best offer bidding

[mini-mel76]

i realise this is probably nothing, but i have had the best offer from a seller re-buttled. they only want to take 15 cents off the price of the item

bit of a farce

[foxette-in-sox]

Either agree & buy it or ignore it-geez,15c??

[sprinklespowerpuff]

I agree Mel, what a joke. Why do they bother to list item with a best offer option. I've had this sort of thing myself when dealing with sellers but 15 cents off sure takes the cake. Anyhow, hope you do better on other items.

[digital*ghost]

It really depends on the item in question, and original price. If it's a single quantity listing (or an item where people generally only buy one), and 15 cents is a very minimal percentage of the asking price, it seems a bit pointless even having the Best Offer feature there.

Some sellers have Best Offer available on listings where people usually (or at least may) buy several so that they can provide a bulk purchase discount without having to have numerous listings with pre-set quantities. They may not be able to afford to offer a discount if someone is only going to buy one $2 widget, but they might give as much as a 20% discount on the total if they were going to buy 50).

[kopenhagen5]

That's happened to me, and I usually put another offer in, 15 cents more than my previous offer or whatever they have reduced it by. 😉

[leader-of-the-band]

i realise this is probably nothing, but i have had the best offer from a seller re-buttled. they only want to take 15 cents off the price of the item

bit of a farce

I sell with best offer feature on another eBay ID . . . . so I will hold judgement on the seller until more details of this offer are known . . . . like what the asking price was and what did you offer?

I once had an item listed for $320 or best offer.  $320 was a fair price for the item.  The listing was for ten days.  5 minutes before the end of the ten days an eBayer offers $100.  I just ignored it as there was too little time left on the listing to counteroffer.  Anyways, about an hour after the listing ended the guy messages me with "your counteroffer?????".  I replied that sellers are not required to make counteroffers and that I did not consider his original offer as a serious offer.

Tell us the asking price and what you offered.  If you offered a ridiculous price then the seller may have been replying in a similar manner.

[mini-mel76]

hey guys, thanks for the response.

the items were $7.35 each, i offered $5.00, to which i thought was fair (and requested 3 items).

the last rebuttle for said items were to be $7.00, needless to say i have declined.

[leader-of-the-band]

hey guys, thanks for the response.

the items were $7.35 each, i offered $5.00, to which i thought was fair (and requested 3 items).

the last rebuttle for said items were to be $7.00, needless to say i have declined.

I guess it gets down to how badly you wanted the items.  You were prepared to pay $15 for three, but not $21.

eBay has worked the way it should for both you, the prospective buyer, and seller in this case.

[purchases101craft]

Hi,

I do sell some items (under my selling ID) using best offer, so I can see it from the other point of view. I use it so that my customers can negotiate a deal on Bulk purchases or combined purchases.

The Buy it Now price is $7.35, if you only want one or two items then the Buy it Now price applies. If the seller would accept less then they would list the item at the lesser price because they would obviously sell more.

I would feel insulted if someone tried to get a 30% discount off for only 2 or 3 of my items. Go to your local shop and see if they will give you a 30 % discount.

If you really think the item is only worth $5, then you should look around for someone selling them at that price, if there aren't any, then perhaps $7.35 is what it is worth.

[lyndal1838]

There is the other side of the story too.

When I first started using the Best Offer as a buyer I would only ever offer about 10% off...and I am talking items listed at $100+.

For the most part the sellers accepted my offers.

Then I started seeing the same sellers accepting offers of up to 50% off the same/similar items.

These days I will make my initial offer at 30-35% off and it seems that the more expensive the item the bigger the discount the seller is prepared to accept.

On the other hand I made an offer of 50 cents discount on a $6.50 lipstick (I was buying a number of different colours).  The seller kept rejecting the offers until she finally accepted 2 cents off.  I ask you, why would you bother making offers for 2 cents discounts.