Ebay and overpriced coins

krazyace5

Has anyone made a seller an offer on an overpriced coin on ebay and had any success? Coins close to the end with no bids?

SemperFI

I have made offers and was denied. Although people have made offers to me and I sold it to them because it was within my range of selling anyway.
Sellers can also see how many people are watching so selling early may loss a buyer who may buy for the price stated. Can probably contact the seller after the auction end.

theboz11

I have offered people less than the coin was offered for and they accepted,, overpriced is relative.

alergar

Yes, I have made many offers to sellers for if the coin didn't sell. Only one that I can remember accepted after his coin got no bids. He e-mailed me and told me he was relisting the coin with my offered price as the buy-it-now.

flaminio

I've done this successfully with sellers of coins that didn't sell. My best score was a MS $5 Jackie Robinson that didn't sell at $800 -- I emailed the seller after the auction closed and offered $600 for it, which he accepted. Try to buy a MS $5 Jackie these days...

alergar

Sometimes it's beter not to make an offer.

Recently there was a coin I realy wanted up for auction. Before the first person even bidded on the coin I e-mailed the seller and offered him $450.00 for it. He refused the offer telling me that he expected the auction to close around $650.00. I placed a max opening bid of $350.00, later I was out bid so I raised my max to $600.00. In the mean time I e-mailed two more offers to the seller, both of which he refused. The auction ended up closing at $410.00, now I am glad he refused my offers.

Russ

I sometimes eMail sellers hawking overhyped overgraded PCI junk and offer them $5 if they'll pay the shipping.

Russ, NCNE

prooflike

I made an offer for something(1921 Peace in 62) in an ebay store & it was accepted & it was a fair price, and if I remember correctly it was 20% down from the asking price...

...so make the offers, worse thing that will happen is no deal.

LincolnCentMan

I know where a 14-D in NGC 65BN is right now that I'd be very interested in. I'd make a serious offer on it, about 5-10% above what it would bring... but that's still less than half of what the seller's ask price is. So why bother???

David