Accepting Offers from Buyers

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So on some of my items, I will accept a buyers offer for a lesser amount than asking price. But the issue I run into is sometimes when you accept an offer, the buyer doesn't pay. Then I end up wasting 1 of my listings for the month. This happened 2 or 3 times on a 10/1000 account, and I can't afford it. I need all my 10 to be paid, lol.

Usually what I do is change the BIN price to their offer price so the person can go ahead and buy it, but that is just an extra step that I don't feel like doing lol.

Is there any option in eBay that makes buyers pay for an offer that I accept?

[ilcarletto]

When listing for BIN enable the "Allow buyers to make offers." feature.

This way the buyer is commited to buy the item if you accept his offer.

[jakobrockz]

Try sending them an offer through an eBay message (supposedly you can do this now) and I'm sure you'd have more success with them paying for the item right away when they have to manually accept that certain price.


I don't know very much on the topic but probably worth looking into

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Originally Posted by ilcarletto

When listing for BIN enable the "Allow buyers to make offers." feature.

This way the buyer is commited to buy the item if you accept his offer.

Well I use the "Allow Buyers to make offers" but I don't think buyers have to pay once I accept their offer.

There is an option when you make your listing that makes buyers pay instantly if they use the buy it now option, but I don't think this applies to offers.

I will continue to just change the BIN price until I figure it out.

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Originally Posted by jakobrockz

Try sending them an offer through an eBay message (supposedly you can do this now) and I'm sure you'd have more success with them paying for the item right away when they have to manually accept that certain price.


I don't know very much on the topic but probably worth looking into

Yea, you can send offers thru message now, but the buyer still has to accept it and I don't think the buyer is commited to pay for anything once they accept the offer. I almost need to be on the buyer end to see what their options are.

Maybe I need to buy something on ebay this weekend haha.

[dealagreeproceed]

only way I know to force payment immediately upon purchase is via BIN... that's why I despise bids/offers because so many deadbeats are attracted to it

[MM78]

Originally Posted by dealagreeproceed

only way I know to force payment immediately upon purchase is via BIN... that's why I despise bids/offers because so many deadbeats are attracted to it

Agree 10,000%!

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Yea I'll continue with my method and just change BIN price. I tell the buyers to hurry up and buy it before someone else sees that the price has gone down. lol