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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The first few times it happens it feels a bit offensive but if you sell enough stuff on Kijiji you realize it's simply part of selling something there. I used to also give the snarky responses but now just a quick "No thanks" and that's it and if the reply with a "you are asking too much" type of comment I again reply "No thanks" and they just disappear.
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I agree, but sometimes people just set you off. I was selling a mac mini a couple years ago and I had one person send me multiple "offers" for it that eventually I felt the need to write back. They sent me a link to gazelle (a website that will buy your electronics from you, which they then resell) telling me what my mac mini was
actually worth and so their lowball was
actually a fair offer. Their offer email was so smug too. Treating me like an idiot for my list price when in fact they were the stupid one.
I forget the actual numbers but gazelle would have paid me around 1/3 of what I ended up selling it for. Plus they low balled the gazelle price. So if I had it listed for $800, gazelle's price was $260 and they offered $200 because it was "fair" and that was what the mac was "actually worth". It would be like trying to buy a car off of Kijiji and using a dealer trade in value as the actual value and then lowballing that.