What happens if offer expires on ebay

I see reserves as bad news for sellers as they just stop people looking and getting carried away. Added to that the buyers will have paid higher fees. The rest in between you get a message to review them. Same rules apply as a BiN. So it is worth responding to it promptly. Then they can make a new offer if they want. It is annoying if you make an offer, then have to wait a day or two for a reply. You could have missed out on another auction.

They have to cover the return postage though. 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 I get a nicely-written message from a buyer with good feedback I have been known to accept an offer very early on — such as the time I listed a broken Macbook and someone that specialises in repairing and reselling them as I could see from their profile and they even said so much in their message offered me a fair amount for it almost immediately after I posted the listing so took the money to avoid any further hassle.

First auction I found with no bids: clicky. Exactly like I said…. As a buyer I have and will message sellers when something is for auction without a buy it now and ask what they are afer or make an offer and have bought lots via this method. Onething I learnt recently to help selling things and getting a good amount was to list items around on a Thursday night for 10 days, this way you get two full weekends of viewing time and ends Sunday night.

Currently offloading a handful of bits myself for the first time in ages. Starting low and seeing what happens. Thought that was light so will let it run. But I would always write a courteous message, explaining the situation and be happy to offer a fair price. I always collect in person to reduce the hassle to the seller. From my experience if you use their default quick Lister then you accept whatever they add on …very annoying.

A guy offered I decliend and asked for Depends for me. I had a strange experience selling last week. 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. This topic has 33 replies, 25 voices, and was last updated 2 years ago by Flaperon. Viewing 34 posts - 1 through 34 of 34 total. According to eBay,. Most sellers will tell you that they reject more offers than they accept, and some won't even entertain offers at all because they have been insulted by too many low offers.

Here are some tips for working with sellers who will entertain offers:. Remember that Best Offer is an agreement between you and the seller.

Treat the seller with respect, pay quickly, and don't insult them with lowball offers. You will be able to purchase more items at discount prices if you are courteous and respectful to the seller.

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Showing results for. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Comments 1. It could be that the seller thought the offer was to low and decided to leave you hanging. Accepted Solutions 0. Answers 6. Comments 2. I feel that it is just plain rude to not respond at all, if you are offering "best offer" or someone asks a question regarding the item to make your best offer, you should respond. I like the best offer option when it works , use it myself quite often in my listings.

There are also many options when using it, you can set a preset accept limit, and a preset reject limit so people do not have to wait. I think some people just do not understand how best offer SHOULD work: Out of 6 I made in last 2 days, 2 accepted straight away, 2 let them expire 1 even after they sent me a counteroffer which I countered 3 dollars less and 2 I am waiting on. Until this is fixed however the only course of action many sellers have is to simply ignore the offers when they come in.

Comments 3. These things add up and I'm always looking to save a few bucks bargaining is normal in most parts of the world other than the US and if a seller doesn't want offers, they should remove them from their listing.

I'm NOT talking about unrealistic low ball offers. I'm talking about ignoring reasonable offers and letting them expire rather than decline. As far as I'm concerned, they can keep the item forever. I've seen a few items like that sitting there weeks later.

I wonder if they regretted not taking the offer by then because I might have bid higher if they hadn't been so rude by ignoring me. I realize some sellers don't see it this way, but they are unwise to irritate possible customers by holding onto a stubborn egotistical view, in my opinion. If you sell and want no buyers, tick them all off. Go ahead. You won't make sales in the future at all or you will make less than you could have as I will no longer deal with rude sellers period, let alone people who misrepresent the condition of the goods they sell I've been burned by that one before and eBay oddly didn't care.