Seller requesting buyer make their offers 'higher' than the 'Buy it now' price! | Buying

2486buffyslay · 2023-08-23T14:51:16.276000Z

The 'Buy it now' price is US$89.89. I made an offer of US$80.90. I consider that a fair offer, but ask if the seller considers it too low to please make a 'counter offer'. That's a reasonable request. However I noticed when making my offer that as soon as I typed 80.90 a message appeared saying "The buyer will be more likely to respond to your offer if it is around US$104.90". Obviously I'm neither stupid nor a scammer to make an offer higher than the 'Buy it now' price. I don't know any circumstance where doing so would make sense to the buyer! My question is who is this message coming from? Is it the seller or eBay? Surely either party should know better than to 'suggest' to the buyer their offer be higher than the 'Buy it now' price! If it's the seller what can I do - report them to eBay? The implication from the message is the seller will ''ignore' any offers made by me unless they're higher, or possibly equal to, the 'Buy it now' price! My 1st offer has 'expired' i.e. NO response from the seller!

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