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06-23-2009, 09:26 AM
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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.
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06-23-2009, 10:10 AM
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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.
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I've learned that I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it.
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06-23-2009, 10:14 AM
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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.
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06-23-2009, 10:23 AM
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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.
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06-23-2009, 12:10 PM
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It's proper for the seller to respond to inquiries, with a pressing of the decline button counting as a response. It's good business sense, and good for business, to respond to people cutiously, if very briefly. I don't see anything wrong with setting the function to automatically decline offers that are too low.
As a seller, when I got an offer I'd sincerely consider it, and accepted a few offers that I thought were fair but lower than I hoped for. I once declined a BIN offer on an autographed football jersey with team LOA. When I put later put the jersey in eBay auction it sold for less than the BIN offer. There's a lesson in there somewhere, perhaps about seller expectations. Last edited by drc; 06-23-2009 at 12:36 PM.
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06-24-2009, 08:09 PM
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I wonder how much volume people do, I have over 1600 items on ebay. If I have something up for 1000 and people offer me 1 or even 100 it is pretty unreasonable and I find it somewhat insulting. Therefore why does that deserve any type of response.
That being said I have increased my use of the auto decline a great deal and as soon as I get a stupid low offer I will put in an auto decline. I try as much as possible to respond to all offers. I generally find that counter offeres are generally either not responded to or declined. James G
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06-24-2009, 08:51 PM
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I do not use auto response, figuring that any dialog is better than none. As I get more and more jaded to silly offers, I will perhaps change my mind. Since I am one of those idiots that has a good percentage of items up at very aggressive prices (like the euphanism?) I expect some perceived value descrepency. That is not what I consider a silly offer.
I always try to respond with a counter (almost never decline) but sometimes I screw up and miss some correspondence. James G. is correct that most counters are met with silence, so being professional and polite sometimes gets you a kick in the ass when the other side does not exhibit the same propensity.
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