[todeen]

Quite a few sellers on this board list in the post that "I take it trumps negotiations." I have benefitted from this once or twice by jumping in to take at the asking price when I was certain another party was trying to negotiate.

I lost a deal on this site over a year ago due to impatience by the seller. My father went to the hospital in the days before he passed away. I only got on Net54 after leaving the hospital. When I got home, the seller had moved on; he probably thought I was ghosting him. I figured it was fate and it wasn't meant to be.

However, I don't sell that way; I have a full-time job that has erratic hours and I usually only have small windows of time for outside communication. The few times that I have sold an item that got multiple responses on this board, I told all parties that 1) I had multiple offers.... 2) They were first in line, second in line, etc., or their offer was lower than I was willing to accept.... 3) When communicating with guy number 1, I told him he had 24/48/72 hours to wrap up a deal. When his deadline approached, I communicated I was about to start dealing with guy #2.

The last card I sold, the guy who was second in line didn't want to be second, so he decided he would pay the original asking price. It forced guy #1 to make a quick decision. It ended up working in my favor.