Check out this new (to me anyway) sellers......

[herronpeter]

......other brass items!! I couldn’t copy the search result)

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3433430962

I looked over their entire site and most of the non brass items are on the high side of reasonable but the brass??!! Most items seem about 2 times the “normal” going rate. (IMO)

I wish them luck,

Peter

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Over 12k transactions so not all that new.....but we all tend to feel that no mater what the price might be that it's too high,

[De Bruin]

$1600 for what appears to be an otherwise nicely factory painted OMI GP-30 does seem a bit too high. The stock drives on these suck out loud.
Note their are FOUR of them too, each with a different road number.

Conversely his second hand Atlas, Weaver and Sunset (most apparently in the BN-GN-NP-SP&S-CB&Q axis) were listed with highly reasonable starting prices. Liquidating an interesting estate collection I would guess.

Thanks for posting the listing, most interesting.

[E7]

$1600 for what appears to be an otherwise nicely factory painted OMI GP-30 does seem a bit too high. The stock drives on these suck out loud.
Note their are FOUR of them too, each with a different road number.

Four alike is what I found interesting. If they are new or 'as new' the price isn't that bad. They are NOT in my realm of interest, but if they were, I would rather have one of them than some of the plastic out there, even if I had to mess with the drive. The latter is considering what some modern plastic is going for. (opinion)

[bob turner]

I always wondered about that. When they say "best offer" are they bound by eBay rules to accept the highest offer even if it is a small fraction of the "buy it now" price?

[Jay Criswell]

Bob,

Short answer, no. It's really not best offer that has to be accepted by the seller. It really just offers the opportunity for haggling.

Jay

[Chris Webster]

$1600 for what appears to be an otherwise nicely factory painted OMI GP-30 does seem a bit too high.

Those had a MSRP of $1,017 (each!) when they were imported back in 1989, proving yet again that trains are an awful investment.

The stock drives on these suck out loud.

Look again -- they have the later OMI drive, with the gear towers atop the trucks, so they should run fine. If the price were lower, I'm sure they would all end up being stripped and repainted into the Appalachian & Ohio scheme...

Note their are FOUR of them too, each with a different road number.

Brasstrains once sold one of those painted as GN #3012, so there were at least five of them custom painted in that particular GN scheme.

Conversely his second hand Atlas, Weaver and Sunset (most apparently in the BN-GN-NP-SP&S-CB&Q axis) were listed with highly reasonable starting prices. Liquidating an interesting estate collection I would guess.

It's hard for me to argue that the prices are too high when multiple people are bidding up the prices!

[Chris Webster]

It's really not best offer that has to be accepted by the seller. It really just offers the opportunity for haggling.

Some sellers set automatic decline, so If your offer is too low, ebay will immediately decline your offer without passing it on to the seller. There is also an automatic acceptance, so if your offer is high enough, ebay will instantly accept the offer and prompt you for payment.

[bob turner]

When you say "I will sell this for the best offer" then legally you have made an offer that can be accepted. I will look a bit more carefully, but right now I believe that is good contract law.

[robert.]

Best for who? Buyer or seller. When i have something for sale @ $ 500. People will ask " can you do better?" "yes i can. Give me $ 550" Most of the time they don't get my joke.

[E7]

We'll use the KISS principle. On a best offer option, the seller can accept or decline ANY number you (YOU being the Buyer) put in there.

If the seller is unhappy with your offer, they can send you a counter offer, which you can accept or decline

or

they can decline your offer

or

they can just wait until your offer expires

[E7]

When I see a "Buy It Now" with a best offer option, it tells me that the seller will probably accept less than the buy it now price.

I don't know if Ebay has anything programmed for the case of a buyer offering the 'Buy It Now' amount as a 'Best Offer". It's NOT logical to do so, but there are a lot of whacked out people out there.

[E7]

When you say "I will sell this for the best offer" then legally you have made an offer that can be accepted. I will look a bit more carefully, but right now I believe that is good contract law.

Yes professor Kingsfield, Ebay calls it an auction! The "Best Offer" or Highest Bidder contracts to buy your item.

All of that doesn't really have much to do with Ebay's "Best Offer" option which can be either accepted or declined by the Seller.

Actually it can become a serial of offers and counteroffers until the item ends up sold or someone loses their interest/patience.

I have best offered, been counter-offered, counter-offered the counter-offer, and been counter offered again, finally to accept.

Kinda like Who's on First?

[De Bruin]

Yeah you're likely right Bob, but to expand on Rich's point the terms of the "sales venue" which the participant agrees to (which of course we all read carefully when we joined and checked off that "box") can preempt certain otherwise binding aspects of a UCC compliant proffer.
Put in another way, again once you've signed away your rights to contest certain stipulations by joining, you're at the mercy of those specific terms, which albeit manages to screw sellers a lot but does in this case appear to handle this contingency for them.
I have no real concern with this aspect of EBay but you know..just sayin'
I'm only a buyer on Ebay anyway for now.

[Chris Webster]

The seller accepted best offers for the two Oriental Limited SD45s they had listed for $1750.00/each:
Ebay #283431630805, Oriental Limited O 2 Rail Great Northern Painted EMD SD-45 3600HP Diesel Loco
and for one of the OMI SD70MACs they had listed for $2000.00:
Ebay #273788450023, Overland O BNSF #9896 SD70MAC Heritage Diesel Locomotive F/P Brass OMI-0628.1