What satisfaction do bidders get out of doing this?

[jetersbatboy]

I am currently listing what I think is a great looking Arod C271L 2007 gamer on eBay. Shortly after listing it, I received a email offering me $150 for the bat, the buyer stated he felt this was the current market value. I sent him a email back declining his offer but thanks for the intrest. A few hours later I receive another email from the same guy stating and I quote " are you an idiot, I am offering you good money for that peice of crap. I drop my offer to $100 let me know when you come to your senses." I just didn't respond to his last email. It make me thinks twice about having my email in my listing, but having it in there has work out for great off eBay trades and sales.

[godwulf]

As someone else noted, eBay is a microcosm of the world...and anyone who has to deal with the public on a regular basis knows what a crapshoot that can be.

I haven't done much selling on eBay - probably fewer than 200 items over ten years, and nothing at all in a couple of years - but I did receive some very strange correspondence in the course of some of those transactions.

One Buyer in Tucson won eight or nine items one night, and immediately began emailing me with instructions on how the things were to be packaged, instructions on how I was to write the feedback that I left for him (!) and pleading with me to write and post at least one positive feedback for him right away, before he'd even made payment. (I declined.)

I actually didn't have a lot of faith that this nut would even make payment, but he did, I packaged the items like I always do - well - and it all ended okay for everyone. I saw where some Seller had left a Negative feedback for the guy, and that the nut had retaliated with a Neg of his own, and the accusation that the guy was "persecuting him because of his disability".

Okay...

[otismalibu]

It make me thinks twice about having my email in my listing

Scott,

Well, you now have his email seeing he sent you a direct message and didn't have to go thru eBay.

So maybe you want to sign him up for the Picture Of The Day service that I've heard certain websites offer.

[jetersbatboy]

Otis,
I thought about that. I was thinking Steiner seeing as how the send at least half a dozen emails a day, with prices that are market value. (and one of those XXX sites for good measure)

[BergerKing22784]

I am assuming you are talking about having like a 200 buy it now and people offering like 2 bucks for it.

I love the best offer function I am forever using it. I sometimes use it to prove to a seller their want value is a little high.

For example I have been looking at Wake vs Maryland tickets for like a month and a half now and saw a trend of seats with face value of 80-90 bucks for a pair going for like like half that like 35-40 bucks. For some reason or another I was never around when final bidding happened so I lost out on some of those auctions.

This one seller had like 5 or 6 auctions up for this game selling simliar seats same section but the prices varied. He would have some listed at 79.99 with a best offer function than others with no best offer function at 49.99 for seats in the same section within rows of each other. So I would send him a best offer of 48.99 and he always declined and sent me a counter for 72.99 it made no sense to me why he kept doing this. We went back and fourth doing this for 2 weeks until I finally ended up getting 2 tickets and a parking pass from another seller for cheaper than my best offer to him.



While the auto decline feature is cool I hate how after so many offers you make get declined you can no longer make offers on that item. The seller doesnt have to go in and click decline on the offer so only persons time who is being wasted is mine. I want to just make offers until I find a price they would at least consider. There are good deals to be had using best offer. My buddy and myself use it and he more so than me has gotten jerseys more than half off the starting bid price.

[3arod13]

I am assuming you are talking about having like a 200 buy it now and people offering like 2 bucks for it.

Correct. Or a $1,000 buy it now, with a make an offfer, and being offered $10

[10thMan]

I listed a few Bats on Ebay, last Spring. The one with the Reserve was bid up to about 30% of what I felt was a reasonable market value (my reserve)

I received no less than 6 e-mails from one particular guy, from an outside USA source. On my first reply, I explained I don`t ship outside the USA & he`s no exception. The Auction CLEARLY indicated "usa only" He continued to insist that I sell him my Bat for the bidding price. In fact he demanded, with his POOR Grammar, that I sell him the Bat. Sadly, I think he`s a forum member...

I told the guy I won`t sell him anything on Ebay, or on this Forum & Blocked him.

Sean

[intheminors]

I love the auto-decline feature. I have three jerseys and some tickets on ebay right now and it keeps me from having to deal with stupid offers.

I also block people people that have received 2 Unpaid Item Strikes in 1 month and people that have a feedback score equal to or lower that -1.

I guess those are a couple of positives I can relay in regards to ebay.

Kyle