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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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CrazyHamsterLady · 22/10/2023 18:19

Something is only worth what another person is willing to pay. I always take what someone offers on Vinted/FB marketplace, however ridiculous. At the end of the day, if I don’t want it anymore, I’d rather have some money than none.

I’ve made offers on Vinted before and then seen the items hanging around for weeks afterwards. In one case, the seller contacted me back and offered to sell it to me anyway, despite initially saying no.

Dobbybigearsdog · 22/10/2023 18:23

iPhone 13 mini, I desperately needed the money for the dogs vet bill. Low price anyway £130 was offered £10 and to meet 12am her back of the local Asda. I did not go

ChampagneLassie · 22/10/2023 18:24

Bigcat25 · 22/10/2023 18:08

My mil was selling a brand new $20 item at a garage sale, prices a $2.00. She was offered 20 cents. It put her off trying to sell anything forever, and she just donates now. She was going through a rough time and was insulted at the waste of time and effort. I hear you op, it's rude.

I had a similar feeling the one time I did a car boot. A famous millionaire tried to offer me £4 for a £100 coffee table book I wanted £10. I gave it and all other leftover books to charity. People’s haggling was crazy and it really annoyed me. Never again I just give all to charity now

Dibbydoos · 22/10/2023 18:24

My friends house was otm for £700k, they were offered £595. Fabulous house, fabulous location was already unser market proce so tget could sell quickly....

£15 for your pushchair is laughable, @PinkMoscatoLover

Topsyturvy33 · 22/10/2023 18:25

I got offered £5.00 for a baby bouncer I was selling for £20.00 it was like new as lo didn’t like it. Was a bit awkward cos he was in my house telling me I should just sell him it for £5 cos his wife might not like it and claiming the pattern was stain etc.

I politely declined and gave it a friend a few weeks later who had a very surprise pregnancy!

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PinkMoscatoLover · 22/10/2023 18:25

Dobbybigearsdog · 22/10/2023 18:23

iPhone 13 mini, I desperately needed the money for the dogs vet bill. Low price anyway £130 was offered £10 and to meet 12am her back of the local Asda. I did not go

What the hell?! That sounds dodgy as fuck😳

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Gruntsandgroans · 22/10/2023 18:26

Pretendthatwearedead · 22/10/2023 17:51

I gave away all my baby stuff no matter how new it was. £15 for a used pushchair may not be what you want but it isn't ridiculous. If it is all someone can afford them they may as well offer. Just politely decline the offer.

It's wasting the OPs time though isn't it? If she wanted 15 for it she would have asked for less than 70. Most people list the prices with a but if leeway but not that much. The OP isn't a charity, if someone can't afford the OPs pushchair then they need to look for a cheaper one not waste OPs time with a stupid offer.

I was selling a high end printer for €350, it retails for €700 and the going rate second hand seems to €500. Someone offered me €50. I just ignored them.

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PinkMoscatoLover · 22/10/2023 18:28

Dibbydoos · 22/10/2023 18:24

My friends house was otm for £700k, they were offered £595. Fabulous house, fabulous location was already unser market proce so tget could sell quickly....

£15 for your pushchair is laughable, @PinkMoscatoLover

I don’t know much about selling houses and negotiations but that sounds like a hell of a lot less than what your friends wanted. Were they able to sell it to someone else who approached them with a reasonable price?!

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Dobbybigearsdog · 22/10/2023 18:28

He was adamant I’d be ‘safe’ and was easier to get too for him. I said not a chance was I selling it for a tenner or meeting the back of Asda when it was midnight

Blackcatballoon · 22/10/2023 18:29

To be honest, around here it's really difficult to even give baby stuff away because no one wants used baby stuff. I just gave away loads of baby stuff to a local politician who helps the homeless. No one else wanted it. It was a moses basket and clean used clothes etc...

4andnotcounting · 22/10/2023 18:29

I’ve contemplated offering a “silly price” when the desk in question could be bought new for 65 and the person was selling for 70 and it looked really worn. Desk in question others marketed for around 20 mark. I ended up getting a like new one for 15 and it really was like new and it was the e sellers asking price . ( yes I know I digress ..)

the above seller scenario is more common than you think

Igloolou · 22/10/2023 18:33

This is the very reason I can’t be arsed to list the baby stuff I need to sell, I need to mentally prepare myself for the stupid offers that people send.
i also don’t understand why there’s a weird pressure to just give away everything baby related to people who can’t afford as much. I’ve given shit loads of clothes, etc away but if I want to try and make a few quid back ok something that’s cost me reasonable money why should we feel guilty about that.

Jmaho · 22/10/2023 18:35

Our last house was on the market for £300k. We did an open day and had about 20 people booked in to view it so all day long. One guy turned up unbooked but I agreed he could look around. He offered me £170k there and then said he would go get the cash lol but wanted the furniture and everything in the house included. Couldn't understand why we wouldn't accept his generous offer

jm9138 · 22/10/2023 18:35

I was selling a Pokemon game on gumtree for my son a couple of years ago for £35 (which was less than loads of buy it nows on eBay for the same game) and had this interaction

What’s the most ridiculous price that someone has offered you?
What’s the most ridiculous price that someone has offered you?
Totalwasteofpaper · 22/10/2023 18:36

I was selling a bundle of baby toys.
A woman messaged on a buying and selling WA group saying she'd take them- great.
We arranged a collection time then she sent an elaborate message about how she couldn't collect because she had twins(!?) And she was moving and would I drop them off. I wanted them gone - fine.
THEN she confirmed I was dropping them off and asked if she could actually just HAVE them as I didn't need them and she had twins - wtf!?

I gave up with local buy and sell groups after that

DaisyMaisyFaisy · 22/10/2023 18:41

The ones who want them for free and for you to deliver really annoy me! Then get offended when you don’t. It’s almost worse than the “is it still available” messages when you then never hear from them again.

I was selling a Dyson once, I can’t remember how much for, and someone wanted it for free because she was struggling. Well yeh so am I, that’s why I’m selling it!

Grapewrath · 22/10/2023 18:42

I’ll never forget selling all my baby bits at a car boot fair-almost new snd new clothes were priced at a pound (18 years ago) and I had a brand new steriliser still in the box for a tenner (£40 new). An older lady kept trying to haggle with me lol oh I’ll give you 20p for that baby girl or I’ll give you £2 for the steriliser. I realise this is normal at car boots but I politely told her more than once my stuff was priced as low as it would go. Anyway she kept going on and even admitted to me that she was buying it to re-sell at her church jumble sale and ‘as it’s getting late you might as well sell it to me and help a good cause rather than take it home’
Antway, as I was about to pack up a young pregnant woman came along with her bf and asked if we’d be back the next week as she thought we had some real bargains but was short on money.. so I ended up giving her the whole lot free in front of grabby woman and never did a car boot again

Allaboard209 · 22/10/2023 18:44

agree some price offers are cheeky, but what is more cheeky these days is people selling baby items close to the as new price!

Taking 15-30% off it is just the same as someone getting it in the January sales or Black Friday.

Plus most people get things given to them or buy it on offer, so why not sell it at a further discount knowing another mother will have good use of it, rather than looking at the current RRP and trying to get that for it?

Totally put off bothering with Facebook marketplace etc as it all just seems a con. some people probably bought it second hand in the first place and still trying to get shop price for it...

321user123 · 22/10/2023 18:45

PinkMoscatoLover · 22/10/2023 17:52

Of course not but I’m selling it to someone else for £60 in a few days. The lowest I would have sold the buggy for would have been £55.

Since when do people offer the first price that comes into mind? Surely you try and bargain with £10/£15 off the advertised price and not £55….

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OP it’s a bargaining tactic for some.
Telling the vendor a ridiculous price often makes them drop immediately to just above or at their “last price”.

sometimes the vendor just tells you to bigger off but it’s much more unlikely than someone trying to come to a mutual deal

oksothisisusnow · 22/10/2023 18:46

I was offered £0.50 for a £270 bracelet. No thanks.

dressedforcomfort · 22/10/2023 18:49

Had a washing machine that was barely a year old. Really nice model. (Had to get rid as we moved house and inherited integral washer in new kitchen and our washer was slightly too wide for the space anyway.)

Asked for £70. A white van type asked to come and look at it. Turned up and told us he'd 'take it away for us' for the princely sun of £5!! Told him to sling his hook and that I would rather donate it to charity than be blatantly ripped off like that. (Fairly sure he was going to try and flip and resell for profit.)

PabloandGustheGreySquirrels · 22/10/2023 18:50

Bigcat25 · 22/10/2023 18:08

My mil was selling a brand new $20 item at a garage sale, prices a $2.00. She was offered 20 cents. It put her off trying to sell anything forever, and she just donates now. She was going through a rough time and was insulted at the waste of time and effort. I hear you op, it's rude.

That's a bit extreme! One chancer's cheeky offer put her off selling for life?!?!? That's very odd behaviour

Prescottdanni123 · 22/10/2023 18:52

I worked in a carpet shop when I was in my early twenties. Someone asked me to give them a £300 carpet. For nothing. They weren't joking.

PabloandGustheGreySquirrels · 22/10/2023 18:53

£595?!?!?! So not even a grand?!?! Are you sure they didn't mean £595k?

DRS1970 · 22/10/2023 18:53

I offered a chair for free on Freecycle. I got asked by one person, who said they were interested, what I could do to sweeten the deal. I pointed out it was free, and they said could I throw something else in to sweeten the deal. I said how about I throw in that the chair will cost you £20.... Never heard back from them. Lol.