?what to do? buyer offering buy it now on item i am selling

jazzconfused

hi all!

im fairly new to ebay so im wondering if someone here can help.

i listed an item that is due to end in 2 days time. there is no bidder but i can see there are 6 watchers. today i received an email from someone asking if i would consider a buy it now offer plus postage.

the offer is reasonable. and i will be happy to accept it however, im not sure how it will work. i understand, i can remove the listing?

how will the payment work? (im rubbish w/paypal) should i just ask for personal check?

MrWillyWonka

There are a few options. Safest is to create a new listing with a buy it now price and tell the person to buy it then cancel your current listing (you cannot cancel if there is less than 12 hours to go).

Or, you can cancel the listing now and relist it as a buy it now but the risk is that the person who contacted you may change his mind on buying it.

The first option will cost you two listings whilst the second will cost you one, in either case you pay a premium for the buy it now feature

Completing the transaction outside of ebay is against their rules (and no buyer/seller protection) so do it properly.

Hope this helps.

guitar63

You can just add the BIN now price to the listing (extra cost) by revising the listing. You can also end the auction early by selling to the 'highest bidder' you can amend the invoice before they pay. Look in the help section /topics in Ebay under ending my auction early.

jazzconfused

MrWillyWonka wrote: »

There are a few options. Safest is to create a new listing with a buy it now price and tell the person to buy it then cancel your current listing (you cannot cancel if there is less than 12 hours to go).

Or, you can cancel the listing now and relist it as a buy it now but the risk is that the person who contacted you may change his mind on buying it.

The first option will cost you two listings whilst the second will cost you one, in either case you pay a premium for the buy it now feature

Completing the transaction outside of ebay is against their rules (and no buyer/seller protection) so do it properly.

Hope this helps.

guitar63 wrote: »

You can just add the BIN now price to the listing (extra cost) by revising the listing. You can also end the auction early by selling to the 'highest bidder' you can amend the invoice before they pay. Look in the help section /topics in Ebay under ending my auction early.

Thank you both for your reply.

i managed to add a BIN to my list. and when i came home today it was indeed been bought and paid for. sadly, the person who offered BIN in the first place did not get it. i was surprised it was someone else. this i learned when i sent an email to the one offering BIN and thanking her for fast payment... i was speechless.

sharnad

someone saw a bargain and snapped it up - you may have got more if you had let it run

Oliver14

Personally if someone offers aBIN it normally means they think they will get a bargain. I normally politely refuse and let the auction run. I have always got more money than the BIN that was offered.

mikey72

The only reason you were offered a bin is because the buyer saw you were new, and offered a very low price. All the real bidding happens in the last few minutes, so next time hold out, and you'll find you get a much better price normally.
I do watch a lot of auctions I'm interested in, and it is surprising how many end this way, for a lot less than I would have bid up to.

At least it's funny the original wanttobe buyer created a bargain for someone else, they'll be fuming now having missed it, and closed the auction early.

Indispensable_Hobbes

I always politely refuse and let the auction run.

In fact I had one this week offering £7.50 for an item, I've just checked and it's on £8.50 from £4.99 starting.

guitar63

You can of course set the BIN price yourself. If you are selling something that someone is desperate to have for whatever reason, they hopefully will accept/buy so as to be sure of getting the item.

Valli

I had one of these once, with some headphones I had listed. The BIN request came through the day the auction was due to end and, if memory serves, was £14.50. They were listed for a fiver!

The Auction ended with a right ding-dong of bids and the item sold for £43.50.

And they were listed as 'untested but no reason to assume they don't work!'
(Couldn't test them as had no equipment to plug them into!)