Discouraged Buyers On Ebay

That @ lowball on the "Make Offers" was my rant recently. I will no longer use the SleezeeBay (my feelings of expression!)feature. I have products, not many anymore since finding another sales venue, that have languished for the past 8 months because I refuse to lower my pricing any more than I already have(multiple times and ways). Then ebay has the audacity to automatically, w/o my permission) to change the BIN listing to the Make Offer option at their minimum of 40%! I only discovered this when a "customer" offered me $38 on a $120 item! There even was one listing that I could change the offer % but not remove the Make Offer feature until cancelling and relisting.

For your question/rant about crappy offers, of course there will be those who want to make a Buck, go lowball, and sadly society seems to encourage these types of complainers even more. The day of true barter, I'm afraid, is over. To place an offer slightly below your intended, with intent to "deal" is rare...too much of the "wanting something for nothing" attitudes, gee, I wonder why...




Addendum: This baloney w/eBay is the main reason I do very little coin purchasing through them. They WILL make their money, it is THE way of business today, like it or lump it. The polices are geared towards sales at all costs, to buyers and sellers alike. Their fees can be atrocious if you don't mega-business through them, which does effect how one must sell/buy there. Too many folks seem to have gone the route of BINs nowadays, deals aren't to be had in abundance as 5-10 years ago. That is why I prefer on-line auctions. If you learn that "game", you can do well, whether you collect or flip (#1). Then learn about other ways of direct sales similar to eBay(#2) to resell that which you may have scored. As point of reference, have sold 7 times as much in 3 months as ebay and cleared 9% more profit. Go figure...

Many make offers that are very low.
I once had a $5 offer on a $20 item.

It's called the art of the deal... A buyer, in my experience, would come back and offer say $185. I might offer $190, he offers back $187.50, and we have a done deal.

I'm honestly not sure why you would run from a 4% discount. On a coin selling for $848 earlier this year, I offered $750. He came back with $825 (not even 3% off). I responded back with $800 and we closed the sale.

@crazyb0




What is your alternate venue? I don't have a selling presence on ebay... I have never been comfortable with the model, especially since disputes are only resolved in ebay's favour... I have sold to my LCS but sometimes leaving him room for resell margin leaves me with nothing... Craigslist is not really an option since I am in a very small community so... How do you sell for reasonable numbers but eschew ebay?