Question about Ebay "Buy It Now or Best Offer" etiquette

[JasonL]

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.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by JasonL

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?

[Doug]

Originally Posted by JasonL

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?

[wake.up.the.echoes]

If I have told you once, I have told you 707 times...

[Doug]

Originally Posted by 19bowman48

If I have told you once, I have told you 707 times...

Good one!

[Anthony S.]

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.