One Week Ban? What do you think? lol

[sakic92710]

I was offered $3.16 on a $34 listing.  I would love to see temporary bans on buyers who send such ridiculous offers.  What is your opinion?  🙂

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@sakic92710 "I tell people what my minimum is, quite often and, they still send a counter offer below that."

Yes, happens to me too. I then either accept (I'm not too proud to take less then my "minimum" since it isn't actually written in stone) or I counter again (perhaps with my original minimum). Or I simply decline. I don't send a message, just either click decline or send the dollar amount of my counter offer. 

None of this takes much time. Some sellers, in my opinion, do waste time, by sending messages when, accept, decline or send a dollar number counter offer is all that is necessary.

It's business. Deal with it efficiently and move on.

[sakic92710]

Already answered to that option.

[ckimodog]

@bbravo65 

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Thanks for sharing and have a great day.  

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@sakic92710  "Already answered to that option." 

But your answer was basically: I don't want to put a minimum on the listing because I might be willing to take a dollar less than the minimum if they offer it.

If that's true, reduce your minimum by a dollar and stop chasing pennies when dollars matter. 

[sakic92710]

**Sigh**  Why does my reply have to be literal??  What if I have something listed for $60 & my minimum to accept is $42 but it has been sitting on this useless site for 9 months then, someone offers $39?  I'd sell it.  Get the point now?  Will your response be, "Then make your minimum $39."  ??

[albertabrightalberta]

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@sakic92710 wrote:

**Sigh**  Why does my reply have to be literal??  What if I have something listed for $60 & my minimum to accept is $42 but it has been sitting on this useless site for 9 months then, someone offers $39?  I'd sell it.  Get the point now?  Will your response be, "Then make your minimum $39."  ??

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So accept when they do that! 

I don't understand why people let such minor issues be such a big deal! 

[ms.rodriguez*]

I have decided to completely ignore ridiculous low, low offers. I can imagine the buyer constantly checking to see if I accept or give them a counteroffer somewhere in the middle .  If they have bad feedback left for others, I add them to my block list.  I do NOT let them make me crazy.  There are enough things in the world to worry about and low ball offers is not one of them.

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@sakic92710  Sigh. Yes, my response would be, then make your minimum $39.00. Or make it $42 and keep a tickler file for 9 months (or whatever---I don't want to take you too literally) to review your minimums and reduce them if you are willing at that point.

But forget all that....you don't need to set an auto accept....you can set an auto decline instead. So, just using your example, a $60 item is one you'd take $42 as the lowest you would accept, but you are worried that you might miss , say, an offer of $39. So, don't set $42---or anything--as your auto accept. Set an auto decline of whatever you absolutely would never, ever take. So---just an example---set it at $20.00 ...that will eliminate all the worst low ball offers that bother you so much...and it still gives you the ability to accept or reject any offer over $20.00

Now, what's the problem with that? You avoid the really low ball offers, and still give yourself plenty of wiggle room , without locking yourself into an auto accept number.

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@ms.rodriguez*  I don't ignore even the lowest low ball offer.

And here's why: While it is not officially part of ebay's Seller Standards, it seems pretty clear that ebay is keeping track of seller response times , and that it is a factor (however small) in search placement. So I always respond. I might decline, I might  even counter offer, depending on just how low ball the offer is...and yes, I've made decent sales by going back and forth with buyers who started out with a low ball offer. But I never just ignore.

Of course, that's just me. We're all different.

[katzrul15]

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@sakic92710 wrote:

I was offered $3.16 on a $34 listing.  I would love to see temporary bans on buyers who send such ridiculous offers.  What is your opinion?  🙂

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You want to Temp ban stupid buyers for lowball offers?? 

Goodness.  You need a vacation from selling - clear your head, do a customer service reset.  Goodness!

[theteamsetguy]

It was probably an error. I would’ve countered it. But them again I don’t have make an offer on my listings. All it does it let buyers know you will take less. When I see a listing with a best offer I always make an offer. Why pay more than you have to?

As a person in sales I have no fear of rejection. That’s the worst it can happen by making an offer on something I want.

[theteamsetguy]

Why don’t you just list it at the lowest price you wil accept? That’s what I do.

[theteamsetguy]

No I’m my opinion. I usually start lower than that. You’d be surprised how often it is accepted. 

[sprinkles91]

imo, repetitive lowball offers like that are indeed incredibly frustrating if you let them be, but are fairly common & for multiple reasons. if they are repeatedly sending you aggressive not enough to even cover shipping offers(this isnt usually for slightly lower than your expectations or you end up blocking the majority of buyers from that specific interested category.) , after 2 counters i dont give them the time of day, or my sensitive stress levels. bc messaging them will 100% of the time only end in tears. just simply block the buyer in your blocked bidder/buyer list, make sure to then check that blocked cannot message you. this does not work if there is an active purchase from the buyer to you, but you can re-add them after their purchase protection runs out, or the sale is cancelled.

common reasons?

•its a typo! if its specifically only done once, twice is usually on purpose. for the first time, just simply counter an acceptable lower price of your item w no snarky messages that could scare off a potential buyer whos made an honest mistake. this never should be treated irrationally or impulsively as many humans have parkinson's disease, tremors due to medications, health issues, & disability. my mother shakes from her diabetes so bad she could be sitting still but her phone looks as if shes riding through the woods on an atv, violently shaking! shes stubborn though which does result in a LOT of overwhelming "code messages" lol.

•the buyer is intoxicated, thinks its funny, are bored & immature, its just to get a rise out of you so it proceeds in email etc. gets you to reply, this is less likely & its usually the mentally unfit, or teenagers.

•they are 8. in which case you just block them after the 3rd strike & report their account to ebay.

[sakic92710]

Why not?  If they are here to make 8% offers on your listings, they just wish to play games.  Besides, sellers get 'punishment' like limitations on sales when it comes to things we don't have control over like slow mail.