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When I'm selling something and the price is listed I always enjoy the initial response of "Whats your best price?". Well....I'm not interested in beating myself up before you've even made me an offer lol
My best price is to tell them "make me a fair offer we both can live with". That really pisses them off. To which I say " quit wasting my time".
 
It's in the nature of a lot of buyers to lowball....they consider it a badge of honor. It's no honor, but most of them are easy to humor when they realize the seller isn't going to play their game. You can't really get mad at someone who won't budge off a price, as it's their item after all. If they can't ever sell stuff, eventually they realize their pricing is not working. Just move on......

Kevin
 
Have bought on ebay for the past 20 years, never had a problem. You do have recourse on ebay, and when you use Paypal. Bought a item on this site a few weeks ago ,just talked to seller and he told me he had what I was looking for. Item was in very poor condition, had no recourse best to just throw it away and avoid the crook. It was not the sites fault I was just to trusting.
 
Have bought on ebay for the past 20 years, never had a problem. You do have recourse on ebay, and when you use Paypal. Bought a item on this site a few weeks ago ,just talked to seller and he told me he had what I was looking for. Item was in very poor condition, had no recourse best to just throw it away and avoid the crook. It was not the sites fault I was just to trusting.
That's observational and only applies to your specific eBay interactions. Depending on what one buys, the volume of purchases, the items themselves, and sometimes, random luck, somebody else's experiences could be quite different. In the last 25 years on eBay, I have had mostly positive experiences. The sellers who swindled me were insignificant overall because I'm not trusting enough to make big purchases without much background research.

I don't lord over people who have had bad experiences; I try to help them understand why they happened without ridicule.

Kevin
 
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