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For what it's worth though I have offered stores under the asking price and done very well out of it in the past. You don't ask you don't get
No dig taken.
I didn't appreciate being told a story taken into account when considering the offer made, which then appeared to be total bullshit.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
Get off your high horse, ebay and reverb both facilitate offers and the seller can choose whether to utilise these (many are happy to do so) just the same as a seller can state no offers in their descriptions on here. in those scenarios I move on if I don't want to meet the asking price.
If something is priced competitively it’ll sell. If it isn’t then it'll hang around for ages til someone who hasn’t done their homework buys it or the price comes down to a competitive level. I usually don’t bother replying to chancers but if something is still around after a month, as hard as it might be, I’ll be willing to listen to offers. If someone wants to tell me something is overpriced they’d better have empirical evidence!!
BS stories to get lower prices.
Or, I can only afford - a grand less than you're asking (I had that from a shop on ebay - albeit didn't know it was a shop) and people turning up in a range rover, with big guitar collections.
This week I sold a strat to another young kid who was off to uni so I let him have the hard case I didn't want to include, he did pay me a bit extra not the value of the case, plus I gave him a pedal as he was just getting into them.
btw the same person who bought that guitar offered me a trade a year down the line and said I could choose from a list of stuff he had amounting to over £10ks worth and that my very guitars best price was £500 more than he paid me. Doesn't upset me in the slightest, amused me rather as I sold at a price I was happy with and nobody forced the transaction. As far as Im concerned the guys done nothing wrong, his guitar now he can set the price for it.. just a bit silly to offer it back to the person he got it from for £500 less
I wasnt highlighting morals.
The comment was aimed at @thegummy who has asserted that I am a proper wrong'un
I don't think it's on the same level or assume you would go any further than you openly say you would.
The pensioner scammer would probably just tell you to get off your high horse too because it isn't a meaningful thing to say, it just means "don't judge me for doing something immoral".
Do you really not think the reality is that some people will feel forced to take the lower price due to being in unfortunate circumstances? The idea of "they don't have to accept" is the same as the pay day loans I mentioned.
I'm glad to see you made active attempts to prove you're a good person; I definitely don't get any joy out of calling anyone out or feeling morally superior, it depresses me to see people boast that they don't care if they're exploiting someone because it's a dog eat dog world.
Of course cmw is very welcome to reply but I'm just going to clarify I don't assume anything about you other than what you've said and leave it at that.
Sometimes emotions can make me argue when I only intend to be on this forum to discuss.
You seem determined to assume one extreme, how about the other where the seller I am offering to has exploited the guy he got it from, has deliberately marked up his price or bought something dirt cheap maybe even stole it. Should I give those guys full asking price?
I have never boasted about exploiting anyone nor have I set out to exploit anybody. You seem to have a real hard on for me for some reason so can I request politely that you stop perpetuating that I am some monster because I have made an offer under an asking price on a guitar. I’m taking that as a personal attack and totally uncalled for.
Lots of keyboard warriors and assumers.
Remember, like a certain UK USA diplomate, once youve called someone inept, you can't really run away and say I'll leave it at that, please don't respond.
Posts about price do seem to become a bit of a bear pit, so perhaps best avoided by people with tempers and the keyboard warriors.