Need of some serious guidance PLEASE.

[brokenscout]

What pisses me off more is that they agreed to meet up, and gives me a damn low ball offer when I meet up.

I've had that happen on RMGO. I've even had someone ask me for gas money so they could get home.

[Glock Shooter]

having worked in sales my entire adult life those that have problems with "low ball" offers should get over it. If you know your product and your pricing is reasonable then just wait for a better offer. The offers come in via PM, you don't like the offer, just write back NO and don't offer a counter price unless you're willing to haggle. I see the "no low ball" and chuckle. Just write FIRM and that's that. A great salesman once told me "low ball offers don't offend me just means they can't afford my item but they are a buyer"

[n8tive97]

I have bought a couple guns that were for trade only.... . So are guns for trade only, for trade only?

[funkfool]

Hey, I'll give ya $250.00 and a few hundred rounds of 'once fired' 9mm brass for that LNIB Python ya got there...

What bugs me... is when someone PM's you with "what is your absolute, rock bottom price"....
Yeah, let me do your haggling for you.
It is in the ad - unless you want to offer me something else...

[BigBear]

Eh, to me it's a subjective experience. If I know the guy and his situation and think he'll get more joy out of something I have for sale, I might very well just give it to them as present or a well-wish or something. If I don't know the guy, I've usually done the research and know the bottom barrel price -depending on how they approach it, I may say sure or tell 'em no thanks.

1 - "what da lowest price that u take homey?" I'd tell them to re-read the ad as reading comprehension is essential. There is no OBO or "willing to negotiate", the price is fixed at $xxx. Take it or leave it.

2 - "I'm interested in such and such, but due to this circumstance, all I can offer is xxx. Are you willing to work with me?" Most likely I'd respond with a call me and it'd be either SPF are "gone" which means I just might give it to em for a two liter of Dr. Pepper or something.


Yeah, I might be an ass sometimes, but I'm also a really nice guy and try to look out for my brothers.

[Eggysrun]

Haggling is all part of making a sale I think. Both parties need to be flexible and understanding.

However, as a seller you've got your price you just want to sell it and get it over with, or the haggling price and I think it's up to the both seller and dealer to do their research to see what is fair.

Comes down to common sense in the end.

[cysoto]

There is no such thing as a "low ball offer"; just an offer. If I see something I like, I already have a good idea of how much I want to spend vs. how much they typically sell for. With this information in mind, I send them a PM with my what I am willing to spend. It is their right as the seller to accept or decline.

By the same token, it never bothers me if some one sends me an offer that others may consider a low ball though I do my best to do my homework and price an item at the same price I would be willing to pay. I find it silly to place an ad for an item 15% or 20% higher just because I wanted to play "the haggling game". I am not a retailer so anytime I place an item for sale is not because I am trying to make a living; I do so because I no longer have a need for it and I need to free up some cash (many times because I want to buy other toys).

and Yes, Momma dictates the price I can spend on many things...

An honest man you are!! (I too am on the same boat).

[claimbuster]

Never worry about a so-called low ball offer here. I'm a big boy and I have no problem saying NO. What's more, there are times when I just want to get rid of something and who knows, I just might accept your offer.

[Scanker19]

I don't like when people tell me where they can get it cheaper. At least with private sales, businesses are fair game with this mind set.

Its like "well then you should save a few dollars there".
Don't confuse this with something being way over priced and trying to bring them back to Earth.

[BuffCyclist]

I don't feel that there is any specific limit to what a lowball offer is, but on most cases, i feel a lowball offer is around 50% of the asking or whatnot, most notably offered the same day of the ad being posted or before it is bumped or even had a price drop.

For example, I was selling 3 MagPul Pmags, and a MagPul RVG. They were listed separately, but being FolGrn, no one wanted them. I dropped them down low ($35 shipped for pmags, $15 shipped for rvg) and still nothing. From the getgo, a guy emailed me saying he'd take all of them for $30 shipped. I was insulted by that, stating that the shipping would be roughly $5 and for that price he'd be buying 1 mag and getting an rvg and 2 free mags with it. He kept pming me over several weeks (on ar15.com) and finally I just had to mark the ad as being "sold" to get him to stop.

Another example, I recently bought an LCP that the guy refused to ship. He was including some SD ammo, and he ended up paying for half of the shipping since he got to keep the ammo, and I still got a great deal! I sent him an email stating that if he gets to a point in the sale where he's interested in shipping, I've got the cash in hand and can send him payment asap. He responded by saying that he would give it a few more days and then it was mine. No one else even kicked the tires and I got an LCP, 3 mags and all the factory goodies for $240 shipped ($265 after my transfer fee).

I usually have a price in mind that I won't go below ever for an item, and even if I have an item listed for months and it still hasn't sold, I won't drop below that price. That isn't to say that someone who sends me an offer lower than that price is lowballing me.

And no, that was not a "bump" for my pmags and rvg for sale, lol.