t'Bay make an offer nonsense

[drawboy]

I am after some grip tape to re grip my irons with before the start of the year. I found what I was after on Fleabay. Now it had a buy it now price and a make an offer price so I knocked a quid off and made an offer. It has been rejected
What I want to know is why bother with a make an offer box if you are not prepared to take a quid off?
Seems silly to me, why not just leave that out and have a buy it now price?

 

[MarkE]

I would'nt buy it from them now on principle, get from someone else. Or get it from gamola golf. They are usually as cheap as ebay anyway (for grips as well).

 

[drawboy]

I would'nt buy it from them now on principle, get from someone else. Or get it from gamola golf. They are usually as cheap as ebay anyway (for grips as well).

Strange thing MarkE it was flipping Gamola! Dealt with them lots of times before too.

 

[Foxholer]

It's a Marketing ploy - to get you to select their item rather than someone else's.

Then they have a MaO with a band very close to the BiN price and hope you don't get annoyed.

Similar to MarkE, there's a point where that annoys me enough for me to buy elsewhere! Have certainly noted on Feedback more than once - when 'acceptable' price has been 1p less than BiN!

 

[richart]

I bought a picture on ebay by 'make an offer' I bid half price and got it. I knew I should have gone in even cheaper.

 

[fundy]

I bought a picture on ebay by 'make an offer' I bid half price and got it. I knew I should have gone in even cheaper.

nothing worse than your first offer being accepted lol, know you opened too high

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

You do get some clowns though, friend of mine is selling his road cycle with a BIN price of £500, some guy offered £200

 

[SaintHacker]

You do get some clowns though, friend of mine is selling his road cycle with a BIN price of £500, some guy offered £200

Had almost the same happen to me. tried selling my bike at a very reasonable start price. Tons of watchers but no bids. Literally two minutes after the auction ended I got a flood of messages asking if I would sell it for anything up to £50 off my price!. Absolute tossers.

 

[Grumps]

Strange thing MarkE it was flipping Gamola! Dealt with them lots of times before too.

I've had this from gamola before offered 50p less per grip and got rejected

 

[BoadieBroadus]

One of the most annoying aspects of selling on eBay is the chancers emailing a low buy it now price when you haven't made buy it now an option - c

 

[Foxholer]

One of the most annoying aspects of selling on eBay is the chancers emailing a low buy it now price when you haven't made buy it now an option - c

Often dealers thinking it would be worth a punt. So I just ignore those ones.

Can't see the issue with a post 'didn't sell' deal. No different to haggling imo. Can be a win-win too!

 

[Rooter]

Was selling a sennheiser posh bluetooth headset last week, the are about £140 new. put BIN or offer at £75. bloke offered £65 so i took it, 5 days later still hasnt paid for it and has told me he is skint. what a tool.

 

[BoadieBroadus]

Often dealers thinking it would be worth a punt. So I just ignore those ones.

Can't see the issue with a post 'didn't sell' deal. No different to haggling imo. Can be a win-win too!

yes post sell fair enough, but the ones who ask if you'll accept £x? well why don't you just bid £x and see if you win?

 

[Odvan]

I loathe people pm'g me with derisory offers when I'm flogging something when I haven't stipulated 'make an offer'.

However...lol. I did this at weekend when trying to get a Nike Method putter a bit cheaper. Pm'd offering 20% less of the list price (margin at least 50% for the golf retailer?). Got an instant reply offering me 13% off. Deal done.

The interesting thing....the seller was 'Sheffieldproshop' but after buying it over the phone got a text from Snainton Golf confirming delivery. On their site, the same putter was around 45% more than their eBay list price.