Buy it Now button, am I getting this wrong?

MoneySavingNovice

Hi,

Am I getting this wrong or am I being overly touchy?


In short I’ve been accused of being a ‘ignorant waste of space’ by a potential by buyer after I turned down there offers. Basically I advertised an item at £79.99. The buyer came in and made an offer for £40 which I rejected. I didn’t bother making counter offer as I figured that they weren’t serious and just trying it on. A few minutes later they increase their offer to £45 which I also rejected, the same logic applied. A second later they came in with an offer of £50, which unsurprisingly I also turned down.


I then got a ranting eBay message basically saying (and I’ve edited out the rude words) that they made a brilliant offer that I’m not serious and I am an ignorant waste of space. They also then said that if I wasn’t prepared to accept good offers I shouldn’t put a make offer option on the listing.



I’ve always taken the view that anything below a 15% discount is not worth consideration. What do people think?


Thanks in advance for helpful advice.

EdGasket

It is entirely up to you what to accept; I expect they were just peeved that you didn't accept thier offer. I wouldn't worry about it.
When I had an offer on an item which was too low; I emailed the potential buyer to say what I would accept for a quick sale and he then offered that amount.

19lottie82

ha, no, you're not getting it wrong, eBay is just full of entiled crack pots who will try and chance their arm. Ignore them and your (ebaying) life will be a lot easier.

if i were selling a BIN for 79.99, 'd most likely accept offers of £70+. I always set my listing to auto accept / decline offers of above / below £x.

19lottie82

PS report abusive wannabe buyer to eBay

vacheron

I've had a few who have ignored the 3 attempts and you're out warnings and then accused me of "blocking" them. Sounds like your buyer may have been keen for the item and is now peeved that he used up all his bids.

I have also found (often unintentionally) that the most effective way is to ignore the first offer for at least 24 hours. In a lot of cases people have a hopeful punt before buying and in many cases they have gone on to buy it at the full price before I've had a chance to respond. Either time wasn't on their side, or once they had bid they got too invested in the item and became worried someone else was going to grab it.

On the other hand I'm amazed how many just pay the full price when an offer button is available. I have one on all my buy it now auctions, however I only get offers about 20-30% of the time.

campdave

Add them to your blocked bidder list, in case they buy it at full price and discover a "fault" with it that can be rectified with a partial refund.

soolin

vacheron wrote: »

I've had a few who have ignored the 3 attempts and you're out warnings and then accused me of "blocking" them. Sounds like your buyer may have been keen for the item and is now peeved that he used up all his bids.

I have also found (often unintentionally) that the most effective way is to ignore the first offer for at least 24 hours. In a lot of cases people have a hopeful punt before buying and in many cases they have gone on to buy it at the full price before I've had a chance to respond. Either time wasn't on their side, or once they had bid they got too invested in the item and became worried someone else was going to grab it.

On the other hand I'm amazed how many just pay the full price when an offer button is available. I have one on all my buy it now auctions, however I only get offers about 20-30% of the time.

I agree with leaving an offer live sometimes. It shows on the listing to other buyers as having an offer and might panic someone into buying it at full price.

On a few occasions I've had something bought at full price within hours of having someone else making an offer.

marleyboy

I would have replied with "GOOD offers only Pal!!!"

MoneySavingNovice

Thanks to everyone for the helpful replies.

I will certainly be following the good advice from you all in future.

Thanks again.

GabbaGabbaHey

soolin wrote: »

It shows on the listing to other buyers as having an offer and might panic someone into buying it at full price.

Is that still the case? I know that eBay used to show the number of offers on an item, but I haven't seen it for a long time...

soolin

GabbaGabbaHey wrote: »

Is that still the case? I know that eBay used to show the number of offers on an item, but I haven't seen it for a long time...

I saw one about a month ago on an item I was considering buying. Under the BIN button it showed as having 1 offer- in a sort of italic writing. Whether the seller had done anything different I don't know- it just made me consider my offer with slightly more haste than normal.