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?
Yes, I do it often and sometimes win sometimes not. The early Rat Fink I won was for $17 offered (with $25 BIN).
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. :01_bounce:
Quote from: stage52 on April 20, 2008, 05:11:35 PM
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. :01_bounce:
Yeah, I think that was what I paid. I guess he made some money on the shipping, but I thought the price was ok.
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. :01_bounce:
Just noticed the clock is off by about & hour ahead !!! :01_wtf:
Thanks for the comments, guys!
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!
Quote from: over40artist on April 26, 2008, 05:48:30 AM
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.
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. :BangHead: