Another Minor eBay Rant (Best offer)

Moothead2 · 21 Sep 2011 at 21:51

What the hell is the point of putting these in your auctions when the most you will knock off the BIN price is a bloody quid!? I probably spend more in electricity going back and forth with offers than I would save accepting your 'Best Offer' price :mad:

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pepsilol · 21 Sep 2011 at 21:53

Whats the price of the item?

Is it £1 off a £5 item or £1 off a £100 item.

hlxbravo · 21 Sep 2011 at 21:54

A quid can be a fair chunk.....if the but it now was £1.50 or so

but I know what ya mean....a quid or two off something that was on for £20 or so..ain't worth the hassle.

Moothead2 · 21 Sep 2011 at 21:55

hlxbravo said:
A quid can be a fair chunk.....if the but it now was £1.50 or so

but I know what ya mean....a quid or two off something that was on for £20 or so..ain't worth the hassle.

Yup, it was 19.99. His final offer was 18.99... :rolleyes:

muon · 21 Sep 2011 at 21:57

Moothead2 said:
Yup, it was 19.99. His final offer was 18.99...

You expecting £5 off?

Either buy it or don't. No need to rant about it.

pepsilol · 21 Sep 2011 at 22:00

Yeah, you're either happy with the price or you're not...

Jesus, some people are just destined to be miserable.

Vonhelmet · 21 Sep 2011 at 22:03

If I'm doing an auction these days I often use Buy it Now or Best Offer. If I want to get £X for an item, I'll set the BIN price at 1.25X, then automatically accept offers of X or above, then automatically refuse offers of 0.5X or below. It works pretty well.

And for the record, I agree that it's idiotic to use BIN or BO if you're not actually looking to accept BOs.

Moothead2 · 21 Sep 2011 at 22:11

Vonhelmet said:
If I'm doing an auction these days I often use Buy it Now or Best Offer. If I want to get £X for an item, I'll set the BIN price at 1.25X, then automatically accept offers of X or above, then automatically refuse offers of 0.5X or below. It works pretty well.

And for the record, I agree that it's idiotic to use BIN or BO if you're not actually looking to accept BOs.

What you've done is fair enough. Something else I encounted tonight was someone putting a BIN price of 60 and putting it as bid also with a reserve....of 60...

moogle · 21 Sep 2011 at 22:38

Moothead2 said:
What the hell is the point of putting these in your auctions when the most you will knock off the BIN price is a bloody quid!? I probably spend more in electricity going back and forth with offers than I would save accepting your 'Best Offer' price !

You need to visit uswitch.com

Another reason some people would do that is that sometimes a buyer may have been waiting ages for such an item to come up and gets attached to it, seller keeps declining until they get their price or if they use all offers up the only thing they can do is buy it at the BIN price, and sometimes they usually do if they're fed up of waiting.