How to request a lower base price from the owner
Ask the item's owner to lower the base price, with a reason, to widen your reseller margin - the owner can approve, decline, or meet you partway.
Step-by-step
- Open the variant's base-price adjustment request.
- Enter your requested lower price and a reason.
- Submit - it shows current vs requested price while you wait.
- A lower base price plus a higher sale price widens your margin.
- The owner approves, declines, or reduces partway; you see the result.
Full transcript
Here's a smart variant tool - requesting a lower base price. A lower base price widens your margin, so you can ask the owner to reduce it with a reason.
On the variant there's a base-price adjustment request. This item has a base price of three and a half thousand from its owner. You can tell the owner that's too high - say you think it's worth two thousand - and explain your reasoning. You submit the request, and it shows the current price, your requested price, and your reason, while you wait for the owner. This matters because the base price drives your fee: the lower the base price and the higher your sale price, the bigger your margin as a reseller. The owner can approve it, decline it, or meet you partway with a partial reduction - and you'll see the status and the new base price when they respond.