eBay coupon psychosis!

[bensie]

As a seller, I find that I'm less willing to work on price when these coupons are active. That said, I do understand the buyer psychology. When I submit a 'BIN/BO' price, there's no way to cancel it, so I don't want to stick a high BIN/BO price out there in case the seller doesn't respond until the coupon is expired. I tend to try to find auctions that close in the time frame, or look specifically at BIN items without worrying about best offer. It's a bit of a game, but stuff like this is part of what makes the hobby fun to me.

In any case, bounce, I have added you to my favorite sellers list. Your stuff is reasonably priced and I'll be sure to check out your store first next time a coupon comes up.

edit: I also feel bad sometimes because some people clearly don't know about the coupon. I drove hard (didn't reduce price) on a Koufax RC last night because I assumed the buyer would wait to pay until today and get a huge discount. I got almost what I had initially hoped, so I felt pretty pleased with the sale and the assumption that we both walked away with a good deal. Nope...poor guy paid immediately after accepting my counteroffer. Had he waited just a few hours, he could have gotten the card for quite a bit cheaper.

[canjond]

I agree with the OP. There is a card from a board member I've wanted on eBay for a little while now. We've communicated about it in the past, but we've always been around $100 off in price from where he wanted to be ($700), and where I wanted to be ($600).

A few weeks back, I threw in an offer of $650 because I had an 8% off coupon. No dice - we couldn't bridge the gap. Today, I emailed the seller and asked if he would take $700 for the card, knowing that it would cost me $600 to purchase it with the 15% off coupon. He said yes, so I threw in the offer and got the card. He got his $700, and I got my $600. I am happy and feel like I got the deal I wanted, and I genuinely hope that the seller is also happy. We obviously had differing ideas of value - or where we felt comfortable transacting on the card - and the coupon helped us bridge the gap and both get what we want.

[tschock]

Originally Posted by bensie

As a seller, I find that I'm less willing to work on price when these coupons are active. That said, I do understand the buyer psychology. When I submit a 'BIN/BO' price, there's no way to cancel it, so I don't want to stick a high BIN/BO price out there in case the seller doesn't respond until the coupon is expired.(

Actually, there is an option to retract your offer prior to acceptance. At least I saw a link to do that on my review of an offer I made, though I never tried it. So I sort-of tried it last night by making an offer, with the intent of cancelling it if it got close to coupon expiration and had other items in the basket, but one I could live with if retraction wouldn't work and I missed the coupon.

[autograf]

Always remember. For many people, simple math is not so simple......

[Leon]

Originally Posted by autograf

Always remember. For many people, simple math is not so simple......

When I had the Trucker Boy find (years ago) the guy and I struck up a good deal on one of the sets. I had offered 12k and he wanted 18k.
I said lets meet in the middle and he said no, but I will do 15k though. I said ok....

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Leon

When I had the Trucker Boy find (years ago) the guy and I struck up a good deal on one of the sets. I had offered 12k and he wanted 18k.
I said lets meet in the middle and he said no, but I will do 15k though. I said ok....

That sounds about right...

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." H. L. Mencken

"You can fool some of the people some of the time and the rest you can jerk off" Robin Williams

[Promethius88]

Originally Posted by tschock

Actually, there is an option to retract your offer prior to acceptance. At least I saw a link to do that on my review of an offer I made, though I never tried it. So I sort-of tried it last night by making an offer, with the intent of cancelling it if it got close to coupon expiration and had other items in the basket, but one I could live with if retraction wouldn't work and I missed the coupon.

I have made offers during Ebay and Ebay bucks promos where the seller did not respond before the promotion ended. I cancelled the offers. The process is simple. I can say as a seller that if I have BIN/BO items and I know there's a promotion going on, I'm going to stay on top of things those days/nights in case I get a decent offer. That being said, I usually don't list with best offer and price the majority of my items where they have recently sold, not 10-15% higher.