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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 7307439, member: 46237&quot;]I saw a European seller with a large inventory and a couple obscure booklets listed at 20 Euro each Buy It Now, with the Make An Offer option. I figured I would make an offer on both, since the shipping was very expensive. So I put in a reasonable 15 Euro offer on each, figuring they&#039;d likely counter and we&#039;d both be happy. Nope. They simply declined both offers. No message. No counter offer. I gave them a pass on this, and put in another pair of offers at 18 Euro each, but again, they declined with no message given or counter offered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to me - and I&#039;m curious as to how you all feel on this - this behavior is <i>extremely</i> rude. Of course no seller is ever obligated to accept any offer, however, I consider declining without a message or counter offer to be reserved exclusively for insultingly lowball offers. I think posting a Make An Offer option obliges the seller to certain level of conduct when dealing with <i>reasonable</i> offers, since they are <i>openly soliciting for offers</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no problem whatsoever with someone selling an item with a Buy It Now, and I will either pay their price or I won&#039;t. But take that same seller selling the exact same item with the exact same Buy It Now price but with Make An Offer set on the auction, who then declines all offers and just wants the Buy It Now price anyway, this upsets me to the point where I will permanently blacklist the seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t want to accept offers, <i>don&#039;t solicit them</i>. It would have been one thing if they declined and explained that Make An Offer had accidentally been set on the item and that offers are not being considered, but they couldn&#039;t even be bothered to do that. Now it is possible that they would have sold the item for 19.50 or so, but to set Make An Offer on an auction to attract business when you&#039;re only willing to go down half a Euro is petty and infuriating as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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