offers but no best offer

[m.e.h.1988]

Hi guys

I have had an increasing amount  of messages of ridiculous offers on my items, & i dont have a best offer option on my items, just buy it now. 

The last one I had was an offer of 50% of my buy it now price.  Its just time wasting and annoying

Anyone else experiencing the same thing?

[thecatspjs]

My advice is to ignore them, or as I do counter offer the listed price or a tad lower if you are willing to discount. 

If you like you can add those buyers to your block list, as some sellers do.

eBay is a marketplace with all kinds of buyers and sellers, including those that message with offers far below listed price, you don't have to sell to them if you do not want to, so nothing as far as I can tell, to be concerned about.

[davewil1964]

No. But if I did I would be reporting the perpetrator. It is expressly against policy for a potential buyer to make an offer if make an offer is not offered.

[zelly888]

It is very annoying,I have also been offered 50% off BIN prices even though I haven't offered (or best offer)

[m.e.h.1988]

Are you sure it is against policy? Can i report them? 

[davewil1964]

Yes. Yes. Read the site map.

[curraone]

http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/buy/best-offer.html

“If the Make Offer button does not appear in the listing, the seller is not interested in receiving offers and you should not try to contact this seller to negotiate price or terms. Doing so violates our offers to buy or sell outside eBay policy.”

[thecatspjs]

I have had some brilliant offers made by buyers seeking to purchase several items from me at once, so I am happy to receive offers - I ignore those that are ridiculously low (which is one or two a year across IDs) and consider all others (which is at least one every other week on all IDs). 

The buyers making the offers are not seeking to trade off ebay, so how the offers to buy or sell outside eBay policy would even apply in this situation is unclear to me.

[davewil1964]

It seems to be because eBay have deemed unsolicited offers to be attempts to deal off-eBay.

As curraone's post clearly shows.

[thecatspjs]

I don't "read" the policy that way at all. The specific points identified in the actual policy don't either IMO.

If a buyer proposes a price on the basis the sale is facilitated through eBay I still can't see how the policy has any relevance.

Saying it just does, does not make it so.