Remember the difference between Best Offerand Buy It Now. But it all depends on the item. eBay Best Offers is a feature on eBay that allows buyers to make their best offer to a seller to buy an item up for auction or listed on the site. However, some buyers may be asked to confirm their payment and shipping details when they're making an offer. What settings are carried over to the offers that are sent automatically? In there there is the option to remove the make an offer part from a listing. Contact UsPrivacyForum RulesClassifieds RulesLink RemovalLogin/cookie issues?Newsletter SettingsAdvertising, Viewing 34 posts - 1 through 34 (of 34 total). Need more information about winning items on eBay? So make your offer and dont sweat it. You might receive offers from multiple buyers, andmaking counteroffers to each is perfectly fine. You need to compromise so everyone is happy. If the item has just been listed and someone immediately makes an offer I assume it will be a popular item so I let it run. If you've already replied to the buyer but wish to make them an offer, you can find the Reply with offer button in your first message to them. After a buyer makes an offer, you can choose to accept, decline, or make a counteroffer. Making Best Offers on eBay does come with a few stipulations. Is this just really an auction bid? There may be some circumstances where the ad rate displayed isn't applicable, including: Learn more about Promoted Listings Standard. Ive had some delightful surprises for what somethings go for on auction sometimes! This will happen automatically after 24 hoursor when the listing ends, whichever comes first, When you get an offer at, or above, your upper limit, we automatically send an email to you and the buyer saying that you've accepted and the buyer should pay, When you get an offer below your lower limit, we automatically send an email to the buyer declining the offer. I gave up trying to sell stuff on auction, I put the items up for sale at around the price I want for them and let people make an offer. Is a Buy it now more of a conventional purchase and subject to distance selling regulations? The rest in between you get a message to review them. Cliff Richard has taken everybody on a summer holiday. This may sound like a weird tip, but hear us out. You can set your preferences to automatically accept or decline offers of a certain amountand use the counteroffer feature to negotiate with prospective buyers. Before the official Make Offer function, if someone had made me an offer outside of the auction, and they were offering enough to accept, Id relist the item as a Buy It Now (or change the existing auction, if there are no bids) and send them the new listing link. How does Make an offer fit in? Youll learn how to dominate every auction on eBay with this guide. Ive used the make offer setting before with the lowest price Id accept. A high numbers of auctions end with the winner never paying, needing lots of chasing up to pay etc,. Onething I learnt recently to help selling things and getting a good amount was to list items around 2100 on a Thursday night for 10 days, this way you get two full weekends of viewing time and ends Sunday night. Listed an item put a buy it now for 150 somehow the bidding ended up at 240 was well chuffed but confused that they didnt just BIN? edit found one with it. Here's how: Tip If the auction is about to end, the item has few watchers and / or bids I would probably accept the offer. Lifes too short to worry about 5. I just decline or make a counteroffer and leave the decision up to them. I dont understand getting butt hurt over an offer. In the message, include things such as the fact that youll pay immediately these will help encourage the seller to accept your offer. You also shouldn't respond to a buyer who asks to purchase an item outside of eBay. You can then choose to Accept offer, Decline offer, or Make counteroffer. Also, the seller has the option to make a counter offer and include a message. Make an offer button on buy it nows sure but cant see it as a thing on auction onlys. If you have more than 30 interested buyers for your item, we start by sending 30 offers. Check out this article: 15 eBay Bidding Tips: How to Win Auctions and Save Money Doing It. my understanding is that distance selling only applies to businesses/traders. I let the auction run and the same guy won it with 17 quid . Snowshoe has only hosted 3 DH World Cups, yet its delivered more drama and memorable moments than most other venues! Your expired, rejected, and retracted offers all count towards this limit of 5, so use them wisely. If a seller gets butt hurt over a lowball offer thats their problem and an easy one to fix. If you have an auction-style listing with the Best Offer option, bear in mind that: Tip If theyre selling, they want the item gone, so act like a real person and give them an additional incentive to choose you. Might be worth going back with a counter bid saying that you would be happy to accept 40 and see if you get 35, Depends on the item. Here you'll be able to: If you change your item's Buy It Now price, we will update your automatic offer amount. Its all kind of hidden away as ebay seem to want you to do things exactly as they wish and if you dont they make it difficult to find/work out how to do things differently IME . You can also set thresholds to auto decline and auto accept offers. With a single item listing, the first buyer to accept the offer gets the item. View cart for details. I sell on eBay and accept offers. I sell almost everything as Buy It Now with immediate payment required. If a buyer sends you a counteroffer, you'll receive an email and a message in My eBay. Since the last time I listed something it seems that buyers can make a private offer without bidding. Dont use reserves. Added to that the buyers will have paid higher fees. From your Manage Offers page, we'll let you know if the buyer has clicked your ad in the past 30 days and show you what the ad rate was. If its old (6 months or more), you can generally lower your suggested price. If they bother to counter your Best Offer, it means they are definitely interested, so this is your opportunity to get them to sell. The seller is completely unlikely to accept your proposal with added terms, and instead, are likely to report you or block you from buying any of their items. A guy offered 25. Follow them all and youre sure to win! They include: To retract your Best Offer, you need to fill out the Best Offer retraction form on eBay, and have specific information ready for the item. The fact that you are asking this tells me you are not a troll. Yes - same here. Can anybody hear me? If you low ball too much, the seller may just block you. Unsurprisingly, sellers arent so easily willing to let go of their items for prices lower than what they listed them for. You can monitor offers and counteroffers in Seller Hub Activeor My eBay active. Mad). For example, if you are selling 4of an item and the Buy It Now price is $25 each, you can send an offer for all 4items at a price of $80. What happens when a buyer accepts a custom offer. If you need some extra help, here are detailed instructions on how to retract a Best Offer on eBay. I probably am coming off as a paranoid weirdo but you cant deny that some sellers get butthurt about offers. I decliend and asked for 40. Here are the basics: Remember, Best Offers on eBay are only valid for 48 hours. When a buyer makes you a Best Offer, we'll email you to let you know. Depends if the offer is derisory then Ill counter offer more then sometimes we end up meeting in the middle. No they dont. As long as the offer details are visible within messaging, or the Message to buyerfield, the transaction is covered by the. The offer you send can be for more or less than the Buy It Now price, and you can send a buyer up to 3 offers. Then, search for the name of your listing. Listings on eBay with spelling mistakes in their key words (such as their brand names) wont show up in searches where these words are spelled correctly. How does Make an offer fit in? Our free shipping items are often priced "assuming the worst" distance-wise, so if you're next-state-over, we'll likely take less than if you're on the other side of the country. If you're accepting Best Offers on a listing, you can send custom offers on that same listing to buyers who ask questions, unless the buyer has already sent a Best Offer. If you'd like to see the offers you've sent and accepted for a particular item, you'll need to use the following link and add your item number after the equals sign(=). Copyright 1995-2022 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. You can get round this by not using their quick listing system but choosing the advanced or business option. We do check feedback left and block folks that have a habit of leaving negs. Since many of our items are 'free shipping' but have shipping cost that varies wildly based on location/distance, we'll often ask "where are you?" Where is this make an offer function on auctions of which you speak? I have mostly stopped counteroffering on things I have recently listed because it ties up the listing x 2 days if the buyer does not respond. It might surprise you to learn that sellers can block you from bidding on their items, and any future items they sell, and in some extreme cases, they can block you from using eBay altogether. And, depending on how long the seller has listed them (see our next tip), you can probably get them to agree to a pretty good offer just to get rid of them! You can also send an offer for multiple listings at once using Seller Hub. Buyers won't know your limits, but the upper limit must be below your Buy It Now price. B) Run it out until I get what I expect for it. If im selling something that I just want rid of and not really fussed on what it sells for, Ill start at 99p and let it run I wont accept offers. Offer what you would be willing to pay for it lol. So there is the whole communicate like adults thing. Say you put a 50ish item up, put it as a Buy It Now of 60, set the Offers Accepted option to 50 automatically accepted, offers below 40 automatically rejected. If its something that has a fairly tight price range I either ignore it or respond with if you genuinely need it in a hurry then make me an offer I cant refuse (ie at least in the top 25% of sale prices for the item). Well ..my last two recent listings were BIN and the make an offer appeared underneath There is also the option to automatically decline offers below a certain amount so you arent bothered by troll offers.