Ebay "Or Best Offer" - what's the point?

taffy056

I saw an item I wanted for £44.95 and offered £35.00 for it including delivery, I am happy as I didn't expect them to take the 1st offer, happy days

lindseykim13

i have best offer on nearly all my items and sometimes it drives me mad! my BIN prices are very good and i do get sales at that price i don't really up my BIN price to compensate for the best offers. so i'm not keen to move much on the price anyway, i have the best offer there really for the impulse buyers who may want something and think they'll make an offer rather than commiting to the BIN price, i'm normally happy to go a few quid lower but don't see why i should go so low i'm not making any profit!
I think it's a bit of a cheek when you get the £9.00 offer for something on at 14.99 i'm happy to accept 12.99 or at a push 12.00 but surely best offer is meant for BEST offers not stingey ones :rotfl:

iieee

TBH I wouldn't consider an offer of 50% to be sensible, I'd consider that p-taking. You do get some ridiculous offers.

One time I was selling a brand new t-shirt for something like £3.99 BIN or BO, and there was a buyer that was haggling with me down to the last 9p. In the end I gave in just to get rid of the damn thing, would love to know what that person was like in real life, I bet his wife despairs of him.

Rolandtheroadie

I'd start at 10% off asking price and go to 5% off. If it's still rejected, keep it.
If you started at 50%-75% on an item I was selling, I'd block you.

RFW

hermum wrote: »

I had something on £2,000 BIN or Best offer & I had some prat offer £200, when I ignored him he messaged me & said that he would take it off my hands, at £200, cos it's a buyers market, would I finally respond. I did, saying that I was treating the offer with the contempt it deserved.

I had a car on a while back for £3500, I was offered £350, I counter offered with £3499.99, it wasn't accepted.

I always find last minute offers on ending listings amusing, for some reason they think they have more of a chance of getting it at 1% of the price when the listing is ending.

I think that it varies vastly on what people will accept as best offers, I've seen some that accept 10% of the listed price and some that won't accept 99%. There's a difference between offering a fair price and an insulting price.

lindseykim13

Thats reminded me that i once had an email from a buyer saying how they wanted a dress that was listed for a party the next evening and could they collect/pay cash the next day. The dress had been on BIN but had ended, I say's no problem i'll put it back on BIN for you.
I then had an email back 'was my offer accepted then?' er what offer? I then find that a few minutes before the listing had ended she had made a silly offer of just 30%. She wanted me to put a BIN up for her offer price :eek: i think not.

drkmavis

the best offer system is a great idea but dosent work most of the time as the seller has too high a price in his head for his merch...chame

carlislelad

I sell on best offers and accepting the offers to me all depends on what I paid for the items, how long I have had them, and how many I have. sometimes I have hundreds of one item and just want the space so will take a silly offer, but sometimes if I have a item at £25 and get a silly offer of say £10 I will do a counter offer of £24.99 I never decline orffers as when a potential buyer looks at the offers page and if you have a silly offer in, it says offer pending and might make them think I someone else is after it I had better make a good offer

Hezzawithkids

But why have a BO at -1% of the BIN? Why not just lower the BIN??

I think "make me an offer" invites haggling; if I offer 50% then I dont expect to get it but I do expect to be haggled with and not blanked (or blocked, thanks for the warm fuzzy feeling BTW scotsman). Dont ask dont get, right?

GregtheHammer

I normally accept an offer of around 75/80%, as a few others have said I do get annoyed with timewasters making offers of 10% or in some cases less. They go straight on the blocked buyer list!