If you see the Make Offer button in the listing below the Buy it Now price, the seller has decided to consider Best Offers from buyers. A seller chooses to receive Best Offers when creating a listing for an item. Best Offer allows you to make an offer to buy the item at a price that you select. The seller can then accept, decline or counteroffer your Best Offer.
Important: If the Make Offer button does not appear, the seller is not interested in receiving offers and you should not try to contact this seller through other means to negotiate price or terms. This is a violation of eBay’s Offers to Buy or Sell Outside eBay policy.
When to use Best Offer
You should make a Best Offer only when you’re serious about purchasing the item at your Best Offer price.
Like the bids made on auction-style listings, your Best Offer is binding. If your offer is accepted by the seller, you are obligated to pay for that item.
Best Offers are good for 48 hours or until the listing closes, whichever comes first. If the seller accepts your offer, the listing is immediately closed.
Best Offer gives you the chance to negotiate the price with the seller. One advantage of a Best Offer is that you have the opportunity to buy the item at a lower price than the Buy It Now price. There is no minimum Best Offer price. However, you should only make what you consider to be your "best" offer for the item because any seller who receives multiple offers for an item is likely to accept the highest offer.
Tip: To get an idea of a typical selling price for the item you are considering, you can search for completed listings.
Finding Best Offer listings
To find Best Offer listings:Enter keywords of the item you want to buy in the search box and click the Search button.
Under Search Options on the left side of the page, in Buying formats, select the Best Offer check box
On the search results page, look for the “Best Offer” icon in the bids column.
Tip: If a list of categories displays, you can select the category where you think the item is to reduce the number of search results.
Submitting a Best Offer
To submit your Best Offer:Find a listing that accepts Best Offers.
Click the Make Offer button in the listing.
Enter your Best Offer price.
Click the Add additional terms link to add an optional message to the seller in the Message text field.
Note: Any message you include as a part of your Best Offer request to the seller is not a private form of communication. The Best Offer message is considered to be a formal term of your proposed agreement and may be reviewed by eBay to ensure that it does not violate eBay policy or represent fraudulent activity.
Review the terms at the bottom of the page.
Click the Review Offer > button.
Review the information on the Best Offer: Review and Commit page.
Click the Submit Best Offer button.
Postage Costs
If the seller has specified postage costs for the item, postage is not negotiable. However, if the seller has requested that the buyer contact them regarding postage costs, you may offer the seller a price for the item that includes postage costs. Make sure you explain you are adding postage costs to the amount you are offering.
Limits to Best Offers
The number of offers you are allowed to make per item or property is limited based on the category where the item is listed. If you are making a Best Offer on an item that allows only one Best Offer, the following message appears on the Submit Best Offer page: “Make this offer your Best Offer. You can only make 1 offer on this item.”
For items listed in categories which have a higher limit on the number of Best Offers (per buyer), sellers may reject your offer and invite you to submit a new Best Offer with a revised price.
Note: Expired offers, declined offers, and retracted offers all count against the "offer limit per item".
Must use Buy It Now and PayPal.
