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Ebay "Make Offer" question

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Buzzetta

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We should all just be okay with sometimes insulting people and sometimes being insulted. I also think sellers who complain about lowballers should stop. When you advertise OBO, anonymously to the entire planet, it can happen so just deal with it.
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Within reason. There was a time that I was offering a piece of art and someone made an offer of 1/10th of what I had it listed at. I politely declined and then all of a sudden the messages started coming in how I must have been an "Obama lover" and that he could easily buy it elsewhere for less and that he would unless I accepted his offer. I was just reminded about this by this thread. I saved him emails and messages in a folder in case he got nuttier. Ahh memories...

 

That was surreal

 

I even wrote about that experience on the boards.

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=249617&Number=5471299#Post5471299

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We should all just be okay with sometimes insulting people and sometimes being insulted. I also think sellers who complain about lowballers should stop. When you advertise OBO, anonymously to the entire planet, it can happen so just deal with it.
^^

 

Within reason. There was a time that I was offering a piece of art and someone made an offer of 1/10th of what I had it listed at. I politely declined and then all of a sudden the messages started coming in how I must have been an "Obama lover" and that he could easily buy it elsewhere for less and that he would unless I accepted his offer. I was just reminded about this by this thread. I saved him emails and messages in a folder in case he got nuttier. Ahh memories...

 

That was surreal

 

I even wrote about that experience on the boards.

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=249617&Number=5471299#Post5471299

 

I sympathize with you having to deal with a crazy person. But that is quite apart from the initial offer. Most sellers' complaints about lowball offers are about the offer itself and nothing more.

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miraclemet

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Is "lowball" really synonymous with "insulting"?

 

I guess I never see an offer as insulting if its offered properly, and usually if an offer is insulting its the surrounding content thats insulting, not the offer itself.

 

but then again I dont read into an offer beyond the amount offered.

 

If I make an offer below the ask, I typically give the seller a reasonable out a'la "I understand if you have more in the book than that, or want to realize a higher price than my offer, no harm"

 

what about a low offer is insulting?

 

[really asking, I want to know!]

 

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I'd have no trouble offering 50% of a buyers BIN. I wouldn't expect him to take it, but he is free to make a counter offer.

I made a well known dealer an offer of $350 for a book he was asking $700. I was prepared to go around $500. He counter-offered with $699. I offered $375, he came back with $698. I asked him if his plan was to go down a dollar each time I went up and he answered yes. I told him to ignore the next 195 offers but to accept my 196th. Never heard from him again.

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I'd have no trouble offering 50% of a buyers BIN. I wouldn't expect him to take it, but he is free to make a counter offer.

I made a well known dealer an offer of $350 for a book he was asking $700. I was prepared to go around $500. He counter-offered with $699. I offered $375, he came back with $698. I asked him if his plan was to go down a dollar each time I went up and he answered yes. I told him to ignore the next 195 offers but to accept my 196th. Never heard from him again.

lol I had a similar experience to this!!!

 

Another time, I offered a seller like $10 less than his asking price on a lower priced modern. He declined w/o a counter. I then emailed him and offered to buy the book off of ebay for his asking price minus the 10% for ebay fees and he blocked me. And then he lowered the price 10% off on his auction! :screwy:

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tinynascarfan-migration

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I must be "the lowballer from hell"

 

it don't matter to me what FMV is, or what GPA says it sold for 8 years ago or yesterday. the only matters involved is feedback(for ebay) and how much im willing to pay for the book.

 

Most of what I buy has never been listed on GPA anyway. Im holding out for a Harbinger 1 for 200 or less and it will get there, done dropped 500 bucks inside a year.

 

I think of how much trouble its gonna be for me to get a pristine copy of that book how much its gonna cost me raw, and get it graded a 9.8.

 

ive bid 20 percent of the asking price and been accepted, and also bid 95 percent on some and been rejected.

 

a book is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. not a penny more not a penny less.

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Buzzetta

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I must be "the lowballer from hell"

 

it don't matter to me what FMV is, or what GPA says it sold for 8 years ago or yesterday. the only matters involved is feedback(for ebay) and how much im willing to pay for the book.

 

Most of what I buy has never been listed on GPA anyway. Im holding out for a Harbinger 1 for 200 or less and it will get there, done dropped 500 bucks inside a year.

 

I think of how much trouble its gonna be for me to get a pristine copy of that book how much its gonna cost me raw, and get it graded a 9.8.

 

ive bid 20 percent of the asking price and been accepted, and also bid 95 percent on some and been rejected.

 

a book is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. not a penny more not a penny less.

 

You know that I am taking that Harbinger #1 9.8 once it hits $250 right?

 

Received my Solar 1 9.8 today actually.

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