Ebay make an offer ( playing the percentages)

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A £25 item off of £24 was declined, a counter offer of £24.50 was offered, I declined.
A £20 item, offer of £19 was declined
A £4.50 item offer of £3.75 was accepted.

Why do most people ask for "best offers" when they mostly seem to only want 50p off?
Why not just ask for 50p less in this case?

Maybe there are bargains to be had, at a "discount" but generally it seems not.

In my case I'm in no rush, to buy, I'm just looking for "bargain" Bonsai pots, ready for re-potting "season"
in a couple of months...
 
Maybe forgot to untick the accept offers box?
 
last best offer i put in was a bit bizarre they had a buy it now price of £66.13 and £6.90 postage
my offer was for £53.10 + postage making a total of £60
they counter offer was £65.00 plus postage but the odd thing was they had raised the buy it now price to £80 + postage
i didn't know they could do that in the middle of an auction

i didn't buy it i bought the same item off a different seller
 
cosmicma said:
they had raised the buy it now price to £80 + postage
i didn't know they could do that in the middle of an auction
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I didn't think it was possible either but then I haven't "sold" on there for years.

cosmicma said:
i didn't buy it i bought the same item off a different seller
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So would I have (y)
 
yes you can change an auctions price and postage if it has had no bids on it, if its just buy it now or best offer then you can change it any time until sold.
i do it a lot, put the price up a bit when it has a few watchers :-)
 
No such near asking offers are ever made to me. They are all seriously lowball.
A recent example. A XL stand I had up for sale (no interest on here) at £275.00.
First offer £100. Another one at £140.00.
Seems normal for people to think because you ask for offers you will accept 50% off.
 
If people ask for offers I usually offer -10% rounded to nearest pound.
But I also check Previous sales prices on Ebay and may offer something close to that.
I am successful 50% of the time.
 
Mr Bump said:
i do it a lot, put the price up a bit when it has a few watchers :)
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I avoid those if i spot them. Its no only buyers that try to extract the urine..

Peter123 said:
Seems normal for people to think because you ask for offers you will accept 50% off.
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There will always be those that try it on.

Terrywoodenpic said:
If people ask for offers I usually offer -10% rounded to nearest pound.
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That sounds reasonable, to me but the guy in the top post didn't accept -5%
 
I had a brand new £800 phone listed a while back and got bombarded with £300 offers. I usually tick the offer not lower than box, but I’d forgotten this time.
I like the ones that also send a message with their insulting low offers about how they are really poor and can’t afford it..

well don’t buy it then.
 
TCR4x4 said:
I like the ones that also send a message with their insulting low offers about how they are really poor and can’t afford it..

well don’t buy it then.
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Its strange how all these "Poor people" have the latest TV iPhone etc.
I guess they were looking to make a fast buck by re-selling it ;)
 
Peter123 said:
No such near asking offers are ever made to me. They are all seriously lowball.
A recent example. A XL stand I had up for sale (no interest on here) at £275.00.
First offer £100. Another one at £140.00.
Seems normal for people to think because you ask for offers you will accept 50% off.
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When I make offers I base the offer on the value of the item, not the asking price. If a camera usually sells for around £50 and the asking price is £200 I am not going to offer anywhere near the asking price.
 
Well it was a £325 item new and had hardly been used. I knew it would get knocked down, but £100 was ridiculous.
I don’t significantly overprice. Perhaps your experience is different.
 
That Sony W800 camera I "won" last night, I bid £56.80, £3.20 postage to round it up to £60. I did get outbid literally in the last 10 seconds, but I put a counter bid of about 2 quid more and won!
 
MrRichAllen1976 said:
That Sony W800 camera I "won" last night, I bid £56.80, £3.20 postage to round it up to £60. I did get outbid literally in the last 10 seconds, but I put a counter bid of about 2 quid more and won!
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And paid £40 more than you needed too.. Congrats!!
 
I have 3 Ebay accounts, one for buying, one for selling and one as a spare.

When someone has a listing which includes make an offer I will always offer below what I feel the item is worth with the view that the seller will come back with a counter offer which is near to my valuation. What really annoys me is when they just decline it with no counter offer ... why include it to begin with then?

This is when I tend to get a bit childish ... I will make another offer which is £1 less, they will decline it again and I will use my third and final offer to go another £1 lower ... which they will again decline.

Then I carry on with my second account .... and then ......
 
Mike.P said:
I have 3 Ebay accounts, one for buying, one for selling and one as a spare.

When someone has a listing which includes make an offer I will always offer below what I feel the item is worth with the view that the seller will come back with a counter offer which is near to my valuation. What really annoys me is when they just decline it with no counter offer ... why include it to begin with then?

This is when I tend to get a bit childish ... I will make another offer which is £1 less, they will decline it again and I will use my third and final offer to go another £1 lower ... which they will again decline.

Then I carry on with my second account .... and then ......
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I used to have 2 accounts, the first one I created 24 years ago almost to the day, but seeing as I forgot the password to the original account and couldn't access the email account I originally used, I just made a new one, on which to date I have 100% positive feedback, I did get 1 negative a few years back but the seller was a moron.
 
Mike.P said:
I have 3 Ebay accounts, one for buying, one for selling and one as a spare.

When someone has a listing which includes make an offer I will always offer below what I feel the item is worth with the view that the seller will come back with a counter offer which is near to my valuation. What really annoys me is when they just decline it with no counter offer ... why include it to begin with then?

This is when I tend to get a bit childish ... I will make another offer which is £1 less, they will decline it again and I will use my third and final offer to go another £1 lower ... which they will again decline.

Then I carry on with my second account .... and then ......
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If a potential buyer makes me an offer much lower than it is worth I just decline. These people are just time wasters.
if the offer is not too far away I will make a counter offer.
I can’t see the point of someone offering (say) 30% of asking price.
If an offer is declined then why offer less? Just a waste of your time as well as theirs.
 
I made an offer on something listed as 'or best offer'. My first offer was ignored. I made a second offer just to receive a message which claimed that as they worked on a 'small margin', they could not possibly accept my lower offer. My question is 'then why list as 'or best offer?''
 
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