I like the Best Offer option as well, it is a good marketing strategy.
I have used it like everyone else, as long as the seller is okay with accepting them.
Note: this should be entirely at the sellers discretion.
But the problem is when I list items for sale without allowing the option, ebay interferes and changes the listing overnight without any approval from me, for half of the asking price.
To me, that is disrepectful, and insulting!
It creates a bad reputation to customers as well, because this now becomes False Advertising, and they are using MY name to do it.
This can also be loosely defined as Defamation at my expense, because of some fool working for them, who has to take a break away from ping pong to give the impression of being productive.
After I changed the listing back to MY preference, and explained my disapproval, I got harassing emails from employees prtending to be customers to force me to lower prices.
For the record, those affected items sold for the asking price.
The key word here is 'Option'!
The level of unprofessionalism by the ebay company, whether it is a bad employee or higher, should not be tolerated.
WE generate the surplus, and commission for the site, and don't deserve the kind of treatment from ebay to behave like Dictators, even if it is just some lazy punk at the keyboard.
