What goes on in the mind of an Ebay seller?

[silverfoxcc]

Looking at a camera lens 6 days to go with a make an offer option

It is sitting on 200.00 start

most lends go for 550-600 so i bung in an offer of 500.00 just to test the water so to speak at 16.00

Get an email back at 20.00 sayig offer refused
Was about to got up to 550.00 and checked the site and it had just been sold at 219.00 i mean WTFFFFFF

Did he think i was living in Hungary? ( check the exchange rate!!!!)

[DannyScene]

Listing might've finished after your message but before his reply and he didn't see your offer until it had already sold so no choice but to reject the offer?

[Saleen836]

What goes on in the mind of a buyer.... he sees an item starting at £200 and makes a buy it now offer of £500!

[tim0409]

Saleen836 said:

What goes on in the mind of a buyer.... he sees an item starting at £200 and makes a buy it now offer of £500!

The starting price is irrelevant though. I quite often get stupid offers from people who think the starting price is somehow closely connected to what the item is worth. The OP made a serious offer which reflected the normal selling price of the item.

[Doofus]

It goes both ways. I sold an item recently, which I started off at £50. I got an offer for £7.75

[Jasandjules]

I had very similar a few years ago, I knew an item was worth about 1k and it was at £500 start. I offered 1k to save the hassle as I really wanted it. It was rejected. I won it at £500 when I decided to bid anyway. I hope you bid OP

[the tribester]

There' a 50 pence coin with a Buy it Now of 2 million pounds.

I'm thinking of offering 49p, as there's free postage.