Pet Peeve from Potential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

[jobathenut]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

Hey suave-My brother is going threw that right now.As he listed some items on there.And this person made several best offers and ran out of chances.As ebay only lets you make a certain amount of offers.So he tells my brother to lower the buy it now to amount he would buy it for.So my brother does.So i guess we will have to wait and see if he buys it.I told my brother not to change it.But then i dont do ebay, as it's a joke.For these reasons.People always looking to get to get a deal.It's a garage sale on there.Yeah i bet if you offered a item thats worth $100 for $30 you would sell it.But sometimes it's about getting back what you paid for the item or close to it.And most buyers have no clue about that on there.Good for you for responding to the person like that.I proberly would have worded it differently.Like why don't you just stick to garage sales.But then you are alot nicer than me.It's funny cause my brothers item is already at a great buy it now price.But it's all about getting a deal on there.Even if you are already getting one.-

Plat yeah I got a doozey of a customer like that. Not only did he haglle me to death in price on the item. Ended up making me relist it like 4 times and finally bought it. Refused to buy it directly from me!!

How do you like that one?

[xpress34]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

I've been on both sides of this as a buyer and a seller.

My rule of thumb when SELLING is that I only do BIN auctions but I always have BO option.

I also set my 'limits' on the offers so it auto rejects lowball offers, auto accepts offers at or above what I would accept and sends me a note for 'middle of the road' offers that I might consider.

My rule of thumb when BUYING is thatif there is a BIN and a BO, I usually don't offer less than 50% of the BIN as I consider it distasteful and insulting to the seller. Then, if they send a counter-offer, we can barter and hopefiully find a price.

My PET PEEVE when buying is say it's a $100 BIN. I start with a $50 offer and I get a counter offer of $99. No attempt to even try to meet me on a price. I never respond back to those counter offers.

Many times, I watch the item cycle for months and eventually sell for LESS than my original offer!

Ci La Vie!

- Chris

[Mark17]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

As both a buyer and seller, I figure the BO option gives me a chance to offer whatever the max is that I'd pay. I make it reasonable but I don't worry too much if it's on the low side because it's easy for the seller to decline or ignore my offer.

If there is no BO option on the listing, then I let the seller see if he can get his price, and if the auction runs its course without any bids, I figure that's a clear indication his asking price was too high, so maybe my offer is taken more seriously. I often email sellers after their listings have ended with no bids when I'm interested in an item.

As a seller, when I'm working with a buyer, I like to take it outside ebay and request payment by check or MO. I figure that way the ebay and PayPal fees go into the discounted price we're negotiating. I would not negotiate a lower price and then throw it back on ebay. If I'm going to work with someone on price, they need to work with me to minimize/eliminate the fees.

[legaleagle92481]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

Eh. It happens constantly on there. They chisel you to no end. But on here alot of people are similar, I have experienced when selling you price a GU item way under market and they still want alot more off. It is like the bat has a big crack you should take another $100 off. And I feel like saying why do think it is so cheap in the first place? The crack is already priced in. Everyone just tries to find stuff wrong with every item so they can get it cheap then once they do it becomes this amazing item that they try to resell for a big profit.

[tkd7]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

Just say "my prices are firm, thanks for the interest" or add a best offer feature to the listing. No reason to debate a customer or send something negative. Yes, frustrating but its the price of doing business on ebay these days. Too many ways for ebay buyers to negatively impact sellers that it isn't worth it to handle it any other way.

[BULBUS]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

I get plenty of those emails. I usually reply No Thanks, or I don't reply to the really ridiculous ones. Here is a recent email I received:

$109 FOR THIS ITEM IS A LITTLE OFF I THINK,BUT CALL ME AT ****** WHEN THE LISTING IS OVER IF YOU WILL TAKE $65.00 FOR IT,INCLUDING SHIPPING.THANKS,******

I was 109 shipped when Steiner sells the same item for 299 plus shipping. Needless to say, someone else paid the 109 shortly after this email.

-Chris

[suave1477]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

The best one are the guys that ask you to list a buy it now price and then never buy the item.

Plat yeah I got a doozey of a customer like that. Not only did he haglle me to death in price on the item. Ended up making me relist it like 4 times and finally bought it. Refused to buy it directly from me!!

How do you like that one?

[suave1477]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

Yea, low balls do get frustrating, but I guess its the "Never hurts to ask deal." ...lol

I wouldnt even mind as much if they did ask. But they dont. They just send me an email suggesting for me to relist my item at 1 tenth of the price and they will buy it.

Like yeah ok let me get right on that lol lol

[platinum1]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

The best one are the guys that ask you to list a buy it now price and then never buy the item.

[kudu]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

I hate it when buyers send you a message saying you'll never sell your thing for $xxx amount of money, so I will offer you $2 for it right now. I just copy and paste their Ebay ID in my blocked buyers list so that they cannot bid on any of my auctions in the future.

With regards to Buy It now auctions on Ebay, I usually use the "best offer" option. That way the buyer can just send in their best offer, and if its a lowball offer you can just decline it.

[perlman9]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

Yea, low balls do get frustrating, but I guess its the "Never hurts to ask deal." I sell some Buckeye items directly for players like their champ rings, etc and the offers that come in are crazy and sometimes they really get upset with me when I make comment that the offer was way too low. I just got an email from someone saying he would pay $250 for a bowl worn jersey and $500 for a ring and when I said there was no way someone would sell it for that, they got mad at me saying their offer was more than fair. So I guess just takes all kinds and I do try to be helpful to those who may not be able to afford as much to get something, but I guess a lot of people are looking for something for nothing. Thanks American Pickers and Antique Roadshow...lol

[lowell25]

Re: Pet Peeve from otential buyers on Ebay. Your thoughts?

This happens to me alot. I had game used Hank Blalock jersey listed bout' a year ago at $225 bin. Guy emailed me and to buy it for $65 because Hank played in that game on this guys birthday. (mlb hologram was on the jersey).

[suave1477]

Dear Members,

Just needed to vent for a moment and I am curious on your thoughts if this ever happens to you?

(Just an Example)
Let's say you list an item for $100 + $10 shipping.

You can email during the auction period from someone saying.

"Dear Seller, List it for $30 shipping included at a buy now and i'll buy it"

These emails really erk me.

First I don't mind the fact if you want to send me an email to negotiate on a price but if your going to make an offer. Please make it reasonable. If you see me listing something for $100 plus shipping what makes you think I am going to take a over a %70 loss on my item.
Something mroe reasonable like $80 or $90 is fair.

Second if you are even going to make me a ridiculous low ball offer at least you can do is actually ask instead of suggest.

(Regarding the example lowball offer above)
My response in my head is "Yeah no shit if I list it for $30 buy it now everyone would buy it"

But I am more cordial of course and reply back with a No Thank you.

Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me???