Best offer...pfft!

[ksabet]

I wish I could persuade Ebay to change the "best offer" button to say "realistic offer". I don't know if it would make a difference but it may just incline a few people to think intelligently when making an offer.

Card Value: $450
Price: $499 OBO
Offer: $32

This does go both ways.

Card Value: $1000
Price: $3999
Offer: $1250
Counter by seller: $3950

[Lgarza99]

To funny.

I've made reasonable offers with some success. To a to be unnamed eBay seller I've made again, a reasonable offer only to be countered with a $5 dollar reduction on a $800+ card. Why even list it as buy it now, or best offer then? Just list it for what you want when you only have $5 of room.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

I have had good and bad luck with the best offer but I understand that some people want to stick by a price.

[pawpawdiv9]

FYI- you can select where to auto decline if under a specific price option

[Kenny Cole]

A few months back there was a D304 I wanted with a buy it now price of $360 and a best offer option. I offered $325 and was completely ignored, which kind of pissed me off. The offer expired but I kept the card on my watch list. A couple of months later the seller drops the bin to $322.50 and I buy the card for less than I'd offered.

If you are going to list a card with a best offer option doesn't it make sense to actually watch and respond to offers? I guess I don't really get the whole best offer option very well.

[ksabet]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

FYI- you can select where to auto decline if under a specific price option

Yeah I have used that before, but I had a guy tell me he used up his three offers coming in around $5 short of my floor. I guess I prefer to have more control but in the end I may be a glutton for punishment as I get frustrated as well.

[bobbyw8469]

I myself have seen it both ways as well. In a nutshell, there are unrealistic buyers as well as unrealistic sellers. It's a shame that they can't only deal with each other and leave all us normal people alone!

[ullmandds]

it's a crapshoot...some people are reasonable...some are not!

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by ksabet

Yeah I have used that before, but I had a guy tell me he used up his three offers coming in around $5 short of my floor. I guess I prefer to have more control but in the end I may be a glutton for punishment as I get frustrated as well.

Seller should know the market value of what he is selling, or he should run straight auctions. And the buyer should know what things are worth, or should not be buying. Sometimes a seller is wrong, realizes it after an item gathers dust, and should then lower his price or take them to a show where overhead is lower.

You obviously know your product's value, and want to offer a range, which makes complete sense. But I've personally found 'best offer' to be a waste of time, precisely because of what you just described. After the customer uses up his 3 offers trying to find your bottom-line, he then comes back and asks you for it

[bn2cardz]

I was just saying to my wife within the last couple of months that it is "BEST OFFER", not "the Lowest you think you can buy this card for offer".

I had a card that I listed for $50 and based that off the recent auctions on ebay and going with the lower sales, ebay had defaulted the offer option on and I missed it. I got an offer from a person for $20. I declined and left the best offer on as I was going to be on later listing more and figured I could fix that listing and a few others at that point. Later on the same person offered $30. I quickly declined. Then they offered $40. SERIOUSLY? Obviously $20 wasn't your best was it? There are times where I may have accepted that, but he had upset me so much by his original low ball offer I declined. I got to ebay and fixed the offer option at that point. Within an hour of his last offer someone bought it at my full asking price.