You Know What Really Grinds My Gears - Selling on eBay!

[TriplexXxSports]

Re: You Know What Really Grinds My Gears - Selling on eBay!

I'm often content to get 5/8 of my asking price on the BO option. Maybe raise your BIN?

Then I would be gouging the consumer. It's set at a fair price. Anyone in the market for an item should know a fair price when they come across one.

It's not like I'm asking $3.5 mil for some Tillman cleats, but I'm also not running a 70% off sale...

[flota89]

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I will admit I tend to offer well below the price being asked because it is in fact worth much less than what the seller wants nowadays. It does not matter what you have invested or paid for something.

I remember a while back I offered $225 for a Griffey UDA photo and that was my tops while the seller thought it was worth $500+ as he had more than that invested and told me I was lowballing etc. Then he asked other members on the board what it is worth and my offer was more than generous according to the others as well as eBay prices for a similar item.

Remember an item is only WORTH what a buyer is willing to pay today, what you have invested does not make a difference.

I must say I completely agree with you. I frequently list items on eBay, and almost always I choose the Buy it Now option and opt to accept best offers. While the prices seem fair to me, I get a lot of offers for much lower. Instead of sending back a rude or short response I always explain to the buyer what I need for the item. If they can do that...great. If not...I move on. There are far too many sellers on eBay that get way too defensive when offers are made on their items. The worst a seller can do is say no. I see absolutely nothing wrong with offering what is comfortable, even if it is lower.

In the end, an item is worth what someone will pay. Nothing wrong with that number being too low for a seller. Just decline it and move on.

[Griffey24fan]

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I will admit I tend to offer well below the price being asked because it is in fact worth much less than what the seller wants nowadays. It does not matter what you have invested or paid for something.

I remember a while back I offered $225 for a Griffey UDA photo and that was my tops while the seller thought it was worth $500+ as he had more than that invested and told me I was lowballing etc. Then he asked other members on the board what it is worth and my offer was more than generous according to the others as well as eBay prices for a similar item.

Remember an item is only WORTH what a buyer is willing to pay today, what you have invested does not make a difference.

[frikativ54]

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The item, nor the price is relevant. It's the fact that the clown was offering 5/8 of my asking price. That's an insult, by all accounts.

I'm often content to get 5/8 of my asking price on the BO option. Maybe raise your BIN?

[emann]

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In this economy fair market is heading south, much like real estate, so what was low ball in the past is now fair market value.....

Tend to agree. Perhaps sad, but true.[/QUOTE]

This isn't always true and I'd say that price adjustments are happening mostly on items that were overpriced to begin with. Items with true collectible value will hold their price points for the most part. It might just not sell as fast as it once did...

Also (and this is not directed @ you TripleXXX), some sellers are just plain greedy and unrealistic with "buy it now" listings.

[gingi79]

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eBay only cares about money and buyers. Between the seller fees and the fact there is (at best) 10 to 1 ratio of fake to real items, selling on the site has become a ghetto garage sale. There are many good reasons why the prices of real auction sites is so much higher than FleaBay, and integrity is on top of the list.

[otismalibu]

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Buyers don't really care what the seller has invested. A couple years back I paid $800 for an item the seller had paid $1500 for a few years earlier. He listed it on eBay for $750 and no one bid.

If an item is priced right, it will usually sell. Sometimes it take a couple of auctions. You can just eliminate the offer option and go straight BIN, or set the min. offer deal. Or just block the outrageous lowballers.

5/8 and 5.6/8 is not that far apart.

Maybe wait until football season.

[Shipp_96]

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I agree with your rant, because I feel the same way. Ebay has become a last ditch, desperate I really want something else so whatever if I lose $ on this effort for me.

I had a worn jersey on there I dropped $60 from what I paid, only to have people writing me offering an additional $30-40 less than my drop dead price! Keep in mind this was a low end price to start with (less than $200).

I even emailed them and told them look, I paid this amount for it, and am offering it to you for this. I am not desperate, but just want to buy something else. IT SIMPLY DOES NOT MATTER TO THEM! Then long after the auction has ended, the vultures will continue to email me and beg me to sell it to them at that insulting offer they made.

There gets a point where you would rather keep it then accept their BS.

[TriplexXxSports]

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Tend to agree. Perhaps sad, but true.

We all know this. My prices are always adjusted accordingly.

[rufusandherschel]

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In this economy fair market is heading south, much like real estate, so what was low ball in the past is now fair market value.....[/quote]

Tend to agree. Perhaps sad, but true.

[TriplexXxSports]

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I'm curious on what the item was, what you consider it's fair market value, and what the low ball number was. In this economy fair market is heading south, much like real estate, so what was low ball in the past is now fair market value.....

The item, nor the price is relevant. It's the fact that the clown was offering 5/8 of my asking price. That's an insult, by all accounts.

Not to mention when I dropped the price by 30%, he goes into his rant about how he picked up a similar item (different player) for $125 less.

Whatever dude...

[CollectGU]

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34 - Don't make me flex all over your parade! I'd hate to have to come down there and wreck your style! And FYI - I've already been today.

And yes, it's never going to change (like we've spoke about numerous times, and you the "ALMIGHTY" have enlighten me about)- I know this. Just about sick of the chit though.

Will you ever forgive my rant, Ole Mighty One?

I'm curious on what the item was, what you consider it's fair market value, and what the low ball number was. In this economy fair market is heading south, much like real estate, so what was low ball in the past is now fair market value.....

[TriplexXxSports]

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You done?

You know this will never change so I don't know why you bother bizitching about it. You and I have had this discussion before, several times in fact, and the end result is always the same:
as card-carrying Mensa members, we're WAY outnumbered.

Now, off your soapbox and get back in the gym.

34 - Don't make me flex all over your parade! I'd hate to have to come down there and wreck your style! And FYI - I've already been today.

And yes, it's never going to change (like we've spoke about numerous times, and you the "ALMIGHTY" have enlighten me about)- I know this. Just about sick of the chit though.

Will you ever forgive my rant, Ole Mighty One?

[yanks12025]

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I love when trying to sell stuff and I put prices at what the same items have sold for in the past. Yet my auctions never receive the bids or money like the other listings.

[b.heagy]

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gotta love the block bidder option.........