What would you do?

[Suticat]

Ive been watching an item on the Bay for a few months. Ive sent the seller an offer twice through the contact a seller option hoping to start a dialogue. He simply ignored my emails. He relisted the item with a make an offer option. So I made a fair offer which he promptly declined. So I raised my offer and resubmitted it. Again he just delcined it. Im trying to get him to communicate with me so we can come to a fair price for this item but he simply wont engage in any form of commincation with me. I know from his ad that he feels he has a one of kind pile of gold that he is setting on which is not the case. And his asking price is more than the item is worth in the real world. After bing listed for months and relisted at a lower proce, as a seller I would be motivated negotiate with a buyer that is interested.

What would you do after 4 failed attempts to get a seller to communicate/negotiate with you?

Keep in mind he simply ignored me and just outright declined without even a counter offer.

[mainaman]

Move on, clearly the other party is not interested on a deal. They man have an offer in mind that is only a few bucks off so to say.
What is the item, a stone?

[Utopian]

Like the saying goes, have a BM or get off the pot.

Decide the most that you are willing to pay, make the offer, and see what happens. If he ignores it or declines it, then you know your maximum is not acceptable to him you can move on.

[Geezer]

Welcome to the 'Bay. Any and obvious treatment is to be expected.
~Richard

[RezDog]

There are two sellers on the bay that I have had had poor communications with over some nice razors. I don't even look at their ads anymore. I can tell by the photography that it is those two sellers and just walk past. You can fumble communications now and then but to be consistent at fumbling them takes a special person. My thought is if they can't communicate now, if things don;t go well don't expect any help from them. So I would walk away. There are more nice razors and nice seller do not waste a second on ones you cannot communicate with.

[Ernie1980]

There are lots of fish in the sea, I wouldn't even give that seller your money at this point!

[Suticat]

Im kind of at that point Ernie. He is starting to irritate me.

The item is a vintage tool box not a razor. I wanted to use it to store my stones and tools. The company that makes them is from near my home and they made thousands if not 10 of thousands of them over the decades that they manufactured them. You can find them at local estate sales and yard sales from time to time in that area for far less than what this guys is asking for his. Only problem for me is that I moved 2500 miles away and cant look for them very easily. Its a very regional item.

[rhensley]

When i make an offer and it's declined i then move on. a good friend once told me there will all ways be another and so far i have found he was right. some sellers think there product is worth far more than it's worth to me but there may be some one out there that will give what they ask. I wish them well.

[THORandODIN]

Where are you located? maybe he doesn't want to ship it that far away? if your 2500 miles away.

[sqzbxr]

One thing to bear in mind - when setting up an eBay listing to accept offers, there is an option to automatically accept offers of at least a specified amount and conversely to automatically reject offers below a specified amount. It is quite possible that your offers were rejected automatically, especially if it occurred immediately. I have used this feature several times myself, it keeps your mailbox from being filled with ridiculous lowball offers, e.g.: $50 for a fully restored 8/8 Wostenholm FBU, etc.