Best offer, is this behavour fair or wrong. Your thoughts please.

chimaera_2

Hi,

This relate to eBay and its best offer system.

So no one is singled out i will change names and auction amounts.

Here is my issue.

Seller Mr X has a listing for 100 items with a buy it now price of say £1000 or submit best offer.

Out of those 100 items there has been 20 people us the buy it now at £1000.

The remainding 80 please all submitted best offers between £200 and 900.

Out of those 80 people 34 had their offer declined, these offers were between £200 and £800.

The other 46 offers were accepted and these are between £600 and £900.

Therefore out of the 34 people that had offers rejected 24 had offered more than the lowest offer that was accepted of £600.

Hope you were able to follow the above !!!!

Is the seller wrong in the way they have rejected higher offers from some people in favour of lower offer from others?

Is this unfair/bad practice that could be reported to ebay?

What are your general thoughts.

Thanks in advance.

frivolous_fay

Not wrong, just daft, imo!

Unless those making lower offers that were accepted had a lot of good feedback and a strong trading record on ebay.

I'm not sure I'd accept a £800 offer from a 0 feedback user.

whypayhighfees

The seller has the right to accept or decline any offer based on his own criteria. We may not understand, accept or agree with his decision, but he is entitled to make it his way - unless he has published some sort of guidelines under which he'll make that decision and has then done something different.

So, no, I can't see any reason to report him.

chimaera_2

I guess your right it is down to the individual who they sell to, I am just pee'd off that my off of £750 was declined when 8 people had there offer of £750 accepted (and my rating is over 300!)

ajaxgeezer

Reported to Ebay for what? The seller has done nothing wrong, no rules have been broken.

ajaxgeezer

chimaera wrote: »

I guess your right it is down to the individual who they sell to, I am just pee'd off that my off of £750 was declined when 8 people had there offer of £750 accepted (and my rating is over 300!)

Impossible to guess, but maybe the seller at first decided to decline £750 offers (maybe you were first ), then decided later to accept that amount. Can you still offer?

Blacksheep1979

or maybe those who were offering the same as you were buying several of the items?

TKPeters

It may also depend on the number of sales the seller has had in the week.

We sometimes accept low offers on quiet weeks & then reject the same offer a week or 2 later when sales have picked up.

Try emailing the seller & ask if they will re-consider your offer if you where to resubmit it

RFW

There's also the possibility that seller prefers to sell to certain postcode regions, ie local ones who are collecting. Another possibility is selling to regular customers at a lower price. Also lower offers may have been accepted on someone purchasing several items at once. Seller also may have had to recoup a certain amount for the whole stock, when that was reached may have decided to sell the rest cheaper.

greenstreetprince

RFW wrote: »

There's also the possibility that seller prefers to sell to certain postcode regions, ie local ones who are collecting.

there's no way of knowing the exact location of the person submitting the offer, so that theory is out the window!

benedictadams

at the end of a day if the seller is willing to accept a bid of £700 but not a bid of £750 then they would seem to have a strange way of doing business,

he must have a reason why he would do this

are the lower bids accepted on weeks when he sells a lot or little or is there no pattern?