09-20-2025, 05:09 PM
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Eric Perry
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Philadelphia Suburbs
Posts: 4,073
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Originally Posted by rlevy
I put an item that had a BIN of $225 with no "best offer" on my watchlist and the next day received an offer from the seller with an 8% discount. The offer was good for 4 days. I responded to the seller that I appreciated the discount but that the price was still too high and asked if the seller could do $170 (75% of the original price, or 83% of the new offered price). The seller didn’t respond, so on day 3 I declined the offer with a message saying I had asked the seller if they could do $175 (actually increased my offer a bit) but hadn’t heard back. They didn’t respond to this message either.
To me, it isn’t about whether the price is fair or not for the item, but the anonymity of the internet allows sellers to do things that they wouldn’t normally do if they were set up at a show. You wouldn’t just ignore someone making you a reasonable offer for an item at a show, you would respond with some sort of answer (i.e. “no, can’t do that”). In this case, the seller is an experienced seller with a 100% positive feedback of over 7,500, yet couldn’t take the time to respond to a potential customer. To me, it is just plain rude and bad business. But I guess the seller just doesn’t care. Remember, they offered me a discount first.
Rick
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It’s possible the seller had the “automatically send offers” feature turned on for that item. I’m not condoning the fact they ignored your message, though.
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Eric Perry
Currently collecting:
T206 (137/524)
1956 Topps Baseball (199/342)
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