What's your BEST price?

[ajs_coins_and_alchemy]

What's the least you'll take?

What's your bottom dollar?

What's the lowest you'll go?

What's your BEST price?

I've gotten so many messages like this, sometimes on listings I'm not accepting offers on and on listings that accept offers. Literally people totally by-pass the "Make Offer" button to ask these series of questions.

I've tried so many responses over time, I've never quite found one I liked... until now?

I think my new response to any form of these questions will be as follows:

Buyer: What's the least you'll take?

Me: What's the most you'll give me?

Buyer: What's your bottom dollar?

Me: What's your top dollar?

Buyer: What's the lowest you'll go?

Me: What's the highest you'll go?

Buyer: What's your BEST price?

Me: What's your BEST price?

I've tried coming up with creative, professional, polite responses as much as they have irritated me ... I think the best will be just to throw the question right back at them and see how they like it! 🙂

[sin-n-dex]

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@ajs_coins_and_alchemy wrote:

What's the least you'll take?

What's your bottom dollar?

What's the lowest you'll go?

What's your BEST price?

I've gotten so many messages like this, sometimes on listings I'm not accepting offers on and on listings that accept offers. Literally people totally by-pass the "Make Offer" button to ask these series of questions.

I've tried so many responses over time, I've never quite found one I liked... until now?

I think my new response to any form of these questions will be as follows:

Buyer: What's the least you'll take?

Me: What's the most you'll give me?

Buyer: What's your bottom dollar?

Me: What's your top dollar?

Buyer: What's the lowest you'll go?

Me: What's the highest you'll go?

Buyer: What's your BEST price?

Me: What's your BEST price?

I've tried coming up with creative, professional, polite responses as much as they have irritated me ... I think the best will be just to throw the question right back at them and see how they like it! 🙂

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I don't sass since it might come back to bite me in feedback if they actually purchase the coin I'm selling.

I have responded to "just make me an offer" if I don't want to entertain the question. Sometimes it's an item I regularly send offers on, so then I just tell them the offer price (which they'll get anyway if they wait a few days and are watching the item, plus accepting messages from sellers with offers).

My offline eBay pal says that your responses are awesome and it's the correct answer for this type of question.

C.

[wastingtime101]

They do get really annoying. On days I'm in a bad mood I have to remind myself it comes with the territory.

What will you do if the buyer comes back with another question - repeat it back to them again? I'd like to know how many times you'll go back and forth like that. 😂

[ten_o_nine]

This really sounds confrontational and not very polite, friendly, or professional. I would not do that.

[wastingtime101]

I took the OP as tongue-in-cheek. Did I misinterpret?

Either way, I wouldn't call the responses confrontational. I would call them casual, like you might encounter haggling at a flea market.

I guess it's tough online when you can't hear someone's tone. I read the OP as kind of light. 🤷

[sin-n-dex]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

I took the OP as tongue-in-cheek. Did I misinterpret?

Either way, I wouldn't call the responses confrontational. I would call them casual, like you might encounter haggling at a flea market.

I guess it's tough online when you can't hear someone's tone. I read the OP as kind of light. 🤷

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I took it the same way because my friends and I make jokes about those types of questions. I would never give that kind of answer, but it's nice to talk about it like it was something we should actually do.

I figure eBay should be some kind of entertainment so I don't go nuts.

C.

[ekmadonna]

The worst, most annoying and rude one is when they say "I WILL GIVE YOU X AMOUNT OF DOLLARS" for that! Usually 2/3rds less than asking price!

[reallynicestamps]

I do accept Best Offers but I set parameters for my Accept and Reject prices.

Any too low are automatically rejected, and I don't even see them.

Any acceptable are automatically Accepted and the buyer can pay immediately.

And there can be as little as a penny difference between the two.

In fact, the Reject can be a penny below the Asking Price.

I often see that an Accepted Best Offer has two or three rejected offers, so whatever eBay sends out to those buyers must be polite and encouraging.

But I never see any Offer I would not consider accepting, so I don't care what lowball offers are made.

And my knickers remain untwisted.

[reallynicestamps]

Usually 2/3rds less than asking price!

Those are the ones I never see.

So they don't annoy me.

[theteamsetguy]

I usually respond politely with something like this.

Thanks for you offer, my prices are firm since I price my items competitively already. However, I do offer a combined shipping discount. Just add all items you wish to purchase and checkout to automatically receive the discount.

Almost all of the time I will still get the sale.

[richard1rst]

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@ajs_coins_and_alchemy wrote:

What's the least you'll take?

What's your bottom dollar?

What's the lowest you'll go?

What's your BEST price?

I've gotten so many messages like this, sometimes on listings I'm not accepting offers on and on listings that accept offers. Literally people totally by-pass the "Make Offer" button to ask these series of questions.

I've tried so many responses over time, I've never quite found one I liked... until now?

I think my new response to any form of these questions will be as follows:

Buyer: What's the least you'll take?

Me: What's the most you'll give me?

Buyer: What's your bottom dollar?

Me: What's your top dollar?

Buyer: What's the lowest you'll go?

Me: What's the highest you'll go?

Buyer: What's your BEST price?

Me: What's your BEST price?

I've tried coming up with creative, professional, polite responses as much as they have irritated me ... I think the best will be just to throw the question right back at them and see how they like it! 🙂

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I don't waste any time on it. I simply post what my current asking price is. and that's all.

[bennotbill]

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@ekmadonna wrote:

The worst, most annoying and rude one is when they say "I WILL GIVE YOU X AMOUNT OF DOLLARS" for that!

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And they usually also add - I will pay you straight away. Like they are doing you a favour.

[readabouthorses]

I like your replies. You would make a great horsetrader. Those are stock replies when haggling over the sale of a horse.

[jg.mason]

If they message me with a reasonable offer that I'll take I just respond with an offer for that amount. If it's reasonable but I don't want to take it I just respond with thanks but I think the item is worth what I'm asking.

If they send me an unreasonable offer I don't respond and add them to my bb list.

The four questions in the op would get no response from me unless I was bored and felt like having a little fun.

[fbusoni]

I immediately block people who ask those questions.

They are the sort of humans who will ALWAYS find a reason to complain about the item they receive.  And before the item arrives, they will hassle you about ETA, etc.  

And if you do not bow and scrape, they will leave you negative feedback, despite the fact you bent over backwards to accommodate them.

Its not coincidental that you can block a whopping 5,000 people on eBay.  

eBay got SOMETHING right.