What is a "Fair" Best Offer?

paddyrg

'Offer' works well where the vendor has multiple items for sale - eg.

BIN £10 with free postage - if you want 10 items you may not want to offer £100

forgotmyname

I tried a best offer on an item and it was a couple of pence less than their BIN and still got auto rejected, so it seems their best offer was their BIN price also.

KRDmum

I think it depends on buyer and seller, I have had an offer of £7 for a brand new item that I'm selling at £20, so needless to say it was rejected.
On the other hand, somebody offered me £40 for £45 and I happily accepted.

donnac2558

I have made a good few offers on BIN with Best Offer over the years. I usually take 10% off the asking price, or if they charge shipping take that off. Always been accepted.

RFW

InquisitiveMind wrote: »

If you do ask the seller what's the lowest - honestly, do you think they'd tell you?

I certainly wouldn't tell honestly, but if a buyer asked, they'd get an answer! If I've got a potential buyer engaging with me I certainly wouldn't ignore them. Some of my best Ebay sales came from someone asking prices from best offer.
All sellers are different, some sellers may be happy to say they'd accept a tenner for something at £48 others may be different.
The only harm sending a polite message can do is slow down the process and make you miss out on the item.

TKPeters

10%

We have stopped using it, as we where getting 99p offers on £1500 items

chickendipperbabe

The bulk of my listings, when I actually sold regularly were buy it now with best offer. I'd accept offers upto 10% off but no more. You always get daft offers but I never received an offer as bad as the person above.

A lot of sellers list with best offer but don't accept them so I don't bother submitting anymore. One seller I follow has best offer on all their listings but every single offer has expired or been cancelled at the buyers end, they've never actually declined or counter offered a single best offer.

LadyDee

My seller has accepted £45 on a £48 listing so I'm quite happy with that.

LessImpecunious

Do note postage is not included in the offer price. So if the item is free postage, the seller can charge you postage.

Apologies if this is a bit off topic for this thread (newbie), and that this might seem like a question for an Ebay forum - but have tried there already to no avail... I am also a newbie to using Best Offer (either as seller or buyer) and am confused by the free postage issue - the Ebay "Making a Best Offer" rules say the that if making an offer which doesn't include postage the potential buyer should make this clear in a note, yet I am receiving offers on items I'm selling which have an Ebay "Info" comment that Postage is not included in the offer, but nothing in the note from the buyer. Have looked at this from the point of view of the offer dialogue box for a free postage item, and this simply specifies "Free postage", with no option that I can see to indicate that your offer doesn't include the postage. I am concerned that if I accept the offer either a) I won't be able to add my postage cost on or b) I will add the postage and the buyer may dispute the amount,as it hasn't been agreed in advance. Any advice gratefully received!

RFW

LessImpecunious wrote: »

Apologies if this is a bit off topic for this thread (newbie), and that this might seem like a question for an Ebay forum - but have tried there already to no avail... I am also a newbie to using Best Offer (either as seller or buyer) and am confused by the free postage issue - the Ebay "Making a Best Offer" rules say the that if making an offer which doesn't include postage the potential buyer should make this clear in a note, yet I am receiving offers on items I'm selling which have an Ebay "Info" comment that Postage is not included in the offer, but nothing in the note from the buyer. Have looked at this from the point of view of the offer dialogue box for a free postage item, and this simply specifies "Free postage", with no option that I can see to indicate that your offer doesn't include the postage. I am concerned that if I accept the offer either a) I won't be able to add my postage cost on or b) I will add the postage and the buyer may dispute the amount,as it hasn't been agreed in advance. Any advice gratefully received!

The postage rate is what you have listed, so if it's free it's free after an offer has been accepted. If it's £10, it's £10 after your offer has been accepted.

Ebay have always used the same message for all offers whether postage is free or not. You have to remember that Ebay aren't a massive internet company who could work out a system where the message was different depending on the postage rate;)