eBay

yogaloverpr · ‎06-08-2021

Hello, someone is requesting me to send an offer for an item I have in sale. I'm confused. It is my understanding that the person interested should be the one to post the offer, not me.

Has anyone had this situation? TIA

dirk12955 · ‎06-08-2021

Sometimes, when a potential buyer sends a message thru the ebay message system, there is an option for you (The seller) to make the buyer an offer.

Sometimes there is not.

Tell the buyer you will add make an offer to the listing after agreeing to a price before hand.

nuclearomen · ‎06-08-2021

ignor it until they send you an offer - (assuming you have "Make Offer" enabled on the listing) - don't waste your time with these people.

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electrola_man · ‎06-08-2021

The person is effectively asking you to say what is the least you will take for the item (like, "What's the best you can do on this" at a flea market). I never answer those questions with a dollar amount. If I want to even entertain an offer, I will ask the person to officially make one, and I'll add that capability to the listing. That person has an amount in mind. Make him or her express it. Most likely the offered amount is not as high as he or she is really willing to pay. If so low that you don't want to accept it, counter-offer. I recently sold something on an offer of half, just because I wanted to be rid of it, and I didn't pay much for it, so whatever I got was fine. Sometimes those things enter into the decision.

forward-motion · ‎06-08-2021

Just send them a message saying make me an offer I can't refuse, in your best Italian voice.

a_c_green · ‎06-08-2021

@yogaloverpr wrote:
Hello, someone is requesting me to send an offer for an item I have in sale. I'm confused. It is my understanding that the person interested should be the one to post the offer, not me.

Has anyone had this situation? TIA

Almost all your auction listings without bids are showing the Make Offer button, so I would respond by asking the interested party to make their offer that way. There's no need to do it all in messaging, nor do you have any obligation to make the first move.

femmefan1946 · ‎06-08-2021

And set the Make an Offer to automatically refuse offers below what you would actually accept.

Sometimes the customer just doesn't want to wait for an auction to end, which is why so few sellers use Auction any more, and probably why there are so many sellers complaining about UIDs on Auctions.

Basically the customer bid, got bored, and moved on.

Auctions are less than 15% of transactions, and mostly in Collectibles or from newbies who have been cozened into supporting that part of the eBay brand.

wesk_36 · ‎06-08-2021

If you choose not to ignore them, I would reply only once saying something like "Please place a bid or make an offer on the listing, thanks. If they don't, it would make me wonder about their sincerity or motives.

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jonathankirkland · ‎06-08-2021

@dirk12955 wrote:
Sometimes, when a potential buyer sends a message thru the ebay message system, there is an option for you (The seller) to make the buyer an offer.

Sometimes there is not.

Tell the buyer you will add make an offer to the listing after agreeing to a price before hand.

If a price was agreed upon through messaging then there's no need to bother with making offer, the OP can just changed the price to the agreed upon price for buy now and require immediate payment to skip a bunch of unnecessary steps.

Edit: Ah they are auctions, perhaps you can't add a buy now to an auction or something, although I thought that was possible to have a buy now, offers, etc up until someone placed a bid though I could be mistaken.