What do you do if a Buyer wants you to end an Auction at a good price?

gillette147

I had an offer at my start price - told them i'd rather run the aucton - no-one bid at all!
I'd deleted his email so I can't even offer it to him after.

Also
I had another offering to buy it but in Denmark -- postage would only have been extra £5 but would paypal screw money out of me if he was paying in his currency? - I turned him down.
I am only on the lowest account level and am having trouble already as Paypal won't let me accept non-verified paypal accounts money. I am upsetting customers when I ask for a cheque instead!
Selling CDs for 99p and only getting to keep 46p if I upgrade to Premier account is just not worth it!

Regards

SurfBowlSC

I recently purchased some concert tickets after asking the Seller how much he wanted for them.

He had originally listed them for £200 for 2 tickets.... and they didn't sell.
The tickets were relisted the following day with a start price of £155. I asked him if he'd take £175 plus p&p. He said £185 including p&p so we came to a deal.
I had to bid on the actual auction, then he ended it early.......

It closed at £155 plus p&p, but he invoiced £185 total.

sarah090182

if i have a good offer i ask the seller to make a bid and i will end the auction early and add onto the postage to make it the offered price.

tempuscat

We've always regarded these approaches as useful PR: we simply add the ASQ to the item listing. 'S funny how expressions of interest from possibly dodgy buyers actually stimulate the enthusiasm of genuine ones. . .

Raggie

tempuscat wrote:

We've always regarded these approaches as useful PR: we simply add the ASQ to the item listing. 'S funny how expressions of interest from possibly dodgy buyers actually stimulate the enthusiasm of genuine ones. . .

I do exactly the same.. Its quite nice to have a question showing on your auction.. particular if the question states will you take £XXXX.. other bidders know what someone is already prepared to pay..
it seems to get them going a little..

HugoSP

I have bought the odd item this way.

I bought around £300 worth of LR spares for the Disco for £50 this way. The listing did not fetch its reserve, so, having e mailed the chap to ask some questions on the spares, I had his e mail. I asked him if he was going to reslist these items as I was prepared to pay the £50. He simply replied by saying "send me the checque".

I also bought a brand new complete set of vented disks (Lucas in their boxes) for the same vehicle for around £45 including postage.

Once I did ask a chap if he could do a BIN on a Belle vibrating poker (for vibrating concrete). The problem was that I was passig his place on a certain date (before the auction ended) otherwise it was not worth my while bidding. Again I got it for a good price. He simply chose to agree a price and remove it. He mentioned that it had been advertised elsewhere.

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Timmy

SurfBowlSC wrote:

I recently purchased some concert tickets after asking the Seller how much he wanted for them.

He had originally listed them for £200 for 2 tickets.... and they didn't sell.
The tickets were relisted the following day with a start price of £155. I asked him if he'd take £175 plus p&p. He said £185 including p&p so we came to a deal.
I had to bid on the actual auction, then he ended it early.......

It closed at £155 plus p&p, but he invoiced £185 total.

Well isn't that what you agreed on? I doesn't matter how much you bid before he ended the auction, it's still only going to register as the start price if you're the only bidder.

lillybell

sarah090182 wrote:

if i have a good offer i ask the seller to make a bid and i will end the auction early and add onto the postage to make it the offered price.

Thanks for that advice. Will use this in future

Item sold on Sunday to the highest BIDDER. Not a great price, but acceptable. Have tried to contact them about collection and payment. No reply.

Just looked at what they have been bidding on through the advanced search option. They won a simular item the same day for nearly £40 less. I say simular, my item was genuine victorian, the other a reproduction.
They have paid and collected. Seller and buyer already has left feedback for each other.

I'm left out in the cold.

Going to ask for contact details and give buyer a call.

lin473

You can add in a buy-it-now price to your auction.
This is what I do in these circumstances.
I don't think thats being unfair to any other interested parties as they could also buy it if they want to.
Oddly enough the people who ask me to end the auction early don't always go for it and some-one else buys it instead!