“What’s the lowest you can go?” 1 1

[KirbyJack]

I have asked it of sellers I know who have historically given me a “good customer” discount. Asking it of a stranger is just lazy!

[Robot Man]

I get “what is your best price?” a lot. I usually reply “what is your best offer?”. I figure, I’ve already shown my card and now it’s your turn. You are the one who has the problem with my price, not me. I also get the question “can you do better?” My reply is usually “yes”.

The real grinder for me is “what is the lowest you will do?”. If I really want to sell it I might reply with my lowest price. Then you get the “OK, will you do...?” That usually shuts my door and I go on ignore. 

The whiners, REALLY shut me down. 

Another one is the people who point out the flaws for a deal. I usually tell them the price reflects it. If they are persistent, I might ask them why they would want it if they don’t like the condition?

I’ve been doing this a long time. I have probably seen and heard it all...

[the blob]

6 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

I get “what is your best price?” a lot. I usually reply “what is your best offer?”. I figure, I’ve already shown my card and now it’s your turn. You are the one who has the problem with my price, not me. I also get the question “can you do better?” My reply is usually “yes”.

The real grinder for me is “what is the lowest you will do?”. If I really want to sell it I might reply with my lowest price. Then you get the “OK, will you do...?” That usually shuts my door and I go on ignore. 

The whiners, REALLY shut me down. 

Another one is the people who point out the flaws for a deal. I usually tell them the price reflects it. If they are persistent, I might ask them why they would want it if they don’t like the condition?

I’ve been doing this a long time. I have probably seen and heard it all...

Can't blame them for trying, but it just seems they ought to make a $ offer first. We're mostly sellers and buyers here. We want a deal. I'm not offended when someone tries to get one. Just don't get nasty if I say no. Now and then a wackadoodle on eBay tries to bully his way in. I had a guy doing that when I sold comics on my wife's account. He thought he coukd be a tough guy and bully a woman. A hole. With that said my wife is half Sicilian. Not gonna happen. I pity the fool...

Edited September 10, 2019 by the blob

[blazingbob]

There are a lot of different scenario's for a response to this question

1).  Is the buyer an upgrader?  I normally know this and frankly my discounts reflect that.  

2).  Long term collector/customer of mine.  Really depends on the size of the purchase,  how they pay.  CC/paypal is another 3% off on top of the discount.  If I can work with them I will.  

3).  The Stack guy who feels more deserves a bigger discount.  What you call a stack and my expectation of a stack are VERY different.  $100-$300 of my high grade isn't floating my boat for the bigger discount.  

4).  Another dealer.  Your discount from me will frankly reflect the type of discount I get from you when I'm buying.  If you are giving me a low discount don't come over asking for 20% off.  Works both ways.

5).  The "Do you wanna move it" guy.  I "wanna move all my books" if the offer is fair.  I don't wanna "move em" if you want to buy them for 1/2 of what I paid for them.

6).  The OSPG buyer with the guide in his hand.  I am not really pricing way over guide on raw unless it is a key or movie book so I'm not exactly sure when this type of buyer comes to the booth what they are "expecting" pricing/discount wise.  Some snap the book shut before even talking.  Some are willing to talk,  others seem ok with my pricing/discount.  If I have a book graded NM and the OSPG buyer is quoting 9.2 I need some interaction on what he/she thinks the price should be.

7).  The GPA CGC buyer.  Again,  expectations of what the buyer is expecting goes a long way with "how low will I go".  If I have room and the deal is fair we get it done.  If you want to play games with 90, 1 year or last sale to get to "your" number we may have a problem.  If you are open to more data from me then just GPA then a deal might be done.  If we exhausted all avenues of negotiation that GPA buyer can always buy it from the GPA store.  

Edited September 10, 2019 by blazingbob

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[theCapraAegagrus]

48 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

I get “what is your best price?” a lot. I usually reply “what is your best offer?”. I figure, I’ve already shown my card and now it’s your turn. You are the one who has the problem with my price, not me. I also get the question “can you do better?” My reply is usually “yes”.

The real grinder for me is “what is the lowest you will do?”. If I really want to sell it I might reply with my lowest price. Then you get the “OK, will you do...?” That usually shuts my door and I go on ignore. 

The whiners, REALLY shut me down. 

Another one is the people who point out the flaws for a deal. I usually tell them the price reflects it. If they are persistent, I might ask them why they would want it if they don’t like the condition?

I’ve been doing this a long time. I have probably seen and heard it all...

"Your Superman #1 is in okay condition, but since it'll be a toilet reader for me, can you give me a better price?"

[mattn792]

Haven't had any eBay insufficiently_thoughtful_persons ask this in a while, but I think I'll use this response next time (not based on a true story fyi) -- "How low can I go?  Well when I was 12 I once swiped $10 from my grandma's purse so that I could go buy a bunch of smoke bombs.  What's really sad is grandma probably would've just given me the cash had I just asked.  Still ashamed of myself for that to this day.  Oh, you meant the price on my book?  GTFOH with that question."

[lizards2]

5 minutes ago, mattn792 said:

Haven't had any eBay insufficiently_thoughtful_persons ask this in a while, but I think I'll use this response next time (not based on a true story fyi) -- "How low can I go?  Well when I was 12 I once swiped $10 from my grandma's purse so that I could go buy a bunch of smoke bombs.  What's really sad is grandma probably would've just given me the cash had I just asked.  Still ashamed of myself for that to this day.  Oh, you meant the price on my book?  GTFOH with that question."

Reminds me of the MFer Jones story from Horrible Bosses.

[F For Fake]

I just listed an item this morning, and less than an hour later got the "what's your lowest?" message. I no longer have amusing answers to these messages. I told them that the item had only been up for a few minutes, so at the moment i wasn't looking to lower my price too much, but feel free to make an offer. At which point they said "Well, I just sent that because the listing says you take "Best Offer"," to which I replied "YES, the "Best Offer" is the feature that allows you to make an offer. So feel free to use it."

I feel like this happens several times a week. I guess I need to set a threshold so the nutjobs will get an auto-decline and I won't have to reply to the lowballs, but these messages aren't even offers, they're just messages!

IQ's have definitely been dropping across the board.

[ThothAmon]

Send him this  

 

 

[Knightsofold]

Funny stuff guys! 

[oldrover]

9 hours ago, 1Cool said:

I usually say “what’s the most you can spend”.

That's a good one!

When somebody SUPER-lowballs me, I'll email them back a link to someone else's BIN of the same book, at a lower grade, at the price they offered me, and say, "You should go for this one."

 

[kav]

Reply "the best way to find out is use the best offer feature and see"

[DavidTheDavid]

I banged a dwarf lady once. Does that count?

[Knightsofold]

I try to keep cool and just reply “Feel free to make an offer!”.

[lizards2]

Just now, DavidTheDavid said:

I banged a dwarf lady once. Does that count?

We need the full story. 

[ADAMANTIUM]

i don't offer the best offer option.... and make immediate payment required  

[kav]

maybe reply with another worn out cliche: "this book is RARE.  CGC it"  If its already slabbed use "Perfect pressing candidate".

[D84]

I'll sell it to you at that price, but I will rub my naked body all over it before shipping.  And I didn't wipe.

[ADAMANTIUM]

16 minutes ago, D84 said:

I'll sell it to you at that price, but I will rub my naked body all over it before shipping.  And I didn't wipe.