ebay Offers

prowla

Sellers often put up items with a BIN price and also an offer option, but I sometimes wonder what their expectations are for the offer.

There was something up for £150 BIN, and I offered £140, which was declined.

What's the point of having the offer option?

clumsy_cupcake

Maybe they would accept £149.99? Lol

On another note it may be a mistake? I had an item for buy it now and got an offer sent through, I had accidently pressed the buy it now with offer option.

Other then that I'm not sure. I think you made a very fair offer

prowla

clumsy_cupcake wrote: »

Maybe they would accept £149.99? Lol

On another note it may be a mistake? I had an item for buy it now and got an offer sent through, I had accidently pressed the buy it now with offer option.

Other then that I'm not sure. I think you made a very fair offer

I was wondering that. :-)

cattie

I've often wondered that myself. When I first moved into my new home about 18 months ago I bought a lot of the items I needed from ebay. I needed 2 of a particular item & I made a best offer on them, which instantly came back as declined (seller had obviously stipulation the minimum price they would accept to ebay). Anyway I gradually increased my offer & it was finally accepted at just 50p under the BIN price!

Now when I'm thinking of doing a best offer I do a bit of research beforehand in an effort to find out what offers a seller might have accepted for a similar offer in the past or failing that, what percentage of BIN price they tend to accept at. This allows me to pitch my offer at a price that is more likely to be agreeable to us both.

purple321

Ebay sometimes put conditions on the free listing weekends, I had one a few weeks back where I had 100 free listings if I listed with best offer. I've also had 100 free listings if I have a minimum of 3 photos. So the seller may have just put Best Offer on to get a free listing.

baffcat

prowla wrote: »

Sellers often put up items with a BIN price and also an offer option, but I sometimes wonder what their expectations are for the offer.

There was something up for £150 BIN, and I offered £140, which was declined.

What's the point of having the offer option?

I don't know about your seller, but I too have Best Offer on most of my listings. I usually only accept offers on 2 or more items, or from more than one listing, or if the value of the one item is great enough. I ignore or just decline silly offers, but every now and again, if money's tight, I accept, just to keep cash flow positive.

I would've accepted your £140 offer. If an offer's within 15% of the list price, I have to look hard for a reason to decline it.

force_ten

I had an item up buy it now for £85.00 with best offer

one of my offers was for £40.00, a reduction of 10-15% I would accept but below that i would reject

In your case i would have taken the £140.00 offer