@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.
The way I see it, my time is too valuable to be haggling for pennies. I don't even bother using make offer most of the time because for the petty discount I might get I'll have wasted a lot of time when I could be busy buying the item and having it arrive sooner.
I don't make offers on items, but I do "send and offer" to watchers, and I try to give a fair discount. It might be 10% if my margins are tight, it might be 20% to make it look attractive to the potential buyer, and maybe 30% if I really want to get rid of it because I've had it for years (and I'm too busy to constantly be fixing my prices).
As for being on the receiving end of buyers who make offers to me (instead of watching and me getting around to sending them an offer), I will generally accept almost any offer I see, as the ones I won't consider don't even come into my inbox. (My time is too valuable to be constantly figuring out my margins to accept or decline offers, I figure that out once when I set it up in the listing). If I counter or decline an offer I actually see, it's because something has changed since I set it up (like silver price increase, or we are now paying more for that type of item). And perhaps I just rethought it after I set it up.
C.
