Help Offers Where the suggested counter comes from
Where the suggested counter comes from
An offer arrives while you are doing something else, and the honest answer depends on numbers you cannot hold in your head.
Flogit works out three things: what the item cost you, what comparable pieces are asking, and what the buyer offered. Then it suggests a counter and fills it in.
It never sends. Accept, Counter and Reject are your click, every time, and there is no setting that changes that.
The three clamps
Whatever the strategy aims at, the number is then squeezed between three walls:
- Under your listing price. Countering above your own asking price is not a negotiation, it is an insult.
- Over their offer. Countering below what they already offered gives away money nobody asked for.
- Never through your floor. If the only counter that would satisfy the strategy is below your margin floor, Flogit suggests declining instead.
Where it aims
In Settings, under Offers & negotiation, Counter strategy has two positions:
| Setting | What it aims at |
|---|---|
| Split the difference | Halfway between your floor and your asking price. Sells faster, earns less per item. |
| Market median | What comparable pieces are actually asking. Holds the price, sells slower. |
The numbers you set once
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Margin floor (%) | The margin below which you would rather not sell. Needs a cost recorded on the item to mean anything. |
| Accept at ≥ (% of listing price) | Offers at or above this share of your asking price are suggested as accept, not counter. |
| Minimum step | When the gap is smaller than this, accept rather than counter. Haggling over twenty cents costs you the sale. |
| Max counter-offers | After this many rounds, Flogit suggests a final price instead of another counter. |
| Returning-buyer margin | Percentage points off the accept threshold for somebody who has bought from you before. |
It needs the cost
Without a recorded cost there is no margin, and without a margin there is no floor. Flogit still suggests something, but it is working from the market alone and it says so rather than pretending to know your position.
This is the single biggest reason to add what you paid: it is what turns an offer suggestion from a guess into arithmetic.
Vinted applies one discount to the whole basket. Your items do not share a margin, so the same percentage is painless on one and fatal on another. Flogit spreads the discount across the lines and names the item that goes under water. Where a cost is missing it says the bundle margin is unknown rather than inventing one.
Flogit suggests and pre-fills. The button is yours. This is a design decision, not a missing feature: a tool that negotiates while you are asleep is a tool that makes mistakes while you are asleep, using your name.
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