I need help! How do I get buyers to stop low balling?!

[shoe_dealer]

I've been selling on eBay for a few months now. I have only sold close to 30 items so far with 100% positive feedback. It would be more if I'd took lower offers. When I do I never make any money out of the deal! I sale high quality rare items, well some, not all. Seems to me some people want you to give them the item fir free!

[meme6253]

That is the trend, give it away & ship it for free. Ignore the low ballers because there will be plenty more, Change your offer settings to the minimum you will consider & reduce having to respond to these buyers that want it for free.

[mam98031 · Accepted solution]

@shoe_dealer 

My opinion of this is a combination of both what @stuff4divas   and @jonathanbrightlight  has shared with you in the first two responses on the thread.

If you are getting repeat buyers with low ball offers you don't like, but them on your BBL.

Use the automated option on how low you will go on an offer.  Let Ebay do the work for you to decline those offers that are too low.

This should resolve this issue for you.  Good luck !!

[shoe_dealer]

I must admit you guys rock! Thank you all for the advice! I'm in the process now to change my offer setting from BO to buy now. Hopefully this will keep them away 🙏 

[chariot_badges]

I don't mind lowballing.   No is an easy word to say, and sometimes they do some looking and come back.

I mind silence.   Crickets annoy me.

That said, every once in a while, I get one that rubs me wrong.  LoL.

I have put about 10% of my inventory on deep discount.   I gotta move some of the old stuff out.  I've found that price doesn't do the trick on my stuff ... if you need a Chevy bowtie emblem for your truck, you need it.   If you don't, you don't want it at any price.

Anyway, about an hour ago I get up to a message.

"I am looking at your F150 fender logo.  I offered you less and you turned me down.  I am a disabled vet.   Is that the way you treat disabled vets?"

I answered:  "Yes.  It's the way I treat everyone.   I need a profit margin from everybody."

Then I blocked him, with all the respect that a disabled vet deserves.

I looked it up, and two days ago he offered me $1 on a part that I had a $3.95 priced on it.  

[grand-and-glorious-purpose]

Personally I love lowball offers so I can put those folks on my BBL.

I learned long ago that making a deal with an initial lowballer is begging for partial refund fishing after the sale.

[mam98031]

Believe me, over the years I've gotten some plenty of similar type messages.  Usually they are elderly, on a fixed budget and are just trying to create something as a gift for someone or it is for a Church group trying to do good in their community or any number of other reasons, so I completely understand.  Some can get pretty darn rude in what they say in an effort to get something for nothing.