Some people just SUCK

[MrYogi]

Only experience, I guess, will make you realize how unreasonable people can be. I buy stuff in scholl but never sell anything in school because of the number of the lowballers involved. Anyway, I decided to try sell my new in box dell laptop and sent an email to the School list asking $730 for it. I get quite a few genuine replies from some lowballers. A couple of them who were directors in the some department offered $390 and $440. Dell was selling it for $899 in Home and $749 in Small Business on that day.


I knew I was going to get such replies but still wanted to try. I put it on Ebay and this guy emailed me just now asking if he could pickup the item and pay for it. I send him my phone number. He sent an email from my ebay auction page where the price was $485 and three days left. So I call him and he wants to pay me $400 for it. Mind you, he is not a newbie on Ebay. He has a perfect feedback of 131+. Come on, if you making an offer, just be reasonable Please.

cliff notes: lowballers suck!!!! :|

 

Hehe, some guy emailed me last night asking if he could buy my camera (which I currently have on eBay - ending in about an hour). I said, "If the reserve price isn't met, or the bidder is non-paying, you can buy it for the reserve price + $8 UPS Ground. He said sure! No lowballers there.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: MrYogi
Only experience, I guess, will make you realize how unreasonable people can be. I buy stuff in scholl but never sell anything in school because of the number of the lowballers involved. Anyway, I decided to try sell my new in box dell laptop and sent an email to the School list asking $730 for it. I get quite a few genuine replies from some lowballers. A couple of them who were directors in the some department offered $390 and $440. Dell was selling it for $899 in Home and $749 in Small Business on that day.


I knew I was going to get such replies but still wanted to try. I put it on Ebay and this guy emailed me just now asking if he could pickup the item and pay for it. I send him my phone number. He sent an email from my ebay auction page where the price was $485 and three days left. So I call him and he wants to pay me $400 for it. Mind you, he is not a newbie on Ebay. He has a perfect feedback of 131+. Come on, if you making an offer, just be reasonable Please.

cliff notes: lowballers suck!!!! :|

yeah i hate it when people lowball me on Ebay. I was selling a motherboard,mem and cpu. it was at $250 and someone said he would give me $200 cash now! i replied that its at 250 now why would i take 200? it ended at $350 heh

 

[MrYogi]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Hehe, some guy emailed me last night asking if he could buy my camera (which I currently have on eBay - ending in about an hour). I said, "If the reserve price isn't met, or the bidder is non-paying, you can buy it for the reserve price + $8 UPS Ground. He said sure! No lowballers there.

You can expect that from a total stranger on Ebay. But the people who offered me $390 and $400 are directors of some dept. making atleast $60k / yr

 

[Bootprint]

Isn't that the point of ebay to try and get it for the lowest price. I mean if you were desperate to unload it, you might have sold it to them.

 

[MrYogi]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
Isn't that the point of ebay to try and get it for the lowest price. I mean if you were desperate to unload it, you might have sold it to them.

You are not getting my point. It is at $485 now and three more days left and he wants to pay $400 paypal now.

 

[SWirth86]

Why would anyone buy it from you when they could get it from dell for 19 bucks more?

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: SWirth86
Why would anyone buy it from you when they could get it from dell for 19 bucks more?

i was wondering the same thing

 

[alkemyst]

a low ball is an offer....you just say no. If you do have a mention of no less than $x.xx and they try to go half that, then yeah that is just rude and a waste of time.

What I hate is the posts that say make offer (I work off a network eq list)....so you do and they come back with an offer already in their head like 10% off list.

One example was a network card, list is $1000, used aftermarket for wholesale is about $150....ebay is about $200, selling to an end user is about $250 with warranty....

We offered $150 a fair offer and we sent back about 1000 words of how we were criminals and as vendors should be ashamed we were trying to 'scam' someone.

He wanted $850. 6 months later he is still trying ot sell it once in a while.

 

[FoBoT]

you want $730 for a $749 computer?

what is the opposite of lowballer?

if a person isn't getting a good discount, why take a chance buying from a person vs. the normal channel?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

The opposite of a low baller? I had someone offer $50 for a Queensryche game I had. Of course I said "sure" (I was thinking I'd be lucky to get $20). Then they said they'd pay for shipping. WOO!

 

[MrYogi]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you want $730 for a $749 computer?

what is the opposite of lowballer?

if a person isn't getting a good discount, why take a chance buying from a person vs. the normal channel?

Who told you that it is worth $749? It is a P4, 2.2GHz,15 XGA. I'll give you $730, can you get me one NOW?

 

[alkemyst]

another thing I was going to add....typically used and new open box items in computers/networking/etc go for 50% of list when I resell them (Cisco mainly)....I typically buy at 25% of list or less.

Best deal was a real building auction. Picked up 5 cards for $25 which were resold at $1500 each before they even got inventoried....at the time $2500 was a fair price.

 

[MrYogi]

Originally posted by: prvteye2003

Originally posted by: SWirth86
Why would anyone buy it from you when they could get it from dell for 19 bucks more?

i was wondering the same thing

add 8.4% freaking tax from dell.

 

[new2AMD]

Originally posted by: MrYogi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
Q]

Who told you that it is worth $749? It is a P4, 2.2GHz,15 XGA. I'll give you $730, can you get me one NOW?

You did?

 

[MrYogi]

Originally posted by: new2AMD

Originally posted by: MrYogi

Originally posted by: FoBoT
Q]

Who told you that it is worth $749? It is a P4, 2.2GHz,15 XGA. I'll give you $730, can you get me one NOW?

You did?

Yes, Dell had it for $749 in small business and 8.4% tax. it is worth more than $900 now. Anyway that is not the question. The question is how people offered $400 for it.

 

[JEDI]

that's just a part of business. deal with it, or stop selling

 

[imported_Papi]

Say no...

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: MrYogi
Only experience, I guess, will make you realize how unreasonable people can be. I buy stuff in scholl but never sell anything in school because of the number of the lowballers involved. Anyway, I decided to try sell my new in box dell laptop and sent an email to the School list asking $730 for it. I get quite a few genuine replies from some lowballers. A couple of them who were directors in the some department offered $390 and $440. Dell was selling it for $899 in Home and $749 in Small Business on that day.


I knew I was going to get such replies but still wanted to try. I put it on Ebay and this guy emailed me just now asking if he could pickup the item and pay for it. I send him my phone number. He sent an email from my ebay auction page where the price was $485 and three days left. So I call him and he wants to pay me $400 for it. Mind you, he is not a newbie on Ebay. He has a perfect feedback of 131+. Come on, if you making an offer, just be reasonable Please.

cliff notes: lowballers suck!!!! :|

Get used to it especially when selling stuff here....

Ausm

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: MrYogi
I get quite a few genuine replies from some lowballers. A couple of them who were directors in the some department offered $390 and $440. Dell was selling it for $899 in Home and $749 in Small Business on that day. :|

Did you tell them that they should be ashamed of themselves?
You should!!
KarenMarie

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

I was selling a car once and listed it for 2000. A guy offered me 900. I just cuckled. He came and looked at it twice. I had to tell him point blank that he was wasting everyone's time. I sold the car to someone else for 1800.