If I get an offer that is ridiculously low (yes I know you can set an automatic decline), I won't even bother countering. Otherwise if the offer is good enough, I'll accept or if it's close, I'll send a counter-offer with the assumption that the buyer will counter my counter-offer.
And here's my Make an Offer story:
A couple months ago there was an item on Ebay I really wanted. The first offer I sent was 67% of the asking price. It was automatically declined. So I gave it a day and I came back with an offer at 78% of the asking. I was countered with a $2 discount or a savings of about 6%. I declined that and said the hell with them, and decided I would look elsewhere. For a month I looked for this game, across multiple avenues, and had no luck at all. I decided to go back to the seller with their original counter offer to me of a $2 discount, and they countered with a $1 discount! At this point I was defeated, so I took it. Fuckers.......
Then within a couple weeks the game showed up twice! So I bought both of those, because they show up so infrequently. Since then, no others have surfaced.
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Edited: 03/06/2012
at 09:28 AM
by War Pig