Ebay Best Offer thoughts

[otismalibu]

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The BIN is high, but I just got an offer from someone brand new to ebay at $5. I dont get it. I declined with a "Im not sure what you were trying to offer, but you are welcome to place another."

If they respond, see if their email address shows up. If it does, go to Paypal and click Request Money and then make up an invoice for the full auction price (or add a few zeros to his offer) and send it to them. Get creative. You may be able to make the newb soil himself.

[ifirocked]

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what i don't like are sellers who don't counter offer. you place an offer of $700 on a $1000 BIN and they just decline. if your really looking to get $850 just make a counter offer and say i need this amount.

[BergerKing22784]

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I like the make an offer feature. I just used it to buy some Braves Nationals tickets for this fridays game! $216 face value for $118! Gotta love the fact you Natty fans or lack their of haha.

[bigtime59]

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I've found that most other buyers use the "best offer" as an opportunity to lowball the seller...really, really lowball the seller.
I had a jersey that I'd paid $90 for, listed with a $100 BIN. Kept getting "best offers" of less than $50. Fun week. Too bad I won't get it back.

Mark
bigtime39@aol.com

[frikativ54]

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Well, I had a Biggio BGS 10 Upper Deck rookie card from their first set up for auction, and I got a $1 BO. It made me really mad, because my asking price was $299.99. I have done that a few times myself, to be honest, as a way of saying, "Seller, are you out of your mind. That isn't worth anything close to the BIN." Luckily, in the case of the Biggio card, a guy came along and offered $255. I use the BIN/BO option a lot, because I find that there will frequently be a buyer who wants an item badly enough that he/s/he will offer a good chunk of change for it. Many of the times I've come away with a great result from this type of fixed price listing.

[geoff]

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I have been using this method for the past Month or so and had mostly Low Ball Offers so far except a few Jerseys that I sold to a Person here.He gave me fare Market Value for the Jerseys.I have a few things up right now and am waiting for the Low Offers to come in so I can have a nice Laugh.

[intheminors]

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I personally like the Best Offer feature. I always use the Auto Decline and it seems to work out in the end.

As a matter of fact, I pulled 5-6 jerseys that I said I would never sell out of my collection and am getting ready to put them up for auction. I kept getting e-mails about these jerseys and I finally figured I would let the people put their money where their mouth was.

Plus, if they don't sell for what I want them to, I can always put them right back in my collection.

Just my two cents.

Kyle

[trsent]

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I like the make an offer feature. I just used it to buy some Braves Nationals tickets for this fridays game! $216 face value for $118! Gotta love the fact you Natty fans or lack their of haha.

I bought WWE Raw in Chicago tickets a week ago for $65.00 for $140.00 (with Ticketmaster fees) tickets the day of the show. Asking price was $140.00, I offered $65.00 since I was offered similar tickets 10 rows back in the same section, he countered $120.00 and I once again offered $65.00 since it was four hours to show-time.

I guess that was good enough for him. I think you can buy a lot of tickets day of event of eBay for quite reasonable prices since StubHub is not reasonable for last minute purchases.