@chameleon54wrote:I dont have the offer facility on my listings, but do get offers regularly through messages. I had a rare machinery part for sale awhile ago. It wasnt cheap, but it was the only one listed on ebay wordwide. I had a buyer offer a very low price, which I politely declined, stating all prices firm. He messaged again with another fairly low price and some personal advice about how I should accept it.
Off to the BBL for that buyer. A few days later he messaged back saying he really needed the part and could not find it anywhere. He had an expensive piece of machinery that was broken down and costing him a lot of money every day it was idle. He was willing to pay the full price.
I didnt reply and a few days later the item sold to an international buyer......
Moral of the story .... If you are a tight a$$ it can turn around and bite you on the bom.
I would have been tempted to give him some personal advice as to why he should have been prepared to pay a proper price for it when he had the chance, but I guess he'd already worked that one out. 
It always gets me that they think you should be prepared to sacrifice your income for theirs!
I put a lot on my BBL just for asking for a discount or free postage. I'm the same on facebook. There are plenty of good buyers around without needing to put up with the other sort.
They never ask for discounts on my rubbish, only on my very best items, and they always ask as though they'd be doing me a big favour. I don't know whether I've told the story before but one woman asked would I do free postage if she bought all I had left of one item. I replied and asked her which two meals she thought I should go without so that she could live in luxury. 
She got huffy at that, but I'd said it to put her off ever buying from me (I'd already blocked her), and it was actually quite factual. She said I would only get a couple of small bowls of pasta for $3, but postage would have actually been $5, not $3, and I could get a couple of really healthy meals out of that! I didn't bother replying.
@brerrabbit585wrote:I feel that anyone who makes low offers through messages, when your item isn't even listed as Make an offer, is quite rude.
I totally agree, which is why I usually block them without even bothering to message them. Some people aren't happy unless they feel they've got one over the seller but I won't give them the satisfaction of feeling big at my expense. I'd probably even put my price up just to annoy people who offer me less than something is worth.
You remind me of myself a couple of years back at a garage sale where I was trying to clear some stuff from my parents' estate.
Had one good quality item at $5, lady came in and offered $2. I thought-that's a bit rude, that's under half, I would not do that in the reverse situation. You expect people to bargain at garage sales but there's a way to make an offer & under half isn't it. So I said $3.
Well, she stood there and said quite abruptly, No, $2 & kept insisting.
That was it, i stood my ground. I didn't care if it sold or not.
