5 Ways to Buy on iOffer

Last year, literally, I did a pretty poor job of overviewing the buying concept of iOffer, with a promised but yet to be fulfilled overview of selling on iOffer. Here's the beginning of attempt #2.

Buying on iOffer is similar to buying on any other physical store or web site. You walk through the doors, or enter a web site. You walk or click around to see what this particular store has to offer. Personally, I am more interested in finding sales and deals, and comparing prices to see how I can pay the minimum for the maximum.

iOffer helps you in that sense. When you want to find something, just type it in and all the results will come out. iOffer consists of MANY seller stores for you to browse around, eliminating the extra car trips and web portals. Sellers offer great deals, and if it's not great enough, feel free to make them an offer that's sure to entice them back, because having a sale is better than having no sale.

Once you get all that taken care of, here are 3 ways for you to buy on iOffer:

1. Buy Now

Most item listings you see will have a "Buy Now" button. If you are satisfied with everything, click on the button and the item's yours. Filling out the rest of the information only takes about 5 minutes.

2. Make Offer

Many item listings will also have a "Make Offer" button. If you are not sure about the price the seller put up, just make an offer and see what the seller says about it. There's nothing wrong with negotiating, it's Business 101.

3. Add to Cart

Why the heck do you need to add your item to a shopping cart if you know you want it? Because if you want to buy more items from the same seller, you can make a combined bundle offer for all the items to potentially save on shipping. Plus, adding your items to a shopping cart gives you the opportunity to...

4. Make a Group Offer

Multiple sellers are sure to have similar items for sale. If you find them and don't mind getting any one of them, you can make a group offer on them. A Group Offer lets you send one offer price to multiple sellers on similar items. You're giving sellers a first come first serve rule; whoever you can strike a deal with first wins your business.

5. Ask a Question

Finally, if you want to know more information about the item(s), you can ask a question to the seller before committing to anything. This may not necessarily mean buying the item, but you have to start somewhere, right?

That's a lot of information to swallow in one day. Come back tomorrow to learn a little bit more about a couple features that goes with buying on iOffer.

Why iOffer? Free Tools and Features

Why should people use iOffer? I've compiled a list of reasons why I started using it:

1. FREE listings

2. FREE seller store

3. FREE picture uploads

4. FREE multiple web addresses that link to you

5. Non-Auction Format
Making offers and negotiating with buyers and sellers make me feel like I'm shopping in person, rather than trying to make the highest bid in the last 5 seconds of an auction.

6. Mr. Grabber
It lets you transfer your items over from eBay, Overstock, and Sell.com. You can also transfer your eBay feedback rating so your buyer/seller reputation is intact. The best part is it's also FREE.

7. Store Widget
You can easily customize a widget for your store and post it all over the web, for FREE.

8. Group Offers
When you make an offer, you can make the same offer to other sellers who are selling similar items. Whoever accepts your offer first gets the deal. This seems like I'll get what I want quicker as a buyer, and probably a better deal too.

9. Events
It's sort of like a chatroom where people can get together and mingle away, while promoting and selling their items. How cool is that?

10. Live Notice
I thought this was a neat feature. I'm sure many sellers are online all the time, and this feature will pop up messages in your face when you sell an item or someone asked a question about your items or anything like that.

11. Community
I like this part the most. I mean, everything I've listed so far are awesome, mainly because they're all FREE, but as a newbie, I like how the members at iOffer are so nice and easy-going. They have hundreds of community clubs and I can guarantee that you will find some sort of help in any club.

Wow, sorry didn't think my list would go that long. And sorry that you had to read through everything. I'll try to add some pictures next time to even out the text/image ratio.

Am I missing anything else? Feel free to make comments and add some other features that I may not have found yet.

- iOffer Dude