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inhawaii · ‎08-30-2019

Buy it now price: $14

My offer: $10 - declined

Sellers counter offer: $13 - declined

My counter offer: $12 - declined

Sellers counter offer: $13 again - declined

Why would the seller counter back at the SAME PRICE?

Why does ebay even let that happen? You shouldn't be able to counter back at the same price, should you?

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sharingtheland · ‎08-31-2019

$43.49

Take it or leave it.

Sherry

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7606dennis · ‎08-31-2019

@sharingtheland wrote:
$12.99?

If I were the seller and after several rounds of haggling I gave you the lowest amount I would take and you then offered me 1¢ less, I'd probably just decline and block you or not reply and block you anyway.

"It is an intelligent man that is aware of his own ignorance."

fuzzface50 · ‎08-31-2019

"Why does ebay even let that happen? You shouldn't be able to counter back at the same price, should you?"

why not? that is letting you know they will go no lower at least to you. Would you be happy if they never came back with that second offer?

with your theory that they have to make a lower offer then who would use it if there was no bottom $ amount? sellers that use it would lose their shirt. Or they would just knock a penny off each time to make up for it knowing they are going to get another offer and in order to give another discount.

every seller has a bottom $ that they will settle for. every buyer has a top price they are willing to pay for something. Sometimes it is far off but sometimes like this a $1 does make a difference to both sides.

On a different site I use I will put $x amount cash firm. It is amazing how many will still try to get a cheaper price even with cash firm listed. do I get mad? No, but I tend to shake my head. Do I respond back? Depends on the tone of the text which can be hard to read at times.

inhawaii · ‎08-31-2019

@fuzzface50 wrote:
"Why does ebay even let that happen? You shouldn't be able to counter back at the same price, should you?"

why not? that is letting you know they will go no lower at least to you. Would you be happy if they never came back with that second offer?

with your theory that they have to make a lower offer then who would use it if there was no bottom $ amount? sellers that use it would lose their shirt. Or they would just knock a penny off each time to make up for it knowing they are going to get another offer and in order to give another discount.

every seller has a bottom $ that they will settle for. every buyer has a top price they are willing to pay for something. Sometimes it is far off but sometimes like this a $1 does make a difference to both sides.

On a different site I use I will put $x amount cash firm. It is amazing how many will still try to get a cheaper price even with cash firm listed. do I get mad? No, but I tend to shake my head. Do I respond back? Depends on the tone of the text which can be hard to read at times.

Why not? It's rude. He's already declined my offer. I'm not going to send him another offer at the same price. On the flip side, I've already declined his offer. He shouldn't/doesn't need to send me another offer at the same price.

Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs

sharingtheland · ‎08-31-2019

@7606dennis wrote:
@sharingtheland wrote:
$12.99?
If I were the seller and after several rounds of haggling I gave you the lowest amount I would take and you then offered me 1¢ less, I'd probably just decline and block you or not reply and block you anyway.

My "prices" posts were all written in humor font. I guess I failed at those attempts....

Sherry

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pjcdn2005 · ‎08-31-2019

I don't think that it is rude. As another poster suggested they are giving you the option again to accept their lowest price. It's possible that once a buyer realized the seller would not go lower, that they would pay what the seller offered. If the seller didn't make the offer again and you really did want the item, your only option would be to pay full price.

What I think is rude (I know of sellers who do this) is if their second offer was higher than their first. But repeating the first offer so that you know that this is the lowest they will go is not a bad thing imo.

sin-n-dex · ‎08-31-2019

@myboardid wrote:
To the OP - I can't believe you are even using Make an Offer on something as inexpensive as a $14 item.

As a seller, I won't even put Make an Offer on any item less than $25, it is not worth my time or yours (the buyer) to haggle over such a small amount, not worth my time to pack and ship an item that cheap.

I think my threshold is generally $19.99 or more... unless someone contacts me about a bunch of tokens (this happened with the 1790s Condor tokens) and they want to make offers. They tell me which listing and I set it up. Mind you these buyers want 4-6 tokens, so it's worth my while to negotiate on a $15 one when they're buying a few more at the same time.

C.

sin-n-dex · ‎08-31-2019

@inhawaii wrote:
@sin-n-dex wrote:
@inhawaii wrote:
If he's going to keep counter offering me $13 .... then i'm going to keep counter offering him $12. Eventually one of us will give up. haha
I don't know how your finances are, and maybe $1 is a big deal.
What do my finances have to do with anything? If i'm wealthy, don't haggle, just pay it? You have to draw the line somewhere ... weather your buying a pack of gum or a new house.

I have money because I spend my time working on things and earning it... if I wasted my time haggling for pennies I wouldn't have money to spend on stuff. I do however know people that the few pennies really matter... and they have the time to invest in saving them.

C.

sin-n-dex · ‎08-31-2019

@inhawaii wrote:
@myboardid wrote:
To the OP - I can't believe you are even using Make an Offer on something as inexpensive as a $14 item.

As a seller, I won't even put Make an Offer on any item less than $25, it is not worth my time or yours (the buyer) to haggle over such a small amount, not worth my time to pack and ship an item that cheap.
I can't believe someone would pay the buy it now price when the seller accepts offers REGARDLESS OF THE PRICE OF THE ITEM.

They accept offers so they can screen your profile and decide if they want to sell to you. If you just pay the buy it now price, you bypass that altogether.

C.

sin-n-dex · ‎08-31-2019

@inhawaii wrote:
Attention sellers! Raise the price of everything you sell by ONE DOLLAR. It's just a dollar. Normal people wont mind. It shouldn't affect your sales at all.

Anyone willing to pay $12 for something will gladly pay $13.

Anyone willing to pay $34 for something will gladly pay $35.

Anyone willing to pay $172 for something will gladly pay $173.

You get what you pay for. My business partner and mentor told me it's not so important what money my competition is getting for like items, as so much as who my competition is. Some people who buy in my genre will want to haggle for the best price (and I get the impression from the coin shop they do it because they like to interact with the staff at the store), but when it comes to commodity items, many of us are too busy to check every single store online to see who can save them $1 on a pair of headphones.

C.

this*old*attic · ‎08-31-2019

I disagree.

It’s the only way the system allows the person to say “No, really. That’s my best.”

It’s worth allowing because some buyers, when they realize that, will pay the price if it’s really the best they’re going to get.

Nothing personal, it’s just the only way the system allows the conversation to continue.

inhawaii · ‎08-31-2019

@this*old*attic wrote:
I disagree.

It’s the only way the system allows the person to say “No, really. That’s my best.”

Hello Rose!

There's another way i know what his best price is:

I offer $12.

He declines and counters with $13

I decline.

Which is exactly what happened.

He doesn't have to send me ANOTHER counter offer for at $13. I already know he'll accept $13. There is no need to send me 2 counter offers at the same price ... or 3 counter offers at the same price ... or 4 counter offers at the same price.

We'll just agree to disagree. 😃

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kaykakfs · ‎08-31-2019

The second offer @ $13 allows you to buy it at that price. After you declined the first offer your only option would be full price. That is the best reason to offer the same discount a second time.