Sometimes selling on craigslist is annoying

[ChaosJohn]

Rather than a long-winded response, I'd just simply say "thanks for your offer, I decline." Not worth getting into a pi$$ing battle over email...or raise your blood pressure over it...

A couple of times in the past, I've done exactly that on people who tried to make lowball offers for things I'm selling on craigslist. I responded politely. And sometimes, I get huge flaming emails from them telling me that there's no way in hell I'll get what I'm asking and that now they wouldn't buy it from me if I begged them. Clueless.

 

[ZEN]

If I offer a lower price, the most id say is "I am not interested at your price but I would be at xx$" , I hate when others try to tell me my game is worth only what they offer.. wtf. I usually delete the idot lowballers and do not respond...

 

[MasterFygar]

If I offer a lower price, the most id say is "I am not interested at your price but I would be at xx$" , I hate when others try to tell me my game is worth only what they offer.. wtf. I usually delete the idot lowballers and do not respond...

+1. The right way to haggle right there. If someone says they're only willing to pay $XX it comes across as a lower offer, but when someone responds trying to 'school you' on game prices to get a better deal, that's enough to make me never want to deal with them again...

 

[Mitsurugi-w]

I dunno. When I read it I immediately thought it was another KLOVer responding to your ad. This is exactly the type of offer most of KLOV would have issued at first. It is very low for sure but I personally wouldn't pay even $300 for Tron. Not because I don't like it, but because I've never played it and don't have a desire to own it. I probably would have offered around the same just without the "schooling" in the first email.

 

[klorvinborno]

I don't care what someone offers me however if there is anything at all that tells me that this person would be a jerk to deal with I just delete it. If you respond, THEN you are allowing him to make you waste your time (not to mention that when you respond el jerko now has your real email address rather than the CL anonomizer).

If you get anymore that upset you so much, take a breath, hit delete, move on.

 

[Arcade74]

Tell him you will take the offer. See what happens just for some shits and giggles.

 

[morbidboy]

Right ow I'm trying to sell of bookcases in my store (to make room for the arcade). All wood, 8 custom bookcases with 40 shelves and reinforced slat wall for peg hooks. Asking $1600 ($200 each seems fair).

All the emails that I've been getting are something like this, "I'll give you $400, take it or leave it".

I do understand that Craigslist is a discount market but COME ON...

 

[sosage]

Tell him you will take the offer. See what happens just for some shits and giggles.

Maybe he is allowed one free pass for pulling a classic "I said you could buy it, but someone else just bought it instead" screw job.

"Oh. You're on the road to come get the 200 dollar piece of shit high maintenance bad investment Tron? Sorry. Someone else handed me 800 for it. They just loaded it up. Better turn back and head home."

I've been on both sides of this debate lately. There is just a good way of doing things that people don't grasp. My worst case of this as a seller was having to get rid of a hot rod project (brand new from the factory rolling chassis, original almost no bondo 32 coupe body, Camaro engine, shit load of new parts). Every single person that showed up to look at it took a giant verbal shit all over it for completely different reasons. I mean tore the entire thing to shreds like it wasn't worth their time even having it in their line of sight. Then, of course, they want to haggle. People just aren't tactful about this process for some reason.

Oh...I sold it for my asking price to a guy that drove down with a trailer from Reno just to look at it.

 

[Robran68]

I agree with your response Kalan, CL lowballers piss me off. I offer less when shopping on CL but usually only offer less within reason, not 80% less!! If the item is listed for way too much I don't even bother to email them.

I could see it now, you sell "Trent" the Tron for $200 and tomorrow morning we see a "What does a $200 Tron look like" posting on here!

 

[pookdolie]

"Based on your response, it sounds like you'd be better off not buying and owning a classic arcade game. May I suggest you try Toys R' Us? Best of luck."

 

[DreamTR]

This site is funny. I have seen people happy to lowball and people defending them now people upset with lowballers, so which is it? LOL...there are threads about this hypocrisy so it's just a big head scratcher.

I hate lowballers myself, but I just find it funny one threads is people proud to lowball, another is extreme hatred...

 

[LyonsArcade]

I've noticed it too man, it's not just you. You just have to keep in mind there are different types of people out there, sometimes they don't think about things from both sides of the equation. I've seen plenty of posts of people bragging about how they lowballed somebody then lied to them about something that was going on with the game, then they get roaring approval here on the site. Just weird.

"I told him the board was probably bad, that would cost me 2 or 3 hundred" etc. when something just needs the monitor adjusted, or it's in test mode, etc.

 

[DreamTR]

I've noticed it too man, it's not just you. You just have to keep in mind there are different types of people out there, sometimes they don't think about things from both sides of the equation. I've seen plenty of posts of people bragging about how they lowballed somebody then lied to them about something that was going on with the game, then they get roaring approval here on the site. Just weird.

"I told him the board was probably bad, that would cost me 2 or 3 hundred" etc. when something just needs the monitor adjusted, or it's in test mode, etc.

Yes, exactly...that's the stuff I am talking about...I know it's "great" for the buyer when that happens but no one looks at it from both sides, especially on this forum. I know it's good to watch out for your own, but if the guy that offered Kalan $200 for Tron actually got it, he would post the brag here and people would congratulate him for it...

 

[sosage]

...because these situations are gray, but everyone expects you to be either black or white on the subject.

 

[Muel]

Yea, the CL lowballers suck.. I've had that happen to me as well.

It's fun to reply back... (after you sold your game of course)

"Sorry, I just sold the Tron... I got a crisp $100.00 bill for it, man I wish your e-mail hadn't gone to my spam folder, I COULD'VE SOLD THIS for $200.00, damn!"

Good luck with the sale... $1000.00 for a Tron is a good deal especially if yours is in good condition. There is no rule on what to sell it for, the value of the game is whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Still, it's worth more than $200.

 

[Kalan714]

Tron

I sold it to a fellow Klov member for 750, I did'nt expect to get a 1000 was just hoping to get 750 =) Now I only have 3 left.