"Best Offer"

[Rick Bradford]

Does anybody here, as a buyer, submit offers to eBay sellers (through the Best Offer option, I mean)? Do you like it? Has it been reasonably successful for you?

[50Cent #II (1st print)]

Yes, I do it often and sometimes win sometimes not.  The early Rat Fink I won was for $17 offered (with $25 BIN).

[stage52]

 Hey  Rick,    I use this feature often and most of the time I get it as long as I am reasonable with my offer.   I just won a Earth Island mag  after losing to a higher bidder. I had bid $21.01 for it  and got outbid at $21.51.  The seller offered a 2nd chance offer at $21.01 . I sent him a message back if he would accept a $16.00 & $4.00 S&H and he accepted it.  This seller has sold many of these and I believe Brother J got 1 at $15.00 on a bid but the same seller had raised his S & H to $7.50.   All the others went for over $20.00 + shipping..   I think that its worth a try especially if an item does not sell.   The worst that can happen is that they say no and you are not out anything. 

[Brother J]

Hey  Rick,    I use this feature often and most of the time I get it as long as I am reasonable with my offer.   I just won a Earth Island mag  after losing to a higher bidder. I had bid $21.01 for it  and got outbid at $21.51.  The seller offered a 2nd chance offer at $21.01 . I sent him a message back if he would accept a $16.00 & $4.00 S&H and he accepted it.  This seller has sold many of these and I believe Brother J got 1 at $15.00 on a bid but the same seller had raised his S & H to $7.50.   All the others went for over $20.00 + shipping..   I think that its worth a try especially if an item does not sell.   The worst that can happen is that they say no and you are not out anything. 

Yeah, I think that was what I paid. I guess he made some money on the shipping, but I thought the price was ok.

[stage52]

Hey Brother J,    That Earth Island Seller had  started that auction at $7.50 opening bid then it suddenly changed to a $15.00 opening bid.   You still got a deal. The copies were in nice shape.   I remember there was another seller a few years ago that had many minty copies of it and they went for $9.99.   I should have bought more copies back then.   I believe that Earth Island seller you purchased from still has many more copies of it because he got  a couple of sealed boxes of them at an Estate Sale of the Publisher of the Mag.   

[stage52]

  Just noticed the clock is off by about & hour ahead !!!   

[Rick Bradford]

Thanks for the comments, guys!

[over40artist]

I have also used the best offer option to win a few comix. Sometimes I received counter offers from the sellers that I declined, since I felt my offer was quite reasonable.

Man, I paid $50+ for my Earth Island book! I suck! It was only VF+, so I really suck!

[Brother J]

Man, I paid $50+ for my Earth Island book! I suck! It was only VF+, so I really suck!

Well, it's not really your fault, that's what happens when someone discovers a hidden case of a before then "rare" book.  Case in point, I collect Valiant comics and a rare one was supposed to be the gold version of X-O Manowar # 1/2 from Wizard. I paid the equivalent of close to $200 worth of stuff in cash and trade. Later on, someone found a case of them and started blowing them out on eBay. The end result is now the book is worth about $30-$40.

[over40artist]

Yeah, but I only bought mine a year ago. I didn't notice there were all these cheap copies running around from an estate sale.