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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thanks! I ententionally left the identity of the coin "blank", in case it were another member. I don't want to start a flame war.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7375 Posts |
All my listings are BIN or Best Offer. Yeah, that stuff happens all the time. Buyer thinks $65 is the right price, and that's that. Most of the time your $70 comeback will be taken, but not always.
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Valued Member
United States
422 Posts |
You have it and if the buyer wans it he will have to pay your asking price. You didn't have to drop your price.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
5404 Posts |
Never feel bad about this sort of stuff on ebay . Happens all the time. Stay calm and carry on. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1699 Posts |
Is $65 a fair price and are you just +$5ing the buyer to "play the game"?
I will often repeat my offer after a counteroffer, because the seller cannot reconsider, if I don't respond. However, I will always include a polite note, so that I do not offend the seller. As a seller, I've had the same happen to me, and sometimes I accept.
The second time the buyer offers at the same price he/she is saying "no, my initial offer was my best offer, would you please reconsider".
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1346 Posts |
Suggestion: if the least amount of an offer you will accept is -20% then why not use that tool on BIN that automatically rejects offers greater than what you will take?
It will save you a lot of grief :)
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Valued Member
United States
123 Posts |
I don't think you should waste your time feeling insulted by this. Both you and the buyer gave your best offer and counter offer, and the offers didn't line up. Nothing was directed personally at you, you guys just disagree! There is nothing wrong with that, and there is nothing wrong with the bidder offering the same amount twice. I wouldn't block them for future offers -- they obviously have interest in your coin and may even change their mind and offer more later. I wouldn't waste another second thinking about it!
Edited by John Bonzo
12/04/2016 3:32 pm
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Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
Without knowing the coin, it's difficult to know if the $65 offer was a good offer, nor not. But it doesn't matter. It wasn't what you wanted to sell it for. When it comes to ebay there is no intelligence test required for buyers or sellers before they can list or bid. It's the same population as the rest of the world. Most great, a few not so great, and a very few that are really bad. |
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Valued Member
United States
467 Posts |
I would have declined it also if my bottom line was $70.
But I wouldn't be insulted for all the reasons everybody has already said.
It is just a business transactions. Sometimes there is a mutually acceptable meeting of the minds, sometimes there is not. There is always another day and another time if it doesn't work out.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
509 Posts |
Might be off topic, but I hate when buyers don't react to counteroffer towards end of auction which blocks the seller from lowering price to get attention. I haven't sold more than 25-30 coins on ebay, but I've had scenerios where Intem is BIN $120 (I'm looking 105) and buyer offers 60, I counter 110, they counter 60 and I counter 109.99 and they buy the item. I think buyers could try to use this tactic to try to sniff out lowest you'd take, |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Funny, I thought the whole point of haggling is you start with LESS than you're ultimately willing to pay and allow the seller to talk you up. What do I know? I wouldn't make an offer that's that much lower than the original price to begin with. I reckon any experienced seller might pad their price A LITTLE to leave room for negotiation, but they also are pricing to sell, and are unlikely to inflate their bottom-line price by that much.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4211 Posts |
I wouldn't be "insulted" with their offer, but I do think without knowing the coin or value....I think a reduction from $90 to $70 is pretty fair.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
790 Posts |
BTW, I'm fairly new to the whole haggling thing, but I've already found that some sellers are offended if you try. I saw a coin I liked on VCoins, but the price seemed a bit steep, even with a premium for toning. I bought a medieval coin from the same seller a month or so ago, so I thought I'd chance messaging to point out that the NGC price was quite a bit lower and ask if they could come down just a little. He replied with an email telling me that since I have been a customer he wouldn't say what he usually did, which was that I should buy from NGC. I congratulated him for "not" saying that, and mentioned that if he had, I wouldn't have bought from him in the future. Goodwill preserved, more or less. But definitely no sale!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It all depends. If the coin eventually sells for $70 or more, than $65 was too low. If it sits for the next six months, then you are asking too much. I wouldn't get hung up on whether the buyer is reasonable or unreasonable. This is how prices are set - by individual willingness to buy at a certain price.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You can set a minimum best offer amount, anything below that limit will be automatically rejected. That tends to weed out the cheapskates  |
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