posted on October 12, 2004 04:16:54 PM
We sell ( or try to) antiques and collectibles- we have opened an EBAY store and the buying is still almost non existant- I was thinking that at least in the stores where items can stay on forever there should be a buyer option to " make an offer" and the seller option to accept or reject it- Any thoughts??????
posted on October 12, 2004 04:27:41 PM
No thanks, I have my items priced well, and I still get email from people asking for lower. I am not in favor of a mechanism to add haggling to the ebay process.
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posted on October 12, 2004 11:58:41 PM
<<<Groundbreaking Tool Allows Buyers to 'Make an Offer' on eBay
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
September 28, 2004
A company called Yldfire.com has introduced a new way to buy an item on eBay called "Make An Offer," adding to eBay's current auction and fixed-price formats.
Sellers using the tool advertise in their eBay listings that buyers can "make an offer" on the item. If and when an acceptable offer has been tendered, Make An Offer immediately converts the "Buy it Now" amount in a listing to the accepted amount tendered or immediately generates a Buy It Now listing in the sellers eBay store for regular inventory items. Should the buyer fail to purchase the item within 3 minutes, the original auction reverts back to its original form or the new store auctions is removed.
Sellers using Make An Offer can set an acceptable price in advance, or create an automated process where acceptable pricing thresholds can be determined by data from Internet sources, known buyer trends, and ROI expectations.
Sellers can block buyers who are just looking for the lowest price, or they can manipulate the acceptable price depending on the buyer's behavior.
Yldfire.com was founded by Yury Bogomolsky and John Hoffe and is an eBay certified developer.
posted on October 13, 2004 08:28:41 AM
This sounded good when ioffer came out. I listed some things over there, but it didn't last long. The only offers I got were from people who wanted to pay next to nothing. On the few deals I accepted only one paid. A few of the non payers went over to eBay and bid on my auction for the same thing.
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