Low ballers.

Mazderp

Mazderp

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How do you guys deal with them? I personally find it funny to come up with a smart ass remark but would that be pushing it? By any chance COULD they turn out to be potential buyers?

Lets say for example, I'm asking 4000$ (slightly negotiable) and I'm thrown a 2k offer, I'd usually just laugh to myself and reply with something witty.


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Mazderp said:
How do you guys deal with them? I personally find it funny to come up with a smart ass remark but would that be pushing it? By any chance COULD they turn out to be potential buyers?

Lets say for example, I'm asking 4000$ (slightly negotiable) and I'm thrown a 2k offer, I'd usually just laugh to myself and reply with something witty.


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In my opinion its not worth the time and emotion to reply with something snappy.

What id do is state your final price (lets say 3500), 3500$ FINAL offer.

Ca ne donne rien de perdre ton temps non plus a te faire un prix ''semi-final'' afin d attendre et surtout esperer qu il te revienne avec qque chose de final ou presque. Ces gens la habituellement s ssaient avec tout ce qu ils ont, ce qui est 2000$ dans ce cas ci.

Ca sert pas a grand chose de te faire une strategie negociations quand je suis presque sur que ce gars la a pas une c%/"!$% de cent.

Moi je fais tjrs ca. S'il est pas content, il te re ecrira pas.
 
Quand je recois une offre conne par email ( c'Est tjs par internet...)

Genre un véhicule a 10k

Tu recois un mail ''Je t'offre 7000$''.


Tu réponds ''Parfait on se rencontre ou pour le transfert''??


La il va répondre ''Ben la je l'ai pas vue, je veux le voir avant''


Tu fini avec ''Pourquoi tu me fais un offre dans ce cas la??''


/discussion
 
Quand je recois une offre conne par email ( c'Est tjs par internet...)

Genre un véhicule a 10k

Tu recois un mail ''Je t'offre 7000$''.


Tu réponds ''Parfait on se rencontre ou pour le transfert''??


La il va répondre ''Ben la je l'ai pas vue, je veux le voir avant''


Tu fini avec ''Pourquoi tu me fais un offre dans ce cas la??''


/discussion
 
-Mike- said:
Quand je recois une offre conne par email ( c'Est tjs par internet...)

Genre un véhicule a 10k

Tu recois un mail ''Je t'offre 7000$''.


Tu réponds ''Parfait on se rencontre ou pour le transfert''??


La il va répondre ''Ben la je l'ai pas vue, je veux le voir avant''


Tu fini avec ''Pourquoi tu me fais un offre dans ce cas la??''


/discussion
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Haha ça c'est une bonne idée!


Sent from my banana phone.
 
You: For sale 4000$

lowballer: I'll give you 2000$

You: for you, 5000$ is my best price! ;)

Lowballer: my best offer is 2500$

You: ok...ok... 6000$
 
hothybrids said:
You: For sale 4000$

lowballer: I'll give you 2000$

You: for you, 5000$ is my best price! ;)

Lowballer: my best offer is 2500$

You: ok...ok... 6000$
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I lol'd. This seems like the type of approach I would have taken.


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hothybrids said:
You: For sale 4000$

lowballer: I'll give you 2000$

You: for you, 5000$ is my best price! ;)

Lowballer: my best offer is 2500$

You: ok...ok... 6000$
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You : For sale 4000$

Lowballer : I'll give you 2000$

You : Perfect, witch half of the car you want front or back ?
 
Habituellement quand je reçois un lowball je renvoies 'À ce prix j'peux te cockslap dans le visage au moins ?' souvent aucun reply back, défois sont drôles
 
Des low ballers il va en avoir de plus en plus puisque la population ne cesse de s'appauvrir malgré le fait que les gens continuent à avoir des rêves. Faite vous à l'idée.
 
je trouve ca vraiment chiant les lowballers.

tsé un 10% de moins metons, ok...

mais c'est fou le sgens font des offres à genre 50% de moins!
 
I'm surprised how many people here in QC trying to sell used things at the price way higher then it should go for.
And for the low ballers i just write "my last price is x $"
 
I have a used cell phone for sale @ 100$, it's worth about 150$ on eBay but I don't want to ship it/get paid in Paypal.

I got a guy sent me two emails yesterday, first email:

Him:
80$ ok?

Me:
100$

Him:
85$ pas plus.

Me:
100$

C'est genre fuck you, une offre de 80$ sur 100$ c'est un rabais deja de 20% sur quelque chose qui vaut deja pas mal plus.

Recently I sold one of my Sidekicks (Long story, tired of shuffling around 4 cars in the driveway + also tired of maintaining it properly) and I made it abundantly clear it wasn't being sold as a daily driver. This was not a car that will take you to your daily job comfortably unless you live < 5km from your job... I even had to argue over it with some chick over the phone who wanted to buy a 2000$, 20yr old Sidekick with 323.000kms for her boyfriend to go to work, from Brossard to Pointe Calumet! That's almost 100km daily round trip. Poor guy would've needed chiropractician coupons!

I got lowballed like crazy until a collector from Sherbrooke made me a decent offer and picked it up.

Unless you're selling something that's about to become obsolete (like the aforementioned cell phone) or you're desperate for money, you're usually not in a hurry to sell. Just wait it out.
 
MrSpace said:
je trouve ca vraiment chiant les lowballers.

tsé un 10% de moins metons, ok...

mais c'est fou le sgens font des offres à genre 50% de moins!
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J'suis en train de vivre la situation inverse, je magasine et tous ceux à qui j'ai offert 10% de moins m'envoient littéralement chier, me traitent de voleur, de gars qui connait mal le marché, me répondent carrément pas, etc. Il faut se rendre à l'évidence, une 5.0 2011 ne vaut plus 30K+. Le véhicule a bientôt 3 ans, perd sa garantie bumper-à-bumper dans quelques mois, et les 2013 se vendent à 32-33K.

Il y a donc 2 côtés à cette médaille.
 
Lowballers are merely annoying, but at the same time everyone wants the best deal.

It's funny sometimes to see a complete piece of shit being sold for a ridiculous price, so you talk some reason into the owner and make a realistic offer, then you get tagged a lowballer.

I've seen that happen a lot of times with shipwrecks dragged from a field.

"Yeah but it's an original HEMI car.
- As far as I can see, the proverbial HEMI is nowhere to be found. Also did it originally come with floors too?
- Look, I'm asking 30k for it, it's got a pistol grip.
- There is no way you're ever going to get even 10k for the car, it's good for parts and that's about it, the frame has about the equivalent of a paperclip left of metal on it, and I'm afraid that if I open the doors it will break in two and sink into the ground like the titanic.
- My price is final
- You chances of selling it are, too. I'll give you 5k
- Damn lowballers
- :rolleyes: "
 
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Low Ballers are interesting, I do think that often they are hoping to come up on someone who is desperate and hasn't had many offers, I'm sure in those scenarios they make out great

This usually happens on Kijiji, I often just say "well I got an offer for XX so if you want to match that, you can have it" and that typically works or they move on and try to lowball someone else.

Offering 50% deserves a slap in the face lol

I often just pay asking price for things I want, especially if the person is cool and doesn't give me one word replies but I have told myself for used car parts etc, always offer a touch less.

Like I had to buy new Carbon Fiber side skirts, some guy had a used set for $300 + $50 shipping (they are $400 new) I offered $310 shipped. Not a big price break but hey, I paid less than asking.
 
I always respond to lowballers with my lowest price then usually don't reply again unless they made a decen't counter offer.

But I always offer quite a bit less when I'm buying, not 50% or antything but something reasonable.
 
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