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Selling stuff rant & silly story
a year ago
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Doing move prep, selling off all my furniture and unnecessary/outgrown items. Donating alot of my garage items like paint/stain supplies, excess hardware etc.
But I swear has Covid/Bidenflation made people buying secondhand so much more nitpicky and flakey? I have items at 50% retail and I still get people wanting half off ontop of that. It's like some gross game for them? Ignore the existing discount, take my asking price, reduce by 50%, then refuse to go above 60%. Makes me wish I didn't care about being banned from the selling platforms for profanity XD Would love to give them a piece of my mind!
For example, I have a small box of Legos and another of Knex.
Both are being sold based on weight at about marketmid based on Amazon and ebay. Sounds like a reasonable ask right?
Nope~ They all want to lowball and take advantage of me like Im some ill-informed parent. "Selling Legos can be confusing, but I can take a look for free and let you know what they're actually worth". Fucking hell the arrogance! Or they want to sort through every-little-piece to 'make a fair offer' but I know they're just looking at the figures, like scratching a lotto ticket before they buy it.
Selling my old trading cards (pokemon) is no different. Everyone wants to be your friend and "give a free appraisal". Met up with a guy (I played dumb) and that slezeball offered me $60 on a midmarket $400 binder, told me that "oh I'll get about 100 for it so it's a great deal for you".
So I had this bookcase for sale, about $300 retail. Dusty, but hardly used. Marked 150
Guy wants it
We make plans for him to pick it up at 3:30
I text him a bit after 3:30
"Im delayed to 5:30" he says
So I wait
It starts to lightly drizzle but I figure the bookcase is protected by my garage awning
I text him a bit after 5:30
"Im delayed to 6:30" he says
FINALLY shows up a hair before 7
Asks to borrow an allen wrench to disassemble it in my driveway to get it into his car
....FINE
Looks it over and says it has water damage, says he'll pay 75
I remind him that it was dry at 3:15 when he was supposed to pick it up, plus it's been protected since then
Nope sticks firm to 75 or he walks
.... FINE, (just pay me and get your cheap ass off my property)
He left some screws behind so good luck getting it back together and i left him a 1 star review, but I was still salty.
Can't wait to move out of CA, quickly loosing my love for this state
But I swear has Covid/Bidenflation made people buying secondhand so much more nitpicky and flakey? I have items at 50% retail and I still get people wanting half off ontop of that. It's like some gross game for them? Ignore the existing discount, take my asking price, reduce by 50%, then refuse to go above 60%. Makes me wish I didn't care about being banned from the selling platforms for profanity XD Would love to give them a piece of my mind!
For example, I have a small box of Legos and another of Knex.
Both are being sold based on weight at about marketmid based on Amazon and ebay. Sounds like a reasonable ask right?
Nope~ They all want to lowball and take advantage of me like Im some ill-informed parent. "Selling Legos can be confusing, but I can take a look for free and let you know what they're actually worth". Fucking hell the arrogance! Or they want to sort through every-little-piece to 'make a fair offer' but I know they're just looking at the figures, like scratching a lotto ticket before they buy it.
Selling my old trading cards (pokemon) is no different. Everyone wants to be your friend and "give a free appraisal". Met up with a guy (I played dumb) and that slezeball offered me $60 on a midmarket $400 binder, told me that "oh I'll get about 100 for it so it's a great deal for you".
So I had this bookcase for sale, about $300 retail. Dusty, but hardly used. Marked 150
Guy wants it
We make plans for him to pick it up at 3:30
I text him a bit after 3:30
"Im delayed to 5:30" he says
So I wait
It starts to lightly drizzle but I figure the bookcase is protected by my garage awning
I text him a bit after 5:30
"Im delayed to 6:30" he says
FINALLY shows up a hair before 7
Asks to borrow an allen wrench to disassemble it in my driveway to get it into his car
....FINE
Looks it over and says it has water damage, says he'll pay 75
I remind him that it was dry at 3:15 when he was supposed to pick it up, plus it's been protected since then
Nope sticks firm to 75 or he walks
.... FINE, (just pay me and get your cheap ass off my property)
He left some screws behind so good luck getting it back together and i left him a 1 star review, but I was still salty.
Can't wait to move out of CA, quickly loosing my love for this state
For the Legos and Pokémon cards, I've seen plenty of people market stuff as a "mystery box". It makes it more appealing as a basic marketing trick, and hopefully keeps those pesky hyperspecific collectors from complaining.
Hilarious when they message me pretending to be a parent, but ask questions only a collector would.
"My kids really likes Star wars sets and sees stickers from those sets. They want to know if the X Y and Z figure are included and if you have the original boxs for any."
Got slightly better for YGO cards and at this point, I'm trying to weed stuff again and DVDs, even video games (PS1 and PS2) seem tricky to get much traction for. Unless I'm just doing something wrong on marketing, which is quite possible. Same with a grouping of books, though I made a few sales early on, so I have some hope