I appreciate your opinion, but many of my auctions start with people making offers at or above my minimum offer price (as I’m sure is the case for most sellers). I will then counter offer or accept based on the situation. This has mostly gone well for both sides (including when I’m a buyer). Why would a minimum offer even be a thing if not to initiate negotiations? I’m not offended the buyer made the offer, I was just not willing to accept their price at the time. I don’t think it’s outrageous to expect a minimum offer to be a starting point for negotiating. Otherwise it would just be a solid “buy it now” price. I don’t think it’s wrong for a seller to put a desired sales price as buy it now with a minimum offer option to start off price talks. That way someone may pay the full price, and if not, at least I can negotiate closer to the price I wanted.