LOL - Craigslist pricing

[drebo]

Fixed

Nope, not fixed. You completely missed the point.

Just because you found a moron after 9 months of sitting on a piece of shit TV doesn't mean that the TV was worth the $500 you wanted for it.

 

[Lash444]

Id sooner pay the going rate for a baseball card from a 95 Beckett than to sell my car at KBB pricing. You want to know what yourcar is worth on craigslist? Browse the other postings. A jeep cherokee from 97 to 2001 goes kbb at 2200 in excellent condition regardless of mileage. Depending on milage it can and will sell for 3x that. at least it did when i looked at them a couple years ago.

 

[dabuddha]

Nope, not fixed. You completely missed the point.

Just because you found a moron after 9 months of sitting on a piece of shit TV doesn't mean that the TV was worth the $500 you wanted for it.

You didn't read what I said. I never said it was worth $500. I said it was worth $500 to the buyer.

 

[momeNt]

Thanks for pointing this out.

I will probably purchase the $25 pair of CD duplicators and just replace their drives with CD/DVD drives and resell them for $400 a piece since they'll be able to do what the aleratec does.

Capitalism rules.

 

[Squisher]

I posted this in another thread. I recently sold my 50" samsung DLP tv for $500 on craigslist. Had to list it for almost a year and it took me awhile to find a buyer but I eventually did. It sells for about $450 on amazon. My theory is that there is always a chump out there that's ready to pay what you're asking for.

That is amazing. Big screen (50+") CRT HDTVs are going for like $150. I paid $1000 for one in 2005. I guess you're right though, I just gave my away my 60" SDTV for free and was amazed at the number of people that responded.

 

[Puppies04]

Some people might do this. I list what I want, maybe add a tiny bit to make someone feel good about negotiating. But generally I am firm on price.

Example I recently sold my bike for $600. Some guy came from an hour outside of town (I always show items within a couple minutes walk from my house) and offered me $550. I said no. Then $575. I said no--you're the first person to look at this, I'm not in a rush and I'm sure someone will eventually pay the $600.

Dude left, wasted 2 hours of his time. Bike sold the next day at full price. Anyway it just comes down to knowing the market.. I am pretty familiar with the market for that bike

I don't mind lowballs because I don't devote a lot of time to showing stuff. I make buyers come to me.

I have met plenty of people who will walk away from a sale if you don't offer them a discounted price. Doesn't matter how cheap you list stuff they aren't interested unless they can knock you down another 10%./5%/1%

I recently sold my old TV, they were listed on ebay/craigslist for around £250, I put mine up for £150 on a local ads page explaining that I wasn't open to offers. Some guy rang me up and offered me £145 even though he admitted I was already selling cheap. When I refused to budge on price he hung up. It sold about 20 minutes later.

 

[Zeze]

I remember I sold my year-old 22" Acer monitor for exactly same price as new. I mean, a 5 second googling would show the price right on Amazon too.

This was the time when 22" was just becoming the norm and such size was very pretty to the general public still reeling from 19" monitors.

Some fancy writing and pictures, I sold it for like $200 cash to some college kid.

Also sold my Phenom II 720-BE with HD4850 when Diablo 3 was released as a 'Diablo 3 machine!'. I sold it for a whopping $450.

To an average consumer, A quad-core 3.3 Ghz sounds really good despite actual benchmarks sucking hard vs Intel CPUs with far lower numbers on paper.

That's how the world runs, how businesses make money.

 

[BUTCH1]

Speaking of people asking too much for items, just saw this on ebay ^_^



Yeah I get that but there are a lot of people going far above fair pricing and not coming down on them at all. But buying stuff on Craigslist is a lot easier than selling all things considered.

Everybody should put it on their "add to watch list" so this idiot actually thinks someone is going to buy it..

 

[BUTCH1]

Id sooner pay the going rate for a baseball card from a 95 Beckett than to sell my car at KBB pricing. You want to know what yourcar is worth on craigslist? Browse the other postings. A jeep cherokee from 97 to 2001 goes kbb at 2200 in excellent condition regardless of mileage. Depending on milage it can and will sell for 3x that. at least it did when i looked at them a couple years ago.

A lot depends on the area too, around here (Daytona) motorcycles seem way overpriced, $2000 for a 1985 Honda?, they cost less new back then!..

 

[Farang]

I have met plenty of people who will walk away from a sale if you don't offer them a discounted price. Doesn't matter how cheap you list stuff they aren't interested unless they can knock you down another 10%./5%/1%

I recently sold my old TV, they were listed on ebay/craigslist for around £250, I put mine up for £150 on a local ads page explaining that I wasn't open to offers. Some guy rang me up and offered me £145 even though he admitted I was already selling cheap. When I refused to budge on price he hung up. It sold about 20 minutes later.

I rarely bargain when buying because anything I find and am willing to spend the time to take a look at, has to be a good deal to begin with. Or at least a fair deal for something I want. If the seller is offering a fair price I don't really care about $20 or whatever.

 

[88keys]

I find that that the tech world is full of people who think yesterday's garbage is worth almost as much as todays technology.

Just check ebay if you don't believe me.

 

[Bateluer]

Why do people get offended at low balling? Just say your price is firm. No one is making you to haggle.

I like to haggle, just want it to be realistic. If you offer less than half the listing price, you're not haggling, you're being a dick. Plain and simple.

I find that that the tech world is full of people who think yesterday's garbage is worth almost as much as todays technology.

CraigsList users also think that the value drops 99.99% if its used, even for a day. Simply not the case.

The scammers also annoy the piss out of me. Several of the replies I've gotten are from crown princes or people buying as gifts for their son/daughter/nephew who is in Africa.

 

[killster1]

Speaking of people asking too much for items, just saw this on ebay ^_^



Yeah I get that but there are a lot of people going far above fair pricing and not coming down on them at all. But buying stuff on Craigslist is a lot easier than selling all things considered.

why the F you looking for that game on ebay? HAHA and sellers raise the price when out of stock to avoid selling item they dont have. something about re-listing a item and saving fees or something.. Everything is for a reason and its not because someone thought the game was worth 1500 dollars.

 

[fustercluck]

why the F you looking for that game on ebay? HAHA and sellers raise the price when out of stock to avoid selling item they dont have. something about re-listing a item and saving fees or something.. Everything is for a reason and its not because someone thought the game was worth 1500 dollars.

I really don't think it's any kind of strategy, I think the seller is just a dope. And it came up in a Nintendo search. I like checking out old Nintendo stuffs on ebay