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lejackal

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This isn't SW related but I just found a game I want on eBay and it's £10 or make an offer. Being honest I'm perfectly fine at £10 but having the offer option implies that there may be a bit of wiggle room, well, I thought it did.
1st offer of 7 is auto declined, not a problem, I'm being cheeky as well as tight. Same on 8, again fair enough to not take 20% off but when it also auto declined 9 you have to wonder what exactly is the ****ing point of inviting offers :?:
Anyway, rant over.
 

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lejackal said:
This isn't SW related but I just found a game I want on eBay and it's £10 or make an offer. Being honest I'm perfectly fine at £10 but having the offer option implies that there may be a bit of wiggle room, well, I thought it did.
1st offer of 7 is auto declined, not a problem, I'm being cheeky as well as tight. Same on 8, again fair enough to not take 20% off but when it also auto declined 9 you have to wonder what exactly is the ****ing point of inviting offers :?:
Anyway, rant over.

lol makes you feel any better had an offer today that was more then the asking price lol.
 

TK-7785

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I've had this a few times. Is it 'Buy It Now' at £10 or starting bids at £10? Because if it's buy it now I really can't see what the **** they were thinking. Like you would offer higher than the Buy It Now. :roll:
 

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Isn't this a new eBay "thing" where best offer is auto selected on all auctions?
 

lejackal

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TK-7785 said:
I've had this a few times. Is it 'Buy It Now' at £10 or starting bids at £10? Because if it's buy it now I really can't see what the **** they were thinking. Like you would offer higher than the Buy It Now. :roll:
BIN, like you say, it makes no sense.
 

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I had this loads last year when I was blitzing vintage games. I think I got declined on a £9.50 offer for a £10 BIN. It wasn't a bad deal at a tenner but I didn't buy it cos the guy was being such a dick.
 

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It actually puts me off buying items. If it's listed £10 BIN, without make an offer, I would probably pull the trigger on it. But when it has make an offer, and it declines at £9, I'm like fu*k you... I won't buy it full stop.
 

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This is likely to be eBay's fault rather than the sellers

They have introduced this new feature where they turn on 'best offer' if your BIN listing hasn't sold within a few days. It's the most infuriating eBay change I can remember.

With cheap stuff like this, I think haggling just pisses people off. I tend to only list cheap stuff I have bulk of on there now. When someone offers me £2.50 on a £4.99 purchase :shock:

God bless eBay
 

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I got this email today asking if I wanted to reduce the price of these items, I'm virtually giving them away :lol:
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lejackal

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punk_pat said:
This is likely to be eBay's fault rather than the sellers

They have introduced this new feature where they turn on 'best offer' if your BIN listing hasn't sold within a few days. It's the most infuriating eBay change I can remember.

With cheap stuff like this, I think haggling just pisses people off. I tend to only list cheap stuff I have bulk of on there now. When someone offers me £2.50 on a £4.99 purchase :shock:

God bless eBay
Haggling on cheap stuff might piss people off but if the option is there then I'm certainly going to try and save a bit. In this instance I'm confident the seller set it up as eBay would not apply something only to have an auto decline in place, would they?
 

lejackal

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Ruby2511 said:
I got this email today asking if I wanted to reduce the price of these items, I'm virtually giving them away :lol:
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Yep, eBay couldn't give a **** how much you get as long as they get some commission
 

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lejackal said:
punk_pat said:
This is likely to be eBay's fault rather than the sellers

They have introduced this new feature where they turn on 'best offer' if your BIN listing hasn't sold within a few days. It's the most infuriating eBay change I can remember.

With cheap stuff like this, I think haggling just pisses people off. I tend to only list cheap stuff I have bulk of on there now. When someone offers me £2.50 on a £4.99 purchase :shock:

God bless eBay
Haggling on cheap stuff might piss people off but if the option is there then I'm certainly going to try and save a bit. In this instance I'm confident the seller set it up as eBay would not apply something only to have an auto decline in place, would they?

Good point - I think when they've done it to my listings, they put an auto-decline figure as being under 50% of the asking price.
 

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had the same offered less than 10%. less declind wtf seems like tyey want minimum + to get best offe r :roll:
 

TK-7785

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Ain't nothing wrong with a bit of haggling. If someone puts that option on their listing, be ready to haggle. I only get pissed off with the people who offer me £20 for something listed at £100. Haggling isn't rocket science, but some people seem to struggle with the concept. :lol:
 

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TK-7785 said:
Ain't nothing wrong with a bit of haggling. If someone puts that option on their listing, be ready to haggle. I only get pissed off with the people who offer me £20 for something listed at £100. Haggling isn't rocket science, but some people seem to struggle with the concept. :lol:

I agree that some idiots put in stupid bids knowing full well that it's going to piss you off. I always like to haggle a little bit but not be cheeky :lol: we all need to make a little bit on something and passing on a bit of goodwill to our fellow collectors is good karma :wink:
 

lejackal

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TK-7785 said:
Ain't nothing wrong with a bit of haggling. If someone puts that option on their listing, be ready to haggle. I only get pissed off with the people who offer me £20 for something listed at £100. Haggling isn't rocket science, but some people seem to struggle with the concept. :lol:
Sorry about that :oops: :lol:
 

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punk_pat said:
This is likely to be eBay's fault rather than the sellers

They have introduced this new feature where they turn on 'best offer' if your BIN listing hasn't sold within a few days. It's the most infuriating eBay change I can remember.

With cheap stuff like this, I think haggling just pisses people off. I tend to only list cheap stuff I have bulk of on there now. When someone offers me £2.50 on a £4.99 purchase :shock:

God bless eBay


I noticed this the other day. After a few days eBay put best offer in on all my bin items it's driving me mad.
 

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It keeps happening to me usually when I'm asleep or at work, when I've not checked my sales. I then get some arsey message from a buyer about why I've refused their offer and switched the offers off. Gets right on my tit end!!!
 
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