Trade etiquette: RESPOND if you're not interested.

[Whirled]

Just give stuff away like i do and problem solved.... next?

[Kekephee]

Originally Posted by lecompte [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People who don't haggle in real life, are often getting screwed or missing out on the deal they could have. People who haggle make more in their prospective fields and buy cars and other shit for less.

If you don't want to haggle, sell your 1k item for 600pp. Hell! Even then you'll get crazy offers but I feel a degree of public charity when I sell a crystaline shortsword for 80pp and 16 stacks of spiderling/spider silk.

This is my point, though. I reduce my price initially to avoid having to haggle because it's a waste of time. I'll sell a pair of eboots for 4500 instead of the average 5k- not a set price, but a usual one, one that is often met and clearly quite possible to get your item sold at. But then I"ll get these fucking ingrates trying to bring me down to 4k, 3.5k, and I'm like look, shitheel, I did your negotiating for you precisely so I won't have to deal with this. I am lowballing myself to make this go faster, please stop trying to lowball me more.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

I'm not interested in etiquette.

[Rararboker]

I feel like Kekephee is the only one making sense here.

[Yonkec]

Originally Posted by Kekephee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You ask me what I want for an item. I tell you. You try to give me less. I tell you I don't want less, I want the amount that I told you I want. You piss and moan and tell me HAGGLING IS THE SPIRITS OF THE GAME. I continue not wanting less for the item and knowing someone else will eventually buy it for what I do want for it and don't sell it to you.


Isn't this the kind of free market you're getting so pissy about? Don't you have just as much ability to find some sap who WILL lower his price for you as I do to find some sap who will pay more for the item?

One day you will realize that you are not god. Items are not worth what you think they are worth, they are worth what the highest bidder will give you. You either take the best offer you can find, or you can sit on the item until the sun burns out. The rest of this discussion is just us throwing poo.

[Smalls]

Originally Posted by Kekephee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is my point, though. I reduce my price initially to avoid having to haggle because it's a waste of time. I'll sell a pair of eboots for 4500 instead of the average 5k- not a set price, but a usual one, one that is often met and clearly quite possible to get your item sold at. But then I"ll get these fucking ingrates trying to bring me down to 4k, 3.5k, and I'm like look, shitheel, I did your negotiating for you precisely so I won't have to deal with this. I am lowballing myself to make this go faster, please stop trying to lowball me more.

Some people don't know that you're already selling the price at a lower rate. And even still, trying to negotiate for a lower price even when the item is being sold cheaper than usual is NORMAL. People want to save money, they want better deals. Do you think most people go to the grocery store and buy all their shit wholesale? NO. They want for things to go on sale so they can get what they need and save money doing it.

How fucking thick can you be?

[Yonkec]

Originally Posted by Supaskillz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some offers are insulting. I suspect people ignore these offers bc they don't want to waste their time with someone who is just trying to rip them off to resell it.

If someone offers you 50p for a 1k item they can most assuredly go fuck themselves, you dont owe respect when none is given in the first place. That is really all that we need to keep in mind here.

[lecompte]

Originally Posted by Smalls [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

SHow fucking thick can you be?

Hey Hey, all are valuable points ;p No need to personally attack.

[Supaskillz]

Haggle all you want but take your fucking medicine when you send insulting offers and get ignored.

[Kekephee]

Originally Posted by Yonkec [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

One day you will realize that you are not god. Items are not worth what you think they are worth, they are worth what the highest bidder will give you. You either take the best offer you can find, or you can sit on the item until the sun burns out. The rest of this discussion is just us throwing poo.

Third option: I wait another day, maybe two, and someone else will buy the item for the price I want. HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Smalls [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some people don't know that you're already selling the price at a lower rate. And even still, trying to negotiate for a lower price even when the item is being sold cheaper than usual is NORMAL. People want to save money, they want better deals. Do you think most people go to the grocery store and buy all their shit wholesale? NO. They want for things to go on sale so they can get what they need and save money doing it.

How fucking thick can you be?

Are you just fucking with me here? Do you go to the grocery store and say "oh, my, the milk's not on sale, I'd better either not buy milk for however many months until it goes on sale or try to wrestle a lower price out of someone"?