Lots of requests for best offer, but that is not how I am listing. Why is this happening?

[peachypurple]

I have had several requests recently to reduce my price when I have not offered "Best Price" in my listings. Is there something I am not doing when listing that is causing this? I find this quite uncomfortable. I have to explain why I am not negotiating at present and would prefer transactions to be straight forward as they used to be.

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers

[collect247]

You are doing nothing wrong when listing.

Buyers can and will still ask you if you could sell at a certain price.

You either ignore the requests or accept them.

[pennyforum14]

It happens occasionally, just send a polite reply, "I'm sorry but I am unable to budge on the Buy Now price".  No excuse necessary.

[digupatin]

If you wanted to you could put a note in the item description saying that your price is not open to discussion.

Probably won't completely stop the hagglers contacting you but might slow them down a bit.

[chameleon54]

People making offers when no offer button is included in listings seems to be getting more common. Some of the offers are really quite silly and a little bit rude. ( a quarter or third of asking price )

If I recieve a reasonable offer on an expensive item ( several hundred dollars ) I sometimes accept, or counter offer. For silly offers or cheaper items I just use a standard response as follows.

" Thankyou for your offer. Unfortunately I dont have a large profit margin on this item so am unable to negotiate on the price. I would welcome your purchase at the listed price. Kind Regards ........

This seems to work fairly well with many buyers going on to purchase the item at full price.

[dave4110]

I guess if I was to think like a buyer, I'll take a chance to haggle for a lower price, best case I get the seller to drop the price, worse case nothing happens, it's not frowned upon by eBay so won't get into trouble for it either. As a seller I just have a stock standard reply ready to go, copy & paste the response back to the buyer and move on with my life...

[harley_babes_hoard]

If you don't have best offer as an option in your listing then I would simply ignore the messages.

I have had some really rude ones and some you just shake your head in amazement at.

[lyndal1838]

Making an offer when there is no Best Offer option on the listing is frowned upon by ebay but unfortunately that does not stop some people.

[phorum_junkie*]

If you list BINs then why not up your price a lottle and add best offer, you can then set it to automaticlly accept or refuse offers over or below the price you are prepared to sell for.

If they are asking on auction items I wouldn't even bother to reply or perhaps have a copy and paste reply which politely says no way ready.

What percentage of items are you selling? If not too high then maybe people are asking because your items are a tad overpriced for ebay, have you checked completed listings for the same items?