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Originally Posted by Rerun
To all those who think its perfectly acceptable to make low ball / cheap offers, did you do that when you bought your house (assuming you own one)?
What about when you went on a job interview?
I can see it all now. A house is advertised at $400,000 which is a fair market value given the condition and the size of the house as well as the area in which its located.
You tell the real estate agent to submit an offer for $180,000. Against his better judgement, he does. The seller probably tells the buyer to go f himself. I feel sorry for your agent. He has a tough job with you as a client.
I can see it all now. You go on a job interview. The job sounds great. You're qualified to do the job. The interviewer asks what kind of salary you are looking for. You say $100,000 per year when you know, that if you got the job, you would be quite happy to start at $40,000 per year (the going rate for the position). The interviewer says thank you and goodbye.
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If I was purchasing a house by sending a largely anonymous email to a random person over the internet I think that would be a perfectly acceptable proposal. As said before, if you don't want to deal with amateurs stop selling as an amateur.
As for the job, if I thought the employer might be desperate to fill the position immediately and didn't have any other options maybe I'd throw out a big salary demand, especially if I knew I had tons of other options. Of course that's pretty much never going to happen with a job, but it's not at all uncommon when someone is selling a vehicle themselves through the internet.