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Old 09-01-2010, 09:57 PM
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I am amazed how many sellers ignore offers all together. It is bad form and bad business to do so. If I make an offer an never hear back I move on. If the seller doesn't have the time and courtesy to counter or deny my offer then I don't need to buy from them. Most often I offer less than I am willing to pay because it gives me room to work.
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I am amazed how many sellers ignore offers all together. It is bad form and bad business to do so. If I make an offer an never hear back I move on. If the seller doesn't have the time and courtesy to counter or deny my offer then I don't need to buy from them. Most often I offer less than I am willing to pay because it gives me room to work.
I think you're taking it too personally. In that case a non-response is a response: no.
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Old 09-02-2010, 08:07 AM
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that offer a Make Offer button, but they don't really mean it.

For instance, I made an offer of the VCP average for a card, at $100 within the last few months, on a card that a high volume, well-known dealer had listed with a BIN of $130. His counteroffer was $126.
Gee, thanks...don't strain yourself.
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that offer a Make Offer button, but they don't really mean it.

For instance, I made an offer of the VCP average for a card, at $100 within the last few months, on a card that a high volume, well-known dealer had listed with a BIN of $130. His counteroffer was $126.
Gee, thanks...don't strain yourself.
My favorite non-offer goes like this....

I have a card for sale, say for $100. Someone asks if I can do $80. I say yes. He says, "ok, I will think about it." Uh, what just happened? Why ask if I can take less if you aren't ready to buy it for the price you asked for, idiot?
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that offer a Make Offer button, but they don't really mean it.

For instance, I made an offer of the VCP average for a card, at $100 within the last few months, on a card that a high volume, well-known dealer had listed with a BIN of $130. His counteroffer was $126.
Gee, thanks...don't strain yourself.
It wouldn't be any of those high volume, well known dealers that have had the same cards listed on eBay for years at 50% more than they would actually sell for would it?
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Here's a good rule of thumb: If you send an extremely low offer (less than half of all the other offers) and then cancel that offer literally 2 minutes later and immediately send an even lower offer -- as one board member did to me last year -- you'll find that you won't be allowed to bid in that individual's auctions/best offers anymore.

And my Buy It Now was actually quite reasonable. The individual who bought it from me sold it via Ebay auction for a higher price than my Buy It Now asking price within a month.
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