You just sound irritated at a situation you’re because you’re not in control.
The real world doesn’t always play by the rules. As this example illustrates.
20 years ago I was looking at houses around the £600k mark in the part of London/Middx I liked. After seeing 70+ houses I concluded that they all needed £100k cash being spent on them. They were over-priced - that’s how property works in big UK cities.
So I looked at more expensive properties, up to £1.5m.
There was a show home on sale at £1.35m.
Too pricey for me.
Six months later, the show home was still for sale.
I looked up companies house records and found that the owning building company’s year end was two weeks away. They were a floated company.
3 days before their year end I offered (you would perhaps OP call a downright cheeky offer of £500k below asking price) £835k with a promise to complete within 3 days if the vendor paid the Stamp Duty (I had already primed my solicitor and gotten a rush through on the local authority searches).
It was simple - that show home represented to the building company pure profit that year, which would adversely affect their year end figures if they declined. Their acquisition cost and build cost was in that year’s accounts already.
Of course, they accepted, to protect their share price post their year end figures being published.
A calculated cheeky offer that was accepted.
As many others have said, you could say no thanks and just let go of the offer, it’s not even 10% below asking. In fact you could easily gaggle them up after agreeing the price, subject to ‘cuz’ completion timeframe with a penalty clause per working day behind completion.
Know yourself: if you’re not able to play the game well, best let someone else more competent and less impacted emotionally than you are handle this business.