CandidPicker
Tone Matters. Use It Well.
Yeah but, starting your haggling with an almost 50% offer is a d!ck move, IMO.
It’s not eBay, on Reverb you get three chances to offer, and if both parties wiggle down $100 each time, the seller will be at $1700, the buyer at $1340.... I mean, c’mon... they’re not negotiating anything.
When I was helping Bodia move his pile of guitars, we’d get this all the time, and the guys who tried this would p!ss off after the first counter offer never to be heard from again.
Understood. I don't know the MSRP price of a new McRosie myself, but I do know that asking 50% to 70% of the original MSRP is acceptable, if the owner was the original owner.
Other than that, who is going to nickel and dime you down to a reasonable price? I think it's fairly obvious that we don't know-it-all, nor should we even bother trying to pursue such reasoning. My feeling is that the potential buyer was 1) just being a jerk, 2) was overthinking the process, or 3) unable to scrape up the cash needed that would be a reasonable offer.
How many people can really afford $2000? While it's entirely possible not everyone can, I do not know if the potential buyer has that kind of loose change to spare. If the OP wished to sell at a more affordable price, you can only guess that the potential buyer was lowballing (rather clumsily) in hopes the OP would cave at less than his asking price.
And yes, you can't force people to change their viewpoint, but only see theirs, and consider your own. Could I afford a PRS Dragon I? Really, why would you even bother to ask me this? You're just spinning your wheels here.
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