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Old 12-21-2007, 10:58 AM
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Default O/T Pet Peeve on Best Offers (Ebay)

Posted By: Eric Brehm

I dislike the whole BIN/Best Offer game. It seems like more times than not the seller is just trolling for suckers. As a seller, I don't use that method; I always put things up for auction and let the market take its course. As a buyer, when I find something that I really want that isn't offered very frequently, and I am willing to bite the bullet, I have found that an offer of about 90% of the BIN price is usually accepted. But some sellers may have a lot more 'padding' in their BIN price than that, so it is certainly worth trying lower offers too (e.g. fair market value).

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