Makes no sense to me...

I know there are plenty of sellers here so maybe you can make some sense of this. Theres a book I was looking to purchase on eBay. The seller had it listed at $160 OBO. I put in a Best Offer of $120 since this is what I had recently paid for other, more significant, books in this series with the same CGC grade. This was a fair offer and I had no reason to expect the seller would decline it. I checked it today, and the seller counter offered with $155. Um, what? These are the things going through my head at this point...

1. Were you insulted by my offer and so to show your contempt you decide to counter offer at $5 less than your asking price? If so, youre being petty and passive aggressive.

2. Was your intent all along to accept nothing less than $155 no matter what offer you received? If so, then list the book at $185 OBO to give your potential buyers some negotiating room.

Either way, I found this irritating and chose to ignore the counter offer and vent to you kind people rather than engage in pointless dialogue with the seller.

Thanks for listening.

Til next time...

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