Seller wants a grand for curtains

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Or she is taking them. To Australia. Plus the blinds, the poles and the light fittings. Now, the blinds would be good, in order to avoid nakedness in front of my new neighbours. The poles would be handy too. But she can fuck off with her vulgar curtains. Any suggestions on how to phrase and price that more diplomatically? FWIW, I included of if ours in our sale. They are made to measure for the windows after all.

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I guess it depends how much they cost. My downstairs curtains cost over £600 a pair and that was 13 years ago. Two pairs and that's £1200 without starting on upstairs. I've probably got 2k worth of curtains upstairs.

That's good they're leaving them anyway! In our defence for asking for £1,000 for one set of curtains, we can easily use our curtains in the new house, in fact they will do 2 bedrooms and hadn't thought of offering them for sale. It was the seller that approached us about selling them because they look gorgeous in the room and its an enormous bay so I think she was hoping to save some money. £1,000 was still half what they cost us (renovated house before having children, its ikea all the way now!)

I see the vendor was being silly. I was laughing at the very idea of the odds against her curtains being useable in a Australian house. They're just not like UK ones, often with loads more, and bigger windows.

I don't doubt that one set of curtains might have been very pricey. Its an enormous window. And the curtains don't look inexpensive - just very much not to my taste. But what is worth £1k to the person buying them new is unlikely to be worth that to the next person in. They don't sound nearly as nice as your curtains, bonborez.

A friend told me - whilst I was ranting to her - that the people she bought from phoned three days later and asked to lift the ancient carpet tiles. She said no. She'd already had to hire a skip to empty the cupboards.

God people are such greedy wankers aren't they? I had a vendor once try to charge me £3.5k for fitted carpets in a 2 bedroom flat. It wasn't until her solicitor told her that she couldn't actually leave bare concrete floors that she backed down. Once she'd moved out, I found an enormous stain in one room which she'd hidden with a bed.

Bonborez - sounds entirely reasonable to me. You didn't want to sell them, particularly, so you named the price at which you would be prepared to sell them. If the buyers have priced up what they would cost to replace, and they like them, they will probably bite your hand off at the elbow.

I was when a friend spent £10k curtaining their new house (large, drafty, not one curtain they wanted to keep and friend has expensive tastes) but then I started adding up what I had spent on fabric, lining, interlining, poles, etc even though I make them myself and it started to make sense - it's just that we have done one room at a time and she just took a deep breath and did the whole lot.

We said no thanks, the vendors took everything down and gave them to the neighbours, who have the same sized windows etc. When we moved in the neighbours gave them to us!

I don't think it's that bad. In the sellers pack you have to outline at the beginning what's included and price up anything you would consider leaving.

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To measure curtains can cost a bomb- I just had a quote for £1800. And more often you can retrofit them in another window so I don't blame the seller of they do like them and they were genuinely expensive

It's not personal, and it's no big deal to just say no!