How to Make Gift Purchase Offers in Telegram: Secondary Trading, Star & Gram Escrow & Peer Offers
You can make an offer on a collectible that is not for sale. Open somebody's gifts, tap the one you want, and propose an amount — in Stars or in Gram, the coin formerly called Toncoin. The amount is held while the offer stands, the owner accepts or declines, and if nothing happens it expires and the money comes back.
It is a neat mechanism. It is also a message about somebody else's belongings, which is the part worth getting right.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Offer on an item nobody has listed.
- check_circle Say what happens to your balance meanwhile.
- check_circle Read a decline correctly.
- check_circle Recognise the version of this that is a scam.
The offer is made from the item on their profile, not from the marketplace.
handshake This is for the one item that is not on sale
If the thing you want is listed, buy the listing — it is faster, it is certain, and there is nothing to negotiate. Offers exist for the other case: a specific collectible with the exact combination you wanted, sitting on somebody's profile, with no price on it.
Which means the price question is different from the marketplace. Your offer competes with nothing, so there is no market number to undercut; what you are doing is naming an amount large enough to make somebody reconsider keeping something they had not planned to sell.
Two consequences follow. An offer at the market price will usually be declined, because they could already sell at the market price and have chosen not to. And an offer far above it is not clever either, since a person who was not selling is often not selling at any of the numbers you are willing to type.
You make an offer on an item that was never listed for sale. What happens?
Anything displayed can be offered on, and the owner is under no obligation in either direction. That asymmetry is worth holding on to: you have made a proposal about something that belongs to somebody else, and the most likely outcome is that they ignore it. Nothing about making the offer gives you a claim on the item or an answer.
They decline. What have you learned?
A decline is read as a negotiating position far more often than it is one. Plenty of these objects were sent by somebody, kept for a reason, or simply liked, and an owner in that position has no number in mind at all. Sending a second, larger offer after a decline is the behaviour that turns a reasonable market approach into being pestered — and it does not work.
Somebody replies saying they will accept if you send the Stars directly first. What is this?
The entire point of the offer flow is that neither side has to trust the other: the funds are held and the item moves when it is accepted. Any proposal that takes the money outside that flow has removed the protection deliberately, and the stated reason — fees, speed, a problem with their account — is always plausible and never true.
When is an offer clearly the wrong tool?
If the same thing is for sale, buying it is immediate, certain and usually cheaper than the number it would take to change somebody's mind. Offers are for the specific item — a particular backdrop, a particular number, something whose exact combination is the reason you want it. Using them as a general way to shop is slow and mostly produces silence.
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sell Receiving one
From the other side an offer is an interruption with a number in it, and it is entirely reasonable to ignore them. Declining costs you nothing, nothing is lost by taking a day, and there is no obligation to explain.
The thing worth noticing is what an incoming offer tells you about your own profile: somebody went through your gifts, worked out what was worth money, and acted. If that is uncomfortable, the fix is not in this feature — it is the visibility setting on the gifts tab, which decides whether strangers see any of it at all.
And if you do want to sell, consider listing it properly instead of accepting. A listing reaches everybody looking for that item rather than the one person who happened to find yours, and that is usually the better price.
settings Making one
- Check the market first If it is listed, buy the listing.
- Open the item on their profile The offer option is on the card.
- Look at whose profile it is Trader, or person.
- Name a number worth changing a mind Market price will be declined.
- Expect the balance to be held Returned if it fails.
- Do not offer twice A decline is an answer.
This page is a private approach to one owner. The curriculum step is the open market beside it: how Telegram-native property is traded publicly, and what changes when a price is posted rather than proposed.
Gift purchase offers at a glance
When an offer is the right tool and when the market is, what the held balance means, how to read a decline, and the routine that takes the money outside the protection, on one page. Tap to open it at full resolution.
