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Originally Posted by lazypucker
My general Kijiji selling experience is bad, as I did try selling a few used cars throughout the years.
There's always the low-ballers - I had a used Mercedes listed at $30K where the dealer sells the same year same model for 15% more, and people texting me offering $18K, $21K!! WTF? Are you expecting me to lower the price by 40%?
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I often wonder what is the line between asking for a discount as part of a negotiation, and what is an offensive “low ball”? For your example above, $21 would have been my opening for an item priced at $30, with the expectation we would wind up somewhere from $25-$27.
I’m always polite “Hey, I know this is a low ball, but it’s what I can do, if it doesn’t work for you, no problem, good luck with your sale.”, but I wonder what sellers think is the line between an appropriate opening and an inappropriate one?
Thoughts from sellers?