I think i upset this ebay seller a bit.

WidarWidar
in Everything Else

Saw a sealed Pirates! with a best offer option, figured i'd give it a shot and put in a lower bid, the answer i got was this;

From User: geostrophicflows (5782):
Hi,
Stay the out my store with your garbage offers.
What is wrong with you!
You remark about shipping is even dumber.
I mean really, use your brain!
Like I want to send this at 1/2 price to some retard who does not even ask about shipping first.
You probably did not even read the ad.
No paypal from your location.
I doubt you were planing on sending a money order.
You have been blocked for stupidity!

Nice guy.

Comments

  • jajajajajaja
    I dont see a sealed copy from this seller, only a complete, is that the one you submited the offer to? If its ½ price, its $25? I dont know if this is a lowball offer or not since i dont really follow the prices on USA games, but the seller probly took it as a lowball offer and that can be taken as an insult. If i sell something and people offer me much lower than what the price i've written, i get alittle "angry", but i never reply rude like this. I just say its too low and thats it.



    Anyway, its a fucked up answer from the seller. Its no excuse to come with personal attacks or answer like this to a potential customer. It might give the seller a bad reputation that can spread so this is a bad seller. You can be glad he/she didnt accept your offer, you might have ended up getting problems with him/her.



    Out of curiousity, what was your remark on the shipping?
  • WidarWidar
    Oh yes, it was a complete, my misstake.
    I just wrote along with the offer that i wanted a reasonable priced shipping to Sweden...
  • SivakSivak
    I think if I was selling something with offer as an option and someone went low, I'd probably laugh and simply decline it without giving a reason.

    But anyway, I usually don't play the best offer card too much on ebay.  I've only been successful once, and it was an okay savings.
  • skankinmackskankinmack
    haha, what a spazz, i love getting sellers all pissed off with lowballs lol
  • dangevindangevin
    Nobody's mentioned the seller's option to set an auto-decline price point ... it's right below the best-offer checkbox, not hard to find/use. it's almost like he left that blank just so he could rip into some hapless buyers image
  • nismo33nismo33

    I sorta think that if you put up your auction with a "best offer" option you have to expect lowball offers. It's part of ebay and it's going to happen. As annoying as it can be for the seller to continually reject lowball offers I don't see the need for such a rude response. If your a seller and are sick of receiving low offers which upsets you to this extent then listing auctions with "best offer" is probably not for you.   
     
    With that said im not saying your offer Widar was a lowball offer as I really have no idea what the item in question is worth.
  • DainDain
    Yeah, I get low-balled all the time, and some I'll accept if they buy a bunch of other games. But the other day, I found myself guilty of sending back a snide remark on a lowball offer I received for a boxed Panic Restaurant ($1, LOL, and it was a *serious* offer in that they pleaded with me to accept it!). I was in a pissy mood, so I replied, "Do me a favor -- go play in traffic" image
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    I have gotten like 4-5 offers on my Stack Up box for 20, 25, 30, 15 blah blah blah. It gets annoying sometimes but it is part of ebay. That is why I use auto declines now if it isn't even in the realm of possibility.

    ~~NGD
  • wrldstrmanwrldstrman
    I guess I dont understand the ins and outs of a ebay store but I dont understand the point of a best offer. wouldnt just letting a auction run make more sense.
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    No. You can make a LOT more in a store than you ever could dream of getting from an auction, I promise. Stores are great cause so many people stuff now and don't want to have to wait. So long as you ship fast you can build up some repeat business quick and sale a lot of stuff for market value and above on many items. Plus listing for 30 days saves a ton of time and it auto renews if you want it too. I love my store, I have made over $2200 since I opened it or more.

    ~~NGD
  • Dr. MorbisDr. Morbis
    ^ $2200 net or gross? If that's pure profit then: damn...



    As for this topic, I'll never ever buy an item from geostrophicflows after reading that response. People with attitudes like that do NOT deal with problems well, and, as we all know, dealing with problems comes part and parcel with buying and selling on eBay.
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    I guess more of gross in a sense. All the stuff I am selling is just my dups I get when I buy stuff I need. So I write off the actually cost for the stuff I need and the dups is just extra stuff. So I take it as profit cause the money has already been spent long long ago on many of the items. And for what few items I have actually bought to resale, I have an very decent profit margin on most of them otherwise I don't buy it image

    ~~NGD
  • CartoonEncyclopedia.comCartoonEncyclopedia.com
    I guess that guy hasn't been in business very long



    when I had my online game store



    i'd get dozens of emails asking for discounts and many with sad stories, I would just say sorry cant help you



    I gave into only one cause it was a really sad story

    cant forget the moms name cause it was the same as the actress who played wonder woman: Lynda Carter



    anyway her kid was dislexic, had a stutering problem, grandma just died, the kid stopped socializing with everyone, etc...

    I was just a big pushover, she got free games with her cd64, about several cd's of games, plus a discount



    later I get people giving me the same sobing story, it turns out he was in a n64 mirc group and bragged about it



    you have alot of bad apples out there
  • NationalGameDepotNationalGameDepot
    sob stories from ebay are usually crap and I never give in on them. If someone is honest and says my prices are way to high or asked for a straight up discount I am more likely to give it to them over a sob story.

    ~~NGD
  • dangevindangevin
    /frantically scribbles notes...
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