EBay Buyer Makes Respectful Offer… But there’s a catch
airplanenut
Posts: 22,150 ✭✭✭✭✭
Just received this email: “ I respectfully offer 70 for your coin, hope this finds you well, thanks for your time.”
So I checked the listing…
Uhhh… I don’t think that’s how this is supposed to work…
JK Coin Photography - eBay Consignments | High Quality Photos | LOW Prices | 20% of Consignment Proceeds Go to Pancreatic Cancer Research
14
Comments
How did you respond to him? You should tell him to respectfully go pound sand.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Respond with; That is more than a generous offer. I'll keep you in mind if and when a couple of bidders retract their bids and drop out. Thanks for your interest in my auctions.
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection
Was the bidding already at $100 at the time he made the offer?
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
This was my first thought. Also, he may have made a typo and intended to put down a higher number. It's very unlikely that he or any other buyer would think that any seller would accept an offer below the current high bid.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
That sure seems like some type of mistake.... Ridiculous to think you would accept an offer well below the current bid. Cheers, RickO
I’m not familiar with EBay and whether you can time check bids but the only thing that makes sense is a offer prior to the higher bids.
You would be surprised!
EBay lists the time and date that bids are received but only the date for messages.
His respect and well wishes he values at roughly $30.00..........
Seems to me he made his request prior to the $100 bid being posted.
He would have to be a total Gomer to make an offer under the current bid.
"“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)
"I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
your offer of 700 is more than generous but you need to be the highest bidder when auction ends in 19h
If his offer had been $700, he might not have had to wait.😉
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
I had a similar offer last night on a coin with a $99 starting bid. I quoted him $130 "best price".
He responded that he wanted to pay less than the $99.
I told him that it was an auction and, if I were entertaining offers lower than the opening bid, there's no point in having an auction.
I considered blocking him but he was nice enough about it.
Happens all the time. See my prior post. Last week, I had someone ask me to end the auction at the opening bid with 5 days left in the auction. About 3 weeks ago, some generous sole offered me 50% of the opening bid which was below spot!
Prob one out of his 100 offers that day. Throw enough spaghetti at the wall and some sticks.
I did check that to be sure, and the auction has been sitting at $100 for a few days, with no bidding activity in the hour or two between his email and my reading it (nor within a few days of his sending the email).
How did you respond?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I’ve sold a few coins on eBay via $0.99 auctions mostly in the $50-$200 range with pretty decent results. I don’t allow bidders to make offers while the auction is active. Would it be advantageous for me to reconsider this? Does it affect the results?
My limited experience when I’ve forgotten to turn off the allow offers option is that I get a bunch of lowball offers and I’m wasting my time responding to them.
These offers were not allowed, they were unsolicited.
I do not waste time responding to such offers. I simply ignore them.
Rec78
I was my understanding that the time it takes you to respond to offers and questions was part of the eBay search placement algorithm. I might be wrong on that but when I studied eBay SEO, that was part of what I paid attention to.
I posted here and went to bed
I’ve learned to never underestimate what ebayers are capable of if it seems dumb
I check messages through email which have a full time stamp