Bit of eBay advice please!

RhiBi

Someone has messages me about a peppa pig rain mac I'm selling on eBay. It's got 5 days left on the auction, and has 1 bid at the moment.

The person has asked if I will post to Gibralter, I replied yes at the cost of £7 plus the cost of the winning bid. They've now replied asking how much it would be to buy it now as they don't want to wait 5 days! I'm tempted to reply £20 or something equally ridiculous, but am worried its some sort of scam!

I've looked through their history, and they've got 100% feedback and have previously bought lots of kiddie stuff so that all seems genuine!

What would you do?!

kurgon

I get asked loads of time for a buy-it-now price. Either tell them no or tell them what you want. Does make it a little unfoar that you do have a bidder and may be better to just let it run.

Crowqueen

For a rain mac it doesn't seem likely that it is a scam. They want to buy it - and they are expressing an interest. They could be a potential bidder, so I wouldn't want to put them off with a high postage price (£7 sounds way out of line) or BIN price. I wouldn't pay £20 for a used kid's raincoat, so all you are going to do is tee them off.

If you have a bid it's simpler to say you would prefer to let it run, but your idea of a BIN price is going to disappoint rather than encourage - I prefer to encourage, myself. After all, it's money, whether it comes from Gibraltar or Britain.

building_with_lego

I always ask my BIN wanters to make me an offer :P. Usually they go away :rotfl: but occasionally they'll come along with a big offer and pay me cash! (Both times it's been someone local- ish who's in desperate need of whatever it is I'm selling.) Result