Zaphod Beeblebrox 

This best offer thing on eBay is the coolest. In the last 2 weeks I've got some incredible deals by making lowball offers on vintage parts.

Here's how I did so far.

NOS Shimano 7 speed cassette Roller Brake hub - Originally 40 bux, Best offer for $30 with Free Shipping
NOS Bluemels Shorty chrome fenders - Originally 19 bux, Best offer for 10 with Free shipping
new Pair of 26" Sun Rhyno 36h rims - 22 bux with Free Shipping

I did pretty good for 62 bux methinks

Anybody else with some good success stories?

Tigerprawn

I have to agree! I haven't scored anything like that, but I did get some smaller items for a few bux off. Great feature on ebay.

Zaphod Beeblebrox 

yeah and I don't feel guilty about making a lowball offer. Either I win or I get a generic email response that says "Your offer was not accepted" ....the seller can even give a counter offer, which is pretty cool too.

Road Fan

Ok, but once I made an offer, it was rejected, and I was not permitted to make a higher offer. Is this what the feature is supposed to do? I don't like making an offer if there is a risk of getting shut out, unless what it's really all about is that the buyer has to make their highest, drop dead, offer.

Road Fan

Zaphod Beeblebrox 

i dunno...There was a bike a few weeks ago, that the seller had listed for something exorbitant like 150 bux with a Best Offer option and had received no bids with a few hours remaining. I submitted an offer for 50, which was immediately declined, so I submitted 51, also declined...so 52, 53, 54 then the auction ran out of time.

At least in my experiences I've always had the option to re-offer.

Jason1976

you can set up to auto decline low offers. or auto accept offers of at least so much.

gamecat

You can only make three offers on any one auction.

https://pages.ebay.com/bestoffer/faq/index.htm

miamijim

I've used that feature as a seller and a buyer and its worked well.

In fact I just offered a seller $10 for an item he had listed for $20 and he accepted.

Zaphod Beeblebrox 

I thought you were about to say that You were the guy I offered 10 bux to for the 20 dollar fenders



Its so fun when you make a lowball offer and get it though. You check your my eBay and there's a notice that says "Pay for 1 item" and you're like "Say what?" and then you realize its the item you made a ridiculously low offer on and you're like "Heck yes."

miamijim

I've bought items I couldnt remember bidding on.....

j. hughes

I did this for a Kurt Kinetic trainer and got a pretty sweet deal. Felt kind of bad with the low ball offer, but I guess he didn't have to accept it, either.

Jason1976

that is true. I sell alot of vintage electronics on epay.

I love old stereos and amps. my hole stereo system I used is older and 130 watts per channel. I had a friend saying how great his stereo was. 7.1 channels and all that crap. It sounds like crap to my old stereo. one day he came over at my house. I turned mine on and turned it up and he saw what I ment the older systems blew his stereo away. plus my vintage infinity speakers help with the 15" woofers.

ps i cracked a house window with it turned up. the misses was upset.

tmh657

I have not bought anything with best offer but have made one and got no response.

One time an item w/o the option had 0 bids and ended. Immediately afterward I sent a message to the seller and made an offer and he took it. That worked well.