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runscottIf the seller has low expectations and you offer him a fair price, but low enough so that you can re-sell some and make a profit, they will often reconsider and check elsewhere. I have had this happen twice and lost major deals (because I was too fair).
On the other hand, I was walking to the Chicago National and was approached by a mentally challenged man with a brown paper bag full of NM '60s baseball cards, including a '67 Mantle and some others. I could have bought the bag from him for peanuts and sent him back to the train, but instead I picked out a few cards and told him not to take less than "x amount" for them - he wrote down the prices. I then told him to go to Scott Brockelman's table to get treated fairly or to get sent somewhere else. I have no idea what happended after that. Don't get me wrong - if it had been pre-wwI stuff, I would have made him an offer.