Sellers with best offer but not open to offers

[simplynightbird]

Why even bothering buyers? Seller listed his item ONE YEAR ago, rejected/ignored every single offer

 

Patience or stubbornness ?

Don't 34 offers in one year with no one buying alarm that the item may be overpriced?

Seems like a turn off to everyone so why are they adding the feature... 

[eburtonlab]

In some cases eBay is adding the "Make offer" option even when the seller does not request it and has repeatedly removed it, so it may not be the seller adding that option at all.

Or perhaps those 34 offers were not high enough for the seller to accept. Some sellers have a firm price in mind and are not willing to accept less than that, regardless of how many others are convinced it is "overpriced".

It takes both a willing buyer and a willing seller to make a deal.

[brettjet38]

I recently had a listing that sold with best offer, it had already received many, many offers not one of which I saw or was notified about, why?

Because every single one of those offers was well below any price I would even consider and well below the market price.

Then one day an offer came in that I did get a notification for, why?

Because it was within the "price range" that I was willing to deal within and that was present in the listing beforehand.

Because as a Seller I know my market and set my listings with a price range that I will consider and the bottom feeders can get the auto declines.

Unfortunately, there are Buyers who think that Best Offer means making your lowest offer and if that gets declined they make another at $1.00 more like they were bidding.

After, an item sells I sometimes go look at all the declined offers, its quite fascinating at times to see the number of offers at 70-90% off an 8$ item.

[femmefan1946]

Yes.

The seller may have set parameters that he will automatically accept (usually within 10% of the asking price) .

And he can also set a price below which eBay will automatically send a polite rejection. The seller never sees those offers.

Which is often good for the customer, since offers that a seller considers insultingly low may make him Block the "cheapskate".

[shaun_27_77]

Really wish this feature forced the seller to actually sell to the highest offer. There is with any number of offers, a best offer, which should result in a sale. It’s meaningless when the seller won’t sell.

[marnotom!]

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@shaun_27_77 wrote:

Really wish this feature forced the seller to actually sell to the highest offer..

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There's a special type of listing for that sort of set-up.  It's called an “auction".

[brettjet38]

"It’s meaningless when the seller won’t sell."

It IS the SELLERS choice as to at which price they will "Sell" an item, not the Buyers...

...just saying, supply and demand.

[reallynicestamps]

@shaun_27_77 

I just had a $10 Offer on a $199.99 item.

That's the highest offer I've had on the listing, which has been up for four days.

I don't think I will accept it.

It did notify me that I had forgotten to put Accept/Reject parameters on the listing. And to add a name to my Blocked Buyer List.

[ericsells75]

Congrats you just described an auction. Lol

[marwo507547]

It really depends on the seller and what you are attempting to buy. 

Every buyer wants to buy something for the best possible deal just like sellers want the best possible price for an item; I think if the seller is using the best-offer system and are expecting to get more than what they listed their item for - it won't happen probably -- as who would pay more than the price that is listed; but as a buyer if you are expecting the seller to accept a huge discount on an item then you are expecting way too much from this best-offer system. 

My experience using this best-offer system:

I offered a price for an item (a book) - which was about 10% less than the price and the seller accepted the offer. 

Another time a seller counter-offered my offer and we sent back and forth until we got a price that we both liked. 

Some times the seller doesn't even bother to respond to you as well - this happens a lot as well - it makes you wonder why they put this feature on their item if they were not willing to negotiate.

If you've bartered before it is quite fun to negotate a price but if you are expecting to get a huge discount on an item through this best-offer system on ebay then you are expecting way too much.