"Whats your buy it now price please?"

motorguy

I listed about 60 bits and bobs over the last couple of weeks and got the usual "whats your buy it now price please?".

What bemuses me is that when pushed, buyers expect to get the item CHEAPER than it is otherwise likely to make.

I'd one guy offer me £15 for two PS3 games when they were likely to (and actually made) £15 EACH.

A guy offered me £20 for a set of remote controls that were at £22 and went on to make £29.

Another woman offered me £66 for a brand new VW OEM car cd player, comparing it to a well used one out of a van that had sold the night before for that price, when it went on to make £90.

I always expect at least market value or greater before i'd consider stopping an auction - cant think why people would think you'd sell for considerably less...

Anyone else seeing that?

Rotti

Such is the nature of eBay these days I'm afraid - buyers are treating it as one big bargain boot sale and eBay are facilitating it. Also with all the buyer protection and none for sellers I don't see many private sellers sticking around much longer, especially when they are forced into managed returns.

I have given up putting best offer on anything as people take the proverbial and am finding that they "miss" an item for 30 days then write and offer stupid money for it. What they don't realise when they ask you to put on a BIN is that it has to be 40% above the auction start price so they probably wouldn't pay it and in the meantime you have paid to add it to the listing. I have had that happen so many times I won't do it any more and second chance listings for unpaid items don't work either.

ballisticbrian

People that want "something for nothing." They go to car boot sales, pick up 10p items and ask the seller if they'll take 5p. Then they "errrm", "arrrr", put it back down, "na I don't want it".

Lioness_Twinkletoes

We were selling some alloy wheels (with tyres) and had started the auction at £99, which was obviously the lowest we would accept for them. Some joker offered £60.

bartelbe

motorguy wrote: »

I listed about 60 bits and bobs over the last couple of weeks and got the usual "whats your buy it now price please?".

What bemuses me is that when pushed, buyers expect to get the item CHEAPER than it is otherwise likely to make.

I'd one guy offer me £15 for two PS3 games when they were likely to (and actually made) £15 EACH.

A guy offered me £20 for a set of remote controls that were at £22 and went on to make £29.

Another woman offered me £66 for a brand new VW OEM car cd player, comparing it to a well used one out of a van that had sold the night before for that price, when it went on to make £90.

I always expect at least market value or greater before i'd consider stopping an auction - cant think why people would think you'd sell for considerably less...

Anyone else seeing that?

And this is a problem because?

Look if I see an item that has been hanging around a bit not selling, I will offer a low amount to see if I can get it.

People do that to me when I sell, sometimes I take the offer, other times I hold out. I have made more money that way, but other times I have been stuck with the item, and wish I took the low offer.

Also you can use buy it now as a safer version of an auction if you're not sure of the value of something. Set Best offer, and see what happens.

Besides some people try to get absurd amounts. I often buy car parts on ebay, and I have a very good idea how much bits are worth for my cars.

Ebayers are clueless, they will price some untested piece of rust for the same price as you can get a full reconditioned part, then wonder why it doesn't sell.

theoretica

If you look at auctions that start at 99p for an imac or other valuable item you see the same thing. With the slight difference that bidding is less troublesome to the seller. Do the people who bid £2.50 really think they will get it? Do you only bid at around market price?

brightonman123

I suppose if you don't ask, you don't get..


May be worth making clear in item listing that BIN offers not accepted!

catieeb06

Had this several times. Was selling a load of hubbies old Xbox Games to help fund the Xbox One and I had a load of people message me wanting to offer me nearly half of what they ended up going for!

motorguy

bartelbe wrote: »

And this is a problem because?

Look if I see an item that has been hanging around a bit not selling, I will offer a low amount to see if I can get it.

People do that to me when I sell, sometimes I take the offer, other times I hold out. I have made more money that way, but other times I have been stuck with the item, and wish I took the low offer.

Also you can use buy it now as a safer version of an auction if you're not sure of the value of something. Set Best offer, and see what happens.

Besides some people try to get absurd amounts. I often buy car parts on ebay, and I have a very good idea how much bits are worth for my cars.

Ebayers are clueless, they will price some untested piece of rust for the same price as you can get a full reconditioned part, then wonder why it doesn't sell.

I should maybe have said - all my listings were auctions, not buy it now prices and "market value" was what listings were ending at for the same item at the time.

motorguy

catieeb06 wrote: »

Had this several times. Was selling a load of hubbies old Xbox Games to help fund the Xbox One and I had a load of people message me wanting to offer me nearly half of what they ended up going for!

Thats exactly the situation i was in. Sold off a PS3, Xbox 360 and mostly games and controllers.

Its like "talk me through why i should end the auction now for your generous offer of £7 when if i wait three days to the auction ends i'll get around £15?" :mad:

zerog

Some people don't want to wait for 3 days.

I am guilty of offering far lower prices than the seller has listed them for, but only when the item has had no bids, or been up for a while. My offers are usually accepted, so I will continue doing this.