silly offers on eBay

[NetZeroZealot]

I have listed a fairly high value item on eBay - second hand Apple laptop - and keep getting silly offers from it way below the Buy It Now price.

Anything I can do to discourage this. It's such a waste of time! I'm tempted to switch off the Offer function and just list at a slightly lower price.

I usually list a little above the eBay recommended trending price and invite offers.

Switch off offers, as you say. I get this sometimes, I reply with "No silly offers on days of the week ending in a y" for my own entertainment.

People don't know whether you're desperate to sell - some may accept a very low offer.

you can put a minimum accepted order

I listed a rough trailer for .99p start price. Two days on someone offered me £22.60 🤣.
I declined - they told me they were in the area that day and could collect it. I declined again.
Trailer sold for £170ish. Same user texted me that day and asked if it had been collected yet. I ignored and blocked him - twat.

Set your minimum offer amount. Anything lower gets automatically refused.

I assume you had it on auction mode if you listed at a starting price for 99p?

You were right to ignore and block the CF potential buyer though.

It's been a while since I've used auction to sell things on ebay, but I would only ever start an auction at the absolute minimum I would sell for, so even if only one person bids, then it the minimum asking price.

For BIN items that Im not desperately getting rid of, so listed for longer, I put a hopeful asking price. Someone wanting it there and then might snap it up for the asking price, but I usually wait a bit and end up selling for a little less, but not much.

I run a business and use eBay as just one of my sales channels. Everything is fixed price - but the trailer (for spares, and not part of my 'stock') just needed to go quickly so I listed it as an auction for fun. It had a lot of interest (over 30 watchers) - but the idiots were out in force as well.
Ten minutes after it ended somebody offered me a pound over the finishing price because they had 'missed the end of the auction'. I've blocked them too...
And yes if it had sold for 99p I would have been surprised - but wouldn't have lost any sleep over it. 🤣