Ebay Selling Advice

[ktothep]

I wanted to get some advice from some of the more experienced sellers. I'm selling a high end card of a hot prospect and I have three generous offers all of the same amount. What do you think would be the fairest way of handling this situation?

 

[darrend505]

Counter all 3 with the same message. If they want it enough they will offer more.

 

[tommyfro21]

1. If it is through the Best Offer feature, keep the highest offer pending.
2. Counter the two lower offers with amounts that are higher than the highest offer.
3. If they do not respond before the highest offer expires, go ahead and accept the high one if you don't feel you could get any more from a future buyer.

This can all depend on the prospect too, but the above is what I generally do.

 

[ktothep]

thanks for the advice darrend. Tommy, I have some offers lower and I will do that, but these 3 are the same exact amount.

 

[Musial Collector]

I'm selling a high end card of a hot prospect and I have three generous offers all of the same amount.

1. If it is through the Best Offer feature, keep the highest offer pending.
2. Counter the two lower offers with amounts that are higher than the highest offer.
3. If they do not respond before the highest offer expires, go ahead and accept the high one if you don't feel you could get any more from a future buyer.

This can all depend on the prospect too, but the above is what I generally do.

 

[Huffamaniac]

Counter each offer buy $20 and explain that you received 3 offers for the same amonut. You intend to sell to the highest bidder and if they want they can accept the offer or they can feel free to make another counter

thanks for the advice darrend. Tommy, I have some offers lower and I will do that, but these 3 are the same exact amount.

 

[ktothep]

Thanks for the advice Huff. I like that idea

 

[Matsuicollector]

Counter each offer buy $20 and explain that you received 3 offers for the same amonut. You intend to sell to the highest bidder and if they want they can accept the offer or they can feel free to make another counter

thanks for the advice darrend. Tommy, I have some offers lower and I will do that, but these 3 are the same exact amount.

I'd counter by a lot more than $20 (maybe $80-$100 depending on what the price is) and then leave a note to ask them to please give their best offer as per the situation. This way, if someone doesn't want the chance of their card going away they could hit the much higher BIN without reoffering and possibly not winning. $20 is not too high of an increment for a high end card so likely the best offer will be more. Worst case scenario is that the next batch of offers aren't $20 higher and you lose $5-$10, which on a high-end card isn't really much. Though this is all with my assumption that by high-end your talking $500+

 

[ktothep]

You are correct Musial, it is at least a $500 card. I did a bulk decline sending all the same message. Hopefully they will send other offers.

 

[t3dudek]

I did a bulk decline sending all the same message. Hopefully they will send other offers.

that was a poor choice... You should of countered the offers they sent you. If each offer on ur 500 dollar card was for 450 you should of kept the person who had the longest amount of time left in the 48 hr window to accept/decline bid. You then should of offered a higher bid to the other two bidders explaining the situation. maybe ask 480 from the other 2 bidders if either hits it or doesnt send you back an offer then when the 48 hours are up on the original bid you take that one.

I always leave myself a offer that i can accept just in case.

Also when getting 3 bids around the same price amount i usually look at where the card would be getting sent, what that person's feedback looks like an how many items he has bought recently. Lastly if i see in a persons feedback that he collects the player that i am selling religiously i try to sell the card to him because he wants it for his personal collection.