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is this a lowball?

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necro702

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Is offering someone $80-$85 for their WD 120gb SE a lowball? I bought one
in that price range a few days ago and was looking for another today.

Well I PM'ed my offer and he went off. Said I was lowballing him and wasting
his time. With looking at harddrive prices lately and the hotdeals section, I
don't consider my offer a lowball. Also I PM'ed it. Not like I posted my offer in
his thread.

 
all this "lowballing" sh!t pisses me off. an offer is an offer. atleast there is interest. who cares if it's too low. the seller should just say that and counter offer, instead of writing an email about how a lowball wastes his/her time.. that wastes even more time.
 
Originally posted by: guapo337
all this "lowballing" sh!t pisses me off. an offer is an offer. atleast there is interest. who cares if it's too low. the seller should just say that and counter offer, instead of writing an email about how a lowball wastes his/her time.. that wastes even more time.
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More or less i agree. If the drive is new, i wouldn't take $80-85 for it, but i wouldn't flame you for lowballing. Seems pretty immature and petty to me.
 
A lowballer deserves flaming only if the offer is publicly made. And usually in that case, the seller doesn't need to do the 0wning him/herself. 😛

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
Originally posted by: guapo337
all this "lowballing" sh!t pisses me off. an offer is an offer. atleast there is interest. who cares if it's too low. the seller should just say that and counter offer, instead of writing an email about how a lowball wastes his/her time.. that wastes even more time.
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More or less i agree. If the drive is new, i wouldn't take $80-85 for it, but i wouldn't flame you for lowballing. Seems pretty immature and petty to me.
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Christ almight, now you're the Cheetah? 😕

I would have just counter-offered "Nice try. How about $X?" myself. Unless you offered something asinine like $40 - in which case, I'd just PM you back the first two words.

- M4H
 
Yes, this is a lowball. But he shouldn't have said that to u.
He probably went through the painstaking process of pricematches, coupons, MSN dollars, mail-in-rebates, etc., and got it for $80.I think it is fair to pay atleast $0.80/gig for a brand new hard drive.
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
A lowballer deserves flaming only if the offer is publicly made. And usually in that case, the seller doesn't need to do the 0wning him/herself. 😛

- M4H
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Thats what I thought. I never post my offers in a thread. I also try to make
reasonable offers and right now I think $80-$85 is a fair offer for the 120's.

I wasn't mad at all that he rejected my offer. I was mad that he acted as
immature as he did.

 
I would consider what you have done a lowball but the seller shouldnt of said what they said and stormed off. All they had to say was they didn't want to sell at the price.
 
it is kind of low...but I woulda taken that as the start of negotiation...not killed out the sale altogether. I would say 100 for the drive would be fair.
 
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