My pet peeve

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Avoid my wife, if you don't want to haggle.

She haggled for two hours on our last car purchase, had both the salesman and the owner of the dealership in a cold sweat and saved us $7000 off their first offer. Finally they accepted our offer when I tossed in $100 at the end, because she refused to budge, when we were $200 apart.

And guess what...........she was mad at me for doing so.

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Frank my wife is the same way. We are still on the new customer special with our internet provider and have had the same one for over 10 years. When she bought the Jeep she is driving now I had to go walk around the lot because I couldn't take her haggling anymore. I will say she paid exactly what she wanted to though.

[cardsnstuff]

Originally Posted by bnorth

We are still on the new customer special with our internet provider and have had the same one for over 10 years.

How do you do this? I have FIOS and everytime I call they basically shut me down and say sorry, these offers don't apply to existing customers. I have even threatened to switch to xfinity to no avail.

[vintagerookies51]

I usually try to decline, but sometimes I'll get the notification of the counteroffer and it's just not in the same ballpark as I'm willing to pay, so I forget to go into the app to decline it

[sycks22]

I also love when you make an offer and the seller counters with $1 less than their buy it now price. I usually respond with $1, they don't like it. Why have a best offer option if you're only willing to take 99% of your price?

[Piratedogcardshows]

Originally Posted by sycks22

I also love when you make an offer and the seller counters with $1 less than their buy it now price. I usually respond with $1, they don't like it. Why have a best offer option if you're only willing to take 99% of your price?

I had this exact thing happen to me for the first time the other day. Seller didnt discount much more on the next counteroffer. Had to have it though

[cardsnstuff]

Originally Posted by sycks22

I also love when you make an offer and the seller counters with $1 less than their buy it now price. I usually respond with $1, they don't like it. Why have a best offer option if you're only willing to take 99% of your price?

I am guilty of this; but usually after I have reduced my price several times and I am at my low point. Unfortunately, ebay doesn't provide a price history {good idea here} so a potential buyer would never know that.

[pawpawdiv9]

I thought this was 'bout leaving that 1 sheet of paper on the roll and putting the lid down.

[Jim65]

This works both ways, I hate when a seller lets my offer sit for the whole 48 hours.

I made an offer a couple weeks back on an item, I was trying to take advantage of 8% eBay Bucks and asked the seller if he could please respond within 24 hours when the 8% expired, I rescinded the offer when I didn't hear from him and he sent me a nasty message, which I forwarded to eBay.

[cardsnstuff]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

I thought this was 'bout leaving that 1 sheet of paper on the roll and putting the lid down.

That's funny :

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by cardsnstuff

I am guilty of this; but usually after I have reduced my price several times and I am at my low point. Unfortunately, ebay doesn't provide a price history {good idea here} so a potential buyer would never know that.

If you are relisting the same item on eBay at lower prices they do have a price history of your previous prices. Go to the advanced search and use completed listings and you can find the previous listings/prices. Because I rarely use eBay anymore I always check to see if or how many times the seller has relisted an item I might want.

[7nohitter]

I try to be very fair on best offers, especially if it's an item I really want. If the seller comes back at "$1 less" then I realize he/she is not interested in a best offer....I write "Thank you for your time" and I decline the counteroffer.

I'd say I'm successful on 90% of my Best Offers on the first offer because I realize that Best offer means "reasonable" and not "low ball".

[cardsnstuff]

Originally Posted by 7nohitter

I try to be very fair on best offers, especially if it's an item I really want because I realize that Best offer means "reasonable" and not "low ball".

I agree

[kmac32]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Frank my wife is the same way. We are still on the new customer special with our internet provider and have had the same one for over 10 years. When she bought the Jeep she is driving now I had to go walk around the lot because I couldn't take her haggling anymore. I will say she paid exactly what she wanted to though.

I also let my wife negotiate for cars. She is better at it than me.

[Exhibitman]

I sent a seller an offer the other day and stated in the offer that it is the only offer I am going to make. it was above market but I was willing to pay a bit more to check the card off my list. he responded with a counter halfway between my offer and his ask. I let it expire. People need to believe what you say.