@davidc4430 wrote:what do you do with 'silly' offers
yesterday i got am offer on an item, less than hlaf the asking price.
after i declined the offer i recieved a detailed message explaining my prices are way too high, must have taken him a while to type it all up.
i replied with 'you know what you can do with your advice'
i then added him to my blocked buyer list.
i then got 2 messages including bad language.
i left it at that
now today i wake up to another silly offer from a different person
$40 including postage to the USA for an item i have listed for $250
i guess guy 1 has a mate.
none of my items has 'make an offer'
cheers for your input guys.
I was reading along ok till i got to this part-None of my items has 'make an offer' and just burst out laughing.
What a cheek.
My advice was going to be to set your make an offer limits automatically so you didn't have to view the low ones. But it's even worse than that, they're making unsolicited offers.
I know how you would be fuming. Like when I got gumtree offer of $20 on an $80 item with the message they would pick up that morning. Not even a 'if it is convenient'. Like they were doing me some sort of favour.
I just wrote back with sorry, no. But I wasn't really sorry.
I'd be inclined to ignore such messages on ebay unless you're selling a really big item. But even then, if someone is offering you less than half I have my doubts they'll move up to a close offer. On 'Make an offer' they might, as they're trying to suss the lowest a seller will accept. But if they're making rude offers underhand in messages on a normal auction item, they're not worth too much time & bother.
