When you post an ad, you provide a price. If you also indicate "OBO" you are stating that you will accept less. We would all like to believe that we are immersed in a gentleman's pastime and therefore are above smarmy, crass concerns such as money - or, at the very least, put those financial matters in their proper place, well behind our sanctimonious pursuit of the absolute sound. So, the objections here seem to be mostly procedural.
What turns me off most is the impression that some jerk is just sending out 300 emails per day fishing for someone dumb or desperate enough to sell him product well below its current street value so that he can turn around and sell it at a profit. What nerve!!
I've stopped trying to sell my stuff. I have lots of spares and it looks like I will eventually die owning them. In a way, it has been good in that it makes me think twice about acquiring more.
Many of you are getting way to huffy about this topic. If schmucko has nothing better to do than send out mindless solicitations, have fun with him. There are many ways to do this. Let's turn this thread toward creative suggestions for wasting the time of these guys. Engage them, tempt them, mislead them and ultimately give them a taste of their own medicine. Drop tem on their pointy little heads.
What's your favorite technique?
What turns me off most is the impression that some jerk is just sending out 300 emails per day fishing for someone dumb or desperate enough to sell him product well below its current street value so that he can turn around and sell it at a profit. What nerve!!
I've stopped trying to sell my stuff. I have lots of spares and it looks like I will eventually die owning them. In a way, it has been good in that it makes me think twice about acquiring more.
Many of you are getting way to huffy about this topic. If schmucko has nothing better to do than send out mindless solicitations, have fun with him. There are many ways to do this. Let's turn this thread toward creative suggestions for wasting the time of these guys. Engage them, tempt them, mislead them and ultimately give them a taste of their own medicine. Drop tem on their pointy little heads.
What's your favorite technique?