Sellers Ending Auction Early And Selling Outside Of Ebay

[cohibasmoker]

Re: Sellers Ending Auction Early And Selling Outside Of Ebay

Perhaps a Seller can sell themselves short by ending an auction early and the Buyer can get a good deal?

Jim

[3arod13]

Re: Sellers Ending Auction Early And Selling Outside Of Ebay

I actually like and use the "Buy it Now, Make an Offer" option. Most of the time, it works out well for both.

[sox83cubs84]

Re: Sellers Ending Auction Early And Selling Outside Of Ebay

I actually like and use the "Buy it Now, Make an Offer" option. Most of the time, it works out well for both.

It just did for me. I was scanning an item offered for a BIN/MAO of $9.99. I offered $6, and the transaction was approved by the seller. I get a good percentage of positive responses with the Make an Offer feature.

Dave Miedema

[3arod13]

Re: Sellers Ending Auction Early And Selling Outside Of Ebay

It just did for me. I was scanning an item offered for a BIN/MAO of $9.99. I offered $6, and the transaction was approved by the seller. I get a good percentage of positive responses with the Make an Offer feature.

Dave Miedema

As a seller, I like it. And if someone emails me asking to sell it offline, I just tell them to make the offer and I'll accept. I pretty much know what I want for my items I sell, so it's simple.

[Samets]

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Personally feel bad for the sellers that can't for the life of them sell an item.

There's this Hester that I keep seeing being re-listed over and over:

Ended November 18th for $1,448

Re-listed and ended December 4th for $1,060

It's back again for the 3rd round!

[ousooner_85]

Re: Sellers Ending Auction Early And Selling Outside Of Ebay

Personally feel bad for the sellers that can't for the life of them sell an item.

There's this Hester that I keep seeing being re-listed over and over:

Ended November 18th for $1,448

Re-listed and ended December 4th for $1,060

It's back again for the 3rd round!

The situation above bothers me the most when using eBay. The same person won the jersey both times (I'm assuming a fake account by the seller for shill bidding). Just list the dang thing with a BIN/Best Offer and get on down the road.

[paul457]

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The situation above bothers me the most when using eBay. The same person won the jersey both times (I'm assuming a fake account by the seller for shill bidding). Just list the dang thing with a BIN/Best Offer and get on down the road.

Here's what I've noticed with eBay, and the buying options:

If you put up a reasonable BIN price, everyone perceives it to be overpriced. Think of it like walking into Wal-Mart and paying the sticker price for something. No one wants to pay sticker, they want a deal.

So then you use the BIN with 'best offer' to sell your item - then no one makes an offer because they think your BIN price is unreasonable. Or they make an offer of 1/8 your BIN price, and don't play ball when you counter-offer back.

So then you're at the mercy of bidding - and if you have 20 watchers of your item, you might have 1-2 bidders.... with 18-19 window shoppers. So you either take a bath by using a really low opening bid, or put in a high opening bid, and then no one bids...

Sorry to rant, but I'm going through this now on eBay with a few of my jerseys. For example - I have a Red Sox jersey for sale - it sold ~ 2 weeks after the WS ended, and this dude strung me along for two weeks after the sale, saying he was going to pay... and then ultimately didn't pay. THEN a week later, he decided he had cash to cover 80% of the the actual selling price, and tried to beat me down even further!! Unbelievable.

So then I listed the jersey again, someone bought it, and again decided not to pay...

So now I've listed the jersey 5-6 times, 2 sales, and it's up for sale again. People see this activity on the completed listings, and probably think the jersey is garbage. Now I just have to pull the listing and wait for 3-6 months before I sell it - people won't touch it now with a 10' pole.

Another recent example - I have an issued Pro Bowl jersey for sale, someone made an offer, I accepted it. Then about 5 minutes later I get an email saying 'my son used my account to buy me a Christmas present, and he thought this was a game used jersey. Sorry, please cancel the transaction'.

For high dollar items, eBay is a joke.

[NEFAN]

Re: Sellers Ending Auction Early And Selling Outside Of Ebay

I'm not a fan of buyers or sellers that conduct back door business on Ebay, and I know from personal experience that we have both on this board. I don't understand why a seller would do that anyway. If you accept an offer, how do you know the item wouldn't have brought more if the auction went to the end? If someone made me a big offer that was as much or more as I was hoping to get for the item, why not set that offer as the reserve price and see if someone else (including the person making the offer) would top it?

I have done this before, but, I was offered $250 for an item I was hoping to get $60 for. No way it would have reached that and nobody had bid on it yet.

[Roady]

Re: Sellers Ending Auction Early And Selling Outside Of Ebay

How about sellers who allow a best offer but never respond to offers by declining or making a counter offer?
If you are not willing to take more than $10 off what you have a BIN for then why allow offers?

Or the sellers who respond to an offer by declining it and leaving a note about how you should offer more? No, the seller should counter offer.
I always offer less than I am willing to give. I can always go up if I want.
I have walked away from sellers who thought they were so hurt by my offer that they would not even counter offer when I probably would have given them what they wanted. Not worth the hassle to deal with someone so emotional and who gives off a sense of victimization.

[Samets]

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Or the sellers who respond to an offer by declining it and leaving a note about how you should offer more? No, the seller should counter offer.
I always offer less than I am willing to give. I can always go up if I want.
I have walked away from sellers who thought they were so hurt by my offer that they would not even counter offer when I probably would have given them what they wanted. Not worth the hassle to deal with someone so emotional and who gives off a sense of victimization.

I agree 100% If you are not willing to entertain offers don't use the option or at least set your threshold so the buyer will get auto decline.