Agree with all of this! Also, on a related note but not completely the same, I had the most tilting back and forth with a potential *buyer* recently that really put me in a bad mood.
Buyer responds to a sales ad I had up last week and begins to engage me in conversation etc. Asks me what I could do in various scenarios (some of which include me having to do some additional leg work), asks me for more photos, OK all good fair enough. Then when I have gone through the trouble of responding to the different questions/requests/scenarios, this guy offers me almost 50% of what I am asking for. I just… I don’t get it. I told him it felt disrespectful and to have a good night.
Please don’t do this if you are a buyer, don’t waste peoples time! State up front what you are willing to spend especially if you are requesting the seller to do additional work for you.
That's just a slap in the face.
50% cmon.
Never had that bad but being ghosted after multiple pics, weighing, getting shipping quote isn't much better. Had a few of those.
Most of the time I don't try to offer less unless I know for sure they sold cheaper recently or know they paid less than asking price. 50% tho. no way! Usually somewhere between previous sale prices and asking price.
Had a few deals not go through on not offering discounted shipping totalling a few dollars. Oh well. Many guys on here don't waste the time offering actual shipping quote doing flat rate box or winging shipping price. Most of us could make that tiny difference in cost working less time than it takes to package, weigh, check and send the quote.
It's kinda tempting to check a few zipcodes and charge everyone a flat rate just to save the time and hassle of checking every darn time. The reason I don't tho is just one or two customers paying a few bucks more than it actually costed may get rubbed wrong way, feel burned by it and make life difficult.
I've also had a few opposite end of the spectrum. Private pm response to wanted listing with a really reasonable deal on exactly what I was looking for.
I had no idea what they were worth but after searching prior to saying yes to the deal I couldn't find a single previous sale for cheaper. Most were about 10-25% more. A few months later he asked if I wanted a few more of the chips. Why yes I do
He is a reasonably long time member with hardly any posts here.
There's some good guys like him flying under the radar and I really appreciated the good deal.
There's a lot of well known members here giving amazing deals too.
For the most part this is a very reasonable group of members.
Some times it is hard coming up with a price on items nobody else has sold.
Sometimes I feel I'm too low for amount of work but 99% of the time nobody questions the price or offers less.
I've had one single transaction ever where a customer asked for an item free. Heck ya I can do that and planned on it before he asked but now I know what to give as the free item helped me and him out. Win win. Negotiating or asking doesn't have to be disrespectful. Sometimes it's helpful like this.
