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Sorry if this was posted already, but I noticed some auctions contain Best Offers.
According to the eBay message boards, a Customer Rep said:
"eBay applies Best Offer to over-priced listings to help increase their chances of selling. Best Offer is applied to auctions when the start price exceeds the recommended Buy it Now price. This only applies to Auctions, it does not apply to Auctions with a Buy it Now price. The trending price and recommended Buy it Now price is based on prices of similar listings sold on eBay over the past 90 days. Listings where the seller-selected auction start price is greater than the trending price are considered overpriced and will have Best Offer applied. Moving on, we currently do not have a way for sellers to remove Best Offer from auction listings. However, based on the Best Offer logic, if you reduce your auction start price to the recommended Buy it Now price or below, Best Offer will no longer appear on your listing. On the other hand, if you receive an offer that you don’t want to accept there are a few options. You may reject the offer outright, counter the offer with a price that you would accept, or ignore the offer. If ignored, the offer will expire after 48 hours. I trust the information I have provided is helpful on your concern.
I appreciate your diligence on this matter, as well as the way you were so up-front about all that occurred. Thank you for choosing eBay Y and I wish you all the best with selling on eBay."
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selli...t-showing-up-on-auctions/td-p/27593516/page/4
Which means, eBay now gets to dictate what's overpriced.
According to the eBay message boards, a Customer Rep said:
"eBay applies Best Offer to over-priced listings to help increase their chances of selling. Best Offer is applied to auctions when the start price exceeds the recommended Buy it Now price. This only applies to Auctions, it does not apply to Auctions with a Buy it Now price. The trending price and recommended Buy it Now price is based on prices of similar listings sold on eBay over the past 90 days. Listings where the seller-selected auction start price is greater than the trending price are considered overpriced and will have Best Offer applied. Moving on, we currently do not have a way for sellers to remove Best Offer from auction listings. However, based on the Best Offer logic, if you reduce your auction start price to the recommended Buy it Now price or below, Best Offer will no longer appear on your listing. On the other hand, if you receive an offer that you don’t want to accept there are a few options. You may reject the offer outright, counter the offer with a price that you would accept, or ignore the offer. If ignored, the offer will expire after 48 hours. I trust the information I have provided is helpful on your concern.
I appreciate your diligence on this matter, as well as the way you were so up-front about all that occurred. Thank you for choosing eBay Y and I wish you all the best with selling on eBay."
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selli...t-showing-up-on-auctions/td-p/27593516/page/4
Which means, eBay now gets to dictate what's overpriced.