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> Re: [FWDLK] what's your bottom dollar? I'm a buy-high, sell-low kinda guy. Yeah,
> I know...
> I try to set a fair price on something I'm selling, and if a potential buyer
> wants my bottom price I tell him I don't like to bid against myself, come up
> with a counteroffer and we'll go from there. If the 'negotiations' aren't going
> anywhere, I suggest we sleep on it and he can get back to me.
> --Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56 Plymouth, '66
> Plymouth, '41 Dodge
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On the "buy" side, I will ask for the seller's "best price". I know what kind of money I want to spend most times and if the "best price" is within that range, I prefer to take it straight up and respect the seller's dignity by not beating him down.
On the "sell" side, few things chap my hide like buyers working me for money. I do not own things lightly. Most everything I have, I have for very strong and thought out reasons. They are not just whimsical commodities to me. They are part of me. Should I decide to let something go, I do my best to have a realistic idea of what it is and how hard it would be to find another and then price it accordingly. When someone comes along and starts to work me, I am never that motivated to sell it in the first place and since it is something I care about, I find it entirely disrespectful to go knocking it and trying to beat my price down. I am more than happy to just end the discussion and ask the butthead to leave. Let them find another. There are a few in this "hobby" that have enjoyed such an experience with me when I was more active in it.
As part of this seller's attitude, I do my best to be respectful of those I buy from. Of course, I want the best price. But I am not willing to disrespect the seller and work him. I tend to buy higher than I might, but time has a way of making an expensive purchase of something rare work out in my favor in the end. Either way, I am content in the money I am willing to spend and once spent, am happy to have whatever it was I bought.
B.
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- From: Jan & Roger van Hoy <vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:09:35 +0000
Title: Re: [FWDLK] what's your bottom dollar?
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I'm a buy-high, sell-low kinda guy. Yeah, I
know...
I try to set a fair price on something I'm selling, and if a
potential buyer wants my bottom price I tell him I don't like to bid against
myself, come up with a counteroffer and we'll go from there. If the
'negotiations' aren't going anywhere, I suggest we sleep on it and he can get
back to me.
--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56
Plymouth, '66 Plymouth, '41 Dodge
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:00
PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] what's your bottom
dollar?
I've had a couple times when looking to buy a car
that I've had to tell the guy (usually at a dealership) that the only way I'd
buy the car is if they give it to me for a couple hundred bucks. It
usually finally tells them to leave you alone...at least about that certain
car.
As for people selling a car and a buyer asks the
"bottomline," it doesn't really surprise me, but I wonder how many people ask
that question and actually expect a straight answer. Maybe they were
never taught the art of negotiating but simply think they need to make one
offer and that will either be a sale or a no sale.
I suppose the best response is to just tell them
to look at the price on the window and if they don't like it they can make an
offer.
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 7:36
AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] what's your bottom
dollar?
I know that some people, and that
included me until I was in my 30's, (long time ago) are on the shy
side when dickering with sellers. I was with a friend of mine
when he was dealing on a car and he was afraid to make the offer he thought
he could live with. When the salesman walked out of the room, I asked
if he wanted me to say anything to the sales guy. He asked me.. "How
do you do that, I am almost embarrassed to tell him what I would
pay." I said to him,
" Bob, your wife tells you no all the time, and you live thorugh that.
Just ask, all he can say is no"
John in WI
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Subject: Re: [FWDLK] what's your
bottom dollar?
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