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

[PinkMoscatoLover]

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?

I wonder how people would react if, when they're asking you what the very lowest price is that you'd accept, you countered by asking them what the very highest price is that they would pay?!

If there's no shortage of interest in what you're selling, and they are far from the only potential buyer you could have, why is it always strictly only one way?!

A few years ago I was selling some PS4 games - quite new ones as my son switched to an Xbox

I advertised them for £35 each, someone offered £10 each and I told him they had just sold for the asking price - he then told me I'd sold them too cheaply and they were worth more....🤷‍♀️

Another time I offered some kids dress up stuff free on collection, someone asked to have them and then demanded I deliver them 18 miles away - obvs said no!

I was selling a toddler playhouse for the garden. Good condition but I just wanted rid so put £5 on the advert, buyer to collect. I got a message from a woman who lived half an hour away saying 'I'll take it thanks please deliver to me at (address)'

I replied saying sure, £20 delivery charge OK for you?

She responded saying 'I'll leave it thanks'

I was once selling something on an E auction. Someone messaged and asked what the lowest price I would take was. I replied and said I didn’t want the lowest price, I wanted the highest price, which is why I had put it on an auction site, so buyers could battle it out.

I also once listed an IPhone with a 99p start price. Someone messsged to ask why it was so cheap. Errrr it’s an auction, that is only the starting bid, it will get bid up to it’s market value.

You’re absolutely right and I’ve thought of that but I suppose I’m in the fortunate position of being able to afford to give things away and if I think I’ve done some good somewhere then that’s enough for me, even if someone is blatantly lying.

In a similar vein, I’ve put “collection only” on a few things in the past but ended up delivering to one particular lady a few times as she has no transport; I never take any money from her/always deliver, given she and her children live in fairly grim circumstances.

I had a load of furniture to get rid of. Put it on FB with no prices and just asked for donations to our local Church. Guy got in contact to say he wanted some stuff but didn’t want to donate to the Church so he would give the money to his mate who was doing a ‘charity walk’. Yeah right!

The thing I find astounding is when buyers expect you to hold stuff for ages for them. I had one woman interested in some ski gear I was selling locally, who then said "I can collect it in three weeks time, hope that's OK?". She disappeared when I asked for a deposit to mitigate the risk of her not turning up and me losing out on other potential buyers....

We were selling a 5x5 kallax unit on fb, can't remember the price. Had a young guy offer a ridiculous amount so i declined the offer. He came back with how he'd just been in ikea and they were only such and such price. So I replied with a screenshot of the current ikea price from the website, he then came back with he must have been looking at a different model. By this time the whole exchange was becoming arsey, I said i wouldn't be selling and then blocked him.

5 mins later I get an offer from a young lady, felt a bit fishy so checked out her profile, and what a coincidence she knows the guy. I told her to tell her boyfriend I wasn't selling.

It sold later for the asking price.

I hear you. I had something on there for £2 & got offered £1.80

Someone offered me £5500 for a car i was selling for £8000 because he was "standing right there" and it would save me any hassle 😂Obviously told him where to go and promptly sold it for £8250 elsewhere

I just listed a brand new with all tags pair of adidas joggers on Vinted. I think they cost £30 + a year or so back. I listed them for £11 which is already cheap and I keep getting offers of £5. I’d rather give them to charity.

Was selling a piano for £500. Someone asked if they could have it for free 🥴 like seriously?where do people get the audacity from 😂

Most of the dealers only knock the price down because it's on TV - otherwise they'd tell them to go take a hike.

Had a number of baby items up for free - cot, pushchairs, clothes, bottles etc. All unused. Had someone asking for all of it, I said yes, got chatting about when they'd pick it up and they said "As I'm coming to collect it for you, I'll charge £10 fuel fee".

I'm obviously doing something very wrong - I moved in July and put several items up for free. Not one taker! There was an exercise bike bought in lockdown, a cross trainer bought 2 years ago, a punch bag and a tumble drier that, admittedly, was 5 years old, but was a good make and worked well.

The first offer I received for my house was £80,000 below asking. I sold for £10,000 above asking 2 weeks later.

Many years ago I was having a garage sale. Was selling a $170 dress, worn once and cleaned in perfect condition. Asked $10 for it. Woman offered 50 cents. I said no. She said she’d come back tomorrow and get it for 50 cents then. Obviously didn’t read the sign saying 1 day sale. I gave it to my favourite charity gift shop instead.

Hi hun

will you take £5 and deliver to the North Pole

£1000 handbag. It was cream and I'd had some colour transfer from jeans on the back. It was immaculate other than that. At the time an immaculate used condition was selling for around 600 to 700. Due to the colour transfer (despite not being able to see it when in use) I put it up for sale for £450 hoping to get £400. I got £425 in the end. Someone offered me £40. I replied and said I think you've missed a 0 off do you mean £400 as I'm happy to sell for £400. She replied no I meant £40 due to the condition. I just replied with I think you know the answer. I'd have rather shat in it and binned it than sell it for £40!

My little boy is currently asleep in his cot bed. He's the 9th baby to use the cot. My friend gave it me and I think we are the 6th family to use the cot. The first family bought it and have just passed it on to the point that even the person who gave it my friend doesnt even know the original buyers. I was given it on the condition that I give it to someone else to use. I just think it's lovely that so many babies have used this cot and it's still going strong.

Did you pay it?😳

Accurate af😂

I hate having excess "stuff" in my house and I would definitely take a low ball offer if I just wanted it gone quickly and had had zero interest. I guess that's why people offer low, there are people that would rather have less money but more space at home

Not the buyers fault really, but at a car boot sale, had a brand new expensive perfume. Had to go to loo. Told DH not to sell it for less than a tenner. It was worth over a hundred. He got confused. When I got back he was proud as punch to tell me he had sold a few bits, including the perfume for £1

Not so much the price but the 'can you deliver it', once, 150 miles away! Another time it was a freecycle item and the person knew me through a tenuous connection, when I said I couldn't deliver she complained that I had a car and should be going to the tip which was near where she lived so I should stop on the way. The item would've filled the whole boot so I wouldn't have been able to get my rubbish in there for the tip.
I did once sell a car for £50 but it was the 90s 🤣

I list a lot of music cassettes on eBay. They're usually around the £3.99 mark (sometimes more, depending on the tape). I've had people offer me £1 - bear in mind I include postage in my prices. I tell people that £1 wouldn't even cover my postage costs let alone packaging and eBay fees, they then offer £1.25. It drives me crazy, but I have to keep the 'make an offer' option because sometimes people want to buy a few tapes in one lot.
It is crazy how tight some people are. Also, how rude they can be when you don't just take their offer.
That said, if I was selling something for £70, I'd normally be prepared to take £50 for it.