Make an Offer Bring eBay's Best Offer Experience to Your Own Store (Without the Fees)
If you sell on eBay, you already know why Best Offer works: buyers who'd never pay your asking price still engage, you keep control with accept/decline/counter, and a surprising share of "lowball" openers end in a deal. The problem isn't the feature — it's the 13%+ final value fee wrapped around it, and the fact that the buyer belongs to eBay, not to you.
What eBay actually gives you (and what it keeps)
- You get: offer negotiation UI, buyer payment handling, and marketplace traffic.
- eBay keeps: ~13% of every sale, the customer relationship, the email address, and the repeat purchase.
For sellers who already have their own WooCommerce store, the traffic argument is the only one that holds — and it doesn't apply to the buyers you drive there yourself through search, social, or repeat visits.
Recreating Best Offer on your own site
The mechanics of a good Best Offer clone are stricter than they look. eBay's version works because offers are binding-ish and the checkout is instant. A form that emails you "someone offered $80" replicates the button, not the behavior. What you actually need:
- Card authorization at offer time. The buyer's payment is held when they submit — like eBay, an accepted offer is a completed sale, not the start of a chase.
- Accept / decline / counter from one dashboard, with counters delivered as one-click accept-and-pay pages.
- Automatic order creation in WooCommerce at the agreed price, so fulfillment doesn't change.
- Automatic hold release on declines and expiries — nobody gets charged for an ignored offer.
That's exactly the loop OfferDragon implements, with payments running on your own Stripe account.
The fee math
On a $200 accepted offer:
- eBay: ~$26 in final value fees (13%+), buyer data stays with eBay.
- Your store + OfferDragon: $4 platform fee (2%) + your normal Stripe processing (~$6.10) ≈ $10 — and the customer, their email, and the repeat sale are yours.
A migration playbook for eBay sellers
- Keep eBay for discovery; put your best inventory on your own store with offers enabled.
- Add your store link everywhere eBay allows (packing slips, branding).
- Enable offers on exactly the SKUs where you'd accept Best Offers on eBay — same floor prices you already use.
- Let the fee difference fund a small ad budget or lower list prices — either way you're more competitive than your own eBay listing.
Free to install · 2% only on accepted offers · payments go straight to your own Stripe account