"Submit Your Best Offer" - Option Still Not Understood by a Lot of Buyers

However we still have buyers that don't understand the option or overlook it when buying.

Which makes me think that other potential buyers just skim past the listing altogether, thinking that they can't or don't want to afford the comic book at the price listed, even though they could submit an offer.....

We have most of our expensive eBay Featured Store items with this option, as well as low grade comics that we are looking to clear out of the eBay store instead of moving them to our eBay Pro Store, (www.MakeItSoMarketing.com)

When someone purchases an item from us, with the full BIN price without using the SYBO option, then we will include an extra comic in their package or some other sort of rebate, as our way of thanking them for their interest in our listings.

With SIS (Search In Store) no longer highly visible, we want to make our listings attractive to potential buyers, but still make a decent margin to allow us to stay in this business. Additionally the recent Store fee hike makes it impractical to keep inexpensive 'oddball' comics for up to a year before being 'found'.

'Core' listings, unless they are CGC graded comics, just don't do as well for us now as they used to, possibly because of the hundreds if not thousands of other eBay members who are looking to sell some of their comics at very low starting auction prices. Take a look at 'completed' listings for comics and you will find multiples of auction listings closing at 99cents, without high shipping costs. They can't be in 'business', and are probably trying to recover some of their original cost so as to purchase new product from their LCBS, (Local Comic Book Store).

This is not a 'complaint' blog post, just thinking about what I read on a Stores discussion board post where it was discussed that eBay may be getting ready to charge a fee for 'Best Offer' !!!

Michael