What is "low ball"

Herman, if you are referring to my post, I myself am not offended by any offers of items I have sold in the past. Like another poster mentioned, some of these offers are so ridiculous, you just have to laugh. I was recounting an episode that happened to me when I was making an $1100 offer on speaker cables and the seller was asking for $1200. The seller was upset and let me know about it. Apparently an 8% reduction was a big thing to him. As a buyer, I have never asked the seller to pay for shipping and have even haggled over the Pay Pal fees which many sellers pass to the buyer. As a seller, I did not ask for the buyer to pay the Pay Pal fees, only the shipping cost.

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Cyclo, not directly at you, I just saw several comments from different people about insults.

I usually include ground shipping and raise my price just a bit to cover that as it so much easier than going back and forth to get a shipping price and buyers seem to like "free" shipping.

I also laugh when I see people who want to charge extra for Paypal. If they are so concerned about a few percent they should raise their asking price a little bit and and entice the Paypal buyer with the fact they aren't charging extra for it.

Got something you want to get around $1,500 for? List it at $1,700 and include free Paypal and ground shipping. Unless it is very heavy you can let somebody beat you down to $1,600 and still get your $1,500. Nobody is going to run away because you started at $1,700 rather than $1,500 and you just might get the higher amount from those like Elizabeth who just pay what you ask.

I'm no marketing genius but some of the stipulations people on their sales seem designed to drive away buyers. Make it as easy as possible for people to buy and you will make it easier on yourself to sell.

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I have speakers for sale. I'm not charging a paypal fee. If the buyer pays with a money order, I'll deduct what I would have paid paypal. Why should the buyer pay it if I don't, unless they are a low baller.

Sorry, I meant agon. Still, if you don't have the money look elseware. Nobody else should have to deal with other peoples problems, classy or not.

Herman,

Lets take your senario of "Got something you want to get around $1,500 for? List it at $1,700 and include free Paypal and ground shipping"

So you list it at $1700.00. And lets say that this item has (recently) sold on Agon before for $1500.00 to $1700.00. You get an offer of $500.00 to include shipping and Paypal. This is approximately the OP's 75% off of asking price (which is where he thinks lowballing kicks in).
What would you do?

Do you think he is really going to even come close to your $1500.00 by negotiating with him? I don't get offended, but I also won't give this person even one minute of my time to respond.