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Bargain Summary

If the reserve wasn't met in an auction, seller and high bidder can negotiate a price very easy. For this purpose both have an entry field for their new price.
Bidder: He can only enter a higher bid than already placed. The minimum is given below the entry field.
Seller: He can only reduce his asked price. The recent price is given below the entry field as upper limit.
Closing: If seller and bidder meet at the same price, the deal is finished. The seller must sell and the bidder must buy the item.

Want-to-Buy Summary

In this section a buyer posts a requested item and bargains about the price with one or several offerers. For this purpose both have an entry field for the price.
Offerer: He can only enter a lower asked price than already placed. The maximum is given below the entry field.
Buyer: He can only increase the price he is willing to pay. The recent price is given below the entry field as lower limit.
Closing: If the buyer and an offerer meet at the same price, the deal is finished. The buyer must buy and the offerer must sell the item

Bargaining

It is easy. Any item description has entry forms with assistence to do it right - but remeber: Placing a bid or an offer is a contract. You promise to buy or sell for the price you'd agree upon. So don't bargain if actually don't want to finish the deal.

Between negotiations after closing an auction and request in the want-to-buy section, there is just one major difference: In the auction the seller is posting the item decription while a request is posted by the buyer. Further there is no difference: Both trading partners move their price to meet each other in the end. Then the transaction is finished.

In auction or shop the item is precisely defined, while a request oviously cannot be that precise. Therefore one urgent request:

Keep patience, if problems arise due to the different points of view both parties have on the item in question.

Chatterbox

Some mecandising servers are chatterboxes - filling your email box with junk. bidfun home keeps patience; no need to bother you with confimations if you have a poor chance to leave the screen before it displays the result of your action. However, bargaining leaves some good reasons for an email message because usually not both trading partners are sitting simultaneously at their PC:
 
  • If your trading partner enters a new price, you receive a message with a link to the item. No need to watch the deal continuously.
  • When you are outbid as offerer on a request, you get a message with a link to the item. So you can respond without delay if you like.
  • If a deal is done because both trading partners met at the same price, you get a message with final price, link to the item, and instructions how to proceed.
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