REA question
 

I could have sworn I used a "make an offer to the winner" function on their site in the last year or so. Am I crazy or did they have it and then take it down?

I dont recall seeing it @ REA, HA has a similar service.

I remember seeing this on REA, I think last year, but I don’t see it anymore.

You can always send an email with an offer. I have done this with Heritage and do recall seeing it on REA. Depends on if the original buyer opted into this potential option with the auction hous.

It was there about 2 years ago. Made one offer never heard anything and there was no way to check status

They did have it, but I think it might have just been an email form. I also made one offer on part of a lot but the winner of the lot never responded.

Same here... never got a response either way.

We had the feature and removed it during the most recent revamp of the website. We found that the system was inundated with thousands of offers to purchase cards at 50% more than they sold for originally but 20% of what they’d sell for today, offers on cards sold so long ago that they’d traded hands multiple times since then, or offers on more recently sold items that didn’t really incentivize the buyers to sell. While we passed along the offers, the response rates varied, and it became a lot to manage. We did facilitate many sales through the feature, including some significant items, but until we could build a better mousetrap, we opted to hide it. We still get emails daily through the website, and we’re happy to pass them along to the buyer where it makes sense.

Brian

Thanks, Brian. At least I'm not crazy :)

Maybe you could have the minimum offer be 50% above the sale price and you do it for just the last, say 3 auctions? Or the last 2 years or something....that would help alleviate some of the time passage issues you mention. Just a thought.