WHY buyers WHY?!

JustLittleOldMe_2

I always set best offers to reject stupid offers. So say if i put something up for £20 and i know i will accept £16 for it, thats what i set the limit at.
And i ALWAYS get buyers making an offer of £15.99 and it gets rejected! Why do they do it?? Its only 1p, and they miss out because of that! Does anyone else get this?!

Grade_A_Reject

Set your limit at £15.99 then.......it's only 1p

DaveAshton

As far as I can remember we've never had a .99p offer on any of our buy it nows. People usually offer to the nearest 50p.

chja

You could set to reject at a lower level (say £12) and refer offers of £12.01 to £15.99 to you - in that case you can make a counter offer or even accept if only a few pence out.

cyberbob

JustLittleOldMe wrote: »

I always set best offers to reject stupid offers. So say if i put something up for £20 and i know i will accept £16 for it, thats what i set the limit at.
And i ALWAYS get buyers making an offer of £15.99 and it gets rejected! Why do they do it?? Its only 1p, and they miss out because of that! Does anyone else get this?!

Shouldn't this be more of WHY SELLER WHY. As your missing out on a sale for the sake of 1p when the buyer can go elsewhere to buy. If I have a best offer on a £20 item I set it to reject at a level far lower than a offer I would accept you can then counter offer

frivolous_fay

Do buyers get told what the auto-reject level is then? Otherwise, how would they know it was just a penny higher?

grunnie

Why do you add best offers. I never have and believe me it doesn't stop buyers haggling for a lower price.I think if you add best offer you get silly buyers with silly offers.

DaveAshton

grunnie wrote: »

Why do you add best offers. I never have and believe me it doesn't stop buyers haggling for a lower price.I think if you add best offer you get silly buyers with silly offers.

Our main buy it now sells for £10, but we do accept reasonable offers. Ludicrous offers get auto-rejected though.

custardy

grunnie wrote: »

Why do you add best offers. I never have and believe me it doesn't stop buyers haggling for a lower price.I think if you add best offer you get silly buyers with silly offers.

not at all
when i see best offer it just says to me i can knock at least a quid off the price
usually i look at competitors(if there is any) and offer 50p-£1 under the lowest available price

EMJ2

I've listed a few things for Buy-it-now of £20 and been offered as low a £5 for them!!!

Em xXx

DaveAshton

EMJ2 wrote: »

I've listed a few things for Buy-it-now of £20 and been offered as low a £5 for them!!!

Em xXx

Use auto reject to filter out the "don't be an idiot, why would I sell for that" bids