I did this just last night and got a deal out of it. I find this works best when there's an item up for bidding at a relatively competitive price (intro bid) that I'm interested in that closes without bids. There was an example of this last night. An item with a starting bid of $24.99 was closing with no bids, but I forget about it and it closed with no bids. So, just before I went to sleep I sent a very short message to the seller: "$22?" and then I woke up in the morning to find that he was game. So then I looked into his catalogue and found another card out there with no bids yet and we settled on a price for that one as well (initial bid of $47.59 and we landed at $42.50). Might as well since I already had shipping factored in, right? Obviously dealing with peanuts here, but it was all quite amicable and every bit of savings help when you're buying cardboard.
I have done this various times and the response tends to fall into 3 categories: 1. No I think the price is fair. 2. Sure. 3. No response at all. So far nobody has ever been rude about it.
Last edited by Kutcher55; 09-15-2025 at 02:29 PM.
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