How to make a Best Offer

You can make a Best Offer on listings that have a Make Offer button.

Once you’ve found an item you want to buy that accepts Best Offers, here’s how to make your offer:

1. Choose Make Offer.
2. Enter your offer. If you like, you can add a message to the seller.
3. Choose when you’d like your offer to expire.
4. Select Review offer.
5. Review your information and select Submit offer.

If you’ve added the item to your Watchlist, you can also select Make Best Offer next to the item in your Watchlist.

How to find listings with Best Offer

Not all listings have the option to make an offer, but you can filter your search results to find sellers who do accept offers.

When you’re searching for the item you’d like to buy, you can select Accepts offers at the top of the search results to see listings with Best Offer.

You can also use Advanced search to find Best Offer listings:

1. Go to Advanced search .
2. Enter your keywords.
3. Go to Show results and tick the Best offer box.
4. Select Search.

What happens after you make your offer

The seller has until your offer expires to decide whether to accept or reject your offer. They can also suggest another price. If they don’t respond to you in that time, or if the listing ends before they respond, then your offer expires.

If the seller responds, they may:

• Accept your offer: Just like any other sale on spandooly, you’re obliged to pay the amount you offered. However, immediate payment is not required when the Best Offer option is used in a listing
• Reject your offer: You can still make another one (up to 5 on most items and 10 in most vehicles categories)
• Counter your offer: The seller may suggest another price. You can choose to accept, reject, or continue negotiating by making another offer to the seller

Canceling a Best Offer

In some cases you can retract or cancel a Best Offer. For example, if you accidentally entered the wrong offer amount, you’ll need to fill out a Best Offer cancellation form. If the seller already accepted your offer, you won’t be able to retract it.

Tips for making offers

When you’ve got your eye on something and have a certain price in mind, you can increase your chances of the seller accepting your offer by having a Best Offer strategy. Here are some tips for making offers:

• Be reasonable: Sellers who accept offers are flexible on price and generally take fair offers seriously
• Add a message for the seller: A friendly, personal message could help you get the item at the price you want. Look for the Add message to seller option when you’re entering your offer
• Check the item’s original listing date: If it’s been listed for a long time, the seller might be more flexible on the price
• Use your Best Offers wisely: For most categories, you can make up to 5 offers. Expired, rejected, and retracted offers all count toward this limit

Responding to an offer from a seller

If you watch an item or add it to your cart, the seller can send you a special offer for that item. If you receive an offer, you’ll get an email and a message in My spandooly. You’ll also receive a notification on your phone if you’ve installed the app and enabled notifications. If you select Review offer in this message, you can review and respond to the offer.

If you'd like to accept the offer, select Accept offer and proceed to checkout to complete your purchase. If you’re not interested in the offer, select Decline offer.

You can also make a counteroffer if you'd like to negotiate a better price. Here's how:

1. Select Make a counteroffer.
2. Add your amount (this doesn’t include shipping).
3. If you like, you can add a message for the seller.
4. Select Review, then select Send.

The seller can then accept your counteroffer, decline it, or send you a counteroffer. You can send a maximum of 5 counteroffers to the seller. Find out more in our article on counteroffers.

Each offer is valid for 48 hours or until an offer is accepted, whichever comes first. With a single item listing, the first buyer to accept the offer gets the item. With a multiple quantity listing, buyers can continue to avail of the offer until all items in the listing are sold or the offer expires.

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