Question about selling stuff

[texag93]

I do my research on items and I'm a tight wad. If you are firm on a price and it's to high, you won't hear from me. If you state "OBO", you'll get what I'm willing to pay. That's "my best offer", take it or leave it.

Edit: Pistol, if you ever hear from me, I'm serious about buying

[Dusty Britches]

I rarely post "make offer or best offer or whatever" unless I intend to take the first offer and I do not put a price on it.

If I'm looking for a specific price, I say that. If someone PM's me and says "what is the lowest amount you will take?" I politely say, "Right now, the price I posted. However, if you would like to look at the item and say you are willing to pay $X, I will certainly consider it." Most replies I've gotten to that is, "fair enough. Sounds good." I also offer to take special pictures in case they want a better look at a specific spot.

I think if I fully disclose what the item looks like or how functional it is, I tend to get "I'll take it. Or, will you take $X for it?" I usually say answer positively.

[Mike Javi Cooper]

I put my price on it when I post it.. I hate lowballers..

[Bustin'-Justin]

I hate selling things period. Don't want to over price it same time don't want to loose money. Guess that's why I don't have my own business.lol

[Cuz]

I personally see no problem with that question, "Whats your bottom dollar?". %99 of the time a seller has that number in their head and sometimes it's just best to cut to the chase. Seller says their bottom dollar (at that time) and buyer decides right then and there if they are willing to pay that amount.

[Davoh]

I do my research on items and I'm a tight wad. If you are firm on a price and it's to high, you won't hear from me. If you state "OBO", you'll get what I'm willing to pay. That's "my best offer", take it or leave it.

Edit: Pistol, if you ever hear from me, I'm serious about buying

+1 to this... If it is a used item, the risk associated with buying the item is higher... as such I expect a fair "used" price on it...

On big ticket stuff, like my truck and the two boats I've purchased in my life, I usually try to haggle, for one reason. Murphy and I are very familiar aquaintences... I need the minimize the amount i'm losing if the poo hits the fan and I have to sell that item for whatever reason...

My previous boat, a 2001 high-end Nitro, I bought for 17K... sold for 9K 2 years later thanks to a nice size chunk taken out of the bottom by a stump... and some employment difficulties that made it imperative that I sell it quickly :/ I managed to get 3 grand off the initial asking price when i bought it, but that wasn't enough to make up for the royal cleaning I took selling it...

Otherwise, like for used hunting equipment and the like, I expect a fair consideration of condition and used status in the price, in comparison to purchasing the item new. Not necessarily half as much, but certainly not 95% of the MSRP of brand new.

[BTLowry]

I don't get offended BT. What you described above is what I expect and the fun of selling. I just get perplexed when someone's offer is not really an offer.
Hey guys, I appreciate your comments here- I think AtFullDraw explained the non-bartering best, even though I don't prescribe to that thinking. When someone does that to me in the future, I will just come down $5 or $10 and see what they will answer.
Many times I think they are just "tire kickers" and not serious about buying because when I do offer a number I never hear from them again.

OK I follow you now

As far as tire kickers go, it is the same way with people asking for pics
Sometimes I wonder if there are some people out there that cannot read and only know how to type the words "Any pics?"

[Mike Javi Cooper]

I personally see no problem with that question, "Whats your bottom dollar?". %99 of the time a seller has that number in their head and sometimes it's just best to cut to the chase. Seller says their bottom dollar (at that time) and buyer decides right then and there if they are willing to pay that amount.

When someone asks me that question my response is... "How much are you willing to pay"

[keep]

Stacey
I've asked that before too and like others my concern wasn't getting at the lowest price I could, for me it was a bigger concern offending someone with my offer, especially a tbh'r.

[Snakelover]

I think part of the issue is the public forum. If I am looking at your item in person and ask what your bottom dollar is and we don't do a deal, you can still sell it to the next person for more than your bottom dollar. And you're probably not going to be offended because it's just you and me talking. But if you reply with your bottom dollar on the public forum, naturally no one from that point on is going to offer you more than that amount. Just the difference between a forum and say, a newspaper ad.

[Tubby]

What gets me is haggling then shipping. Once an item is haggled down and agreed upon, the buyer wants the item overnighted and the seller paying shipping!

Not only is the price lower then the buyer wants the seller to be out of pocket even more $.

I've cancelled sales due to this before.

To answer your question, the buyer wants to cut to the chase for the lowest price before someone else haggles you down on price and beats them to it.

[BIG IRON]

And no boat captains. I hate boat captains

[Roscoe]

I don't understand why folks have a problem with people offering "too little" for an item or someone asking "too much" for the item. You'll never pay more than you are willing to offer and you'll never get less than you are willing to accept. It's the sales process. If you end up paying too much or taking too little, it's your own fault. Leave emotion and feelings out of the buying/selling process...you'll be happier with the result in the end, and all along the way for that matter. And just ignore the people who aren't doing it "your way" during the whole process.

[Dusty Britches]

When someone asks me that question my response is... "How much are you willing to pay"

I do that, too, Mike.

.....it was a bigger concern offending someone with my offer, especially a tbh'r.

Nope, don't want to do that, either. But, I would hope that if someone askes for an offer they aren't offended by what they get. There was once a tbh'r on here that asked for offers, not listing a price to even start with. It was a beautiful handmade item that I seriously wanted but didn't even know where to start on an offer. I made one, and he replied, "i was born at night, but not last night."

Ok, I thought, maybe I should go higher. I doubled my offer and he was upset with that too. So I asked, what he thought a reasonable offer would be. While I totally agree that his price was fair, it was more than I was able to pay at the time. The deal ended and I'm sure he got a great price for the item. Was I upset - only that I seemed to have offended him with my stupid offers.

[Atfulldraw]

There was once a tbh'r on here that asked for offers, not listing a price to even start with. It was a beautiful handmade item that I seriously wanted but didn't even know where to start on an offer. I made one, and he replied, "i was born at night, but not last night."

Ok, I thought, maybe I should go higher. I doubled my offer and he was upset with that too. So I asked, what he thought a reasonable offer would be. While I totally agree that his price was fair, it was more than I was able to pay at the time. The deal ended and I'm sure he got a great price for the item. Was I upset - only that I seemed to have offended him with my stupid offers.

see.....he had that price in his head the whole time......
Best to do like Roscoe said and take the emotion out of it.

Reminds me.....

I had one knucklehead offer me a lowball price ($500) on a travel trailer.

When I said, "no thanks," he offered to burn it down before he would pay me more for it.

I sold it the next day for $1,500.