Question about a buy it now with best offer.

johnny1976 · March 23, 2009 3:47AM

Hi all. I am looking at buying a card off ebay. The seller has the card listed for $80 with a best offer. I looked up book value and the low is $20 and the high is $50. I am wondering what kind of offer would you put in on the card? I was thinking $40, but don't know if that is to low of an offer. Any help would help. Thanks in advance.

storm888 · March 23, 2009 4:00AM

Anything much below $60 is most likely going to be declined.

BUT, that does not mean you can't offer less. You never know,
maybe the seller needs money.

Bottom9th · March 23, 2009 4:01AM

Offer what you think is fair. Sometimes dealers will jump at a half price offer just to move something. It's worth a try.

artistlost · March 23, 2009 4:07AM

You never can tell. I offered someone $120 on a card that has sold regularly for $105 just because I wanted it at that moment and it was the only one up.

I received a long nasty replay and a declined offer. The seller sighted that the card "BOOKS" for over $300.00 and why would I send in such a low ball offer. I replied that I actually offered more and showed him the closed auctions...and kindly said that "BOOK" value in Beckett is hardly the actual selling rate on 99% of cards.

mathew

artistlost · March 23, 2009 4:09AM

ON the flip side. Recently I offered some one the lower end of what the card was selling for (meaning it sold regularly for 75-100 and I offered 75) and the excepted right away.

So you can never tell.

mathew

EagleEyeKid · March 23, 2009 4:14AM

I agree to offer what you think is fair.
I could care less about the seller's feelings or if my offer may be
insulting. What he paid for the item or what it books for is all irrelevant.
50% of the time, I've gotten items with my offers. 35% of the time, they send
me a counteroffer (I usually decline), and 15% they either decline, or never respond.

billwaltonsbeard · March 23, 2009 4:14AM

make an offer of what you want to pay. What's the worst that can happen?

stevek · March 23, 2009 4:33AM

i would offer $40

yankeeno7 · March 23, 2009 5:11AM

Ive offered under 50% on items and they still sold them. Depends on the item. No one is going to arrest you for a low offer LOL You will only get a decline if they dont like it.

MeteoriteGuy · March 23, 2009 5:17AM

Like noted depends on the item. The lowest I ever went and "won" was a 2000 Donruss Graded Buddy Brister BGS 10. The seller wanted $50 with best offer in his store but accepted my $15 offer. 30% was kinda low in general, but c'mon....it was Buddy Brister.

MeteoriteGuy · March 23, 2009 5:19AM

What is funny, is when you offer like $2.00 on a card at $2.50 with best offer...and they turn it down.

I imagine the smart thing is to throw a low offer first....you get three shots.

Edit to add: I also like it when you see a card you are willing to pay the BIN, but it has best offer so you get it cheaper...

digicat · March 23, 2009 5:39AM

<< You never can tell. I offered someone $120 on a card that has sold regularly for $105 just because I wanted it at that moment and it was the only one up.

I received a long nasty replay and a declined offer. The seller sighted that the card "BOOKS" for over $300.00 and why would I send in such a low ball offer. I replied that I actually offered more and showed him the closed auctions...and kindly said that "BOOK" value in Beckett is hardly the actual selling rate on 99% of cards. >>

Heh, maybe it was the same guy I dealt with a few months ago.

I had a $100 BIN up of a card that had been recently selling for $100+. He offered $30, which was auto-rejected.

The guy emailed me and argued that the card only "booked" for $30.

I told him that the card was selling for much more than $30 lately.

He said that Book trumps all, and by rejecting a $30 offer, I was price gouging and trying to take advantage of the uninformed, and that by doing so, was showing that I had no morals, no character, and was a scammer.
I sent him links to ended listings where the card sold for $100+.

He responded by telling me to shove the card up my rear.

mtcards · March 23, 2009 5:48AM

Honestly, anyone that responds with a message either to a low ball offer or to an offer declined is an idiot.

Ive had someone offer me $40 for a $120 BIN and when I declined the guy wrote me a nasty email saying the card didnt sell at auction the last time it was listed with a min bid of $59.99. Then I had someone send me a note with "nice try" when I offered $120 for a lot of coins that sold for $140 when bought seperately. Both were losers IMO.

digicat · March 23, 2009 5:59AM

One Ebay seller had a 1992 Bowman Treavor Hoffman PSA 10 up for $100/obo. I offered $40 (which was around the usual auction price) and he declined. I tried to make another offer, and found that he had also added me to his blocked list.

I ended up buying the card at auction from someone else for $36.

kmnorton · March 23, 2009 6:43AM

Here's one that I got. A card was listed for $35 BIN, I offered $24 (a couple of bucks over what they have gone for in the past) and I get a counter for $35! I sent him a note back saying WTF and he responded that shipping was included in that price and why do people seem to overlook that point (it wasn't in the counteroffer comment section, just had $35 as total price).

mike92694 · March 23, 2009 6:56AM

<< Honestly, anyone that responds with a message either to a low ball offer or to an offer declined is an idiot.

Ive had someone offer me $40 for a $120 BIN and when I declined the guy wrote me a nasty email saying the card didnt sell at auction the last time it was listed with a min bid of $59.99. Then I had someone send me a note with "nice try" when I offered $120 for a lot of coins that sold for $140 when bought seperately. Both were losers IMO. >>

If the card didn't sell for $59.99, why expect $120, unless it was a different card?

ndleo · March 23, 2009 6:57AM

I don't see why seller or buyers get all worked up over best offers. As a seller I use auto reject, which cuts out a lot of the BS. I have had a few buyers who are out of best offer chances email me saying that my item isn't worth what I am asking. I just ignore those, I mean if my stuff is such crap, why did you offer on it 3 times?

As a buyer, I don't take anything personal with best offers. However if a seller sends me a nasty gram, I will pass no matter what the price.

mtcards · March 23, 2009 11:15AM

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<< Honestly, anyone that responds with a message either to a low ball offer or to an offer declined is an idiot.

Ive had someone offer me $40 for a $120 BIN and when I declined the guy wrote me a nasty email saying the card didnt sell at auction the last time it was listed with a min bid of $59.99. Then I had someone send me a note with "nice try" when I offered $120 for a lot of coins that sold for $140 when bought seperately. Both were losers IMO. >>

If the card didn't sell for $59.99, why expect $120, unless it was a different card? >>

Where does it say anywhere that I expected $120?

scooperqpr · March 23, 2009 11:16AM

I had one deal where the card was $100 and free shipping. I offered $75 and pay for the shipping. The deal went straight through, he accepted.The shipping WAS a little inflated but not enough o cry about. A month later I did the exact thing to the exact seller,again it went smooth. 2 months later again,it worked out great for both of us. I just noticed the date woohoo today is my birthday

otwcards · March 23, 2009 11:24AM

<< Heh, maybe it was the same guy I dealt with a few months ago.

I had a $100 BIN up of a card that had been recently selling for $100+. He offered $30, which was auto-rejected.

The guy emailed me and argued that the card only "booked" for $30.

I told him that the card was selling for much more than $30 lately.

He said that Book trumps all, and by rejecting a $30 offer, I was price gouging and trying to take advantage of the uninformed, and that by doing so, was showing that I had no morals, no character, and was a scammer.
I sent him links to ended listings where the card sold for $100+.

He responded by telling me to shove the card up my rear. >>

If I bothered to respond to such a dolt, I would've simply stated that if he was willing to pay full book, what was he expecting to sell it at? And if he was intending to sell it, then wouldn't he be guilty of the exact same thing he accused you of? Bungholes like him are just ticked that they can't get the current "hot" card at a price that will let them make a large enough profit and try to bully others into selling to them under market.

I recall many of these idiots back in the early days when there was limited Internet access, no eBay and a few of us were getting daily quotes while on Sportsnet (oh, that was so long ago and I hated dial-up connections!!!).

bobsbbcards · March 23, 2009 11:24AM

<< He responded by telling me to shove the card up my rear. >>

Did he think that once you did that you would lower the price?

mike92694 · March 23, 2009 11:40AM

<< 

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<< Honestly, anyone that responds with a message either to a low ball offer or to an offer declined is an idiot.

Ive had someone offer me $40 for a $120 BIN and when I declined the guy wrote me a nasty email saying the card didnt sell at auction the last time it was listed with a min bid of $59.99. Then I had someone send me a note with "nice try" when I offered $120 for a lot of coins that sold for $140 when bought seperately. Both were losers IMO. >>

If the card didn't sell for $59.99, why expect $120, unless it was a different card? >>

Where does it say anywhere that I expected $120? >>

well, it said $120 BIN, so unless I'm reading it wrong? when you have a BIN, it's probably the price you are expecting, or somewhere close to it.

mtcards · March 23, 2009 2:41PM

I see, my bad. It should have read $120 BV card and a $69.99 BIN. (I left out a few words)

As a side story, two days after I sold the card for the $69.99. It was a 1999 SP Authentic buyback of Mark Brunell #7/21. The previous 2 had sold for $81 and $88 about 3 months before mine was put up.

mike92694 · March 24, 2009 1:10AM

<< I see, my bad. It should have read $120 BV card and a $69.99 BIN. (I left out a few words)

As a side story, two days after I sold the card for the $69.99. It was a 1999 SP Authentic buyback of Mark Brunell #7/21. The previous 2 had sold for $81 and $88 about 3 months before mine was put up. >>

Thanks for the clarification. Sorry if I was somewhat rude, but your explanation does help clear up the situation quite a bit.

Question about a buy it now with best offer.

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