Oddly similar pattern of sales, anyone else?

[caseypl]

Does anyone else have a prospective buyer message and offer a price that is way too low and you end up blocking them to prevent a reluctant buyer while holding steady on the price or even raising it and then the item sells to a completely different person?(and yes, I do check to make sure they aren't in the same area)

This happens quite often and I'm always glad when it does. Something in the algorithm? 

[lamber9347]

@caseypl Oh my goodness, I thought I was the only one who noticed this!! Yes, this has happened to me on at least three occasions. Same exact scenario: offer was very low, I declined, buyer continued to message so I BBL them, I raised the price, within days it sells to a completely different buyer. Each time I "thought" it was the same buyer under another ID and expected to receive a return claim- nope, never did. 

I just kept thinking this is a strange ironic situation, even three times, until your post.... 

[mtgraves7984]

@caseypl, I'm with you and @lamber9347. My sales are few and far between, but I bagged one doing exactly this a month ago. After reading this, I'm fixing to play around with some others... Woohoohoo!!!

[nuclearomen]

in the past week and half I have gotten 3x of these mails, first 2 I declined, gave a price I'd be willing to do, never heard from them again, the same with the 3rd but they mailed back several times, last mail was me telling them no, i couldn't take the sale off ebay, here or no where. 

[gamersbaystore]

I can't stand freeloaders. What's even worse are the buyers who whine about the price after they already purchased something. I'm not negotiating the price after a sale has already taken place.

As for potential buyers asking for a discount, I think it depends on how they approach me. I've had buyers in the past send polite messages asking if I'd take less and making reasonable offers, and sometimes the response is yes.

If they're messaging me whining and complaining, then its BBL for them.

[caseypl]

Yeah, I try to create a good experience for buyers like Ebay wants us to, but when you get a message asking if you'd take a third of the current price, the response I would love to say, but never do is "Okay, which third of the item do you prefer receiving"? 

[chapeau-noir]

It may have something to do with activity on the item (views/questions), along with seller activity, both of which raises it in search - searches reward activity.

[titipeo]

Could it be, and this is just my .02, when you update the price, you refreshed the item and it kind of put it on queue or something similar, sort of like a new listing. 

[chapeau-noir]

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@titipeo wrote:

Could it be, and this is just my .02, when you update the price, you refreshed the item and it kind of put it on queue or something similar, sort of like a new listing. 

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Exactly - that's part of the activity/recency component - engagement with the listings.

[gamersbaystore]

More often than not, the ones begging for a discount are broke to begin with and haven't a red cent to their names. People who have money don't need to negotiate, they just buy.

The beggars often end up hurling profanity at me and making threats when I tell them no too. Like its somehow my fault they're broke, lazy, and refuse to work for a living like the rest of us.

I've had death threats from buyers before too. One threatened to kill me because his $10 video game didnt arrive on time.

Just goes to show some humans are truly deranged.

[chewychonga]

Yes, this happened to me a couple of weeks ago.  Received a message for low offer which I declined. Curious, I  looked at that persons items for sale and they had the same item listed but at a higher value than what I had.  Oddly that evening I sold my item to someone different at the original listing price.