If you solicit offers, shouldn't you respond?


I recently made a very reasonable offer on an item that was being sold on a strictly "make an offer" basis (there was no option to buy the unit at the asking price, just "make an offer". So I offered the asking price less shipping).

The seller never responded, so I sent a PM. No response to that either. My offer has expired with no word from the seller.

Isn't there, simply as a matter of courtesy and responsible behavior, an obligation to respond to reasonable offers if you're soliciting them?
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You should visit some new car showrooms to be educated in 'serious' selling. Those car people have it down to a science, a science of abuse of customers that is.
Last year at my local Acura dealer, one of the salespersons took my handwritten offer, crumpled it up, and tossed it in the trash can alongside his desk.

Bought an Infiniti later that same day at my target price.

How's that work for you Acura car salesperson?
And screw your sales manager who allowed you to be an a**hole.
I had imagined he had already commited to selling it elsewhere and didn't have the knowledge of ettiquette To simply say "I am compelled out of correctness to sell to the offer I responded to first, I apologize" Or something to that effect.
Yah what do you need , I have a most everything else in this hobby to sell now post divorce. Buying was easy now the hard part selling!
"I see no reason to respond when an offer is purely stupid."

If "I'll meet your price if you throw in shipping" (for a BluRay player) is stupid, I give up.