E-bay and its sellers

What real issue @autospec ?   That you tried to make a buck at someone else's expense with a low ball offer and got called out on it?

It's all about perspective.

I have over 800 positive reviews on eBay.  It’s never appropriate for anyone to receive a response as the OP did.  Even low ball offers get a ‘no thanks’ response from me.  If I’m very firm on the price I don’t respond.  Sometimes I’ll play along with a high counter offer if I’m more flexible.

I occasionally  buy things to resell and make a buck, but what’s wrong with that?

I will make offers of maybe 25% off, if that’s what I’m willing to pay, and I’m often surprised that sellers accept.  I don’t want to make offers to offend a seller, but I probably have.  That’s just part of selling.

Report it to eBay 

@tcotruvo

MY TAKE:

(1) Without prejudice to the fact that:

(a) its an ineffective, incomplete and thus very lame plea for sympathy from the jurors in the AGON Court of Public Opinion in the first part,

(b) coupled with suspect alleged facts triggering high juror skepticism and doubt because the baseline simple key question of requesting the alleged binary discussion terms vis-a-vis the “asking price” vs. “offer presented” has been capriciously ignored with nada other than “crickets” ; ( it may have been not just an insulting offer, but rather way past that into the realm of the extreme insult )

Why the hell do we even give a rat’s pitootey on what allegedly occurs on EBay?

…. There has been no violation or transgression of protocol, manners, or conduct rules here on AGON,

Let me take a wild guess; lawyer?

Great point, why come on this forum to cry about something that happened to you over on EBay. The other day a guy from Craigslist said something I didn’t like.

I better start a forum thread about it...