I've been trading and buying on fleabay since 2004 and used to sell books and would often sell most via buy it now and on slow sellers I would offer the best offer option, I would be quite prepared to take 10-15% less to just shift the item, obviously you would get the idiots that would offer £5 for a book that would cost them £20 down Halfords (even though I was already £6-8 cheaper anyway) but you could automatically filter those numpties out.
However some sellers seem to think these days its either a tool to get you to buy direct from them to side step ebay/paypal fees or think a best offer should be within a £1 of the original price, for instance I've been looking at something on there the last few weeks that's on for £95.88 or best offer (gone up almost £10 in the past few weeks), so I thought I would be cheeky and start at near to 10% off at £87 but they came back with a counter offer of £95, yes a full 88p saving 0.91%, so I revised my offer to £90 (still £5 more than they were listing them for a couple of weeks ago) and again they countered the offer with the same £95, so why waste peoples time by offering best offer if you are not going to offer a reasonable saving, just price it at £95 and be done with it.
Or am I being unreasonable?
However some sellers seem to think these days its either a tool to get you to buy direct from them to side step ebay/paypal fees or think a best offer should be within a £1 of the original price, for instance I've been looking at something on there the last few weeks that's on for £95.88 or best offer (gone up almost £10 in the past few weeks), so I thought I would be cheeky and start at near to 10% off at £87 but they came back with a counter offer of £95, yes a full 88p saving 0.91%, so I revised my offer to £90 (still £5 more than they were listing them for a couple of weeks ago) and again they countered the offer with the same £95, so why waste peoples time by offering best offer if you are not going to offer a reasonable saving, just price it at £95 and be done with it.
Or am I being unreasonable?