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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2809032, member: 27832&quot;]I&#039;m more receptive to offers after the listing has been up for a bit. I&#039;m not going to jump on an offer made a few minutes after the listing appears -- I&#039;ll wait to see if there are higher offers. I realize it&#039;s a bit unfair to say I&#039;m entertaining offers if my heart isn&#039;t in it, but I don&#039;t think eBay provides a way to convert from straight BIN to BIN/BO.</p><p><br /></p><p>Conversely, if I&#039;ve done a couple of 30-day listings on an item and received only low offers, I <i>might</i> be ready to entertain another low offer. Or I might leave it up, hoping that the right buyer will come along a few more months down the road; that happens, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had at least two occasions where someone made a BO, then bought at BIN before I got a chance to respond. The first was silver offered below melt (to get an eBay promo deal), and I&#039;m sure the buyer realized someone else would snatch it at the asking price if he didn&#039;t. On the second, I was seriously considering the offer, and I ended up giving the buyer a small refund out of the goodness of my heart.</p><p><br /></p><p>It costs nothing but a few seconds of time to make an offer, so I can&#039;t see getting offended by a lowball offer. I&#039;m sure there are people out there who spend all day lowballing; if they get an acceptance even 1% of the time, hey, bargain item! It&#039;s not for me, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, it takes only a few seconds to reject a lowball offer, so I don&#039;t bother with auto-reject. I figure if my assumptions about value are wrong, autoreject is throwing away some information. (Or maybe I&#039;d still be notified about the auto-rejected offers -- I don&#039;t know.) I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve ever gotten more than a half-dozen or so offers for a single listing, and I list very sporadically, so it&#039;s never become an issue for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did enjoy the person who offered $74 for $50 FV of 40% Kennedy halves, listed at $255, at a point when melt was close to 5x FV. She included a note saying &quot;I sell these for $1 each.&quot; I rejected her offer with a note thanking her for it, and adding that I&#039;d buy all she was willing to sell me at $1 each. Never heard anything back on that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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