you have not sold anything before on CL have you? If you did you would get emails from all kinds of people. There are some who think its cool to offer 1/2 of whatever price you list a game at. then there are others who think no game is worth more than $150. The worst are the ones, who say they want it come and see it and then bust out I can only afford $xxx. Add in the tire kickers and flakes and all the other fun..
I sell things on CL all the time, and I'm always either A) very polite or B) non-responsive to anyone that e-mails me, period. I do my best to never make assumptions about a buyer's intentions, and if I feel myself getting upset about a contact, I either use a canned (very polite) refusal response or I choose not to respond. Unfortunately, in this case, I didn't take that attitude responding to a seller, and I should have.
If you would have emailed me, my thoughts would have been F-off A-hole.. But I would have responded with no thanks, the game is worth that. I would not have listed the dig dug for $500 unless it was near mint. I think dig dug is a $300-$500 game. Last one I sold was for $350.. My thoughts would have been that you might have faked a CL add to try to get me to lower the price..
This is an extremely cynical attitude. If these are your immediate thoughts as a seller, I now understand why a buyer (like me) has the exact same type of cynical thoughts about sellers who respond the way this guy did. I saw his response and my immediate reaction was also F-off A-hole.
But your respose was child like. I am going to run home and tell mommie your were mean to me and she is going to call all the neighborhood kids to say your a meanie...
Already admitted. No need to dredge it up again.
If you ask me, your mostly at fault.
How can I be mostly at fault for his initial response? My first e-mail was very polite and just asking a question. I hadn't even made an offer yet, so how can it be my fault that this seller made an assumption about my attitude toward the game, or assumed that I was trying to lowball him?
To be clear, I'm not defending my re-pop, only my initial e-mail.
You can't let go of the fact you saw one forsale for $300. That does not make all dig dugs worth $300... And look at it this way, The one for $300 sold fast(or you would have gotten it). So that says the market for one in your area is more than $300. $450 is not that far off..
That's not even remotely what I was saying. I was letting him know my mindset and asking if he was flexible, not saying "Because of this, I'll only pay that." Even if my initial e-mail were misinterpreted that way, if he wasn't willing to accept a lower offer, a simple "No thanks, the price is firm." would have sufficed.
Next time be honest. State the facts, let the seller know what you can afford and don't waste his time. The answer will be yes, no or counter offer. If you had stayed on the higher ground, you would have been in the right.
Again, I don't think I'm at fault for the initial response. I was honest, I let the seller know that I was interested in negotiating if he was open to it. The question "Is this price negotiable?" doesn't mean "Will you go super cheap?" - it simply means "Is this price negotiable?". If a seller assumes the former and responds with venom, then it seems to me that they are just as at fault as buyers who try to lowball.
But as it stands, I think your more of a douche than the seller..
Thanks for that. After admitting that I may just have been in an off mood that day already, I appreciate being called a douche. Well played.
A point of interest I thought I'd bring up: Everyone I know that I've shown this e-mail thread to has the exact opposite opinions of the responders here. When I talk to people in person about this guy's responses, the first reaction is "What a jackass."
P.S. - I've gotten what I asked for out of this thread, so this will be my last response. I don't intend to get into a flame war over this.