Why have 'Best offer' if you won't respond to people's bids?

[lotzrgood]

I cannot understand why some sellers offer 'Best Offer', but then never get back to the prospective buyer, even to say NO. Has just happened again. Had this happen a few months ago, made 2 offers, heard nothing. Yet item is STILL being listed, and price has been lowered to price I was originally offering.  

[i-love-my-sheep]

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@padi.0409.0409 wrote:

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Ahhh,    the perils of posting on the boards........................

                                                                                                    

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Cute .gif that one!

[chameleon54]

millj40    You reflect my views 100%. I have had one of my selling acounts suspended for a week for listing an item in the wrong catagory. ( first offence, no warning ) I believe the item was correctly listed but no amount of pleading helped. This certianly scared me a bit. Like you I have been relying on ebay for my main source of income, but no longer have the confidence to continue growing my business. I have started a non internet based business to replace a substantial part of my ebay income and have let my ebay sales platue at current levels when I was getting 20% growth per year. I am buying in very little new stock, just listing items I have in storage and trying to run the ebay business down a bit.

          At this stage it looks like I can manage the defect thing as my projected rates range from 0.3 % to 0.91%, the higher score being for my largest store. The problem with a larger store is people seem to be more willing to just fire away at a bigger seller, but are more reasonable when dealing with a smaller business. All three accounts are run exactly the same with the same postage times, same types of descriptions, same policies for addressing problems etc. It would be nice if ebay could take a more positive attitude towards sellers, offering proffesional support and development, rather than trying to intimidate and control them.

[padi*0409]

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@i-love-my-sheep wrote:

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@padi.0409.0409 wrote:

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Ahhh,    the perils of posting on the boards........................

                                                                                                    

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Cute .gif that one!

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Stalks found it somewhere chooks, I can't take the blame for it ( ! )...................say no more (The expert at finding strange and weird gifs........)

[i-love-my-sheep]

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@padi.0409.0409 wrote:

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Stalks found it somewhere chooks, I can't take the blame for it ( ! )...................say no more (The expert at finding strange and weird gifs........)

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SOme of them are absolutely adorable, and try as I may, I can't find many that come close to some of the ones posted on here. Google resulted in thousands of hits, but who has time to go through all of them LOL?!

Sometimes adding a little gif can mean the difference between getting the correct message across and not. Most of us on here have a sense of humour, but I know with myself sometimes, what I have written trying to be funny, comes across as being downright nasty! A cute little picture can fix that......usually 😄

[padi*0409]

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@i-love-my-sheep wrote:

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SOme of them are absolutely adorable, and try as I may, I can't find many that come close to some of the ones posted on here. Google resulted in thousands of hits, but who has time to go through all of them LOL?!

Sometimes adding a little gif can mean the difference between getting the correct message across and not. Most of us on here have a sense of humour, but I know with myself sometimes, what I have written trying to be funny, comes across as being downright nasty! A cute little picture can fix that......usually 😄

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Maybe posters should be forced by Lithium to add an emoticon to their post to determine their feelings chooks...........ROFL

                                                                              (couldn't find a "tongue in cheek" one...............)

[lotzrgood]

As with selling/buying on Ebay, I am perfectly happy to accept feedback here - PROVIDING it is honest and factual. Which this response is definitely NOT. I also do not hide behind a fake identity in order to leave negative feedback.

FACT - if you had bothered to honestly check my profile, you would see that of my last 100 purchases, I have only left 4 negatives, and 1 nuetral. The reasons for the negatives - seller couldn't supply, seller increased postage after purchase, 2 items were torn. Fairly reasonable reasons I would think, and negative feedback only left because seller was very unhelpful and non communicative. I have made plenty of purchases where I choose not to leave any feedback due to poor quality, or late arrivals, etc. Is highly unfair that my excellent feedback history can be ruined by a very rude, agressive & threatening buyer simply because they constantly changed pick up times. As sellers are now barred from leaving negative feedback, we are at the mercy of unreasonable buyers, which is highly wrong. One reason why I have greatly curtailed my buying/selling on Ebay.  

I have excellent communication with both sellers & buyers. I offered a very reasonable 'Best Offer' - item was for sale for $132, I offered $120. This was the third 'Best Offer' I had made where the seller did not offer any reply. They lost out - I bought elsewhere.

[padi*0409]

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@lotzrgood wrote:

As with selling/buying on Ebay, I am perfectly happy to accept feedback here - PROVIDING it is honest and factual. Which this response is definitely NOT. I also do not hide behind a fake identity in order to leave negative feedback.

FACT - if you had bothered to honestly check my profile, you would see that of my last 100 purchases, I have only left 4 negatives, and 1 nuetral. The reasons for the negatives - seller couldn't supply, seller increased postage after purchase, 2 items were torn. Fairly reasonable reasons I would think, and negative feedback only left because seller was very unhelpful and non communicative. I have made plenty of purchases where I choose not to leave any feedback due to poor quality, or late arrivals, etc. Is highly unfair that my excellent feedback history can be ruined by a very rude, agressive & threatening buyer simply because they constantly changed pick up times. As sellers are now barred from leaving negative feedback, we are at the mercy of unreasonable buyers, which is highly wrong. One reason why I have greatly curtailed my buying/selling on Ebay.  

I have excellent communication with both sellers & buyers. I offered a very reasonable 'Best Offer' - item was for sale for $132, I offered $120. This was the third 'Best Offer' I had made where the seller did not offer any reply. They lost out - I bought elsewhere.

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IYNWIM...........................

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[springyzone]

millj40 said

In all honesty the FB you have left others would sway me towards not responding to your offer, and putting you on my blocked bidder list..

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Ever curious, I went in to check out the feedback history

I have to say though that this person's feedback is the sort that I, as a buyer, I would take notice of. It is not abusive, instead it keeps to the facts and explains the problem.

As for best Offer, maybe ebay should make it mandatory for sellers to set at least a lower limit on it where the system will generate an automatic knock back. A limit that could be changed, if need be.

I find the best offer system isn't used well by some sellers.

It seems obvious to me most buyers will see it as a system where you can 'make an offer' on whatever is being sold. There is nothing that says it is only for buying maltiples or anything else-most buyers will take it as being allowed to make an offer on that item in the listing.

So if you have it listed as $20, then of course a buyer shouldn't be surprised if they get a knockback on an offer of $10 or $15. But if they offer $19 and get knocked back... well, I can't see the point in even having a make an offer available in that case.

[classglass14]

When I list with Best Offer I have the option to put in a minimum acceptable bid - if your bid is below that figure Ebay automatically rejects it. With bids above that price Ebay sends me the offer and I respond, always! a lot of my items are sold on Best Offer below the listed price, but as I don't have a big 'markup' I do have to set a minimum acceptable price or take the risk of losing money.

Icheck the offers rejected by Ebay every so often and can only assume that some people are making ridiculously low offers. Offers should be in the region of the price listed. Also , to send a previously Best Offer to auction it has to start at 30% below listed price which makes it difficult when trying t keep prices reasonable.