Best offer/Make an offer weirdos

[UglyCasanova]

Offer more than asking price.

[Strange Tales]

Just had two separate people offer me $70 for a Ditto X2 on Reverb. Went ahead and disabled offers.

I've been able to work out deals with people through the offer system, but some people are such fucking assholes with it.

Fine, $75.

[waltdogg]

I had a pair of V30s up for sale on Reverb. $80 ea. with $25 shipping per speaker. LOWEST PRICE ANYWHERE ONLINE. And I was still getting offers on both speakers at less than the asking price of a single speaker! They even wanted free shipping!

[Gone Fission]

I had a pair of V30s up for sale on Reverb. $80 ea. with $25 shipping per speaker. LOWEST PRICE ANYWHERE ONLINE. And I was still getting offers on both speakers at less than the asking price of a single speaker! They even wanted free shipping!

I've had exactly that. In a case or two I came down a reasonable bit in a counter offer that was ignored. In a couple days the items would invariably move at full asking price to other buyers. The other people just saw a great fucking deal and jumped on it.

[KaosCill8r]

I've never sold gear through eBay or Reverb but I have sold things through a company here called Cash Converters. They are a big chain of pawn shops. Once I lugged a bass amp all the way across a big car park and into the store. Once I got there they could see I was struggling to carry it and gave me a huge lowball offer. Based on the fact they were sure I wouldn't want to lug the heavy fucker back to my car. It's amazing how an insulting offer can give you the strength needed to carry it back to the car. I was prepared to haggle but the counteroffer they started with wad just a joke. I walked straight away. Two day later it was sold for what I wanted for it by a friend of a friend. Fuck lowballers! I would rather hang onto the item out of principle, no matter how broke I am.

[colossus]

I tried to trade in a Sunny Day Delay to a local guitar shop towards a bass I was buying. They offered me $60. Apparently, per the counter dummy, a few had sold recently for only $80. I asked him to show me the listings and he said he was too busy.Needless to say, I didn't trade it in to them.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

Offer more than asking price.

i've actually had this happen to me twice.

[nad]

Offer more than asking price.

I had a guy do that once. He drove like 90 minutes to get a 4x12 I was selling, and then gave me $20 more than I asked for in my ad.

What a nice fellow!

[Gone Fission]

Offer more than asking price.

I had a guy do that once. He drove like 90 minutes to get a 4x12 I was selling, and then gave me $20 more than I asked for in my ad.

What a nice fellow!

I did kick in extra unasked on a CL transaction for a Digitech harmonizer where the guy had the usually missing remote and the manuals but hadn't mentioned them in the ad. It was under-priced in the first place, and the seller was a sweet old guy.

(I did have an ulterior motive, though--dude had good prices on his other items, too, and had unlisted items around I would love a similar deal on come his next purge. I hope he emails me directly when he decides to move the Boss SE-50 he had sitting in a cabinet.)

[digi2t]

Negotiating, or haggling, is not really a predominately North American concept. Granted, immigrants did bring some forms of the concept here, but for the most part, in the Capitalist / Free Market society, we tend to pay, expect to pay, or expect people to pay us, the asking price. The vendor is far more concerned about how he/she will compete with market share, rather than cater to the buyer on an individual basis. Catering to the seller is not cost effective, and requires valuable resources. After all, when was the last time you haggled with a sales associate at any Big Box store over anything. Society here has been raised on "off the shelf", and the concept of the Agora, where vendors catered to the individual, is a long lost memory in our psyche.

[resincum]

I usually reply lowball offers with $666.00

[onyxrhino]

Ebay will often default to "Buy It Now/Accept offers" on the selling page, so it could be that the seller doesn't want offers but just missed unchecking the box.

I don't really worry if I have an offer rejected (though it is annoying when they don't reject and just leave it sitting there for 48 hours with no response).

The real annoyances are the guys who think that you're supposed to make a counteroffer everytime they lowball you. I'm under no obligation to make you a counteroffer bozo. If you want the item, either pay my asking price or make an offer I like. But really, if you're not paying the asking price, you've got no standing to whine and gripe.

[rustywire]

Wearing the seller hat:
I don't haggle or argue. I try to avoid ever selling in urgency, but life is known to happen.
When someone lowballs, I dont respond right away. If a better offer appears I wont even acknowledge the lowballer. If no other offers, I'll counter -$10 or -10% lower than the asking price...it depends on just how laughable of an offer I've been presented (if I'm being offered 20% of my asking price I don't want to trade with that creep under any circumstances foh). However...

I also examine the feedback purchase/selling history of whoever submits an offer. If it's someone I want to deal with and/or befriend, even trade with in the future then I try to make the experience as mutually beneficial as possible.

If someone messages me with "Did you get my offer" "You could respond/counter" or any other type of aggressive/passive-aggressive pushiness they get nope'd on sight. Any signs of seething-beneath-the-surface, argumentative attitude, sense of entitlement or chronic complaining is someone I have no interest in dealing with, let alone sharing my awesome stuff...because I know how good my coffee is, I'm the one who bought it

Wearing the buyer hat:
I prefer paying asking price if it's reasonable, that way if something goes awry with the transaction...the seller isn't already on the defensive and pegging me as a problematic buyer looking to scam him...like the above described buyers I try to avoid dealing with myself. If it's high, I'll offer what I believe to be fair. None of this "I offer lower, you counter higher" cat and mouse bs.

Cheapskates can keep it movin---------->

[aens_wife]

My personal favorite response to offensive low-ballers is a simply and straight forward "lol. nope"

Fuck them and their greedy, stupid selves.

[aralim4311]

That crap is the worst.