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 must admit I’m sometimes guilty of making offers on vinted just so I can tell if they are going to bother replying/send the damn item. If I just buy them outright half of the time they don’t turn up and I’m refunded anyway so I presume given away or sent to charity and not updated. At least that way you’ve made some contact with the seller beforehand. I’ve had a few offers where the item has been removed seconds later, so maybe that’s why people are offering a few pennies less?

The worst I had was selling a horsebox. I had one guy come and kick around it for hours, drove it twice, had every inch of the horse area up and checked including floors, had a mechanic look at it (it was sound!) and then offer me £2000 less because that’s all he had. What a waste of a full day!

OP got a price she was happy with and makes a thread slagging off one offer and fills her posts with crying laughing emojis.

You got what you wanted. Grow up

I think people like this genuinely believe that they’re helping out so you may as well just sell it to them. £150 is madness!

You're too kind to them. No, they don't - they just want to make out to you that they're helping you out!

You can spot the liars/CFs/resellers/scammers a mile off, as they're the ones who 'inform' you that an item is worth much less than you're selling it for and thus demand to only pay you that for it.

In the real world, why would you go to the bother of telling a stranger that they won't get the price they're asking? Why would it make any odds to you?

And as for the ones who angrily tell you that £X is crazy as the going rate for them is £Y - well, then, buy one from somebody who is selling it at £Y! Why would you go to the effort of beating down the one (supposed) expensive outlier to the price that everybody else is (supposedly) selling it for?!

£2000 LESS than what you asked for? That’s madness

Oh sorry am I not allowed to laugh at other peoples experiences with shitty offers because you said so? Grow up.

Yeah, totally pointless ! Almost like bragging how generous they are 🤣 I bought a lot of my baby stuff Second hand and am happy and thankful to have gotten them at discounted prices . And yes, offering 15 when someone is asking for 70 is a bit of a waste of everybody’s time..

Omg I’m only a few replies into this thread and I’m already rolling my eyes. Of fucking course £15 is a ridiculous offer. These will be the same mumsnetters that say they spend £20 on their kids for xmas and birthday and it’s “more than enough anything over is pure gluttony and consumerism”

I was selling a beautiful bridle (the type for a horse, in case anyone thinks I'm misspelling bridal or it was a weird sex thing) on eBay. It was great quality leather and almost new. I put the starting bid at £18 and had someone offer me £1.30 for it. I declined, didn't think anything of it but then they kept bombarding me with new offers, going up in increments of a few pence. Eventually they reached an offer of about £3.20, which I also declined, after which they sent me a shitty message asking why I'd bothered listing it for sale if I wasn't going to accept any offers. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

It ended up selling for well over the starting bid.

It's a shame that since ebay came about everything now has a monetary value. Years ago, people just passed stuff on. Second hand, third hand, 4th hand. One single item went round all the neighbours.friends/family and everyone was grateful. And no-one expected anything for it. These days you see people trying to flog things to their FRIENDS on Facebook.

Not quite what you are asking for but people CAN be daft selling things…Recently I saw an item on Vinted that I was after. The listed price plus postage made it more expensive than said item is currently for sale for on Amazon, new.

I made an offer and screenshot the amazon listing to justify why I was offering my price.

The reply I got was ‘haha, you’re funny’ … well, funny enough the listing is still there, weeks later. Funny THAT.

AfterWeights · Today 19:49 , you are truly a wonderful human being and your great modesty does you credit, putting us all to shame. You win Philanthropist of the Year Award hands down. Hope that's made you feel better. 🙄

I sold a brand new sealed in the box Samsung Galaxy Fold5 on marketplace earlier this year and the amount of idiots I had trying to offer £300 for a phone that cost £1800 on release was ridiculous! They wouldn't give up when I kept saying no either, sob stories about how they couldn't afford it (buy a cheaper phone then!) The first person who wasn't a dreamer or a scammer who messaged bought it at my asking price and was thrilled with it.

Some people are so bloody cheeky, I always like to haggle but offering £15 for a £70 item is ridiculous 🙄

I never forget selling a piece of furniture at a very reasonable price, someone messaged me and asked if they could pay 50% less and pick it up when they got back off holiday in the Maldives. Nope !

It is ridiculous if someone has advertised something for £70! 15 is about a fifth of 70, so it is really cheeky IMO.

OP, I have never sold on Vinted, only bought, but I feel your pain. Depop buyers used to message me the most absurd offers, and ebay as well. My favourite was a US based buyer whining that she needed me to sell her a With Jean dress for £20, , when I was charging £120 for it. This being ebay, I had set my minimum offer to £80, so she actually had the front to message me whining that she couldn't afford the dress, and would I lower my price to something she could afford! I messaged back saying that I am a business, not a charity. Some people are very entitled.

£3 for a £5 note

My most ridiculous offer was for ignoring all Working Time, Equalities, Health & Safety, Minimum Wage and Employment Law to work an additional 8 hours a day 3x a week, 6 hours twice and then to come in for 7 hours every Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday and unpaid compulsory leave to fulfil a highly specialised and intensely physical role on top of the existing shit paid 36 hours I was already doing - whilst only having 6hrs and 35 minutes between finishing and having to be back in work in the morning.

Bearing in mind a conservative estimate of the going rate was the equivalent of £65k a year, but would ordinarily have required 3 people to do to keep within the Law, so the actual value of work (before taking into account what they wanted was totally illegal and couldn't happen legally) would have been around £200k on an hourly basis, would you like to guess what the offer was they made to me?

Sit down and put that cuppa on the table. You're going to need to be unencumbered for this.

The price they offered was that God would be happy with me.

I shit you not. They said to my face 'Oh, payment? We thought that you'd like to do this as part of your Christian Duty of Service'.

An 86 hour week, working 7 days a week for five months - for the grand sum of (does Maths) £2.95 an hour when NMW was £7.20.

They seemed quite put out when I asked them what made them think I was Christian and stupid enough to fall for such blatant manipulation in the first place, never mind that I was pretty sure that St Peter didn't mean for people to be coerced into working illegal hours for free, what with the rendering what was Caesar's unto Caesar (ie, meeting your legal obligations) detailed by 3 out of 4 Evangelists.

For £1.30 you may as well give it to someone for free. It’s one thing to offer a price below the asking price but it’s another to just continuously waste someone’s time!

YABU

*I actually don't think that's too ridiculous. Baby stuff loses its value fairly quickly. I sold my cot and stuff really cheaply and I think I just gave my pram away.

Of course you can just turn down the offer which you did so I can't see the issue.*

I agree. You just need to say no if you don't want to sell for the price offered... weird you're so upset about it!

I get stuff cheap or free on marketplace all the time, often way below people's original asking prices. Don't ask don't get!

Someone wanted £1000 for a wedding dress (bnwt). I ended up buying it from them for £300. Wore it on my wedding day and then sold it for £270. Nothing wrong with asking the question... weird to get so upset and offended though!

@surreygirl1987 please show me where I stated I was upset and offended at the offer? I simply gave context to explain what started the thread of wanting to hear from other people who received rubbish offers for items they were selling. Where in the post does it indicate that I’m upset and offended as you put it?

It's a shame that since ebay came about everything now has a monetary value. Years ago, people just passed stuff on. Second hand, third hand, 4th hand. One single item went round all the neighbours.friends/family and everyone was grateful. And no-one expected anything for it.

Poor people have always had to sell the stuff that they no longer need in order to be able to buy the stuff that they do need.

Not quite what you are asking for but people CAN be daft selling things…Recently I saw an item on Vinted that I was after. The listed price plus postage made it more expensive than said item is currently for sale for on Amazon, new.

I made an offer and screenshot the amazon listing to justify why I was offering my price.

The reply I got was ‘haha, you’re funny’ … well, funny enough the listing is still there, weeks later. Funny THAT.

Why did you bother, though? Why wouldn't you just ignore their advert and buy a new one on Amazon?

It really annoys me when people take it upon themselves to 'inform' a seller how much they should be selling their item for. Just do what everybody else does: if you don't think that something that's for sale is worth it, ignore the listing and find something that is at an acceptable price to you.

OP, I always assume that those defending pisstakers on Vinted and Facebook Marketplace etc also take the piss on them. My pram cost considerably more than my first car so I agree £15 is a bit extreme, despite acknowledging that prams lose their value very quickly. Even the flimsy Yoyo style ones are a few hundred quid. It’s not like you’re trying to sell it for £200 which would be unrealistic of you.

I agree. You just need to say no if you don't want to sell for the price offered... weird you're so upset about it!

I get stuff cheap or free on marketplace all the time, often way below people's original asking prices. Don't ask don't get!

But it's just needlessly wasting somebody's time. Maybe not so bad if they aren't the 100th person to have made you a ridiculously low offer.

"Don't ask, don't get" is a motto that completely ignores the value of the other person's time.

We get people all the time knocking at our door wanting to do (usually unnecessary) jobs for us, to earn some money, and they're probably just thinking that THEY have nothing to lose by asking, as one house might say Yes.

They're coming from a perspective whereby nobody at home could possibly be doing anything of any importance when they (and everybody else) knock, and that they only really exist - in their own private home - as a means for them to try to make money from.

I put a basketball hoop on FB for £4, only as a token amount so I wasn't mucked around. The buyer was willing to pay full price (yep, four whole pounds) but wanted me to deliver it to Coventry. For free. I live near London....

One of my eBay feedbacks was "needs to drop his prices I'm not male but never mind by half". It made me chuckle, I'm selling toys and clothes, not priceless art. If you can find it cheaper, you crack on my friend rather than choosing to pay what I'm asking but being shirty about it.