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What’s the most ridiculous price that someone has offered you?

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PinkMoscatoLover · 22/10/2023 17:48

Currently selling a pushchair for £70. It was used for less than a year as I got pregnant again and had to purchase a double buggy, so it’s in great condition!

Guess how much someone offered to purchase it for? £15😂 like really? Come on now.

It just made me think, what’s the silliest price someone has offered to pay when you’ve tried to sell something?

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Firethehorse · 24/10/2023 04:58

A friend told me her car was valued by her dealer at £5k but she was selling at a time everyone was leaving the Country due to Covid so the same dealer (who she bought it from at a substantially higher price 12 months prior) offered her £50!!!!!!!
She gave it away for free instead.

Lolaandbehold · 24/10/2023 05:43

I was “selling” a kids tennis racquet online. I say “selling”, I’d have given it away but my experience has been that giving stuff away attracts more time wasters than people who are buying. So the £2 was a token and I’ve have given it away for free to any “buyer”. I named my town and put collection on the ad. The buyer didn’t show up so I asked her if she was running late. She messaged me back and asked if I could meet her in Croydon.
I live nowhere near Croydon and clearly to get there would have cost me more than £2.

OP, if someone offered me £15 for a £70 stroller, I wouldn’t even have acknowledged the offer, let alone accepted it. Caveat being if someone explained the lowball eg just left a DV situation with the clothes on their backs, I would treat that sort of offer very differently.

Mum2three63 · 24/10/2023 06:44

I 'm selling a man's puffa coat on vinted, good brand barely worn as my son doesn't do coats. I'm asking £5 , it cost a lot more....somebody offered me 50p! It would cost me more than that to go out to post it lol

Doris86 · 24/10/2023 07:57

Firethehorse · 24/10/2023 04:58

A friend told me her car was valued by her dealer at £5k but she was selling at a time everyone was leaving the Country due to Covid so the same dealer (who she bought it from at a substantially higher price 12 months prior) offered her £50!!!!!!!
She gave it away for free instead.

WTF?! Demand for cars and car prices went max during covid. The dealer was being very cheeky, but plenty of other people would have given a decent price for it. Why on earth give it away for free?

Hibiscrubbed · 24/10/2023 08:01

Firethehorse · 24/10/2023 04:58

A friend told me her car was valued by her dealer at £5k but she was selling at a time everyone was leaving the Country due to Covid so the same dealer (who she bought it from at a substantially higher price 12 months prior) offered her £50!!!!!!!
She gave it away for free instead.

I feel like you think the ‘she gave it away for free’ is some sort of mic-drop, up-yours to the dealer, but I don’t understand it. Why on earth did she give it away? Wha my an own goal.

DottyLottieLou · 24/10/2023 08:06

Probably offering what they could afford. No harm in trying.

GrandHighPoohbah · 24/10/2023 08:12

Second hand selling can be a minefield of cloud cuckoo land. Some sellers have ridiculous expectations as to what people will pay for their old tat, and some buyers are deluded about how low they can offer. But that's just part of the experience really. Your stuff is worth what people are prepared to pay, not neccessarily the amount you want to receive.

I have a stock response to people who make offers I wouldn't entertain. I just say "No, sorry, I don't need to reduce the price yet as I have only just advertised it and have already got some interest".

DriftingDora · 24/10/2023 09:13

JerryGiraffe · 23/10/2023 21:15

Not way off the mark in my case but ridiculous none the less..

DH and I did a boot sale in the early days of togetherness and by midday we'd had enough so he decided that the lovely hardback books we had for sale could go for 10p each so we could go home and started calling to the crowd about the newly reduced 10p books. A woman came up, squinted at the books in lovely condition and tutted and huffed as if contemplating spending millions and said, 'will you take 5p?'. Normally mild mannered DH looked daft at her and replied 'to be honest, for that much, I'd rather take them home and wipe my f*kin arse with them!' I didn't know where to look! 🤣

Your DH's reply summed it up perfectly! 😃

treacletoffee23 · 24/10/2023 10:12

Unfortunately some people buy/ have free to sell on - pushchairs are very popular
l called someone out and received some very nasty messages . I was just sick of them taking every free item - usually with a sob story, for it to appear later for sale on another site or at their carboot

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 24/10/2023 10:18

Probably offering what they could afford. No harm in trying.

It's just wasting everybody's time when you clearly can't afford something but still somehow think you can - especially when it comes with (often fabricated) sob stories, insults and lies about it 'not being worth any more than that'.

Why on earth would somebody go to the trouble of advertising something for, say, £200 in the first place if they'll happily take a fiver for it? By all means offer them £175 and see what they say, but it shows a real dismissive arrogance to completely ignore what the seller has stated and go in with a stupid offer to waste their time.

And that's not even accounting for the people who expect you to spend more money (and lots of your own time) in delivering it to them than they're actually paying you for it!

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 24/10/2023 10:19

Your DH's reply summed it up perfectly!

I agree! Somebody in that scenario should have been ashamed... but not anybody standing on your side of your table.

x2boys · 24/10/2023 10:41

Lolaandbehold · 24/10/2023 05:43

I was “selling” a kids tennis racquet online. I say “selling”, I’d have given it away but my experience has been that giving stuff away attracts more time wasters than people who are buying. So the £2 was a token and I’ve have given it away for free to any “buyer”. I named my town and put collection on the ad. The buyer didn’t show up so I asked her if she was running late. She messaged me back and asked if I could meet her in Croydon.
I live nowhere near Croydon and clearly to get there would have cost me more than £2.

OP, if someone offered me £15 for a £70 stroller, I wouldn’t even have acknowledged the offer, let alone accepted it. Caveat being if someone explained the lowball eg just left a DV situation with the clothes on their backs, I would treat that sort of offer very differently.

I.imagine people probably say they have just left a domestic violence, situation etc to.get stuff for free/ very cheaply....

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 24/10/2023 10:47

I.imagine people probably say they have just left a domestic violence, situation etc to.get stuff for free/ very cheaply....

That's the whole problem, isn't it? Whilst there are people out there who are genuinely trying to battle through horrendous personal circumstances in their lives, and whom you would obviously want to help if you possibly can, the liars - of which there are probably far more than the genuine cases - will shamelessly say whatever they think will get them whatever they want.

I think some of them actually see it that they are 'working' to 'earn' whatever they're expecting free or for a ridiculously low price - by carefully honing their patter and spending time thinking up the most convincing-sounding lies.

ThatBeachLyfe · 24/10/2023 11:23

Intrigued by comments on second hand prams. We bought our icandy peach (£1100 new at the time) for £300 from a family down the road and I intend to sell it on for £150 when we're finished with it...wonder if we'll get that much!

YesSirMam · 24/10/2023 11:36

Went to buy a safety gate. Nothing like the picture. Really rusty & dirty. I obviously said No thanks. Then he messaged me the next day saying if you want it come now as someone else wants it 😂 why are you messaging me if you’ve got a buyer. I don’t think anyone bought it in that condition. It was £15 then he lowered it to £10 😂

bombastix · 24/10/2023 11:38

Time wasters who think you need the money more than you do. If it's a good buggy you will get the money you want.

Cathael · 24/10/2023 11:48

iPad Pro, selling for £200. They offered £80 and got really rude (the c-word was used) when I declined.

AnxiteacupStorm · 24/10/2023 12:00

Years ago our dogs, full breed chihuahuas good lines and all that blah, had 1 singular pup.. she lives here still too. The day and hour she was born someone messaged my oh asking if we’d give the pup to them, would it get big? They want it for their kid’s Christmas… in June… and could they pick it up Friday?

like hello her eyes aren’t even open yet, she was never listed to be sold even in the future type thing.

Fb’s full of chancers. You wouldn’t walk into a shop n ask if they’d take £15 for £70 worth of stuff. Common sense there’s low balling and there’s stupidity

kerryelaine100 · 24/10/2023 12:08

It’s just an offer !! Say no

Jacesmum1977 · 24/10/2023 12:10

PinkMoscatoLover · 22/10/2023 18:02

Haha same! I always put collection only as it’s easier for me and someone asked me if I can meet them in Illford. I’m 1 hour and 30 minutes away in Streatham😂 I mean if you don’t ask, you don’t get but come on!

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OP, this!
If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
Yes it was waaaaaaay lower than what you’d stated but they took a chance as someone else may have said, fuck it; ok then, as so to help out another person (that’s not a dig at you!). I know people who said X price because if someone was going to pay that then wonderful. However they got offered a lower price and because they wanted rid of what they were selling, they sold it for the lower price.

I had a dress from Coast. £300, with ostrich feathers and all the details was hand sewn. I got it for my engagement party, it was just stunning.
I don’t remember what I sold it for (on EBay 🤦🏻‍♀️) but it was disgustingly low and I was so gutted because it was so beautiful and not cheap. I have learned not to use EBay.

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PinkMoscatoLover · 24/10/2023 12:20

DoughBallss · 23/10/2023 23:32

This one will always make me laugh

🤣🤣😆 the ‘x’ at the end really made me chuckle. It’s only 3 quid!

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PinkMoscatoLover · 24/10/2023 12:24

Cathael · 24/10/2023 11:48

iPad Pro, selling for £200. They offered £80 and got really rude (the c-word was used) when I declined.

Bloody hell. That’s so uncalled for. Some people think they’re doing you a favour by showing you interest

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Bubnbutton · 24/10/2023 12:50

Crazy! Not as drastic as yours but I signed up to vinted, put a brand new with tags joules jumper on for £5 which I though would be a bargain to someone, obviously not… got an offer for £1.50. That isn’t even worth my time and effort of taking a photo, uploading and packing and posting so needless to say I declined the offer, deleted my account and kept the jumper!

MyKingdomforaNameChange · 24/10/2023 12:57

Fb’s full of chancers. You wouldn’t walk into a shop n ask if they’d take £15 for £70 worth of stuff. Common sense there’s low balling and there’s stupidity

People do though! I had a shop, which I gave up in January as I wanted to concentrate on the things I make, and needed to be at home for that.

I lost track of the amount of people who asked what my "best price" was on items, or thought I should reduce prices by huge amounts if they bought more than one of something.

I never did - I used to reply that my "best price" was somewhat higher than the price tag, and that I kept my prices as low as I could but did need to make some profit to cover the rent and utilities!

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 24/10/2023 13:07

I lost track of the amount of people who asked what my "best price" was on items, or thought I should reduce prices by huge amounts if they bought more than one of something.

I bet they get this at least partly from Bargain Hunt. I always feel so sorry for the poor dealers who are working hard and trying to earn their livelihood, and then people furiously try to beat them down on their prices - often so that they make no profit at all - purely so they can win an actual game.

All on camera, of course, so that any of the millions of people who have seen the transaction on telly will then expect a hefty discount if they subsequently buy anything from the same trader (probably blethering about "how much excessive profit they must be making if they can afford to drop their prices so much".)

Linda Smith's observation was very astute when she commented on the absurdity of people buying goods at retail prices, then selling them on the wholesale market, and expecting to make a profit!