Whats your lowest price.

semioldfart

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I should probably have a thicker skin but... this one galls me. Look buddy. I'm not going to negotiate against myself. If you want to bargain YOU make an offer. When you ask someone to negotiate against themselves you're literally saying "Go screw yourself"
 

semioldfart

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If you want to make an offer, make an offer. Expecting the other person to negotiate against themselves - that's what galls me.
As someone said to Frank on American Pickers when asked "Is that your best price?", "That's MY best price. You tell me yours."
 

ponchonlefty

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Also irritates me: I swear some folks you could sell a car for $2 and they'd offer $1.20 because they can't bring themselves to pay asking price no matter how low it is
yes. i was selling a trans am hood the bandit style, black with the bird on it. i priced it for 75.00. i thought someone could get a nice hood and i get something i needed for my car. those hoods back then sold for 350.00 easily. dude shows up offers 40.00. i smiled and declined. it pissed him off. he left. a week later he came back and gladly gave the 75.00. he priced the hoods else where.
 

Pilgrim

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I had an offer this week $200 under the already discounted price I was asking for my NXT upright electric. I couldn't get him to come up $100 and meet me in the middle, but he said it was all he had (unlikely.) I kept his email but I'm not desperate to sell it, and I figure it will take a while.


If a deal is fair, it's fair, and I don't try to talk people down farther. But there is usually a bit of negotiating room.
 

ponchonlefty

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I had an offer this week $200 under the already discounted price I was asking for my NXT upright electric. I couldn't get him to come up $100 and meet me in the middle, but he said it was all he had (unlikely.) I kept his email but I'm not desperate to sell it, and I figure it will take a while.


If a deal is fair, it's fair, and I don't try to talk people down farther. But there is usually a bit of negotiating room.
it seems to be fifty. sometimes people raise the price to compensate for negotiation. i would rather just have a fair price and both parties are happy. this game has been around forever.
 

soulman

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Also irritates me: I swear some folks you could sell a car for $2 and they'd offer $1.20 because they can't bring themselves to pay asking price no matter how low it is
I find this to be even more common. I used to price gear at my best price to avoid haggling only to find long ago it doesn't work very well. Now I'll list a piece higher and already have decided how low I'll go saving it for a final counter offer. For those of us with experience buying and selling gear we know within reason what something will typically sell for. Reverb supplies us with enough sales history for many items that it can be used as a fairly reliable "blue book" to support an asking price as a seller.

As for the "what's your best price" crowd it doesn't even warrant an answer other than I've listed my asking price. You either pay it or make an offer. That's how it works in the "grown up" world. I thought that "what's you best price" stupidity had died long ago. IMHO it's part of another era when less variety existed and buyer and sellers were less informed than they are today. I'm also of the belief that if we actually gave them a rock bottom price the buyer may still offer less anyway so what's the use in giving it?
 

Pilin

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I've been buying and selling gear for the better of 2 decades. The "best price?" question either gets ignored or I point out that my price is "fair" and "right in pocket" of the going rate. I'm trying to sell to the end user to maximize my profit/cost recoup. I find that those (not even introducing themselves and) going right for the "best price?" are resellers. They're trying to scoop up gear, to fill their inventory, as they have the overhead and storage to sit on something until it sells. I refer to them as Yard-Salers; trying to grab that Action Comics #1 before granny figures out what she has. I also call them Horse-Traders, as when they've sat on a boat anchor too long, they'll try and trade me their crap for my potentially good stuff. I understand business is business, but half these guys are scum.
 

Pilin

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I find this to be even more common. I used to price gear at my best price to avoid haggling only to find long ago it doesn't work very well. Now I'll list a piece higher and already have decided how low I'll go saving it for a final counter offer. For those of us with experience buying and selling gear we know within reason what something will typically sell for. Reverb supplies us with enough sales history for many items that it can be used as a fairly reliable "blue book" to support an asking price as a seller.

As for the "what's your best price" crowd it doesn't even warrant an answer other than I've listed my asking price. You either pay it or make an offer. That's how it works in the "grown up" world. I thought that "what's you best price" stupidity had died long ago. IMHO it's part of another era when less variety existed and buyer and sellers were less informed than they are today. I'm also of the belief that if we actually gave them a rock bottom price the buyer may still offer less anyway so what's the use in giving it?
"Hey. What's your best price?" It's free. "Oh, well can you through in some cables and strings?" SMH
 
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