that’s when you send the new offer of a whopping $21.37 and add “I’ll even throw in half a jimmy johns sammich if you accept in the next 30 minutes”
Then five minutes later, “The sandwich is no longer on the table. You may smell the wrapper.”
The sandwich is no longer on the table
I eated it
And about two gulps left in the drink. Is it coke? Diet coke.
I once had some dude offer me $2K under blue book for a car and then taunt me when I told him it wasn’t a serious offer. “yeah right like you’re ever going to get that for it” he said. Got that price within a week and since I’m petty sometimes, I let him know
On the rare occasion that I make an offer for something it will be very low because that is what I’m willing to pay to deal with the whole ‘male an offer’ process. A low bid is a low bid, not an insult.
Then it would seem you are not like the person I’m taking issue with.
I tried to edit to clarify immediately after but there might be some timer before editing.
Your guy was much of a dick about you not taking the offer as the OP seller was about getting a low budget. People who treat ‘make me an offer’ as some kind of preset range and get mad that others don’t agree make the whole offer process painful.
There’s no “preset range”, but I would agree that if something is worth anywhere near $300, an offer of $20 is akin to saying “come on stranger, I want this for free”
It’s an insult you are too ignorant to understand is an insult. You wasted their time with your bs
If people don’t want to be ‘insulted’ by low offer then they shouldn’t present it in a format that allows for offers that are ‘too low’. It would take less time to reject the bid they allowed to happen than to write a response.
I have personally purchased at least one thing for 10% of the asking price (around $500) because I was the only one who wanted it and they wanted to get rid of it. That was what it was worth to me, I wasn’t trying to haggle or anything, just made an offhand offer when walking by.
None of this makes you any less of an asshole
Weird. That works all the time on Pawn Stars
I can’t tell if this is a shitty seller or shitty bidder. It could be a 25 dollar item the seller thinks is worth 350, or it could just be someone looking for a score.
If I’m making a serious bid I take 10-20% off max.
As a buyer, I do this to annoy scalpers. Keep sending them offers far below what they’re asking. The more time they spend dealing with me, the less time they can spend scamming people.
I used to offload used electronics on CraigsList. I would deeply discount to prevent people from wanting a refund. Then every offer was like this screenshot. I gave up and now I environmentally recycle perfectly good gear that someone could have enjoyed.
If you’re offloading electronics that are going to ewaste center why not accept a $20 offer? Im genuinely interested because i often bid 5-20 on things i consider e waste and people reject it and continue trying to sell it for $100
I was already deeply discounting. I also give hardware away to friends and family (my old Synology NAS just got a new home with a friend). But for strangers to underbid so hard is fucking insulting. I am generous. I am not someone of which to take advantage.
Do you know the phrase cut your nose to spite your face?
I’m pretty sick of people treating this like I’m harming myself or the market by refusing to let strangers take advantage of me. Get fucked.
Nah.
Classy…
But if noone is buying it for a price higher than the low ball offers, maybe those aren’t low ball offers?
If I’m selling a thousand dollar PC (that’s a year old) and someone offers me $50, that’s a shit offer. Like the image that headed this post.
Who determines that it’s worth $1000? 😅
I tried to give away a clothes dryer one time and no one wanted it. Put it up for $30 and the offers came flying in.
well there’s a bit of human psychology at play here. if you see an item listed for lower than market value the seller has already implicitly devalued the item in the listing to the audience. it isn’t surprising some rational agents would then proceed to either ignore the listing out of fear of low quality or attempt to haggle for a lower price due to the already admittedly lesser value of the merchandise. it doesn’t make objective sense at all, i agree, but it makes a whole lot of systemic sense.
edit: idk maybe this is part of why sales signs are always so flashy?? they try to get dopamine and shit flowing to overcome this initial reaction? maybe you could emulate that with your listings somehow next time. i hate the hype culture too but ig you gotta play the game.
edit pt2: i also have a bunch of stuff in my collection if you ever wanna trade! not to be weird or soliciting or anything. always like seeing what people have in their curios.
I figured it’s an issue with hagglers that haggle for haggling sake, and not about the value of the item.
If I want to sell something on marketplace, I put the price up, because I know somebody will ask for a big discount for a quick sale. I’m happy to move this faded couch set for $100, then I’m listing it for $200… and selling it for $100 to a person who offers to pick it up, too.
It’s that kind of reasoning and makes haggling pointless imo, because sellers either don’t take your lowball or they knew you’d lowball and charged high to start with so they have room to negotiate.
But as that one JC Penny guy accidentally proved, people love the illusion of good deals more than they love good value.
The funny thing is that you think everyone else is the problem when zero legit offers means its virtually certain your asking price was nonsense.
People with used obsolete goods often have expectations of value pegged to what they originally paid for it rather than what it’s worth.
Search your own or similar good on markets to see what other people are paying for similar or better goods.
Is Amazon selling something for 20 similar to what you paid 50 for 5 years ago? Shipped to your door tomorrow for free? Well then nobody is driving an hour out to your place next Tues to pay you 25.
Fuck you. I didn’t leave my goods up for a week and only get shitty bids. I stopped posting when the first bid on day one was insulting. You don’t know shit.
Understandable but people like you are the problem. You are so petty you’d rather take a loss on the item than sell at a price that matches demand.
Ha!!! The issue is that people are not willing to pay the price that matches demand. You could list it for 20% of the going rate and still have people offer you pennies. This negging method has become a side hussle.
The last 3 things I sold online all got sold in a day for roughly what I asked for, but for every good offer there are at least 10 of these scams. Its why I now use a local auction to dump unused stuff, I don’t need the threats and bullshit.
The issue is that people are not willing to pay the price that matches demand.
Uh… doesn’t that just mean that the price doesn’t match demand?
No that is what you are missing, there is a bunch of people who do nothing but gaslight to get things for next to nothing then resell later.
For example I sold a car last year for $1500, I could have maybe got more but eh that was fine. I know what the market price is more or less but I when I listed it I got about 50 offers under $100, keep in mind I could scrap it for $300.
This is a scam that has come up from online listing, these people put bullshit offers in across many many listings and some even try to threaten and trick.
I don’t mean the low ball offers. I understand that is annoying. Just mean you essentially throwing the stuff away instead of just selling it for a lower price than you wanted.
Edit: not you specifically. I realize you are not the original commenter
You HAVE to leave room for someone to ask for it $20-50 cheaper, just the way it goes. They NEED that “deal”
I used to list things rounded up a bit just for that. If I list something for $500 then I likely would take $400 for it. But when someone walks up to my house loads the thing in their truck and then knocks on my door and tries to force a $20 into my hand to buy the thing… Yeah fuck that.
Wut?
I have self respect enough to take a loss rather than be taken advantage.
Ironically, the bid was for a gun which the buyer wanted to shoot himself with.
Don’t take low ball offers personally. There are serious bids that deserve conversation and then those that don’t. Move on.
But if you keep getting nothing, maybe you’re the issue.
When we were looking for a house, we put an offer in on one and the seller replied that they thought the offer was “insulting”. We thought that was rude but it was nothing compared to this.
At least he isn’t offering $0. When I put things for sale I occasionally get people PMing me begging to get the item for free and occasionally writing 200 word sob stories.
Do they ask for delivery 40 minutes away too. Then get mad when you say no
I had some leftover diapers from one of those giant boxes you get from Sam’s/costco. The bag was sealed. Easily about 40 diapers. I was giving them away for free. 3 separate people asked to meet up on the other side of town. I said sure but I’ll have to charge you $5 for gas. They all ghosted me after that. 🤣
Like come on I’m already taking a loss on these I’m not gonna pay money to give them away.
Seems fair.
Fun story. I once put my car on a site called lease busters because my ex and I were looking to get a bigger vehicle and there was 3 years left on the lease.
It’s long lost to time but I had a dude message me saying he would be willing to take the lease but said I could keep the car and insurance under my name.
Like what in the absolute fuck?!
Alright, 25€$, but that’s my last offer.
probably
Based on… ? My experience indicates more of an issue with people basically wanting free stuff. I had a woman once haggle me over a refurbished in-box phone that sold new for $600 at the time. $100 (which she already had agreed to) was worth haggling over. Like do you want it for free?
Bro, it’s even worse if you try and give away stuff for free. I tried for months to offload a sectional that I had no room for in my house and I got so many fucking bullshit calls about it. Finally, I decided that it wasn’t worth selling and I was just trying to avoid paying a fee to dispose of it, so I relisted it for free. It was FREE and I had people get upset that my one condition was that they take it away on their own. I would go whatever it took to get them to take it - I’ll shrink wrap it, I’ll put each piece on a pallet, I’ll even help them lift it onto their van or truck. Even if it takes them multiple trips. But I wasn’t about to go rent a truck to deliver it to them if they weren’t going to pay for it.
The description was very clear, but every reply was “I want it, but can you deliver it to me?”. When I told them no, they’d always get aggressive and call off the “deal”, as if I care that they don’t want the thing I’m giving away for free. The people who did agree to come get it never showed up, which made it frustrating since I would have to take off time from work to be home.
I’ve basically given up on trying to use online marketplaces to sell used things. They’ve been completely taken over by the most frugal cunts imaginable.
You should have listed it for cheap but let them have it for free if they come get it right away.
They would have felt like they were getting over on you and you would have avoided the worst of the assholes
I guess I just don’t understand the way they think. I once gave away an old bike for free on craigslist and the lady who came to pick it up was super nice, she even gave me a bottle of wine in exchange, and she totally didn’t have to do that. I miss interactions like that. I wish people didn’t always feel like they need to get a deal when bargaining for secondhand stuff online.
Why wouldn’t they when it works
Story time:
My father loves to sell shit online. He always has ever since I was a little kid. He is really good at ‘wheelin n dealin’ with people. I used to always think he could just shit in a can and manage to sell it to some dope online for a living.
He started selling on craigslist and ebay in the early days but has since moved to other platforms such as fb market place. One day, he decided to sell an electric rototiller on market place. I forgot what the listing price was but I do remember it being a reasonable price. I was sitting with him on his porch when he recieved a very low ball offer from a college student for it. My father became very upset over it as, according to him, low ballers have become very prevalent. He told me that he was sick of dealing with low ballers so he decided to go on google and find the address to an abandoned farm in the middle of nowhere. It was a little over an hour (maybe 1.5hrs) away from the low baller by car. He gave the address to the low baller and told him to swing by and pick it up. For some reason the low baller thought he would need a uhaul for taking it (it was very small, not a full size rototiller so it could easily fit in a regular car) so he rented one and set out for the farm.
My fathers plan was to wait until the guy was about half way to the farm (my father told the low baller to let him know when he was on his way so my father would have time to get it ready) and then call the low baller and explain to him that he shouldn’t be a low baller and that the address is fake. So I guess my father wanted to teach him a lesson about respect. Well my father forgot to call the guy. So the low baller drove all the way to the farm for nothing. When the low baller called my father, my father told him that he shouldnt low ball like that and he gets what he deserves. My father then hung up on him. This guy kept calling my father non stop to yell at him. He even called from different phone numbers when my father stopped picking up the phone. The dude was pissed. He kept going on (otp) about how my father screwed him as he was a poor college student who spent a lot of money on a uhaul. Eventually the low baller stopped calling.
Maybe next time: dont low ball
Someone sent me a text message that wasn’t to my liking so I ruined their day and cost them 100s of dollars just to teach them a lesson instead of just telling them not to send low ball overs and blocking him, yeah your dad’s the asshole in this story bud
Your father is the asshole here