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What always disappoints me is to take the time to read an ad, get interested, then find the seller thinks that a used item can be sold on for just 10% or 15% less than the new price (especially when the item is only sold new by one seller, or the manufacturer, and you are certain that the price is static).
There was also someone on here who put out a WTB for a Singlecut. I responded to this ad, and he refused to budge above £1000, and told me that was the most I would get for it. It's taken a while but I sold it through a shop on consignment and I just got £1190 through last week. £190 is quite a useful sum of money.
If you think something is overpriced, then I agree that you should send a PM rather than derail someone's thread.
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In defence of this - it is a ridiculous faff posting photos on here. Having to upload to a photo app or whatever. Its not very user friendly for that so i can see why someone would post a couple and then request PMs for more.
*says man who had murder trying to get photos of the guitar i had up on here - before someone checks up on me:)*
Evil ebay listings, classifieds selling for too much... other people liking relic guitars...
Equally people like rescuing a fair bit - you know helping out, except when it's uninvited, then they say "I was only trying to help out" - oh well in that case...
These are not bad things of themselves, but the license it seems to give people to act badly, because they think they're doing the right thing is baffling. It's as if they see behaviour as less important than intent. You can tell someone they've dropped a tenner AND ruin their day if you go about it the wrong way - and it's not worth a tenner.
Usually the only times someone is selling stuff is when they want something else OR they've a financial emergency OR they're getting grief from "'er indoors" - if people considered that more often, they'd probably hold-back or be more diplomatic. The price might be unrealistic, it might be a token gesture, (shrug, well I tried to sell it...) it might be a fraught act of desperation, or it might be ignorance.
I think it'd be enough if people genuinely figured out their own reasons for wading in before they do so, and helping others.
I'd rather sell on here, but as a rough rule of thumb, I don't want to go more than 15% below the Ebay rate as I'd be losing money. If someone on here buys at 10% below the Ebay rate everyone wins. The seller is about 3% better off than with Ebay assuming that you don't use normal Paypal for the transaction, and the buyer is 10% better off. For me that is the sweet spot.
i've seen the same retro keyboard i was looking at go from anywhere between £80 and £250, purely by randomness of time and who was looking to buy that week
as a seller i tell myself "they can go for £250, so hang on till you get that price!"