Make Me An Offer

[HollyDollyChristmas]

Saw an album that I wanted on eBay last night. Buy it now price was £16 + £3 p&p or make me an offer.
Offered £14 but it was rejected.
I can only assume that they want £15 or the buy it now price for the item so why not just list it as such instead of adding the offer option?
Do you think that £14 was a reasonable offer in the circumstances or am I missing something?

Maybe offer £15 and if still no then buy it now.

The offer option is on automatically I think. I always turn it off.

I sell a lot on eBay and accept reasonable offers (max 25% of selling price) as most of my items are high end with a low buy in price, as long as I’m paying say £20 to sell for £100 I would take a £75 offer. What annoys me are the ‘how much would you take for this’ questions because they clearly have no intention of paying anything close to my price and have probably been auto rejected for lowball offers.

I had this the other day, offered up to £1 less than asking price and still got rejected. Wondered why they’d bother to accept offers if they weren’t open to them.

The offer option does seem a bit pointless if they are not even going to consider £14 on a £16 item. Though in my view the feature is a bit pointless for cheap items anyway.

I think some people use it as a "if you don't want to to go through auction offer the best price you can" and expect it to be higher than the auction start price.

I put something on at a starting price of £30. I would be happy with £30. Someone offered me £40. I guess they wanted to avoid it possibly reaching £60 at auction 🤷🏻‍♀️

eBay do try and force you to allow offers when you list an item.
Ive never been quite sure if sellers expect you to put in a lower bid, or offer a higher bid to snap it up quickly before the auction ends.
Think eBay need to make it a bit clearer.

I’d always presumed lower @Fairyliz but after your comment and the PP from @Hellibore it seems it could be either which I m a bit embarrassed not to have realised until now..