Has this happened to you?

ajbraves25 · Feb 11, 2011

I have a Freeman Chrome auto on ebay with BIN/BO option. I recieved an offer of $60 and I let it sit there and was gonna check it again today due to the 48 hour offer was set to expire later today. I checked today and the buyer retracted his offer of $60 and stated entered wrong amount. I thought crap, but no big deal, maybe they went down. Then I check completed items and the last one sold at auction for $66. Just thought it was weird. They may have picked one up at a better price, who knows. Just strange that one sold for more than the offer I was given that was retracted.

~AJ

jbhofmann · Feb 11, 2011

Yeah, I think sometimes people don't like to wait.

autorook · Feb 11, 2011

I mostly see it with bidding rather than best offers.

Pine Tar · Feb 11, 2011

It seems that when they offer, they are expecting your sitting at the computer and you'll be able to respond to their offer almost instantly. But if you do not and let the offer go over 24-36 hours, you are waiting to see if any more come in before you counter-offer, they sometimes they do this. I hate it but the buyer was hopping you would respond sooner.

ajbraves25 · Feb 11, 2011

Yeah I just thought it was strange that the offer that was retracted was lower than the last one sold for.

~AJ

Hullfan · Feb 11, 2011

Maybe they thought their offer would be a steal and when they saw only a 6.00 difference in a recent sale it wasn't worth it to them.

JzWand · Feb 11, 2011

Something else could have popped up and they didnt want to wait and take the chance that you dont accept and then they also lose out on the other item!

I had to do this earlier this week.

I put in a very fair offer of $35 on a $40 BIN/BO and it sat and sat.
Finally 8 hours before it expired (so he had the bid for 40 hours at that point), I had to retract because I had something rare pop up in my saved searches that I needed to put the funds towards.

I didnt expect to get an answer right away. But when the other item popped up, I couldnt take the chance I lose both!

I think it was my 2nd bid retraction in 10 years!

olerudfan · Feb 11, 2011

I've actually had a couple in past few weeks where buyer made a decent offer I was considering taking and right before I went to accept they hit the buy it now instead not wanting to risk losing out on item.

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