:

[newpartsplus]

It used to be 3% on items under $1000 and 2% on items over $1000.

[reine-willi]

5% off of a ~$3000 item is much more than most sellers are willing to part with. 2-3% it still a great discount on some items like that. 

[theteamsetguy]

@iwasl_55 ,

I don't know about you If I received an offer for $100.00 off a $5,000.00 item I would take it as an insult and move it to my spam folder. Buyers are used to seeing 25% or more off. 

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[inhawaii]

I wish it were 10%.

[toomuchstuffagain35]

It used to be minimum 5% off for offers sent through the ebay send offers system, BUT if you used the reply with offer in the message system you could send an offer for the actual price of the item, no min off required.

This was useful when the cart wasn't working right or you wanted to offer a shipping discount. But then they changed it so ANY offer had to be min 5% off.

[iwasl_55]

It doesn't matter if you would be insulted or not. That's not the question. I didn't ask.

You getting offended by someone giving you a discount, when they don't have to, is a you problem. 

[funfactorychannel]

I think the offense is someone giving me spam where the BBE of spam offers has been getting ridiculous if you have read the boards.