Ebay Sellers That Won't Accept Best Offers

In the words of the illustrious Peter Griffin, you know what really grinds my gears? Ebay sellers that put the Best Offer option on their listings but never accept a best offer no matter how little you are actually taking off the asking price.

For example, I recently got into Modern and want to play Burn so I was buying up cards from the competitive deck list. I needed some Inspiring Vantages so I headed over to good ol' Ebay to see what I could find. I like to buy off Ebay more than TCGPlayer because I want to support individual sellers (like myself) rather than some random store across the country and also because I earn Ebay Bucks with every purchase. So I went to Ebay and saw the lowest priced Buy It Now was listed for $4.43 or best offer. I offered $4 for it, 43 CENTS lower than asking price. He declined. Not only did he decline the offer, but he didn't even counter. It wasn't as if he then countered with $4.25 or something. He just looked at the offer and thought to himself "nope" and declined it.

What exactly is the point in putting Best Offer on your listing if you won't even take 43 cents less than asking price? I sell cards on Ebay almost every day and I always try to accept reasonable offers because I don't need to nickel and dime fellow Magic players for literally every penny of possible value. I give them a good deal and my cards sell faster. It's win-win.

This isn't the first time it's happened either. I once saw a card listed for $7.15 and put in an offer of $7.00. The offer got declined. That 15 cents really was going to break his margins apparently. One has to wonder why then he clicked the Best Offer option when creating the listing? Simply to draw in interested buyers who might make offers then begrudgingly settle for full price when they all get declined? C'mon man.

The best part about all this? I then looked on TCGPlayer and there are Inspiring Vantages from Kaladesh in Near Mint condition for $2.99 with free shipping.

So in other words, this Scrooge McDuck just saved me money. Thanks guy!