Best offers listing- do settlers expect the full price?

[cavalo]

I'd just like a general view please.

I've made two "best offers" to two sellers this week. Seller 1 responded with a counter-offer. Seller 2 is asking £30 our best offer, I offer £25, seller declines but doesn't make a counter-offer or leave any message. Are they probably expecting the full £30, even though they listed it as best offers?
Confused.

A lot of listings have the best offer feature on as a default, so sellers don't even realise there offering that feature when they lost an item for sale.

Maybe they've had several offers at around the price you offered so they're holding out for the full price since there appears to be lots of interest.

Thanks :)

I would have done a counter offer of £27.50. What about messaging them to remind them they have it on best offer.

In my experience they like you to offer a pound less than the buy it now price

For Best Offer (which I rarely use) I'm looking for about 90% of the asking price but then I'm often selling items at £100+ and they do sell at their asking prices. If I do use Best Offer it's because I want to move an item just a bit more quickly.

Be aware that if they accept your offer - the item is deemed sold to you - and you have to pay.

So only offer what you think it's worth

It's only recently that eBay have started adding the 'best offer ' button by default, so I bet people don't realise it's on there. I normally add the best offer button if something hasn't sold after a few weeks

I've bought things on best offer for much less than the full price on a couple of occasions. I agree that it probably depends on how much interest there seems to be in an item. If it's been on for ages with very few watchers / offers they will be more likely to accept a low offer, whereas if it's only recently been listed and has had a lot of watchers / offers they may hold out for the full price.

I've listed items and didn't realise there was a best offer on it. Most of the time I accept if it's a decent enough offer.
But I do sometimes use best offer as I find it can sell faster, but I always price it higher so I can accept a lower offer and the buyer feels like they are getting a bargain.