12-04-2024 11:38 AM
Does anyone else get insulting offers? I’m sure we all do, but I’ll get offers on expensive items that don’t even cover the sales tax I paid for the item 😱
12-05-2024 07:53 AM
I'm glad for any offers I get, chance for a sale!
12-05-2024 08:20 AM
I would not worry about it there are crazies everywhere, this one guy told me he would just constantly harass his competitors if they were selling cheaper than him to the point he was having friends buy items and leave negative feedback, best thing to do is gracefully decline the offer and block them.
12-05-2024 08:54 AM
I do. There's been such a heavy wave of these types of offers lately that I'm just giving the whole "best offer" thing a rest. Doesn't seem to have hurt sales so far, but it is Q4 so I doubt I'm getting a clear picture. If sales drop off after mid-January, I'll put it back on and go back to declining and blocking. I would like to see eBay implement the minimum on the counteroffers as well though. At present the bottom limit only works when the buyer "cold calls" with an offer. If I send an offer to a watcher, that watcher can come back with any old garbage offer they like.
Unfortunately, the worst offers tend to come from the most problematic buyers on top of everything else. Got a 30 dollar offer on an 80 dollar item this morning, looked at the feedback left by the potential buyer. Four of the last nine he/she'd left were negatives and very nasty negs at that. Needless to say, that user was added to a very full blocked buyer list.
Seriously, who has time for that kind of crap...
12-05-2024 09:05 AM
In venues like this you should not. There is no set prices in flea-markets. Buyers have no idea what you have into an item. Flea-market items have no warranty beyond the eBay 30 days. That can make a huge difference in what an item is worth.
12-05-2024 09:08 AM
I’m often make “insulting” offers. Some sellers price at 4x of where the item will eventually be sold. I make an offer that is only insulting to a seller that has no idea what he is doing. Yep, and occasionally I’ll make a lowball offer, just hoping that a seller is keen to move an item.
if you are going to be upset about “insulting” offers, be upset with the sellers that accept them.
12-05-2024 09:15 AM
@tarotfindsandmore wrote:
Unfortunately, the worst offers tend to come from the most problematic buyers on top of everything else.
THIS. If not negative feedback, then partial refund fishing, or a return. Or all of the above.
Seriously, who has time for that kind of crap...
Not I.
12-05-2024 09:27 AM - edited 12-05-2024 09:29 AM
@simba6 wrote:In venues like this you should not. There is no set prices in flea-markets. Buyers have no idea what you have into an item. Flea-market items have no warranty beyond the eBay 30 days. That can make a huge difference in what an item is worth.
With all due respect, looking at it this^ way is only applicable to certain categories (like maybe ones you sell?) that involve functionality. Nobody expects an extended warranty for baseball cards, coins or vintage costume jewelry. Then again, any buyer's credit card company probably WILL treat all categories like kitchen appliances or auto parts, if the buyer wants to be a real d-bag, and that's what lowballers very often are. You're picturing flea market shoppers and we're lucky that most buyers here are like that -reasonable people seeking reasonable deals ..... but lowballers ..... they're a whole other animal. The slimy, stomach-crawling kind.