Are annoying. Especially if they outright reject a reasonable offer and don't even counter.
The seller's price on what I'm looking on is actually not unreasonable in the first place, and if it was simply listed as that with no "offer" option, I'd probably just buy it. But I offered a bit lower to see if he'd meet me halfway (rejected) and then offered halfway closer again (rejected) so it's pretty clear he actually has no intention of accepting any offer than his listed price, Now I probably won't buy the item because I feel like the seller is just a jerk and has wasted 3 days of my time with delays in his responses to my offers.
/rant
eBay has started automatically making some listings "Or Best Offer" whether the seller wants to or not.
Something to keep in mind...
Cooter said:
eBay has started automatically making some listings "Or Best Offer" whether the seller wants to or not.
Something to keep in mind...
interesting. though if that is the case, the least the seller could do is say "hey, ebay put that button there, the price isn't actually negotiable"
They make you uncheck it every time, i’ve had a few slip through. They also now make you uncheck international shipping every time, which got me once.
Cooter
Dork
10/6/18 10:34 p.m.
irish44j said:
Cooter said:
eBay has started automatically making some listings "Or Best Offer" whether the seller wants to or not.
Something to keep in mind...
interesting. though if that is the case, the least the seller could do is say "hey, ebay put that button there, the price isn't actually negotiable"
They have been changing the listings after they are up for a while.
Ive been selling a lot of stuff on ebay lately, and if you remove the "Or Best Offer" feature from the listing, ebay's final fee is a little bit higher. they also started to take a % of shipping too!
echoechoecho said:
Ive been selling a lot of stuff on ebay lately, and if you remove the "Or Best Offer" feature from the listing, ebay's final fee is a little bit higher. they also started to take a % of shipping too!
i refuse to sell on ebay anymore, since i just basically do musical instruments i use Reverb
YMMV, but a couple years ago I got great satisfaction out of an unknown-mileage engine auction. It was listed at $350 OBO plus shipping , and I offered $300. The seller let my offer expire, and then a week or two later the auction expired. He resisted for $300, and I offered $250. He let the offer expire, and a week or two later the auction expired. He relisted for $250...and several days into the auction I offered $200.
Long story short, I got the engine for $150 plus shipping, and it took a few months. The seller was pissed as berkeley, but I feel like the blame was placed squarely in his court as each listing was an auction with buy-it-now, and I was only one bidding....
...in hindsight, he really could have packaged it better for shipping...
echoechoecho said:
Ive been selling a lot of stuff on ebay lately, and if you remove the "Or Best Offer" feature from the listing, ebay's final fee is a little bit higher. they also started to take a % of shipping too!
I got this carb I want to sell, starting bid 99 cents plus $150 shipping (nudge nudge wink wink)
eBay fees are crazy but fixed at 10%. Yes that’s a ton but there’s not a better platform out there yet. I sell many hundreds per month on there so my eBay bills each month suck. But I don’t think I could sell as much any other way.
Sellers shouldn’t put best offer if they won’t accept it. I’m totally up for a best offer but I’m not going to take half which most people seem to think is a reasonable offer. Uhh no I’ve priced it at or below what a similar item sold for recently so no way I’m taking half.
I’ve sold a bunch of stuff on ebay this year that otherwise would have not had a market in my usual circles. Until you give me another huge market then I’ll just suck it up and take the 10% fees because i’m selling stuff for more than 50% more than i’ve tried to get elsewhere. When i can literally take something that was going to get recycled or thrown out and get $40+ for it, or take cans of obsolete refrigerant that i was given for free and sell the for $150+ each, i’m not going to fight the system.
Ebay automatically setting the best offer refusal to 50% is a dick move, but i just have to remember to change it if I don’t want to have to personally decline lowballers
dculberson said:
eBay fees are crazy but fixed at 10%. Yes that’s a ton but there’s not a better platform out there yet. I sell many hundreds per month on there so my eBay bills each month suck.
This kinda reminds me of an argument I overheard. Person A was complaining about how much money was spent per month at a supplier. Person B said, I wish that number was 10x HIGHER, because we make a profit reselling everything we buy from them.
Yes, I have one listing with 100+ watchers and many sales...I can't get rid of the make offer button on that one without relisting.
If someone makes an offer I send a response with $20 off explaining the situation, which has gotten a few sales.
I don't like the make offer button on my products but can see it's usefulness for others.
The funny thing in general about ebay and the internet in general is the "Item Description" used to be everything but you have to search to find that now and pictures are everthing.
It leads to people asking questions that are in the item description.
In reply to jamscal :
I hate the burying of the description!!
The fees have become a bigger and bigger pain, but it still beats trying to sell things on Craigslist or Facebook. Also not really possible/feasible to sell the things I do on Amazon.
On the bright side, at least they've been showering everyone with 15%-20% coupons?
In reply to FuzzWuzzy :
Sales have been down for most of the sellers I know. And it appears so have been listings.
In reply to irish44j :
I see "or best offer" all the time. Most often I think the person posting the add includes OBO because they think the junk they are selling will somehow invoke a bidding war. They are just letting you know that in the event of a bidding war they will sell to the buyer with the best offer.
java230
UltraDork
10/8/18 1:32 p.m.
Oh and you only get two offers..... Then you can never make another one on that listing. DUMB. I made an offer, it was auto declined, so I made another, he personally declined, we emailed and came to an agreed price, but.... I cant make another offer.
FuzzWuzzy said:
The fees have become a bigger and bigger pain, but it still beats trying to sell things on Craigslist or Facebook. Also not really possible/feasible to sell the things I do on Amazon.
On the bright side, at least they've been showering everyone with 15%-20% coupons?
dammit, those must be going to my spam folder lol
