Thank you for your offer!

We are always happy to hear from people interested in our eBay items, and we read all the email we receive from people interested in buying our items.  Please excuse this impersonal reply to your email offering to buy our items for less than their stated price.  Unfortunately,
we cannot accept your offer for a number of reasons.

When we put an item up for sale, we put it up for the absolute minimum price we find appropriate.  In doing so, we consider a lot of information:  what was paid for it, what similar items sell for in the current market, what it's "worth" is in an efficient marketplace, etc.  For pieces consigned with us, the owners authorize a price after consulting with us, and we are unable to accept offers lower than that price.

The fact that a piece takes time to sell and may not sell right away is not a reflection of the worth or value of that piece, it is simply an artifact of the eBay marketplace - there are literally millions of items available, and auctions are typically "on the market" for about a week.  The reason a piece didn't sell is not that it's worth only a fraction of our price, it's because the right buyer hasn't yet seen it.    Like real estate,  a fabulous house doesn't sell in a week - it waits for the right buyer who really loves it.

We have been selling on eBay for many years, and could tell you innumerable stories of items that sold only after 10 auctions or after months in a "store."  At auctions, sometimes items sell for many times their minimum bid after attracting no bids at all for several rounds.  It sounds odd, but that's the way it is.  The piece in which you're interested is in that category.  It's easily worth at least our asking price, and we will eventually sell it for that price or more.