I always use the minimum offer option to avoid even getting the lowball offers. I usually will put that min offer a little lower than I’ll actually go. Then if I get a min offer, I can counter up a few bucks to where I’d prefer it to be. That seems to do the trick most times. Not always. But, I don’t want to waste time looking through offers that are crazy low.
What stinks is if you send out a discounted offer to “interested buyers” and allow counter offering, they can seemingly bypass the min offer set up and lowball that way. I’ve seen that happen a few times now.
I have an Ebayer with zero feedback bidding on a book of mine. Does anyone have an experience with a buyer with no feedback. With the rash of non-payers lately, and people complaining about the their books, I am worried. Is there a way to block buyers with zero or low bids ? Thanks !
The way I see it, you gotta start somewhere right? I try not to quickly judge buyers based on feedback cause if everyone setup eBay to block buyers with zero feedback, then they would never be able to buy anything.
I understand, just worried. I dont want to block a new buyer, just wanted to know if I had the option in Ebay. Been selling off and on for the last few years, but the last two months, I have had several non-payments, two requests for damages/adjustments, and my first return. Just very skittish … All with low feedback buyers, BUT 100% positive feedback !
I’m not a power seller - most of my selling was over a decade ago - but I’ve had good luck with a new bidder maybe once or twice. The others were non-paying wastes of time.
Look at it this way, the worst that happens is they don’t pay and you have to relist or if they do try to scam you, well, that happens with people who have actual feedback as well. So, honestly, everyone is a potential turd blossom when it comes to selling things online.
I often have a better time with people no feedback or just a small number of feedback. The ones with thousands of feedback give me the most headaches. This is anecdotal evidence, but yeah.
Ebay seller messages me all pissed cause the book he bought (marvel now point one) came bent and in a crappy manilla envelope. Me all confused but turns out he bought the same book from another seller that packed it terribly and was a mishap since the ones he ordered from me weren’t delivered yet and I always use gemini mailers. Thankfully they didn’t leave negative feedback
Had this happen to me as well. Guy purchased 2 copies of the same comic from different sellers and got confused about which was which. The day it was delivered, he left me a glowing review on Ebay and then a couple days later he’s sending me pics of a damaged comic. We got it straightened out thankfully.
Block this guy: bucxfan81 (hope its none of you), but the individual purchased two comics from me…said 1 arrived perfectly fine, and sent me pictures of a completely beat up and torn copy of the other one. If you have purchased from me, you know that I wrap everything in a bubble bag, and tape the comics together.
I personally selected the comic from a LCS because I couldn’t find the copy I had in my inventory. I then brought it back and taped it to the other comic, and placed it in a bubble bag, then inside a gemini. How the hell this thing got scratched, dented to all hell, and then ripped, while inside the bubble mailer, and the other comic had zero damage, is beyond me.
Anyways…I couldn’t let it go and just sent him a message stating that there is a very low probability of that happening, and that he would be blocked from buying anything else in the future.
I swear…at least make up a good story or say both were damaged…sheesh.
Not so much a headache but just something very strange.
I listed some desirable store exclusive variants and out of the blue I got a message telling me my prices were too low. I messaged back “ I hope you’re right. Changed the prices. We’ll see what happens.” No reply. The guy retreated into the night.
My paranoid self makes me wonder what possible angle this person could have and how they are trying to screw me. Maybe he’s just a helpful chap. Maybe he’s trying to inflate market prices one listing at a time.
@drunkwooky While I realize it is very different than ebay, I’ve seen this sort of thing at comic shows routinely. I’m often at shows before they open (because of my trooping with the 501st), and so I tend to just mill about and watch things happen. I constantly see vendors walking around, comparing prices, and changing prices of current hot books to maintain a bit of consistency among all of them, eliminate some of the low priced issues so they don’t have to do the same. Not that everyone is involved, but it definitely takes place. Likely sort of the same thing.
