"Lo Ball" is criminal, "Hi Balling" be the American Way

[gh1950]

Preface:

I've purchased several guns here, typically paying the asking price, the make or break factor being how much travel is involved (long story). I don't try to "low ball" much on anyone.

Thesis:

Occasionally I see an item that has been relisted for months (years?) at the same price, and I'm moderately interested, and I will make an offer below the asking price. Typically more near what I consider to be the real world market value. Especially if the item is a gun, it's not unusual to get back a supposedly sarcastic reply about not dealing with "low ballers", and maybe some disparaging remarks about same.

Yet it appears that it is acceptable social behavior to mindlessly post the same ad over and over, bumping real sellers off the front page, uselessly taking up bandwidth.

I don't clearly understand why it is the 'Murican way to try to get as much money as you can for an object, but it is Godless Communism to try to get the best deal you can.

 

[bensskateshop]

There are a few members that take up half the page with the same **** for far too long.

An items value has very little to do with what you paid for it and everything to do with what the current market dictates it is worth.

 

[Kahrnut]

Tree fiddy

 

[Crubear]

You should have to pay to relist when you don't lower your price

 

[41mag]

Preface:

I've purchased several guns here, typically paying the asking price, the make or break factor being how much travel is involved (long story). I don't try to "low ball" much on anyone.

Thesis:

Occasionally I see an item that has been relisted for months (years?) at the same price, and I'm moderately interested, and I will make an offer below the asking price. Typically more near what I consider to be the real world market value. Especially if the item is a gun, it's not unusual to get back a supposedly sarcastic reply about not dealing with "low ballers", and maybe some disparaging remarks about same.

Yet it appears that it is acceptable social behavior to mindlessly post the same ad over and over, bumping real sellers off the front page, uselessly taking up bandwidth.

I don't clearly understand why it is the 'Murican way to try to get as much money as you can for an object, but it is Godless Communism to try to get the best deal you can.

Truth, justice and the American way !

 

[pavogrande]

Nothing wrong about making an offer below asking price -
Nothing wrong in refusing that offer -
This presumes both are done in a polite, business like manner -
An offer is what it is worth to you, It is up to me to accept it or not --
While I have received "offers" in a rude manner I still just grit my teeth and give a polite but firm "no thanks" --

 

[Hayata]

I don't have anyone on ignore but the first candidates would be the folks that list the same over-priced items over and over and over...they rarely contribute much by way of entertainment by posting jokes or memes or even comment on other folks' ads.

To them the ODT is nothing more than a place to advertise. No sense of the "community" of ODT. Yeah, maybe I should start putting them on ignore...

Or just complain about them in threads in the pasture...

 

[THREEJAYS]

Nothing wrong about making an offer below asking price -
Nothing wrong in refusing that offer -
This presumes both are done in a polite, business like manner -
An offer is what it is worth to you, It is up to me to accept it or not --
While I have received "offers" in a rude manner I still just grit my teeth and give a polite but firm "no thanks" --

Couldn’t have said it any better

 

[Maggiemaeodie]

You should have to pay to relist when you don't lower your price

Except the “new lower price” is the same as the last couple of months worth of posts.

 

[ARCman47]

Tree fiddy

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