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 think you’re right. Some of the comments have been so strange as if they’re the ones that offered me £15😂

Exactly that. I have my eyes on a pair of UGG gloves which are selling for £50. I’ll offer £45 and if it’s declined, I’ll pay £50. I wouldn’t go in offering £5 as that makes no sense!

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.

This, i find it quite sad. And no, poor people have not always sold everything on. My grandparents were poor as church mice and selling bloody everything you ever owned was not a thing! You reused clothes for rags, passed them on to friends and neighbours etc, but most people didn't take a view that every single item had to be sold on.

@IDontDrinkTea

you are joking, right?
there is a bunch of prams which hold their value very well (eg Bugaboo)
I bought our Thule for £800 three years ago and sold it for £600 recently with no issues

Nobody wants peoples auld tat anymore that’s why. Nobody is as clean as the next person etc. nobody wants to put their babies in anyone else’s grubby belongings (does seem to be a cleanliness thing). People also don’t want to insult others by giving them second hand belongings as if the person is in need

Did they also ask you to deliver it? 😁

Took high quality, good as new children's clothes to a boot sale. The clothes had cost around £3,000, I think I got about £250. A beautiful winter coat in a very striking colour was priced at £20, 10% of what it had cost. A woman came to look at it two or three times but wouldn't pay the exorbitant price. It sold and then she berated me half a dozen times over the next couple of hours for selling 'her coat'.

I was selling a car for around £700. Obviously not new by any means but that was the going rate for this particular make/model/year/condition etc. A guy replied to my advert offering me £50 then, when I declined, tried to patronise me as if I was just some silly female telling me things like "you won't get much more than that for it sweetheart". I sold it to somebody else for the full asking price.

A bundle on vinted with discount % came to £2.37 and the girl offered me £2.10 😭 For the sake of 27 pence why would you even go to the trouble of typing an offer?!

I accepted just to get rid of it so it worked out for her 😂

i sell a lot of stuff on vinted and sell at the usual selling price.
I get lots of "offers' which I ignore, and it sells at the normal asking price.

I do also give a lot of baby stuff away as can’t be bothered with the hassle, but I also try to not buy used baby stuff as the hygiene of it all creeps me out a little! That said, I’ve found the £1 auction sites is where I get a lot of clothing for my toddler and sell it on! Each bid goes up by £1. £70 for a lean does sound extortionate, I’d never pay that for a used pram someone else’s baby has been using, but clearly there’s a market for it!

Someone offered you £50 for a CAR? Not £500 but £50? My God

I have a feeling this is something my older sister would do😂 reducing the price by 27p just for the sake of it. Batshit!

Yep and Bugaboo is v popular with people who care about the environment due to how it’s made- thus they are more likely to buy second hand.

If I wanted to sell something for next to nothing, I’d take it to a charity shop as even then I’d prob only sell it for a fraction of “next to nothing” on Vinted. 😂 I use Vinted etc when I could do with some extra cash. So the way I see it is taking advantage of that. I think that’s why I roll my eyes at the serial under offer people. Yes I know lots of small purchases build up, but the money I make has to be worth my local post office queue. 🙈

Yes I know lots of small purchases build up, but the money I make has to be worth my local post office queue

Free collection by my postman has been a game changer. Buy the postage the night before and they collect it in the morning.

Obviously a car dealer who intended to sell it on for a big profit.

I had similar once. Someone offered me £1000 for a car, and he acted all offended and told me I was making a mistake when I declined. I sold it to someone else 2 days later for £3000.

This pest of a boy at school kept offering me £1 for my trick yo-yo. It was an extremely cool flashing one that had set me back a massive £7! He didn't get why I kept refusing.

Ah, 1999. Those were the days!

Is anyone else :0 that some prams are £800! I thought our £200 travel system with Graco was a lot and it was amazing!!

I use Ebay and simply tick the 'don't allow offers' option when I list things. Saves all the faffing about negotiating.

Buggies do hold their value especially Phil n Ted and the jogger ones. I had to take my mamas and papas one to the tip as nobody wanted it but I bloody loved that buggy. It was so strong and saw me though 2 big kids.

Professional resellers do. They offer lots of people low prices for their goods. Some bite. They resell for a profit.

@JANEY205 out of interest, when did you last by a travel system? £200 would have been a really cheapy one back when I was buying buggies 12-15 years ago.

3 years ago and I’m pregnant now haha! I can post a link if you like? Will post one that we had and still have! It has been amazing!!

I'm selling a French bedroom company bed atm. Brand new as won't fit properly, never been used. Retails for 1400, got offered 500. No thanks.

Can I also add that “donate to charity” doesn’t actually mean they’ll go to a needy mum??

Have you guys been in a charity shop recently? CRAZY prices for stuff that’s barely hanging on.

I’d MUCH rather sell stuff for £1-£5 on Vinted because that where most needy mums are anyways.

Slightly off topic but anyone else's local FB group getting the posts all the time about someone collecting household items for someone starting out and desperate, usually a mum escaping abuse, house fire or refugee. People give away tons of free stuff, you don't hear about it again and then the same post pops up a week later? Scamming sods