Offer Acceptance Calculator: Accept, Counter, or Wait
Decide whether to accept, counter, or wait on a reseller offer after fees, shipping, holding time, target profit, and ROI floor.
Accept, pack promptly, and redeploy the cash into the next faster-turning buy.
Accept Now
Wait for List Price
Thanks for the offer. I can meet you at $137 based on current fees, shipping, and my cost.
Accept Signals
- Offer clears your $35 target profit.
- Offer ROI is 72%, above your 50% floor.
- Accepting now earns more per day: $3.09 vs $2.31.
Wait or Counter Signals
- No major wait signal; rely on current comps and cash needs.
Current Fee Basis
Platform presets use the shared Underpriced US marketplace fee policy reviewed 2026-10-01. Buyer tax and shipping can affect fee basis on some platforms; list-price and counter-floor math scale the entered offer tax as a planning tax-rate estimate. Always verify the final receipt for account-specific discounts, ads, international charges, refunds, or promotions.
What This Offer Calculator Decides
Use this tool when a buyer sends an offer and you need to decide whether the faster cash beats waiting for list price. The calculator compares net profit, ROI, profit per day, target floor, and holding cost instead of treating every percentage-off offer the same.
The most useful inputs are the ones a reseller already has in the moment: current list price, offer amount, buy cost, seller shipping, days listed, expected full-price sell time, target profit, and the marketplace fee basis. If you know buyer shipping or buyer tax is included in the fee basis, enter it before deciding.
How to Use the Result
Accept
Accept when the offer clears your target floor and earns similar or better profit per day than waiting.
Counter
Counter when the buyer is close but the offer falls below your target profit or ROI floor.
Wait
Wait when current comps support list price and the extra profit per day beats the quick cash.
Three Worked Offer Decisions
These are calculator examples, not claimed marketplace outcomes. Each uses the eBay most-categories preset, $10 seller shipping, a $40 buy cost, a $150 list price, a $35 target net profit, and a 50% minimum ROI. Change every input to match the actual listing and receipt.
Accept: speed wins
Offer $120; listed 7 days; expected full-price wait 30 days; holding cost $0.30/day.
The entered offer produces $53.28 net profit and 107% ROI, clearing the $98.84 target floor. Its estimated profit per listing-day is higher than waiting, so the output is Accept.
Counter: floor is missed
Offer $80; listed 3 days; expected full-price wait 14 days; no daily holding cost entered.
The entered offer produces $18.72 net profit and 37% ROI, below both targets. The output protects the $98.84 floor and suggests a $130 counter rather than accepting the gap.
Wait: list-price economics win
Offer $100; listed 7 days; expected full-price wait 7 days; holding cost $0.30/day.
The offer clears the calculated $98.84 floor, but waiting produces $79.20 net versus $36.00 now and a higher estimated profit per day. The output is Wait while current sold comps still support the ask.
Offer Acceptance vs. Best Offer Strategy
| Question | Use this calculator | Use Best Offer Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| Decision moment | A specific buyer offer is already in hand. | You are setting auto-accept, auto-decline, and counter bands before offers arrive. |
| Primary evidence | Actual offer, fees, shipping, buy cost, listing age, and target floor. | List price, floor policy, listing age, and category-level negotiation rules. |
| Output | Accept, counter, wait, or decline for this offer. | Reusable thresholds for future eBay offers. |
Need reusable eBay thresholds instead? Open the Best Offer Strategy Calculator. For repeated bad offers, use the lowball-offer diagnosis before changing every listing floor.
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