Making an offer

FirstTimer4Me

What's resonable when making an offer on an item, regardless of the value

RainbowDrops

Making a fair offer, rather than a ridiculous one.

Brooker_Dave

FirstTimer4Me wrote: »

What's resonable when making an offer on an item, regardless of the value

Tempt them with a reasonable offer and cash, that normally works.

steveo3002

yes needs to be around the going rate for that item ..search completed listings to see what they go for

state cash /same day collection if you can that might help

CKhalvashi

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

Tempt them with a reasonable offer and cash, that normally works.

Not always; we have an internal policy of not accepting cash payments for bulk buys/certain services, to comply with AML legislation and cross-border currency checks.

Offer what you think is reasonable, explain why, and don't go too low.

CK

Brooker_Dave

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Not always; we have an internal policy of not accepting cash payments for bulk buys/certain services, to comply with AML legislation and cross-border currency checks.

99.9999999% of people will be more keen to get cash for something.

This is someone selling something on ebay, after all.

CKhalvashi

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

99.9999999% of people will be more keen to get cash for something.

This is someone selling something on ebay, after all.

That is true.

If it's something like a car, however, it's always card on collection/paypal. We shift a lot of stuff through eBay when we're done with it.

CK

alx2013

FirstTimer4Me wrote: »

What's resonable when making an offer on an item, regardless of the value

When I put something on for best offer I am looking for around 70% of price.

FirstTimer4Me

alx2013 wrote: »

When I put something on for best offer I am looking for around 70% of price.

The item was £40.00 + £10.00 postage, my offer of £30.00 was declined

zerog

Usually people decline my cash offers made while an auction is still running (listed as auction and postage only).q

Then after it's sold they realise they got less for it after fees and postage even though the winner's max bid was quite higher than mine (and I even bid more than I would have because I don't have to pay postage)

baffcat

Maybe 500 of my items are BIN with best offer. I refuse offers less than 20% of the listed price, but am just changing my listings to say I'll accept most reasonable offers if they're buying more than one item, or from more than one listing.

I'm only doing this as I list with 'free' p & p., and I have a lot of multi-item sales.

Usually I make a counter offer, but now if it's a stupid offer, I just decline with no message.

In the past, when I've been offered a couple of quid for a £30 item, I've countered with £29.99 to try to make them realise just how stupid they've been.

Occasionally I've had a message from a buyer on one of my listing with auto-decline set up, saying they can't make any more offers, and that type of buyer goes straight onto my BBL.