Offers pending

Pollycat

vacheron said:

My favourites are the ones who seem to think that because you're selling your own personal items your children must be clinging to your ankles crying with hunger, so you get the "can offer you £30 now - money waiting", or "I'll give you (40% under listed price)... cash in your account tonight!".

Cheers mate, why don't you just throw it in the air when you arrive an you can watch my urchin family and I jump up and down like performing monkeys trying to grab it! 

For me, everything I no longer need gets listed on eBay as a BIN / Best offer, then put in my special "listed items only" eBay cupboard.

I don't need the money, I want rid of my clutter, and I don't care if it takes 3 days or 3 years to sell, just so long as it's listed there for when the right person comes along!

I usually disable 'best offers' but if I do, I put the lowest amount I'm willing to accept to cut out all the silly low offers.

This one had me in disbelief.
I've listing an item for £35 + standard small parcel costs.
There is no 'best offer' enabled.
Twice, the same person has messaged me to ask if I'll accept £20 including postage.
That's almost half my listing price!

I've said 'no' twice (obviously).
I may drop the price to £30 in a couple of weeks but certainly no less.
I'll keep the item myself.
I'm not desperate for the money (more desperate for the space in my wardrobe).

noitsnotme

Low ball offers do work sometimes.  I’ve had some cracking purchases offering low amounts that have been quickly accepted, but these are usually on items that haven’t sold for some time or the seller is a business seller.  It’s probably why I don’t get upset by buyers offering low on my items.  Just decline and move on if it’s too low, I don’t give it a second thought.

martindow

I'm interested in whether you block buyers who have make repeated silly offers.  It strikes me that these people are more likely to be problematic than average if you do eventually accept their offer.

GadgetGuru

vacheron said:

My favourites are the ones who seem to think that because you're selling your own personal items your children must be clinging to your ankles crying with hunger, so you get the "can offer you £30 now - money waiting", or "I'll give you (40% under listed price)... cash in your account tonight!".

Cheers mate, why don't you just throw it in the air when you arrive an you can watch my urchin family and I jump up and down like performing monkeys trying to grab it! 

For me, everything I no longer need gets listed on eBay as a BIN / Best offer, then put in my special "listed items only" eBay cupboard.

I don't need the money, I want rid of my clutter, and I don't care if it takes 3 days or 3 years to sell, just so long as it's listed there for when the right person comes along!

Exactly the same here!
I have a box in my outbuilding with all my eBay listed stuff. It sells when it sells, I'm in no rush - but I'm certainly not letting someone have something at a fraction of its value just because i want to get rid. Yes I have tech items that drop in value/price over time, but I'd rather hang on for the right buyer at the right price. I'm not desperate to sell. I've had stuff that I have listed over and over for the last year, sometimes longer, and in the end out of the blue it will suddenly sell!

GadgetGuru

martindow said:

I'm interested in whether you block buyers who have make repeated silly offers.  It strikes me that these people are more likely to be problematic than average if you do eventually accept their offer.

Yes, if its repeated then I will block a buyer for this reason. It's not worth the hassle.

soolin

I only block those buyers who get really stupid. I've have them go down to a 99p on a £50 item with the message 'I hope you get stuck with this ' , and also the 'can I have this for nothing as I/my child/ my cat is disabled and without this I will be suicidal '. The latter sort of message I report to ebay on the basis I am concerned about them, and then block them.

After selling online for around 25 years I've come across some really strange people.

TripleH

I rarely make offers on items and when I do (as recently) it's not a silly low offer, more a maximum of 20% discount or less.

I don't care if it gets rejected as it will help me determine if and how much my next offer is.

I do get offers on items when I sell but if I see the offer as too low, I just reject without a counter offer (usually these are below listing price on auction first time I list items) especially if there are multiple people watching. 

I only respond with counter offers if the amount is near enough to my set target price. In my head a rejection without counter offer means the offer price was too low.