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What haggling Bothers you
- Thread starter snatch3838
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When I see an ad listed and says firm or bottom dollar, then later see where they have lowered their asking price, this is a sign of a man that doesn't keep his word.
The funny this is... one day it will say "firm" or "frim" which I find funny. Then the next day "OBRO". <------ I wait for it to say that.
That's why I hung it up. It just ain't fun babysitting folks anymore. It's their actions that piss me off. It's my own stupidity, if I keep going back for more.
I still trade some, I just do it the old fashioned way, face to face. Most, certainly not all folks seem to behave differently in person than they do online.
Plus the deal is done in real time. None of this, I got to thinking and I can't afford the ammo stuff.
I understand, I'm in control of how I react to others actions. Instead of getting all pissed, I've chosen my reaction to be quite different. "Let them do it to someone else."
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I hear ya. I like to deal with the same people. Ive done trades (sometimes getting back the same gun I traded them) to the same people a few times. Every now and then I deal with a new person, I guess ive had good luck. I go by feedback. If you have bad feedback, the odds are I wont bother with you.
If and I mean IF I bother to attempt to drop someone's price I back up my offer with evidence. "I can now buy that Bushmaster you have listed for $950 with no rounds down the pipe for under $900 at Wal-mart. Will you take $800?" The seller can get hurt if he wants but that is what a standard used Bushmaster carbine in good shape is worth on the high end now.
If you say you need to sell the item fast for cash, I will offer less. Desperation is expensive.
If you say you need to sell the item fast for cash, I will offer less. Desperation is expensive.
yeah it is! desperation can kill ya. still offering 800 is rather nice of you actually. Id offer less
HEY GUYS! I have a Super awesome AK for sale for a really good deal! You won't find this deal anywhere!
" Hey here's $35 less on my offer"
" Hey here's $35 less on my offer"
Honestly, about 90% of the time I can get things from my dealer new for similar prices, so I call my dealer for bottom dollar, then usually offer a little less than that for the used gun, so I rarely buy on here, but selling has only run me into 2 hiccups with only one really pissing me off.
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I get folks in the shop all the time with their GI 1911s and want to make it into a loaded model (Beavertail, Commander Hammer, Bobtail, Milled for Novak Sights, milled forward cocking serrations, etc, etc) and if they are starting with a $500 gun, I have to explain that the $450 Rock Island, after $500-$600 worth of work isn't going to be worth $1,000. They are going to spend a $1,000 total but the gun will only be worth what someone would pay for it and that would probably be in $600-$650 range tops. If they are doing the work to make the gun just right for them that's one thing but if they are trying to increase the value that's a whole other proposition.
I talk myself out of more work that way
