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@kevinmaxwell2007 wrote:

Hi there. I am sick of sellers who give this option of Best Offer. Give them an offer of $5 less of there price and they return by saying $1 or $2 off the price. If you suggest $5 off the price the seller thinks your trying to rip them off. What is the point of sellers asking for Best offer if you are only going to save $1 or $2 dollars. Maybe ebay should ban this option from the sellers. To me its a waste of Buyers time going to and fro to the seller only to save a few dollars in the end. Any sellers out there GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.

 

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You can't really second-guess the reason why a seller uses the best offer function, it's not all about giving the buyer what the buyer thinks is a good discount on a single purchase.

Without any more information in your post to base an informed reply, I can only point out a couple of things..

Some sellers definitely do waste time with the Best Offer function, some also misunderstand its purpose and wait for offers higher than the BIN price

On the other hand, some sellers use it with very specific intentions, such as discounts for multiple item purchases, and they will not even entertain 50c off if someone is only buying one thing.