Want to get your opinions on this Ebay Method

DoNotInsertIntoMouth · 2013-09-06T14:04:37.000Z

Since I know a lot of you are sellers, I wanted to get your opinion on something. I spend way too much time on Ebay and sometimes I will see a listing that is priced by someone who obviously doesn't know what the item is really worth in its condition or just doesn't sell a lot of Lego. It is a buy it now or auction with a starting bid that will never sell. Once the auction ends once or twice (or BIN) without anyone even sniffing at it, I email the seller and say something like: "I am very interested in your item... I would buy it right now if you list it for (xxx). Here are a couple of similar sold listings showing this is a fair price -- listings, etc. " I have gotten sales from this several times and managed to get good deals. This especially works when someone is selling a really valuable set with missing pieces or something of that nature and its hard to price at that point not being complete. However, a lot of the time I get really angry sellers who say I am trying to undercut them and they will block me if I don't leave them alone. I never low ball and generally only send one idle very polite message. So my question - would this action irritate you? I never do it during an auction thats going on, only after an item has sat for a while without selling. I want to see if I am missing some social rule that a lot of others know.