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Originally posted by Pail42:
Nobody has ever accepted my offer.

Honestly, if you aren't going to accept an offer of $X then start the auction above $X you cheapskate.

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The fact that reserve auctions exists drives me insane and I never bid on them. I'm like 'just make your reserve your minimum bid you piece of @#$Q'. Been doing ebay since 2001 and by 2003 I was like 'never bidding on a reserve auction every again'.

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Originally posted by slurpee:
I find that I only use them on mtg cards when I am looking for multiples of cards. I usually just state the lowest auction price and they accept it. I don't try for 10% or more off of the lowest price, why would they accept it?

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You will almost NEVER get a discount from him - unless he actually likes you in real life; or you've brought a substantial amount of product from him, or his brick and motor store(s)?

Also, he's one of the primary reasons Damnation is a $35-40 card, instead of $15-20 - when he [Dan Bock] went and brought a rather large number of the card; and he intends to sit on his investment for a bit.

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Originally posted by aethertech:
Just a note, as this is a subject [Dan Bock], I have some real world experience with.

You will almost NEVER get a discount from him - unless he actually likes you in real life; or you've brought a substantial amount of product from him, or his brick and motor store(s)?

Also, he's one of the primary reasons Damnation is a $35-40 card, instead of $15-20 - when he [Dan Bock] went and brought a rather large number of the card; and he intends to sit on his investment for a bit.

Source - talked to him, and his employees.

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Originally posted by LandDestroyer:
I've heard that from others as well. I hope damnation gets printed as a rare in mma 2015.

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Most likely, that seems to be the case at this point. It doesn't quite fit into the Khans block; and WotC seems to be straying away from the '4-mana wrath always in standard,' shpeil that they had a few years ago.

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Originally posted by aethertech:
Most likely, that seems to be the case at this point. It doesn't quite fit into the Khans block; and WotC seems to be straying away from the '4-mana wrath always in standard,' shpeil that they had a few years ago.

The other option; which was CMDR 2014 product gave us...junk for Wraths; and I doubt Damnation in the last Core Set is a good idea. But MMA2 seems like a very likely contender this time around; since MMA didn't have a "destroy all creatures" wrath.

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Originally posted by Nicksmagic:
I offered $150 on an item listed at $300 and the seller accepted.

I think I told this one before, but my favorite one so far was when a seller named "magiccardsneverdevalue" had a set of foil 7th Lord of Atlantis for sale. He wanted $280 but I offered him $240 which was a good rate. He declined of course, but a week later sent me a message saying he was strapped for cash and would accept my offer. I passed because of the irony of the situation.

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I also tend to disable it from listings I have up because most of the offers people submit are terrible and border on insulting. I know the whole "it's only worth what someone will pay" argument, but I typically only see offers at 50% of market value when I allow them.

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I usually pick a really high starting amount and give the option of "offers" to help me figure out where I should start my next auction out.

I did this when I was selling my complete Star Wars CCG collection. I was the only one offering it and picked a random price of like $5,000. I ended up with an offer of $3,500. (which was still like $2,000 more than I had expected)

We ended up settling on $4,000.

sometimes I use it as a large quantity discount ...

for exemple... as a seller I recently accepted :

5 Antiquities booster : 95$/pce instead of 149.99$

12 FBB Italian Booster : 92$/pce instead of 119.99$

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Originally posted by mnDiff:
well I guess it depends on the seller and how he conceive the best offer option...

sometimes I use it as a large quantity discount ...

for exemple... as a seller I recently accepted :

5 Antiquities booster : 95$/pce instead of 149.99$

12 FBB Italian Booster : 92$/pce instead of 119.99$

which I would all decline for 1 or 2 booster

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I don't think this is too uncommon for older sealed product. I've had some success with 'best offers' on sealed product. I've also had a decent amount of success getting my 'best offer' accepted the worse condition the card is.

Sometimes a seller won't have a best offer option but I'll PM them and ask if they'll lower a starting bid or buy it now. Sometimes it works, sometimes I try again if their item doesn't sell and then it works.

Pug, I've heard of people saving thousands of dollars on larger magic collections before so that doesn't surprise me.

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Originally posted by ravidell:
If I already have the lowest BIN price on ebay, I'm not going to accept an offer. When you offer $20.00 for a 70.00 item, I add you to the blocked bidders list. I don't bother making offers. I buy or I do not. that simple.

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