@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:
Two thoughts. Maybe the potential buyer has not thought about the seller side because it’s their job to worry about themselves. If sellers didn’t accept lower offers people would stop using them.
Second thought is that there are many sellers on eBay who have an unrealistic expectation of how much their item is worth. I buy gently used clothing and some sellers think their old stretched out LL Bean sweater is worth over $40. Maybe the buyer has a different perception of what the item is worth.
Why jump to the assumption that the potential bidder is looking to take advantage of the seller?
With all due respect to your thread I will say, *oh, please*. That may account for 5% of the situations oh, but it's mainly from just being extremely cheap. As strange as it may seem, not everyone is looking for a worn-out piece of second hand clothing.... or anything of the used genre is far as that goes. Many [pre-owned] items are a one-off, not easily found pieces. One does not say they're only going to pay $60. for an original Picasso painting because they know of somebody that picked one up at a garage sale for fifty bucks last week. I know that's a stretch but I'm just trying to make a point. I mean price is all academic and it is all relative; it is what one is willing to give for it. In my 18 years of selling on eBay, it is of my opinion that it basically, 99% of the time, just boils down to the would-be buyer just being as tight as red paint on a stop sign. If I may muse about The Glory Days of eBay, I would say it wasn't like this 10 years ago. If people found something they wanted, felt it was a fair price, they bought it. There wasn't all this endless searching to try and locate where they could purchase a donor kidney at the cheapest price. Again, please excuse the far-fetched assimilation.
