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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3332249, member: 44316&quot;]I didn&#039;t vote because the option &quot;sometimes&quot; was not available. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have bought coins with &quot;Make an offer&quot; several times and failed to do so several times. I think in the ancient coin section of eBay if buy-it-now is combined with make-an-offer it is most common that the buy-it-now is significantly higher than they require. I would expect at the very least 20% off and more likely 30%-40% off, or more. Some sellers list ancient coins such that 60% of the buy-it-now price is realistic and some greedier sellers list ancient coins such that much less than 60% would be realistic. It is hard to want to make an offer of only 1/4 of a buy it now price, so I just skip over items priced far too high. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, if 60% is realistic and the most you want to pay and you offer 60% you will probably get an unwanted counteroffer at 80%. So, I sometimes use the comment space to say I really think my price is a good price and I do not intend to go higher, so please simply accept or decline my offer. That works often enough. Yesterday I got a coin in the mail that was buy-it-now at $125 and I offered $70 with that comment and the seller, who really does know the value of that coin type, accepted.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Had he countered with, say, $90, I might have countered with $71 just to take the opportunity to say I meant it and it is fine with me if he declines. That approach has sometimes been accepted. Had he then declined my $71 offer that would have been fine. If the seller wants more than I want to pay (which is always lower than &quot;retail&quot;), I can always step away and spend my money on some other coin among the tens of thousands of coins on the market. There is no shortage of coins I&#039;d like to have!</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine if someone would buy a coin at, say, 60%, they might offer 40% and prepare for a back-and-forth negotiation. That&#039;s another approach with its own logic. Who knows?&nbsp; It might be accepted at 40% (unlikely, I think) and the buyer might do better than the hoped-for 60%. But, for me, that approach wastes too much time of mine and the seller&#039;s. I don&#039;t offer unless I think I would be getting a very good price <b>and</b> the seller might well accept.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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