An ebay 1st for me - multiple offers from a buyer.
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So, I had 2 items for sale, $275 each - received an offer of $400 for both.
My cost was low, so accepted the offer. Told the buyer I would combine into a BIN for $400. Seemed straight forward.
Shortly afterwards, the same buyer offered $375 on the combined lot! 
So, blocked them, uncombined the lot and shortly thereafter sold both for an offer of $450.
What a PITA!
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I'm sorry, I didn't know what a best price meant. Please unblock me now!
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Did the combined listing have a Best Offer option or did the buyer actually email you through that listing to offer $400?
Other than once you block someone from bidding/participating in your listings you two are also blocked from communicating with each other, within eBay.
So many shenanigans on eBay that I don’t know what’s worse to be a buyer or a seller??
That along with fees and retaliatory feedback make it additionally tough for the seller!! 
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Retaliatory feedback used to be a major problem. Some sellers even stated in their listing that they would only give feedback after the buyer left feedback. Buyers were afraid to leave well deserved negative feedback for bad sellers because they knew that the seller would then retaliate by doing the same to them. It got so bad that some eBayers were forced to set up two accounts with one for buying and another one for selling. It got so bad that the feedback system became near worthless and eBay was eventually forced to take away the seller's ability to leave retaliatory feedback.
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I recently got an offer for 20% less than the bin price with a message about the person is just getting into watch repair and doesn't have much money.
This was about 2am, I just happened to be up...
I figured it was a good fit for some tools I have listed from a gentleman's estate so I took the offer.
Boxed up the item and got it ready to ship the next morning around 8am.
The guy emailed me in the afternoon asking if I could send to a different address.
I told him the item was already boxed and addressed...what was the issue??
He said he recently moved and didn't charge his address on eBay.
After an hour trying and contacting eBay, there was no way to change the shipping address to a different one not on file with eBay... eBay suggests that the buyer update his shipping address or cancel the sale and the buyer can purchase it later after he updates his information.
I relayed the message from eBay to the buyer and requested he update the shipping address and I will try to get it changed before I ship.
3 days later the money is in my account and No word from the buyer after repeated tries to contact.
I finally heard back from the buyer and he said he works nights and would try changing the address.
2 Days later, Nothing changed so I cancelled the sale and relisted the item.
The refund was charged on my credit card so I might possibly get a 1.5% Cash back rewards credit for my trouble.
The guy has not yet repurchased the item or made another offer... maybe he blocked me.
Yes, I know…But, now the seller cannot leave negative feedback for a bad buyer. Only the buyer can leave negative and that is equally unfair.
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Agree. A solution to this is to keep feedback hidden until both the seller and buyer have left feedback. After a specified period of time such as 10 days for example, if only one party has left feedback, that feedback is shown and the party who didn't leave feedback is blocked from leaving it.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
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"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I have limited experience as a seller recently, but when my inexperienced friends ask me about selling on eBay I tell them enough stories that they understand that selling has many more pitfalls than buying. Requires a pretty thick skin IMO.
hahaha seriously LOL material!
Same here, pretty soon all that tire kicking and lowball offers I make are going to close off "deals" I used to do, lol....
Some have blocked so many people that they have trouble moving their material.
That is a great idea! 👍
Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍
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Meh. There's always be people. The people i block aren't worth having as "customers". Mostly, they don't buy anything or they return the thing they buy.
I had a guy last week that I DID NOT block. He bought a comic. I shipped it a few hours later. Then he messaged me to ask if I shipped it because he wanted to cancel because he forgot he had it already. I said, "no big deal, just return it. I'm only out the postage. "
A couple days later, he messaged me to tell me he shipped it back. He told me to refund it minus the shipping and he actually paid the return shipping himself.
I actually only kept 50% of the postage because I really appreciated his fairness. Most people would have just returned it and let me eat the round trip shipping.
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Did the combined listing have a Best Offer option or did the buyer actually email you through that listing to offer $400?
Not sure I understand - they were initially separate, I got the offer, then combined them. Does that help??
I did this once as a mistake. I sent an offer, the buyer sent a counteroffer. I then sent a counter to their counteroffer and then thought about it and tried to accept their original counteroffer and I assume my counter to this wouldn't allow me and I ended up purchasing at the full price on accident. So I guess it is possible.
You started with two separate listings and somehow the buyer communicated a $400 offer for both. You made a new listing for $400 that included both items, and the buyer SHOULD have just purchased it based on past communication. My question is whether the buyer emailed you and made an offer for $375, or if the new combined listing had both a BIN and Best Offer, in which case the buyer may have sent an official offer for $375.
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Yes, the latter.
Well, if you had a best offer open, I don't blame him.
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That's where I was going with the question. The agreement was for $400, but the Best Offer option opened up the opportunity to negotiate again.
So you both would renege on an agreement?? That's pretty pathetic.
I don't think that's what they are saying. Whenever I make a listing, the "Best Offer" option is automatically set to no. It wouldn't make sense for it to be set to yes unless I tried to.
I think @jmlanzaf and @airplanenut mean that the inclusion of a best offer option in your combined listing gave the buyer the idea that you were open to going even lower, which the buyer got wrong.
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That's what it sounds like from here.
No, I think if you agree on an offer that's it. All I'm saying is the presence of a Best Offer option gave the buyer a chance to make another offer. If I were the buyer I wouldn't make another offer, and if I were the seller I wouldn't expect the buyer to make another offer. Whether the buyer was a sneaky opportunist or genuinely thought the Best Offer option meant there was more room for negotiation I can't say. My only point is that I think this scenario is different than if you had listed as a BIN-only for $400, and then the buyer emailed an unsolicited offer of $375.
Still pretty low to re-negotiate a done deal especially since the seller offered to make life easier by combining 2 auctions.
It is bad form t try to talk a coin down after your offer has been accepted.
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Unfortunately there are buyers and sellers on eBay that are not concerned about form. I have been on eBay since the late '90's and it has changed a lot. It was fun selling back then but now not so much and much more expensive with fees etc. I still use it as the potential audience for an item is huge but not as enthusiastic about it like I used to be.
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