Question for Ebay veterans

J.McMurry · #1 06-23-2009, 09:14 AM

I've done 3-4 "best offer" on Ebay and I've always gotten a response of declined or accepted. My question is, is it proper etiquette for the seller to just never respond and let the time run out?

How do you sellers on the board handle "best offers"?

ibuysportsephemera · #2 06-23-2009, 09:21 AM

I set limits so that I only receive offers that I am willing to consider. Before eBay allowed us to set limits, I always responded, even if I thought that an offer was unreasonable.

Jeff

bcbgcbrcb · #3 06-23-2009, 09:26 AM

I agree with Jeff that a response should be sent regardless of the offer. I have made a couple of best offers and not received an answer from the seller and the 48 hour time limit ultimately expired. Now, you don't know if the seller was on vacation, etc. and you are limited to only a couple of best offers per item.

GoldenAge50s · #4 06-23-2009, 10:10 AM

I NEVER use the Auto Response on BO's. No matter how ridiculous the offer, I figure I have nothing to lose & everything to gain by responding & making a counter-offer.

ibuysportsephemera · #5 06-23-2009, 10:14 AM

I never had a reasonable counter offer accepted, which is why I stopped wasting my time with ridiculous offers. I leave plenty of room for reasonable negotiations in my limits.

Jeff

Jim VB · #6 06-23-2009, 10:23 AM

No offer, of any amount, should be considered so unreasonable that it's not worth a response. Auto-response is fine, as long as it declines the offer, and doesn't just ignore it.

Common human decency says you can take two seconds to say "no thank you." Ignoring an offer sinks below that level.

By the same token, no seller should be obligated to counter offer if they deem the original too low.

Leon · #7 06-25-2009, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by J.McMurry

I've done 3-4 "best offer" on Ebay and I've always gotten a response of declined or accepted. My question is, is it proper etiquette for the seller to just never respond and let the time run out?

How do you sellers on the board handle "best offers"?

I don't use best offers in my few sales (I don't sell a lot on ebay anymore). I do make a fair amount of offers and have had mixed results. I try not to make insulting offers but usually offer around 70-75% of the asking BIN. Most folks have responded, some favorably and some not so.... I think a decent offer (anywhere over 50%) should at least be responded to....it can't hurt.