Hello Forum Readers:
I know a similar thread was discussed regarding Buy it Now on Ebay vs. Best Offer about a month or two ago but I could not readily locate it. Anyway, I have not used Best Offer for a long time due to the fact that every single time I put that up on Ebay, the wise guy's start coming out and sending in ridiculous offers wasting your time like $.01 $.99 etc. on items that you are listing for hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Of course, as soon as I list something with Best Offer, some idiot comes out of the woodwork and within a couple of days I have an offer for less than 5% of the total Buy it now price.
I don't know about anyone else, but when someone has a Buy it now price and also a best offer, I view this as a nogotiating opportunity but not to be a complete moron and waste someone's time. Obviously unless I am so incredibly desperate for cash I am not going to take an offer for 50 or more percent off of my Buy it now price much less accept $1.00 as the winning bid. I typically will put in a Best Offer price somewhere between 10 - 20 % off of the Buy it now price and see what happens. More often than not, I would say 85% of the time, the person will accept that offer. I am not sure why that bugs me so much, I guess because it seems quite juvenile to waste anyone's time with a stupid offer like that. On a positive note related to that issue, I recently had a very expensive item on ebay with a Best Offer option where the buyer submitted an offer at approximately 8% off of my Buy it Now Price. In ten plus years on ebay, that is the first time that anyone has ever submitted a reasonable offer like that which is why I have generally eliminated that option from all of my auctions to weed out the garbage.
Anyway, just my two cents.
Thanks
I know a similar thread was discussed regarding Buy it Now on Ebay vs. Best Offer about a month or two ago but I could not readily locate it. Anyway, I have not used Best Offer for a long time due to the fact that every single time I put that up on Ebay, the wise guy's start coming out and sending in ridiculous offers wasting your time like $.01 $.99 etc. on items that you are listing for hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Of course, as soon as I list something with Best Offer, some idiot comes out of the woodwork and within a couple of days I have an offer for less than 5% of the total Buy it now price.
I don't know about anyone else, but when someone has a Buy it now price and also a best offer, I view this as a nogotiating opportunity but not to be a complete moron and waste someone's time. Obviously unless I am so incredibly desperate for cash I am not going to take an offer for 50 or more percent off of my Buy it now price much less accept $1.00 as the winning bid. I typically will put in a Best Offer price somewhere between 10 - 20 % off of the Buy it now price and see what happens. More often than not, I would say 85% of the time, the person will accept that offer. I am not sure why that bugs me so much, I guess because it seems quite juvenile to waste anyone's time with a stupid offer like that. On a positive note related to that issue, I recently had a very expensive item on ebay with a Best Offer option where the buyer submitted an offer at approximately 8% off of my Buy it Now Price. In ten plus years on ebay, that is the first time that anyone has ever submitted a reasonable offer like that which is why I have generally eliminated that option from all of my auctions to weed out the garbage.
Anyway, just my two cents.
Thanks
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