Dodgy Make an Offer Buying Practice-Read the Note

[gamezguy]

I recently found an offer for an item OVER the Make an Offer price. Great, I thought, if you want to give me more money then fine.

When I went to accept the offer I noticed the buyers note: Inc delivery to Melbourne.

I also noticed the fine print stated that when you accept an offer you also accept any stated buyer conditions.

Clever buyer, but a sneaky practice. If I accepted I would have accepted a reduced offer as I would have to cover postage.

When you look at an offer please examine the buyers note, as you will be bound to any conditions that are stipulated here.

Cheers,

[thecatspjs]

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@digital*ghost wrote:

However, in regards to the OP, the best offer is explicity supposed to be for the item price only. If the OP had auto-accept activated, they would not have been given the chance to see the "inc delivery to Melbourne",

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Offers that have conditions outlining the buyers terms, are not auto-accepted or declined by the automated system   A seller must review the offer and conditions and only they can accept or decline them .

[digital*ghost]

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@thecatspjs wrote:

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@digital*ghost wrote:

However, in regards to the OP, the best offer is explicity supposed to be for the item price only. If the OP had auto-accept activated, they would not have been given the chance to see the "inc delivery to Melbourne",

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Offers that have conditions outlining the buyers terms, are not auto-accepted or declined by the automated system   A seller must review the offer and conditions and only they can accept or decline them .

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Well, that takes care of that, then.  

Thanks.

I probably should have looked at the eBay help page for sellers re: best offer, because at least there its says:

A Best Offer is binding, just like any other bid.

I think the use of the word bid is pointed.

[thecatspjs]

No I have not, nor would not follow up with sellers who don't accept my offer - some counter offer, some don't.   I truly am not fussed. 

But I have had a number of sellers contact me a few weeks after they have declined an offer, to gauge if I am still interested in an item.

If I want something particularly badly enough I would usually pay the asking price anyway. 

[thecatspjs]

Yes agree - a best offer is binding - in accordance with the terms and conditions of the sellers listing and the terms proposed by the buyer in their offer.

Bids can also be conditional, if you have reached mutual agreement for additional terms with seller via ebay messages.

[digital*ghost]

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@thecatspjs wrote:

Yes agree - a best offer is binding - in accordance with the terms and conditions of the sellers listing and the terms proposed by the buyer in their offer.

Bids can also be conditional, if you have reached mutual agreement for additional terms with seller via ebay messages.

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...and as long as those terms don't breach eBay policy, and as far as I can see, neither of us are sure reducing the time limit afforded the seller is or isn't. 

[thecatspjs]

No ifs or buts for me.  I am sure it is not.

Otherwise I would not make such offers.

[digital*ghost]

The way I see it, making a new time limit is dictating terms to the seller, not negotiating them outside of the standard, applicable terms, and - while you may see it as just my opinion - the terms added by a buyer are supposed to be negotiable and actually give people the opportunity to agree or decline - reducing the time limit doesn't have the capcity to do that. 

[thecatspjs]

Lol DG - there is counter-offer !!! a seller is in the drivers seat. 

Reducing time does not automatically mean that. 

If a buyer sent a make an offer to me and a timeline of 12 hours.  If I didn't see it until after the 12 hours, if the price was agreeable before the offer expired, I could easily send counter-offer proposing to further extend the timeline term ???

It is so not as limited as you indicating. 

[digital*ghost]

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@thecatspjs wrote:

Lol DG - there is counter-offer !!! a seller is in the drivers seat. 

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Righto - you submit an offer an explain it's only good for 24 hours, that is a term that doesn't seem open to negotiation to me, what's the seller going to counter-offer

"Umm...can it be good for 36 hours, instead?"

Who would bother. Well, I know I wouldn't. 

[thecatspjs]

If I got an offer that I had not seen or wanted to stall on, or whatever, and it was a great price they offered but was time limited I would still give a counter offer a go. 

Others may not.  I would, because I sell stuff on ebay.  I would give it ago, who knows they may accept, ignore or counter offer again - it I didn't  counter offer I wouldn't  know - and I might even add a deal sweetner to see if I could rekindle interest - might not either, depends.