Because the value is high ?

[gileno]

Ebay Link

[DaveJ]

How tempting is it to hit that "Make an Offer" button!

Dave.

[Paul Dale]

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How tempting is it to hit that "Make an Offer" button!

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Yes indeed. However, the postage would be at least an order of magnitude more than what I'd be willing to offer :-)

- Pauli

[DaveJ]

My bid was going to compensate for the postage cost.
Just how low can you bid on Ebay anyway? ;-)

Dave.

[Paul Dale]

I didn't think negative bids were allowed... :-)

- Pauli

[Alain Mellan]

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How tempting is it to hit that "Make an Offer" button!

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Yes. Especially with this in the description: "But no one was interested in buying a limited spredsheet machine for $895"

How about buying a limited vintage spreadsheet machine for USD12,800?

[Namir]

With that kind of money I can buy a PC that drives my car!!!

:-)

Namir

[Chuck]

So, if I make an offer of $5, will ebay ban me from all future bidding?

[Reth]

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The Workslate was first launched in the American Express Christmas catalog, and was sold as a high-tech novelty product. But no one was interested in buying a limited spredsheet machine for $895. Convergent Technology planned to sell 200,000 units within a year, but only 5,000 systems were sold in the U.S.A plus some hundreds in Europe. The product was discontinued in July 1984, and the company lost about $15 million.

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now someone is trying to fix their lost ;)

surely it's ok to bid lower where they say "make offer" and that's what they actually expect.

cheers,

reth 

Edited: 10 Dec 2007, 1:35 a.m.

[DaveJ]

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So, if I make an offer of $5, will ebay ban me from all future bidding?

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I'm fairly sure there is no rule against ridiculously low (but in this case fair) offers like that. The seller simply gets to accept or reject each offer.

Dave.

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

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I'm fairly sure there is no rule against ridiculously low (but in this case fair) offers like that. The seller simply gets to accept or reject each offer.

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Exactly. But you are limited to three offers per auction, after that, you can't bid on this auction any more. I know, because I've done this several times with a guy who used to place ridiculously high priced calculators on eBay Germany: First offerd 1 Euro, end every time he refused the offer, I increased by one Cent :-) After I had done this several times, he somehow managed to ban me from all his auctions.

Greetings, Max

[DaveJ]

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After I had done this several times, he somehow managed to ban me from all his auctions.

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All sellers are able to ban buyers (up to 1000 of them) from bidding on any of their auctions.

Dave.