Ebay Ethical To ask seller to end at a certain price
I am guilty of this, but if there is a auction you really want have you ever been tempted to just make a offer to the seller? or do you just bid till the end. I personally dont see a problem with asking nicely if he has a buy it now price set.
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i dont care if there is 0 bids, 1 bid, or 100 bids, it never hurts to ask! the worst thing that could happen is that the seller says no to you.
I 100% agree.
Edit: (For the record I agree also, but I can honestly say I haven't offered BINs on any auction with bids since I discovered some people on here consider it wrong.)
Anybody who has a problem with it, should visit a middle eastern market and get a new understanding of how business really works
This has been a common pratice for years now. if you see something you want you better email the seller and either ask if they would sell , make them aware you do plan on bidding a high amount or someone else will.
~~NGD
Active listings are fine...but once the auction is over it should be over IMO.
~~NGD
Active listings are fine...but once the auction is over it should be over IMO.
~~NGD
Yeah, that goes without saying.
But if you were worried about $0.50, you should have just paid the premium to get the item you wanted in the first place.
if hes willing to bid more then too bad for you
I am guilty of this, but if there is a auction you really want have you ever been tempted to just make a offer to the seller? or do you just bid till the end. I personally dont see a problem with asking nicely if he has a buy it now price set.
If they don't have a BIN in the auction, then obviously they don't have a price in mind. The problem I have, and have seen many brag about, is that they completely low-ball an offer when there is something worth a lot in it. I mean low-balling as in offering $100 when a lot has a Hot Slots, BBB or something of high value. They don't offer them a "fair" price. Because they know that as soon as others see it, that it will go for more than they can afford.
If they don't have a BIN in the auction, then obviously they don't have a price in mind. The problem I have, and have seen many brag about, is that they completely low-ball an offer when there is something worth a lot in it. I mean low-balling as in offering $100 when a lot has a Hot Slots, BBB or something of high value. They don't offer them a "fair" price. Because they know that as soon as others see it, that it will go for more than they can afford.
Well if you post a 7 day auction and someone messages you in the first 10 minutes with a $100 BIN offer on your 0.99 cent item, that should immediately set off a huge light bulb in your head that you have something of value. When Hot Slots, BBB or something of high value pops up on eBay I gurantee you could only win with a lowball hour in the first hour or so of it being listed. By then the seller would have already gotten multiple end it now offers and would be clued in that he has an item of value....
And since when is it the buyer's fault if the seller is ignorant? If the seller finds some "junk" in his garage that he was just going to throw away and puts it up for $0.99 then accepts a BIN of $100 for a $500 item, both parties are still happy. These types of ignorant sellers would never know that they sold an item well below market value until the NA ethics police send them a barrage of eBay messages pleading them to cancel the sale and relist it at a higher price. And last time I checked, we all just agreed that
"Active listings are fine...but once the auction is over it should be over IMO.
~~NGD"
If you lose out on a good deal, too bad. It's called business....