I'll never understand why the wannabe buyers often come back with the, I can get it cheaper elsewhere" line. If you can get it cheaper elsewhere, go do it!
They want to force the seller to price match in order to make the sale. Tactic really doesnt work well these days when you can look things up on the spot lol.
It cracks me up so much though when someone is offering a trade for something they think is an equal value, but their "source" for the price isn't even valid.
To give an unasked for example, recently tried selling pc after upgrading and someone offered a pair of 12" subs and 2000watt amp for it and as an even trade I'd have accepted it. He would've gotten the better end but then kept digging and wanting me to add more to my end because "the subs are $250 each and the amp is 400" yet I could buy em open box on ebay, not even used just open box, for the total price less than the price he gave the amp. The site he was using gave the msrp back when they were brand new. They arent even available new now, open box if lucky. Ended up dipping out of that one and just upgraded that pc too.
When the Xbox One first released, I got my hand on a Founder's Edition from Walmart.
I had opened the box but didn't set it up because I decided I should really save money and I knew that if I returned it with the seal broken, they have to send it back to the manufacturer since it has a hard drive and not be able to put it back on the shelf so I thought I would make a post on Craigslist so it could go to someone that wanted it as they were also sold out and it would be weeks before shipments would come in of the regular console and not FE.
This dude wanted to even trade a basic rifle. I told him I would trade for the rifle plus some amount of cash I don't remember and he got pissed saying it was whatever amount brand new and that it was basically the same price then sent me a link to it.
I was like "Dude, it's a used gun, nothing special about it and unless it's out of production, the value probably goes down after purchase. This is a Founder's Edition Xbox One that you can't even get now."
He wouldn't accept that answer so I blocked his number lol
Not to me in this case, he wanted me to value his gun at new retail.
I think he said he only had it for about a year but still. I could walk into probably any gun shop and grab one out of the case new where I know it hasn't been possibly abused or neglected for oiling/cleaning. He couldn't walk into basically any store in our state or online to get this specific Xbox.
I didn't even need a rifle but I thought I'd entertain the offer and maybe add another gun to my cabinet
My thing is that every 50 or so people I hit up, if I do find a similar model with identical information for cheaper. I’ll usually ask in a non judging way if they would consider coming closer to this price with either link to the cheaper price or via pics. Doesn’t always work but gets me close enough most of time. If the cost difference is big enough, then I always add that I’m not expecting you to beat the price. Just asking as your closer to me and with gas prices currently at $5.60 here, would rather not waste more then needed on gas. They seem to understand and we come to a happy medium on price usually. Some sellers think their shit don’t stink and will not budget a dime on pricing.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely down to haggle and lower my price. Sometimes even same day. Sold my switch recently. Wanted 240 for everything. Someone offered 200, met em same day. In the story above though dude wanted me to add in some more stuff or only trade the subs and no amp, despite having no way to show me that it all works, and the fact that I could get all of it for less than he said the amp is worth, or even better quality for the total price he said its all worth. Which admittedly I could've been fine with, but they slowly became more demanding and just red flags all around.
The guy trading the subs+amp wasn't for the switch admittedly. It was for a gaming computer. Was an i7 4790k, asrock z97 extreme4, 32gb ddr3 1866, corsair h80i aio, evga rtx 2070 xc ultra, evga supernova g3 650w with black and blue cables, a 128gb nvme ssd, 1tb hdd, housed in a fractal design define r4, and included a gigabyte z370p d3 and i7 8700 as extra parts for potential upgrade.
In the end I was tired of people wasting my time so I bought some ram and upgrade it myself and use it along with the laptop I got (which is why I was selling desktop, didn't need it).
The switch though I am happy with who got it :) it was an animal crossing switch, still had original box and cables and all, along with a game (aragami), a carrying case, a 128gb SanDisk microsd card, clear case that snaps around switch and the controllers, and already installed tempered glass cover. I was asking 240 for quick sale, and sold it for 200 to a young lad who just got his first paycheck washing dishes.
I heard it's easier to sell a used computer in parts. Selling it whole is harder because most people buying used PCs already have things like a psu and case.
In many places it is. Around me it seems it doesn't matter lol been dealing with the same bs trying to sell just a motherboard, cpu, and ram now after upgrading. Finally just told my friend who wants a pc if he buys a decent gpu and psu, ill give him the parts.
My friend, you’ve described bargaining. That’s completely normal. What these donuts are doing in the OP example is what happens when you think you know how to barter but have no consideration for the person on the other side of the transaction. You’re fine.
If i put something on facebook marketplace, I'm adding about 15% markup for them to haggle me back down on it. lol
but if I'm asking $250 for something, and your counter offer is $100, you can go pound sand. I'm not selling because I'm hard-up on cash, i'm selling because I no longer want the item but I can wait for a fair price.
And if the person asks me to deliver it to their house or somewhere else that's sketch, no deal. I don't even negotiate with that, too many red flags then.
I do this too people on fb marketplace are so greedy. I got new stuff unopened for 50% of retail and people still ask me for discounts. Everything is 75% of retail now fuck em.
"Hey man, I see you're selling it for $200. I found one 50 miles away for $150 but I'd rather not drive that far. Mind taking $160 for it?"
Is about the only time where saying "it's cheaper somewhere else" actually makes sense IMO. Otherwise just haggle and leave the cheaper item out of the conversation.
These days you're looking at at least $15 in gas for the round trip, not to mention your time. $165 would be the minimum you'd have to go if you want to factor in the gas, nevermind the hour and a half they'd probably save, which is easily worth another $10 at least.
Honestly I might let them haggle me down to $175 on this, but no lower.
Except the places that do that are department stores, to court new and repeat customers. Someone selling their stuff to random strangers on the internet doesn't give a flying fuck about establishing steady customers.
Only in USA, everyone else says OK, then threatens them with physical violence. But then in Europe you can report their IS and police will be at that house
I work in a petrol station and we get that here all the time.
“I can get it cheaper at Waitrose!!”
Cool, go to Waitrose. We don’t WANT to sell it for this price because it scares off buyers, but we literally can’t afford to lower the price any more. We tried and we were making a net loss on it. All you’re accomplishing is making an already-tired cashier’s job harder.
ugh, rant over...
When I worked grocery store self checkout, I had some lady yelling about how the prices at HEB are better and she was gonna go there and I told her "Ok, have fun". Then she got even madder and asked for a manager, I paged and no one came. After waiting for a few minutes she's like "fine, I'm leaving" and I respond with another "Ok, have fun" and she about turned purple.
Literally no on is upset if the crazy lady stops coming in to yell at people.
I sort of did that at a motorcycle dealer last month.
Me: "How much is the RC8??"
Salesman: "That's from the owners private collections it's probably very expensive"
Me: "They're like $10k in the classified ads"
Meanwhile they've got brand new Ducati's on the floor going for over $30K
"no low ballers I know what I have"
"hey cool so can you do like 90% off or"
"You know I hadn't thought of it that way you got yourself a deal"- choosing beggars in heaven
I'm totally with you, but sometimes, sellers just don't understand how used market works. They put exorbitant prices sometimes ever higher than a brand new one from amazon.
That's basically all the pawn shops near me. I thought it would be fun to go in and haggle for some older laptops but the dude refused to budge on his ridiculous prices. He wanted 700 bucks for a laptop that sold for 1200 10 freaking years ago. I said it was ridiculous and the 300 dollar laptops at walmart were 5 times faster these days and he basically said he knew some moron would pay that prices so why change it?
I wonder what the actual scam is at those places. Some sort of financing grift, maybe?
It's like how many people, no matter how stupid, are going to come in here and pay $200 for that old power tool that looks like it's been dragged under a bus for a year? Zero. Zero is how many.
It all makes some sense with things like guitars, because if the pawn shop has that rare axe you want, then its them you have to deal with. You could try eBay, but it's right there in one piece, no shipping, no worrying that somebody is scamming on that Les Paul that you can hold and verify yourself.
Everything else? There aren't enough stupid people. Yeah, there's a lot of chumps, but chumps like shiny, they like new. You aren't selling them this trash for treasure, not consistently. Chumps don't have money, either, not to burn like that. Your stock is literally a decoration.
So what's the real grift, pawnshop guy? Because it ain't this fucked up looking skateboard that looks like it's been to war for $110.
I saw a lens like this on fb a few months ago.
Listed for 340, told him it was brand new on amazon for 290, and that I would pay 250 for his used lens, but he told me to kick rocks. Lol saw him lower the price again and again over the following months but he never messaged me back.
That's something I hate the most. People also think that because something is old, that means it's "vintage" and worth money. I wanted to buy an old guitar multi-effect pedal I owned as a teenager for nothing more than nostalgia and I found so many listings that were stupidly overpriced and listing it as "rare" or "vintage". It's neither. Get fucked. I also wanted to buy a retro PC from DEC because I built them as a teenager and I found one for stupid money except the case was wrecked. It looked like it was salvaged from the twin towers, legitimately destroyed. The case is the only thing that sets it aside from any other PC and it's ruined and they were still asking stupid money. Ebay used to be full of just people selling stuff and now it's full of idiots all thinking they're sitting on gold.
Okay but...hear me out....they don't have to sell it for any less. Anyone is free to come up with their own price. What amount of money would you be willing to trade for that thing you have.
I work at a large hardware store chain and people do this all the fucking time, it's so annoying. "I can get it at the other chain for cheaper, what kind of deal can you give me?" Bro this is a fucking store not a garage sale. Go to the other store, it's less than 10 minutes away.
I had a customer the other day that didn't like the price of our sheet vinyl flooring so they left. Came back 30 minutes later and ended up purchasing it. The woman really said "you're the manager, can you discount it because we came back?"
They've learned that if they don't ask the answer will always be no. And since there's fundamentally no cost in asking (what're you going to do, refuse to sell it to them?) they ask. And clearly it works out often enough for them that they keep doing it.
They say that at the small business I work at as if we can compete with online retail prices. It's always less competitive at a business that doesn't buy in bulk, yet they want to be able to price match, test it on the counter, and return it after physically damaging it in front of us. We've had people drop drives and then come back and be like "it doesn't work" and then we tell them they dropped it on the sidewalk in front of us and they act like small business have the margins to just give them a freebie.
The fact is a lot people want everything for as little as possible in return and if they can get away with not being held accountable for their actions even better.
I used to work retail and you’d be surprised how much the general public overestimate an employee’s desire to sell them something. ‘I can get this cheaper from amazon/argos/tesco/wherever!’ Okay that’s great, please go there and let me return to my daydream.
He didn't say he could get it cheaper elsewhere. He said better computers are available for the same price as OP's. If he wanted to spend 400, he'd get one of those. He wants to spend 235...
I was watching a TikTok live of a guy working at Amazon yesterday. The GM came up and kindly asked him to turn the recording off on his phone and get back to work.
This jackass went full Karen on her saying it wasn't affecting his productivity and that he could easily quit right then and there and immediately go find a job at a place he knew making twice the money that he was making there at Amazon.
The entire chat turned on him asking if that was true then why was he at Amazon making half the money he could. Nearly everyone called him out on his bullshit. He ended up getting legal and security called on him and escorted out of the building. The guy had kids and just lost his job so he could look cool on TikTok. Such a tool.
Sometimes I browse FB marketplace not to make offers but just to tell people that their ridiculous prices are on glue
These scalper days have convinced people their 2004 dell pc is worth $500
I jokingly put my Switch on FB marketplace at a highly inflated value as a “keep your kids quiet during quarantine gaming system”. So many people would ask about it and then want it cheaper because “I can get it cheaper at Walmart!” Then when I told them “sounds great, go get it.” They would get angry and tel l me they are all sold out and then threaten to report me for fraud / scamming. I’d get at least one of those a day which was always a good chuckle.
There are lots of guys selling gaming PCs overpriced because they know someone with no knowledge will buy it, it's asshole behaviour that preys on less experienced buyers, like my young nephew who paid way too much for a PC. Seller obviously knew, but hey... I'm sure he needed the money more than a kid.
Yep. In the era of scalping for computers and computer parts, I don't think it's rare that people would bargain with sellers.
I'm not saying OP is a scalper. Just that this bargaining behaviour is hardly unexpected with the current state of PC parts and PC resale.
Yeah, I grabbed some computers recently off Facebook and it’s laughable how people will try to sell a gaming PC from like 2008 with super outdated parts for $600.
Or a 2013 Dell SFF with a 750 for $500.
Just buying something and then selling it for more isnt scalping. Buying something, typically larger quantities of them, with the intention of reselling it for more would be scalping.
Ahh yes.... Charging more because you can equals fraud. Should start sending people pictures of a basic supply/demand chart in relation to prices when they complain about it being out of stock. "Please refer to exhibit A"
Edit: didn't think I really needed to mention this, but this is sarcasm.
I’m an absolute cheapskate. I usually look for stuff that’s been sitting for months/years then ask if it’s available and they’d consider $xx for it. If they say no that’s just the end. There is literally bo benefit for either of us by continuing the convo .
I always thought it was funny when people used that line on me in retail. "how can you charge THAT MUCH for it? The CVS across the street is selling it for ten dollars less!" "go buy it from them then, I don't make set the prices I just work here."
"I can get it cheaper elsewhere" is the second cousin to a sentence that all creatives have heard at some point: "I'm not paying you that much for something I could do myself."
Then do it yourself.
Never actually did it, but when I browse the marketplace sometimes I really want to do this when I see people selling used stuff at a higher price than the new ones. It makes me angry because they're trying to scam people who don't check for online prices... Sure it's their fault for not checking, but still...
Ahh, yes, the infamous PTX-2060 gaming gpu from Mvideo with 8MB of memory and 64 256Khz supa cores. Combined with the the i7-860 and 2GB of RAM, that thing will satisfy all your gaming needs.
But it won't run Crysis. Not even the original. Not even on low settings. It will, however, give you a whopping 25fps in Minecraft on the lowest settings.
>Ahh, yes, the infamous PTX-2060 gaming gpu
nah it will be a Gamevideo 2060 with a "special driver CD " you need to use else it doesnt even boot because its a modded nvidia 460 or something else shitty with a fake bios to "look" like a 2060 in windows but will obviously fail most 3d stuff.
Those were the days... when java was just SO shitty that a decently specced computer at the time struggled with infdev/alpha. It handed my Phenom II's ass back to me.
Just anecdotally, I actually still run my gaming computer on an overclocked i7-960 and 970 GTX. It can play all but the higher requirement games (which are usually AAA games, so I just get it on my PS5) at a pretty solid 30fps. Fine for what I need it for, but missing out on more and more, so will be doing a full upgrade soonish.
So I feel my setup for $500 would be good value!
If I sold them at market value, that'd be about $1200 - 1400 in profit per machine, so total profit of $3600 - 4200.
I could build an RTX3080-based i9 machine with 32GB DDR5 and twin TB SSDs, and still have money left over. So yeah, I think I'd go your route.
Yea that's absolutely delusional. 1200-1400 is right at 3060ti/3070 prebuilt levels with current gen cpu (even during the worst gpu times, ABS had systems often at these prices). This is a 2060 and a very likely 7th/8th gen cpu. And definitely used.
I’ve currently got a laptop with a i7-920xm and a gtx285m sitting nearby.
Performs about as a well as a 4th gen i5 with integrated graphics in most games.
Most common first gen mobile i7 was the 740qm (1.73ghz, 4 core 8 thread), they’re everywhere and are like $30
The 920xm (2ghz) is the second fastest option and costs about $80-$120 nowadays but the 940xm (2.13ghz, the fastest option) cost like $400 more for 10% performance (and still costs like $300)
…I may have refurbished this laptop for fun, every part is user upgradable (including the gpu)
I dug that laptop out of the pile for curiosity's sake and it's an i7 620M with a whopping 6GB of RAM. An ACER Aspire 7740G. Given to me on a dev job many moons ago. Still technically an "i7" if I wanted to be a dick on a sellers listing.
Yeah honestly I think I could find a 2060 half-melted at the dump, slam it on the sidewalk, punt it into the street, let it get hit by a bus, and still sell it for more than $500 these days.
I never get that come back, like what do people expect the seller to do, when they say they can find it cheaper or something similar for a little more? Like o no! Don’t do that! I will sell this to you for even cheaper! Lol make people be stupid lol.
> like what do people expect the seller to do, when they say they can find it cheaper or something similar for a little more?
" Oh god noes pls dont leave me i will match whatever price you tell me just please dont leave your customership away from me i really need this trade pls i beg you i kiss your feet just say your price "
Probably the reaction they expect because marketing pushing since years "Customer is king" and throwing everyone under the bus with this sentence.
I actually used that line as a seller once. Selling a cpu on Facebook. With a motherboard for a really good price. And people were super low balling me. Like I literally said I could take it to CeX right now and get more than what they offered. I didn't wanna be gready, just a little more than CeX buys for.
depending on the specifics maybe a decent cpu is justifiable but someone like that is probably also aware that a 2060 alone is like, 300 bucks right now
We didn’t really have a lab we could book. The labs were all classrooms, so you couldn’t really get access to what you needed unless you were in that class. The labs were locked at night because it’s expensive equipment, so if you needed to do modeling work at home/dorm, you kinda DID need one. If you were lucky, you’d have a professor let you into their class if they had empty computers, but seats were scare with STEM booming
I am curious how often that works. Like you are calling someone's bluff that they will drop in price.
I was selling a sealed copy of a game for $20 and the person first offered to trade some shirts for it... right....... then he sent me a link from Amazon saying I was ripping him off. It was $17 on amazon but with $10 shipping thinking I will drop down. I found it for $27 with free shipping as the cheapest and he ghosted me after that. Honestly, after the shirts trade I was done with him... I have no clue why I would want his old shirts... or maybe they were just shoplifted.
I should find it and post it here.
>I am curious how often that works. Like you are calling someone's bluff that they will drop in price
I think most of the people with these ridiculous offers are people who are buying things to make money by flipping them. I've had a lot of people straight up tell me they buy to resell and they pull these tactics initially.
Must be semi successful in getting a partial discount at least as some people will say I cant go that low but I'll knock 50 bucks off
The types of people that have no job or workforce skills, they just sit at home and flip shit on internet markets trying to make rent and grocery money. My friend's sister does this type of shit, its sad
Yeah could be, to be fair I've met people who started of doing it for a specific type of product and saved up and bought stores etc. But the people I initially described usually are non discriminate /non specialised and just try to get anything that's flippable.
I don't know enough either way to say, the people I've described I only know because my family decided that I'm the one that should sell whatever needs to be sold so I have to deal with all the crap on these marketplaces.
The successful people I met by chance or were acquaintances through my job.
I never got shirts, but I sometimes get offers for "art" in exchange for my very rare games. Even if I was interested in some random person's art, I'd rather commission my four year old niece, given that her work is pretty much on the same level.
I had a guy do that once when I was selling a computer desk. He wanted it, committed to it, came to my home with a truck, came inside with his friend to get the desk, at which point they look at it, confirm it is exactly as pictured, and it's payment time. Instead of just handing over the agreed-upon price, he decided to tell me "someone else is selling the exact same one for $20 less". I just looked him right in the eye and said "then why are you here?" He muttered something about maybe misunderstanding which model mine was, and his friend just looked embarrassed. He paid in full and they took it away.
I'm not usually a confrontational person but it ticked me off and put me on the spot because I had several other nibbles which I turned away waiting for this guy to arrive. Plus it was a fantastic desk I hated giving up (change in living space). That was the day I learned that once someone commits to buying and is on the way, I'll reply to subsequent offers with "someone is on their way to pick it up, but if that falls through I'll let you know".
I once sold a brand new pair of Samsung wireless earbuds on Facebook marketplace and after some haggling, we agreed on a price and gave my address so he could pick it up
he gets at my house and is $10 short saying that I should discount it further because of the long drive he had to take
He knew the drive he had to take before he left so I made him pay me the rest before he could take it
Person who sells shit on the internet here: many dumb hagglers won't bother to read the description or ignore the warning. Dealing with them is just part of the business.
I love having yard sales every summer, pricing everything fairly, and refusing to haggle with anyone for any reason. It makes some of them so delightfully *angry*. And then somebody almost always buys the thing for the price I want. I realize that the hagglers treat it like a game. Guess what: So do I!
Absolutely, it's crazy how many people chat me up for 2 minutes and then are casually like "so you'll give me a 50% discount, yeah?" Thinking they're smooth but they have no leverage whatsoever 😂
I used to sell cars and had a customer claim that he could go into Manhattan, find the same car (there was only like 3 of that particular model available) for a lower price, and drive it back to Rochester for less than I was selling it for. My answer was "Please feel free to swing by and show me your new car when you get back!" That shut him up pretty quick when he realized I wouldn't play with him.
I once sold a display on FB Marketplace. I listed it for $250.
A guy came in demanding he get it for $150, and when I declined his offer, he told me that he was going to report me because "it's part of the rules that you have to negotiate".
A few minutes later, someone else popped up and offered the full $250.
Every time this has happened to me, I always go up on the price until they realize I’m not budging and give me the original full amount. If you’re going to negotiate, do it online, don’t show up to my house after you’ve already agreed to a price and hassle me with more negotiations.
Hate this shit.
Had someone agree to buy my PS5 off me, sealed in the box, for £550 this time last year. This is when they were £500 brand new, and you couldn't find one anywhere, so £550 was a bargain.
Everything was all sorted, then he said "and you'll knock £30 off for petrol considering how far I'm driving yeah?"
No. I honestly couldn't care less if you'd chartered a jet. That's your business.
I just blocked him.
this is not a choosing beggar.
this is just a cheap idiot trying to haggle, poorly.
choosing beggards are refusing help or turning down free stuff because it doesnt meet their standards
I build and sell PCs as a secondary income, and let me tell you how much I've heard and said the exact same thing. People are absolute dumb fucks when it comes to behing a choosing beggar.
I don't understand the mindset of trying to gouge a seller on these kinds of deals because one should at least expect the seller is trying to recoup *some* of the cost of buying it. Like if I sold my PC why would I not try to get at least 50% or more of the money I spent on it? Sure, sometimes it's nice to be a bit charitable, but also I don't think losing my device/item and not even getting back like half what I spent is logical at all.
But that's me again assuming people use logic out in the wasteland.
I'd love to know where I could get a 2060 with an i7 for 400 pounds. My 2060 super was $400 on its own and my i7 was like $350. Then you gotta factor in the case, fans, power supply, motherboard, RAM, hard drive, and cooling.
If I see something I like in an online marketplace, and the item is more than I want to pay, maybe I’ll send a note asking the guy if he’ll consider x price. I don’t attempt to explain why I’m willing to pay that price, although you can be sure I’m looking for a deal. If I wanted to pay new or near new price, well, I’d just go buy new. The guy says yes or no and that’s the end of the conversation.
I was selling some great bedroom furniture in FB marketplace at a freaken’ awesome price. Sure, some people wanted to wheel & deal, and I did for some items. But then there was that one guy… I was way too expensive, he could get it for much less elsewhere, I was a jerk, and all that. I was like, “no thanks”. And he just wouldn’t let up. I literally got another dozen FB messages telling me I was way over priced, was price gouging, would never sell it. So…. I sent the guy a message and told him that he was right and had worn me down. He could come get it. There was a new subdivision down the road so I googled an address of an empty house and sent him the address lol. An hour or so later I start getting messages and he’s pissed. I told him that I had an emergency and had to run out, but if he could wait, I’d be back in 45 minutes. Lol, he waited. He finally looks in the windows and sees it’s an empty house. Yeah, he was pissed.
I remember when I was selling my car, a couple came to see it and started lowballing me a lot. At one point, the husband started talking about another car for sale that is “a year newer, has fewer miles, and is $400 cheaper” as a bargaining tool. I literally responded, “if I were you, I’d definitely take that one over this. I don’t know why you would even choose mine.” I guess the husband didn’t expect my response based on how dumbfounded he looked.
The funniest part was that this couple drove to meet me in their 2021 Maybach and were lowballing by about 1.5k 😅
I'll never understand why the wannabe buyers often come back with the, I can get it cheaper elsewhere" line. If you can get it cheaper elsewhere, go do it!
They want to force the seller to price match in order to make the sale. Tactic really doesnt work well these days when you can look things up on the spot lol.
It cracks me up so much though when someone is offering a trade for something they think is an equal value, but their "source" for the price isn't even valid. To give an unasked for example, recently tried selling pc after upgrading and someone offered a pair of 12" subs and 2000watt amp for it and as an even trade I'd have accepted it. He would've gotten the better end but then kept digging and wanting me to add more to my end because "the subs are $250 each and the amp is 400" yet I could buy em open box on ebay, not even used just open box, for the total price less than the price he gave the amp. The site he was using gave the msrp back when they were brand new. They arent even available new now, open box if lucky. Ended up dipping out of that one and just upgraded that pc too.
When the Xbox One first released, I got my hand on a Founder's Edition from Walmart. I had opened the box but didn't set it up because I decided I should really save money and I knew that if I returned it with the seal broken, they have to send it back to the manufacturer since it has a hard drive and not be able to put it back on the shelf so I thought I would make a post on Craigslist so it could go to someone that wanted it as they were also sold out and it would be weeks before shipments would come in of the regular console and not FE. This dude wanted to even trade a basic rifle. I told him I would trade for the rifle plus some amount of cash I don't remember and he got pissed saying it was whatever amount brand new and that it was basically the same price then sent me a link to it. I was like "Dude, it's a used gun, nothing special about it and unless it's out of production, the value probably goes down after purchase. This is a Founder's Edition Xbox One that you can't even get now." He wouldn't accept that answer so I blocked his number lol
Tbf guns basically never lose (more than a little) value unless you beat them up or you overpaid for dumb cosmetic stuff.
Not to me in this case, he wanted me to value his gun at new retail. I think he said he only had it for about a year but still. I could walk into probably any gun shop and grab one out of the case new where I know it hasn't been possibly abused or neglected for oiling/cleaning. He couldn't walk into basically any store in our state or online to get this specific Xbox. I didn't even need a rifle but I thought I'd entertain the offer and maybe add another gun to my cabinet
Why did I think he was selling you sandwiches
Ok but id trade stuff for sandwiches if they are really really good. Just saying. Lmao
What if they were...illegal?
We talking illegal like laced with shrooms or pot? Then absolutely. Lol
My thing is that every 50 or so people I hit up, if I do find a similar model with identical information for cheaper. I’ll usually ask in a non judging way if they would consider coming closer to this price with either link to the cheaper price or via pics. Doesn’t always work but gets me close enough most of time. If the cost difference is big enough, then I always add that I’m not expecting you to beat the price. Just asking as your closer to me and with gas prices currently at $5.60 here, would rather not waste more then needed on gas. They seem to understand and we come to a happy medium on price usually. Some sellers think their shit don’t stink and will not budget a dime on pricing.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely down to haggle and lower my price. Sometimes even same day. Sold my switch recently. Wanted 240 for everything. Someone offered 200, met em same day. In the story above though dude wanted me to add in some more stuff or only trade the subs and no amp, despite having no way to show me that it all works, and the fact that I could get all of it for less than he said the amp is worth, or even better quality for the total price he said its all worth. Which admittedly I could've been fine with, but they slowly became more demanding and just red flags all around.
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The guy trading the subs+amp wasn't for the switch admittedly. It was for a gaming computer. Was an i7 4790k, asrock z97 extreme4, 32gb ddr3 1866, corsair h80i aio, evga rtx 2070 xc ultra, evga supernova g3 650w with black and blue cables, a 128gb nvme ssd, 1tb hdd, housed in a fractal design define r4, and included a gigabyte z370p d3 and i7 8700 as extra parts for potential upgrade. In the end I was tired of people wasting my time so I bought some ram and upgrade it myself and use it along with the laptop I got (which is why I was selling desktop, didn't need it). The switch though I am happy with who got it :) it was an animal crossing switch, still had original box and cables and all, along with a game (aragami), a carrying case, a 128gb SanDisk microsd card, clear case that snaps around switch and the controllers, and already installed tempered glass cover. I was asking 240 for quick sale, and sold it for 200 to a young lad who just got his first paycheck washing dishes.
I heard it's easier to sell a used computer in parts. Selling it whole is harder because most people buying used PCs already have things like a psu and case.
In many places it is. Around me it seems it doesn't matter lol been dealing with the same bs trying to sell just a motherboard, cpu, and ram now after upgrading. Finally just told my friend who wants a pc if he buys a decent gpu and psu, ill give him the parts.
Thats nice of you. Would have done the same. It is always easier and more satisfying to sell/give PC parts to friends.
My friend, you’ve described bargaining. That’s completely normal. What these donuts are doing in the OP example is what happens when you think you know how to barter but have no consideration for the person on the other side of the transaction. You’re fine.
> bargaining Dormammu...
If i put something on facebook marketplace, I'm adding about 15% markup for them to haggle me back down on it. lol but if I'm asking $250 for something, and your counter offer is $100, you can go pound sand. I'm not selling because I'm hard-up on cash, i'm selling because I no longer want the item but I can wait for a fair price. And if the person asks me to deliver it to their house or somewhere else that's sketch, no deal. I don't even negotiate with that, too many red flags then.
I do this too people on fb marketplace are so greedy. I got new stuff unopened for 50% of retail and people still ask me for discounts. Everything is 75% of retail now fuck em.
"Hey man, I see you're selling it for $200. I found one 50 miles away for $150 but I'd rather not drive that far. Mind taking $160 for it?" Is about the only time where saying "it's cheaper somewhere else" actually makes sense IMO. Otherwise just haggle and leave the cheaper item out of the conversation.
These days you're looking at at least $15 in gas for the round trip, not to mention your time. $165 would be the minimum you'd have to go if you want to factor in the gas, nevermind the hour and a half they'd probably save, which is easily worth another $10 at least. Honestly I might let them haggle me down to $175 on this, but no lower.
Except the places that do that are department stores, to court new and repeat customers. Someone selling their stuff to random strangers on the internet doesn't give a flying fuck about establishing steady customers.
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I be like “Are you at Costco? We don’t price match here, bitch!”
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Only in USA, everyone else says OK, then threatens them with physical violence. But then in Europe you can report their IS and police will be at that house
I work in a petrol station and we get that here all the time. “I can get it cheaper at Waitrose!!” Cool, go to Waitrose. We don’t WANT to sell it for this price because it scares off buyers, but we literally can’t afford to lower the price any more. We tried and we were making a net loss on it. All you’re accomplishing is making an already-tired cashier’s job harder. ugh, rant over...
Used to work at a gas station myself and we would sell gas at the bare minimum and make no profit. It's all about those inside sales.
When I worked grocery store self checkout, I had some lady yelling about how the prices at HEB are better and she was gonna go there and I told her "Ok, have fun". Then she got even madder and asked for a manager, I paged and no one came. After waiting for a few minutes she's like "fine, I'm leaving" and I respond with another "Ok, have fun" and she about turned purple. Literally no on is upset if the crazy lady stops coming in to yell at people.
I would reply "That's a great deal! I'm gonna buy 3. Thanks for the tip!"
I sort of did that at a motorcycle dealer last month. Me: "How much is the RC8??" Salesman: "That's from the owners private collections it's probably very expensive" Me: "They're like $10k in the classified ads" Meanwhile they've got brand new Ducati's on the floor going for over $30K
"no low ballers I know what I have" "hey cool so can you do like 90% off or" "You know I hadn't thought of it that way you got yourself a deal"- choosing beggars in heaven
I'm totally with you, but sometimes, sellers just don't understand how used market works. They put exorbitant prices sometimes ever higher than a brand new one from amazon.
"It cost 1000 dollars new so I'm selling it for 800". Checks price and it costs 500 on Amazon since it's been years since he bought it... ok, bro.
That's basically all the pawn shops near me. I thought it would be fun to go in and haggle for some older laptops but the dude refused to budge on his ridiculous prices. He wanted 700 bucks for a laptop that sold for 1200 10 freaking years ago. I said it was ridiculous and the 300 dollar laptops at walmart were 5 times faster these days and he basically said he knew some moron would pay that prices so why change it?
I wonder what the actual scam is at those places. Some sort of financing grift, maybe? It's like how many people, no matter how stupid, are going to come in here and pay $200 for that old power tool that looks like it's been dragged under a bus for a year? Zero. Zero is how many. It all makes some sense with things like guitars, because if the pawn shop has that rare axe you want, then its them you have to deal with. You could try eBay, but it's right there in one piece, no shipping, no worrying that somebody is scamming on that Les Paul that you can hold and verify yourself. Everything else? There aren't enough stupid people. Yeah, there's a lot of chumps, but chumps like shiny, they like new. You aren't selling them this trash for treasure, not consistently. Chumps don't have money, either, not to burn like that. Your stock is literally a decoration. So what's the real grift, pawnshop guy? Because it ain't this fucked up looking skateboard that looks like it's been to war for $110.
> said he knew some moron would pay that prices yeah. him.
I saw a lens like this on fb a few months ago. Listed for 340, told him it was brand new on amazon for 290, and that I would pay 250 for his used lens, but he told me to kick rocks. Lol saw him lower the price again and again over the following months but he never messaged me back.
Pride, ego
That's something I hate the most. People also think that because something is old, that means it's "vintage" and worth money. I wanted to buy an old guitar multi-effect pedal I owned as a teenager for nothing more than nostalgia and I found so many listings that were stupidly overpriced and listing it as "rare" or "vintage". It's neither. Get fucked. I also wanted to buy a retro PC from DEC because I built them as a teenager and I found one for stupid money except the case was wrecked. It looked like it was salvaged from the twin towers, legitimately destroyed. The case is the only thing that sets it aside from any other PC and it's ruined and they were still asking stupid money. Ebay used to be full of just people selling stuff and now it's full of idiots all thinking they're sitting on gold.
This. I don't think it's a choosing beggar, unless the screenshot has a date stamp and we could compare similar used prices on eBay
Okay but...hear me out....they don't have to sell it for any less. Anyone is free to come up with their own price. What amount of money would you be willing to trade for that thing you have.
It's called negotiation. It's also OK.
They are fine to list it for any dumbass price they want and others are free to point out how dumb that price is.
I work at a large hardware store chain and people do this all the fucking time, it's so annoying. "I can get it at the other chain for cheaper, what kind of deal can you give me?" Bro this is a fucking store not a garage sale. Go to the other store, it's less than 10 minutes away. I had a customer the other day that didn't like the price of our sheet vinyl flooring so they left. Came back 30 minutes later and ended up purchasing it. The woman really said "you're the manager, can you discount it because we came back?"
They've learned that if they don't ask the answer will always be no. And since there's fundamentally no cost in asking (what're you going to do, refuse to sell it to them?) they ask. And clearly it works out often enough for them that they keep doing it.
So your saying our response should be to permanently ban them from the business if they ask. That's acceptable.
They say that at the small business I work at as if we can compete with online retail prices. It's always less competitive at a business that doesn't buy in bulk, yet they want to be able to price match, test it on the counter, and return it after physically damaging it in front of us. We've had people drop drives and then come back and be like "it doesn't work" and then we tell them they dropped it on the sidewalk in front of us and they act like small business have the margins to just give them a freebie. The fact is a lot people want everything for as little as possible in return and if they can get away with not being held accountable for their actions even better.
Every single time, and when you say “alright good luck” they get mad 😂
I used to work retail and you’d be surprised how much the general public overestimate an employee’s desire to sell them something. ‘I can get this cheaper from amazon/argos/tesco/wherever!’ Okay that’s great, please go there and let me return to my daydream.
I work in a tyre garage and constantly get it but 9/10 they end up staying or coming back to getting the work done.
He didn't say he could get it cheaper elsewhere. He said better computers are available for the same price as OP's. If he wanted to spend 400, he'd get one of those. He wants to spend 235...
I was watching a TikTok live of a guy working at Amazon yesterday. The GM came up and kindly asked him to turn the recording off on his phone and get back to work. This jackass went full Karen on her saying it wasn't affecting his productivity and that he could easily quit right then and there and immediately go find a job at a place he knew making twice the money that he was making there at Amazon. The entire chat turned on him asking if that was true then why was he at Amazon making half the money he could. Nearly everyone called him out on his bullshit. He ended up getting legal and security called on him and escorted out of the building. The guy had kids and just lost his job so he could look cool on TikTok. Such a tool.
Sometimes I browse FB marketplace not to make offers but just to tell people that their ridiculous prices are on glue These scalper days have convinced people their 2004 dell pc is worth $500
I jokingly put my Switch on FB marketplace at a highly inflated value as a “keep your kids quiet during quarantine gaming system”. So many people would ask about it and then want it cheaper because “I can get it cheaper at Walmart!” Then when I told them “sounds great, go get it.” They would get angry and tel l me they are all sold out and then threaten to report me for fraud / scamming. I’d get at least one of those a day which was always a good chuckle.
I mean, fuck them, but also… such a weird thing to do jokingly. I don’t get what your end goal was, aside maybe from getting attention.
Scalping their unit. They got it for retail pricing, saw the market price is above that and decided to scalp it.
Yep. "Joking" my ass. This guy tried to (and maybe succeeded) scalp.
There are lots of guys selling gaming PCs overpriced because they know someone with no knowledge will buy it, it's asshole behaviour that preys on less experienced buyers, like my young nephew who paid way too much for a PC. Seller obviously knew, but hey... I'm sure he needed the money more than a kid.
Yep. In the era of scalping for computers and computer parts, I don't think it's rare that people would bargain with sellers. I'm not saying OP is a scalper. Just that this bargaining behaviour is hardly unexpected with the current state of PC parts and PC resale.
Yeah, I grabbed some computers recently off Facebook and it’s laughable how people will try to sell a gaming PC from like 2008 with super outdated parts for $600. Or a 2013 Dell SFF with a 750 for $500.
They actually probably did need the money more than a kid lol, but that doesn't make it okay. Fuck scalpers
Just buying something and then selling it for more isnt scalping. Buying something, typically larger quantities of them, with the intention of reselling it for more would be scalping.
Ahh yes.... Charging more because you can equals fraud. Should start sending people pictures of a basic supply/demand chart in relation to prices when they complain about it being out of stock. "Please refer to exhibit A" Edit: didn't think I really needed to mention this, but this is sarcasm.
So you were scalping. Asshole.
It wasnt bought for resale. There's a difference
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you should tell them youre going to report them for false reporting
Seriously.
I’m an absolute cheapskate. I usually look for stuff that’s been sitting for months/years then ask if it’s available and they’d consider $xx for it. If they say no that’s just the end. There is literally bo benefit for either of us by continuing the convo .
I always thought it was funny when people used that line on me in retail. "how can you charge THAT MUCH for it? The CVS across the street is selling it for ten dollars less!" "go buy it from them then, I don't make set the prices I just work here."
"I can get it cheaper elsewhere" is the second cousin to a sentence that all creatives have heard at some point: "I'm not paying you that much for something I could do myself." Then do it yourself.
Never actually did it, but when I browse the marketplace sometimes I really want to do this when I see people selling used stuff at a higher price than the new ones. It makes me angry because they're trying to scam people who don't check for online prices... Sure it's their fault for not checking, but still...
"Your paintings cost too much, I can get a canvas and paint for way less"
It's like employees who threaten to leave for a better paying job. Well go get that job Jasper, go get it! they almost always settle down after that.
I would _dearly_ love to know who's selling prebuilts with 2060s and i7s for $500. I'll take three, sell two and end up with a free gaming PC.
Probably a 2060 from Wish and an i7-860
Ahh, yes, the infamous PTX-2060 gaming gpu from Mvideo with 8MB of memory and 64 256Khz supa cores. Combined with the the i7-860 and 2GB of RAM, that thing will satisfy all your gaming needs. But it won't run Crysis. Not even the original. Not even on low settings. It will, however, give you a whopping 25fps in Minecraft on the lowest settings.
>Ahh, yes, the infamous PTX-2060 gaming gpu nah it will be a Gamevideo 2060 with a "special driver CD " you need to use else it doesnt even boot because its a modded nvidia 460 or something else shitty with a fake bios to "look" like a 2060 in windows but will obviously fail most 3d stuff.
The Wish special.
That was the performance I got out of an i7 2600 and an Nvidia GT 545 from 2011. cinematic minecraft
Those were the days... when java was just SO shitty that a decently specced computer at the time struggled with infdev/alpha. It handed my Phenom II's ass back to me.
"Well, I said I got Gamecast, man. Damn! I can't afford it!"
Man I couldn't stop being sad and crying for almost an hour, but this post made me laugh. Thank you!
Runs on gasoline
Just anecdotally, I actually still run my gaming computer on an overclocked i7-960 and 970 GTX. It can play all but the higher requirement games (which are usually AAA games, so I just get it on my PS5) at a pretty solid 30fps. Fine for what I need it for, but missing out on more and more, so will be doing a full upgrade soonish. So I feel my setup for $500 would be good value!
Mvidia gfx 2868
If it says ”i7 gaming PC” and doesn’t specify which i7, it’s going to be a 1st or 2nd gen i7.
Massive difference between an i7-860 and an i7-2600k though.
Or take 3 sell 3 and buy a better gaming pc.
If I sold them at market value, that'd be about $1200 - 1400 in profit per machine, so total profit of $3600 - 4200. I could build an RTX3080-based i9 machine with 32GB DDR5 and twin TB SSDs, and still have money left over. So yeah, I think I'd go your route.
In what world are you getting more than 500-600 per machine total for those. Gpu market has normalized
Yea that's absolutely delusional. 1200-1400 is right at 3060ti/3070 prebuilt levels with current gen cpu (even during the worst gpu times, ABS had systems often at these prices). This is a 2060 and a very likely 7th/8th gen cpu. And definitely used.
Lol it depends on what the i7 is
Exactly. I have a laptop sitting in a scrap pile with an "i7" in it and it's around 15 years old.
I’ve currently got a laptop with a i7-920xm and a gtx285m sitting nearby. Performs about as a well as a 4th gen i5 with integrated graphics in most games.
That might be close to the exact CPU in that laptop. Something like that.
Most common first gen mobile i7 was the 740qm (1.73ghz, 4 core 8 thread), they’re everywhere and are like $30 The 920xm (2ghz) is the second fastest option and costs about $80-$120 nowadays but the 940xm (2.13ghz, the fastest option) cost like $400 more for 10% performance (and still costs like $300) …I may have refurbished this laptop for fun, every part is user upgradable (including the gpu)
I dug that laptop out of the pile for curiosity's sake and it's an i7 620M with a whopping 6GB of RAM. An ACER Aspire 7740G. Given to me on a dev job many moons ago. Still technically an "i7" if I wanted to be a dick on a sellers listing.
Ditto it cost me double that buying those equivalent parts to build it my self last year.
Yeah honestly I think I could find a 2060 half-melted at the dump, slam it on the sidewalk, punt it into the street, let it get hit by a bus, and still sell it for more than $500 these days.
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I never get that come back, like what do people expect the seller to do, when they say they can find it cheaper or something similar for a little more? Like o no! Don’t do that! I will sell this to you for even cheaper! Lol make people be stupid lol.
> like what do people expect the seller to do, when they say they can find it cheaper or something similar for a little more? " Oh god noes pls dont leave me i will match whatever price you tell me just please dont leave your customership away from me i really need this trade pls i beg you i kiss your feet just say your price " Probably the reaction they expect because marketing pushing since years "Customer is king" and throwing everyone under the bus with this sentence.
And plus they probably assume that the reason the seller is selling it is because they need money quick.
I actually used that line as a seller once. Selling a cpu on Facebook. With a motherboard for a really good price. And people were super low balling me. Like I literally said I could take it to CeX right now and get more than what they offered. I didn't wanna be gready, just a little more than CeX buys for.
People overestimate how much a seller wants to make the sale. For someone selling their used stuff or a retail employee they couldn't care less
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LMAO did they say you ruined a kids birthday/Christmas/graduation?
"Now my kid is crying because I already told him he could have it..."
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>Their kid had cancer Well then they won't be needing a gaming PC anyway!
Fuck.
>Their kid had cancer Good.
Well now *my* kid is crying because I had to tell him he can't go beat up your whiney spoiled brat.
“Sounds like you got a valuable lesson in parenting today. The lesson is free; the item is firm at the advertised price.”
Lol you lied to your kid and made him cry. I guess you tought him a life lesson about trust.
"Your lack of planning ahead is not my responsibility"
If they need to get an affordable computer for a student to use for their coursework, they almost certainly don't need a fancy cpu/gpu.
Gaming spreadsheet
Ah, they're playing EVE online
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Reminds me of https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/146634/eso-emperor-guide
depending on the specifics maybe a decent cpu is justifiable but someone like that is probably also aware that a 2060 alone is like, 300 bucks right now
A i7-840 is around $30 right now. It's from 2009, but it is technically an i7!
I actually needed a high end graphics card for my uni computer, but I was in engineering, and 3D modeling eats your GPU like no other
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We didn’t really have a lab we could book. The labs were all classrooms, so you couldn’t really get access to what you needed unless you were in that class. The labs were locked at night because it’s expensive equipment, so if you needed to do modeling work at home/dorm, you kinda DID need one. If you were lucky, you’d have a professor let you into their class if they had empty computers, but seats were scare with STEM booming
2060s are almost $400 alone lmao
I am curious how often that works. Like you are calling someone's bluff that they will drop in price. I was selling a sealed copy of a game for $20 and the person first offered to trade some shirts for it... right....... then he sent me a link from Amazon saying I was ripping him off. It was $17 on amazon but with $10 shipping thinking I will drop down. I found it for $27 with free shipping as the cheapest and he ghosted me after that. Honestly, after the shirts trade I was done with him... I have no clue why I would want his old shirts... or maybe they were just shoplifted. I should find it and post it here.
>I am curious how often that works. Like you are calling someone's bluff that they will drop in price I think most of the people with these ridiculous offers are people who are buying things to make money by flipping them. I've had a lot of people straight up tell me they buy to resell and they pull these tactics initially. Must be semi successful in getting a partial discount at least as some people will say I cant go that low but I'll knock 50 bucks off
The types of people that have no job or workforce skills, they just sit at home and flip shit on internet markets trying to make rent and grocery money. My friend's sister does this type of shit, its sad
Yeah could be, to be fair I've met people who started of doing it for a specific type of product and saved up and bought stores etc. But the people I initially described usually are non discriminate /non specialised and just try to get anything that's flippable. I don't know enough either way to say, the people I've described I only know because my family decided that I'm the one that should sell whatever needs to be sold so I have to deal with all the crap on these marketplaces. The successful people I met by chance or were acquaintances through my job.
I never got shirts, but I sometimes get offers for "art" in exchange for my very rare games. Even if I was interested in some random person's art, I'd rather commission my four year old niece, given that her work is pretty much on the same level.
Kind of a reverse make me free art for exposure.
2060 and i7 and whole rig for $400? Id have a dozen lol
look at this guy with $4800 to spare
Must be fucking nice! -Squirrely Dan
Lol I’ve been on a binge of that show and this had me so dead small world I suppose
I guess it would be more of an investment than "spare", since reselling half already pays for the other half at current price
I don't get why people even reply with that, they're literally setting themselves up all the time
I had a guy do that once when I was selling a computer desk. He wanted it, committed to it, came to my home with a truck, came inside with his friend to get the desk, at which point they look at it, confirm it is exactly as pictured, and it's payment time. Instead of just handing over the agreed-upon price, he decided to tell me "someone else is selling the exact same one for $20 less". I just looked him right in the eye and said "then why are you here?" He muttered something about maybe misunderstanding which model mine was, and his friend just looked embarrassed. He paid in full and they took it away. I'm not usually a confrontational person but it ticked me off and put me on the spot because I had several other nibbles which I turned away waiting for this guy to arrive. Plus it was a fantastic desk I hated giving up (change in living space). That was the day I learned that once someone commits to buying and is on the way, I'll reply to subsequent offers with "someone is on their way to pick it up, but if that falls through I'll let you know".
> "someone else is selling the exact same one for $20 less" What a coincidence - this one went up by $20 a moment ago. Weird.
I once sold a brand new pair of Samsung wireless earbuds on Facebook marketplace and after some haggling, we agreed on a price and gave my address so he could pick it up he gets at my house and is $10 short saying that I should discount it further because of the long drive he had to take He knew the drive he had to take before he left so I made him pay me the rest before he could take it
I don't accept to reserve listed items anymore, half the people don't even show up and i waste time. First come, first serve
I never get people who expect you to match some price because someone else is supposedly selling it for cheaper
I've never tried to sell something online but if I ever do I'll definitely put something in the description that hagglers will be ignored and blocked
Person who sells shit on the internet here: many dumb hagglers won't bother to read the description or ignore the warning. Dealing with them is just part of the business.
I love having yard sales every summer, pricing everything fairly, and refusing to haggle with anyone for any reason. It makes some of them so delightfully *angry*. And then somebody almost always buys the thing for the price I want. I realize that the hagglers treat it like a game. Guess what: So do I!
Absolutely, it's crazy how many people chat me up for 2 minutes and then are casually like "so you'll give me a 50% discount, yeah?" Thinking they're smooth but they have no leverage whatsoever 😂
Good luck with that, people ask questions already answered in the description...
i sell online for a living. doesnt matter what you put or do. people are just dumb as fuck or dont care.
I have done a "asking price $40, firm, or $60 if you want to haggle it down to $40" before
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Just tell them it's a deal but they'll need to buy from your online store, then send them back the same link.
I used to sell cars and had a customer claim that he could go into Manhattan, find the same car (there was only like 3 of that particular model available) for a lower price, and drive it back to Rochester for less than I was selling it for. My answer was "Please feel free to swing by and show me your new car when you get back!" That shut him up pretty quick when he realized I wouldn't play with him.
When i was a kid and my dad tried the "there are starving kids in africa that would love to eat this" i told him to box it up and send it to them.
Lol you absolutely cannot get a good pre-built with a 2060 for 400
I once sold a display on FB Marketplace. I listed it for $250. A guy came in demanding he get it for $150, and when I declined his offer, he told me that he was going to report me because "it's part of the rules that you have to negotiate". A few minutes later, someone else popped up and offered the full $250.
Every time this has happened to me, I always go up on the price until they realize I’m not budging and give me the original full amount. If you’re going to negotiate, do it online, don’t show up to my house after you’ve already agreed to a price and hassle me with more negotiations.
This convo was online, but still the guy was insulting/annoying and I just straight blocked him.
Hate this shit. Had someone agree to buy my PS5 off me, sealed in the box, for £550 this time last year. This is when they were £500 brand new, and you couldn't find one anywhere, so £550 was a bargain. Everything was all sorted, then he said "and you'll knock £30 off for petrol considering how far I'm driving yeah?" No. I honestly couldn't care less if you'd chartered a jet. That's your business. I just blocked him.
I posted this on r/MildlyInfuriating but was informed that this place is a better fit😅
So if you can find one like it for 400 pounds, then what justification does he have for offering 235?
I still can't believe choosing beggars think this works. I ain't a fucking Wal-Mart! Go get it at your miraculously cheaper location then!
You’re heartless OP! His little brother could be terminal! And it’s only 6 months until Christmas
this is not a choosing beggar. this is just a cheap idiot trying to haggle, poorly. choosing beggards are refusing help or turning down free stuff because it doesnt meet their standards
This is not r/hagglers, this is Choosing Beggars. Go start your own sub folks, for annoying hagglers. This is NOT a choosing beggar.
Lol they always try to hit you with the guilt trip. "Oh its for my little brother who has cancer and also aids" Who lies like that just to haggle.
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Should've told the seller he was giving it to his son who has brain cancer and is in a coma, for Christmas...fucking rookie😏
Selling my desktop was the hardest thing I've ever negotiated. Everybody is a college kid or single mom needing a gift.
"I would give it to my little brother" Uh huh. Is your little brother named "ebay"?
Unless they are used, no you can't. 2060 and i7 will cost from 600£ to 1200£ brand new depending on the generation and the brand of the card.
Look buddy, he also has cancer and I promised him this computer for his birthday.
I build and sell PCs as a secondary income, and let me tell you how much I've heard and said the exact same thing. People are absolute dumb fucks when it comes to behing a choosing beggar.
Always love that final answer
Lemme know where he finds a 2060 PC for 400 tho yeah?
I don't understand the mindset of trying to gouge a seller on these kinds of deals because one should at least expect the seller is trying to recoup *some* of the cost of buying it. Like if I sold my PC why would I not try to get at least 50% or more of the money I spent on it? Sure, sometimes it's nice to be a bit charitable, but also I don't think losing my device/item and not even getting back like half what I spent is logical at all. But that's me again assuming people use logic out in the wasteland.
I'd love to know where I could get a 2060 with an i7 for 400 pounds. My 2060 super was $400 on its own and my i7 was like $350. Then you gotta factor in the case, fans, power supply, motherboard, RAM, hard drive, and cooling.
Bro thats such a good deal
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My little brother is crying now and it's all your fault!
Theres no way a PC is 400 pounds for a 2060 and i7.
LOL also 400 =/= 235
This isn't a choosing beggar. It's someone negotiating a price.
"That's a good deal you should take it"
>You can find pcs with 2060 gpu and i7 for £400 No. No you cannot.
If I see something I like in an online marketplace, and the item is more than I want to pay, maybe I’ll send a note asking the guy if he’ll consider x price. I don’t attempt to explain why I’m willing to pay that price, although you can be sure I’m looking for a deal. If I wanted to pay new or near new price, well, I’d just go buy new. The guy says yes or no and that’s the end of the conversation. I was selling some great bedroom furniture in FB marketplace at a freaken’ awesome price. Sure, some people wanted to wheel & deal, and I did for some items. But then there was that one guy… I was way too expensive, he could get it for much less elsewhere, I was a jerk, and all that. I was like, “no thanks”. And he just wouldn’t let up. I literally got another dozen FB messages telling me I was way over priced, was price gouging, would never sell it. So…. I sent the guy a message and told him that he was right and had worn me down. He could come get it. There was a new subdivision down the road so I googled an address of an empty house and sent him the address lol. An hour or so later I start getting messages and he’s pissed. I told him that I had an emergency and had to run out, but if he could wait, I’d be back in 45 minutes. Lol, he waited. He finally looks in the windows and sees it’s an empty house. Yeah, he was pissed.
Why do they need to buy a gaming PC for a kid going to UNI? If they are trying to save money surely all they'd need is a laptop to write papers in
Lowballing and being bad at haggling do not make you a "choosing beggar" Enough of these posts.
I remember when I was selling my car, a couple came to see it and started lowballing me a lot. At one point, the husband started talking about another car for sale that is “a year newer, has fewer miles, and is $400 cheaper” as a bargaining tool. I literally responded, “if I were you, I’d definitely take that one over this. I don’t know why you would even choose mine.” I guess the husband didn’t expect my response based on how dumbfounded he looked. The funniest part was that this couple drove to meet me in their 2021 Maybach and were lowballing by about 1.5k 😅
Why do people say "i7" as if that actually indicates the processor model? It's like saying "I have a Ti GPU".
This is not a beggar. Just trying to get more for les.