Ebay - make an offer

Poppy9

I've did this for the first time last week. Saw a swimsuit I liked that was £17 + £2 postage. I offered £13.50 & £14.50 and it was turned down. I had seen this swimsuit in a sale online for £10 (+£3.45 PP) but they didn't have my size so I thought my offer was fair.

Anyway I bought another swimsuit and today had a message from the seller to say he/she will take £16.50 for the swimsuit. I just replied that I had already purchased another swimsuit so no thanks.

However it did get me thinking of what is the point of using the "make an offer" option if you will only drop 50p

Enfieldian

Quite often the sellers are relunctant to take offers in the early stages of the auction, then they see that it may have been the best one out there!

I am usually willing to take a 25% drop against the BIN price in the last week of a 28 day listing though.....

TurkishDelight

Depends. The thing about best offer is that it's not switch off and on able, so if things aren't going well we might take offers but if we're selling more than we can cope with then we might not, but the offer button has to be on for the life of the buy-it-now.

prowla

You make the offer for what you think it's worth; it's up to the seller whether they wish to accept it.

Poppy9

This auction was a 28 day and I offered about day 20 and it's now finished and obviously unsold.

As there was a BIN and make an offer option to me that's indicating that they have a lower price in mind. Hence I went 20% cheaper with first offer and then 15%. After that I wasn't interested. Not even a big seller unless they have another user name as only had 45 feedback.

cyberbob

I had one the other day the item was£40 I did a few offers and the lowest the seller would go was £39.50! also in the last offer he said it was his last one. The fact is he had 4 up for sale and still does! When I put things up for best offer the I will normally take at least 10% below the BIN price

larlie1983

I normally accept offers of 10% below the BIN now price too. I do find it quite amusing how cheeky some buyers can be. A product I was selling with a BIN of £34.99, I had one buyer offer me £1.50 but I suppose you don't get anywhere in life without asking!!

Cookhamite

Poppy9 wrote: »

Anyway I bought another swimsuit and today had a message from the seller to say he/she will take £16.50 for the swimsuit. I just replied that I had already purchased another swimsuit so no thanks.

I offered £37 on a BIN/MBO of £50 and was refused, then got email afterwards saying it would be accepted. Had found nicer item for £26 so made my day to email back no thanks! :rotfl:

bylromarha

larlie1983 wrote: »

I normally accept offers of 10% below the BIN now price too. I do find it quite amusing how cheeky some buyers can be. A product I was selling with a BIN of £34.99, I had one buyer offer me £1.50 but I suppose you don't get anywhere in life without asking!!

Crazy isn't it-you sell something brand new on ebay for 2/3s of RRP and buyers ask for half off that price!

Glad for automatic settings!

Samba_Pa_Ti

must admit im a bit cheeky with the best offers, bought a guitar on ebay for 350 quid which is £480RRP, seller was asking £390, so i offered £330.

makes me wonder how much they buy the things for in the first place, as the RRP must be superinflated in a lot of cases.

austin

im much more likely to go for a BIN with best offer rather than a BIN without. so maybe some sellers offer BIN with best offer knowing it will get more traffic, but actually have no intention of offering that much off the original price.