topic Re: Best Offer in Selling

Best Offer

cq_tech — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:34:28 GMT

Is there a limit to how many rejected offers a buyer can make on a seller's item in one day? When I was checking an item's rejected offers last night I noticed that a buyer had made two ridiculously low offers, both of which were auto-declined, and when I checked his feedback I saw that all feedback left for sellers in the four weeks he's been a member have been negatives, so I immediately put him on my BBL. I thought I recalled having read somewhere that there was a limit of only two per day, but I can't seem to find any reference to it anywhere.

Re: Best Offer

*crikey*mate* — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:01:45 GMT

you get to make 3 Best Offers per listing.

plus if the item is relisted, the history is also loaded and previous best ioffers are carried over

Re: Best Offer

lyndal1838 — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:16:51 GMT

Crikey is right....three Best Offer can be made on an item and it does not matter when they are made.

If the first two offers are auto declined the third one can be made immediately...either as an offer or as a BIN at the listed price.

All offers/purchases can be made in a period of 5 minutes if they don't depend on the seller accepting/declining or counter offering. Then the timeframe is up to the seller and can be up to 48 hours if the seller wants to drag it out.

Re: Best Offer

cq_tech — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:21:15 GMT

Thank you, Crikey. So it's 3 per listing in total, including auto-relists. Interesting.

I really wish eBay would make that clear somewhere in their sitemap or index.

Re: Best Offer

cq_tech — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:23:30 GMT

Thanks for expanding upon Crikey's answer, Lyndal. Would be nice if that was made clearer in eBay's help files though.

Re: Best Offer

*crikey*mate* — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 23:38:35 GMT

When you make a Best Offer, you get little messages that say something like "you can submit one more best offer for this item, don't let it slip away"

The other I found out when I manually relisted something that had offers on it the time before - I don't know about autorelists, but I guess it is the same

Re: Best Offer

cq_tech — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 15:59:53 GMT

Crikey, in all the time I've been on eBay I've never once made an offer on an item which is why I've not seen the message to which you refer.