If you want your item sold the number one thing to do is price it to sell. Dont knock $50 off your $500 3 year old item. No one will buy it for that.
Price it to sell, then wait, keep re-posting the add or changing the amount slightly and it will sell if its priced well.
I price items at the value I would be willing to drive somewhere to pick up and pay cash for.
The worst as a seller is when you have posted honest pictures and description and negotiated a price and the guy or gal comes and tries to lowball you on site.
I have had that happen 3 times, twice it was at a neutral location and I just told the guy, this is the price, I told you all the flaws/defects etc and sent you pictures via the phone in case you thought they were old pictures. Take it or leave it, I dont need your $150 that bad to be fkd like I am in prison.
The other time a woman came to my house to buy a used central vac hose and brush etc. She knew the model, age, and pictures and wanted 1/2 of what we originally agreed on which wasnt the list price. I told her no and closed the garage door. She knocked on the door and upped her price to 3/4 of what we agreed on and I ranted on her for a while until she left.
I did that to a guy for hockey tickets. I was already selling below face value and we had agreed to a price. He got there and knocked $20 off his offer. So I countered with face value. He offered me the original agreed upon price. I said no and countered with $10 more.
After much arguing and feeling stupid for doing the exchange at my house I got the $10 extra. It felt good but wasn't really worth it.
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I do like kijiji even though there's a bunch of crappy people on it.
I just sold a pretty much new item for $60 (originally $100) and when the guy showed up of course he tried to ask if $50 was enough. I told him everything was already agreed upon and he said "ok, worth a try" and still paid the $60.
Tips: I was way too nice when selling or giving stuff away free, if it's free always post "first come, first serve" or prepare to be annoyed with people not getting back to you, or making other arrangements for you to drop it off, etc...
If you get lowball offers just politely say "Thanks but I have already received offers close to my asking amount", they will either f-off or they will actually offer you a decent offer.
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Whenever I have stuff I need to sell I pile t up on my driveway and advertise a 'Yard-Sale' and then when enough people arrive and show interest I just set everything on fire and burn it before their eyes!
As if they think they're good enough to re-use my old crap.
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I always price about 20% higher than my bottom line. I almost always get offers under what I ask, so then we are both happy, and they think they "won" so they are excited to grab it ASAP.
Appreciate the post by "4x4" but for security reasons i would not recommend putting your exact location in the add, particularly if its an expensive item. My recommendation is to put in an address of a public location(eg, Market Mall) near your place.
I actually like your idea. I'll probably use that in the future for more expensive items that could possibly get stolen out of the garage. But for the old PS3, using your postal code puts you on a street. It applies to probably 30-50 houses.
I always use the postal code for the school nearby. People see where they're going (roughly) and that's good enough. I also use my email only because I don't want phone calls.
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I often use a postal code a couple of streets over. It gets the person close enough to know if it is worth the drive, but saves people cruising your own street looking for what you are selling. Especially good if you are selling before a move.
1. No price on the ad
2. No model number on the ad
3. Asking an old used item for more than the price of a brand new one
4. Saying "I'm in no hurry to sell"
5. Selling with an attitude that he's doing you a favor to sell you his item
6. Wait three days to reply to email
1. No price on the ad
2. No model number on the ad
3. Asking an old used item for more than the price of a brand new one
4. Saying "I'm in no hurry to sell"
5. Selling with an attitude that he's doing you a favor to sell you his item
6. Wait three days to reply to email
Yup, for the sellers, you absolutely need to be prepared. For goodness sake, clean the item, take a decent picture, post the correct item number and be prepared to be inundated with e-mails/calls if priced appropriately. It is unbelievable how much interest there is for all sorts of crap.
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Kijiji is absolutely fantastic as a free junk removal service. It's amazing to me how quickly people reply/show up to grab anything that's free.
Buying/selling is very hit & miss, and depends on what your selling. I've sold (and bought) guitars/camera gear with little trouble. Just ignore the low balls.
On the other hand I had a junker car with a set of snow tires I was trying to upload that was a nightmare. "I'll give $300, can you deliver it to high river?"
I've had similar experiences with TV's & Computers. It's hard to get a fair price when you need to overprice things by at least $50 so the buyer can feel they haggled you down.
Although my favourite Kijiji thing is coming across sellers with terrible photos of expensive camera gear. Just makes me laugh that some one with a photography hobby can't take the 15 minutes to snap decent photos of their $2500 Leica.
I've sold many tickets through kijiji and craigslist. About a third of them I didn't even have to meet, and they transferred me money electronically once I showed them my online profile. I would not have transferred money without meeting, but I'm glad there are some people who are trustworthy out there.
When I was moving I sold a couch that was from IKEA, that I had listed for $300. A guy shows up, likes it, and says he'll give me $200. I say $300. His big thing was that he could take it off my hands that day. I was moving in a month, and I thought it would sell much quicker than 5 hours after I put the ad up, so I wasn't in too big of a hurry. He said he told his wife he wouldn't spend more than $225. I told him he could stop at IKEA on the way home, buy it new for $600 + tax, or give me $300 for a couch that was 6 months old. He gave me the $300, and I helped him move it down to his car. That's about the worst experience I've had on kijiji, and it went fairly smoothly.
I sold a PS3 game once and the guy was shocked I didn't raise my price once he showed up. He said I was the fourth guy he'd gone to buy off of, and each one increased it. Why would people do that?
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I tried selling my old car around 2 years ago. I am Kijiji n00b but know enough. (Didn't know of the "Will ignore ridiculous low baller line though, but I did write OBO so, I expected it").
Anyways, I try selling my car for $800. I even have paper on my car window saying $800 OBO. Best offer I get is some guy offering $500 on Kijiji. Everything else is crap tons of $300-400 offers. I'm hesitant but willing to let go at $500 if that's the best offer in 24 hours (I want it gone). I carefully consider the wording and text the guy with the following, "How about you come over, look at the car and we will agree on a price when you come?" plus text address (No acknowledgement of agreement)
I hop in the car and run a quick test drive/last sentimental trip. Swing on Stony and turn around at Royal Oak to go home. I get a call. Pick up thinking it's test drive guy and it's instead some other random guy who saw me drive by in Royal Oak not 2 minutes prior and is super interested in the car. (just by seeing me at a stop light). So I swing back, meet him in Citadel and he offers $800 right there. What luck! I tell him as a courtesy, there's an offer on the car, but if it doesn't work out, I'll give him a call. He asks if he can take the car for a quick spin anyways (leaving a car at a gas station) and I agree.
Call Kijiji guy back. "Hey, I have a different offer on the car that's full price. But since you were interested first, I'm giving you first swing at matching. Are you still interested in the car?" The #### fit this guy threw about how we had a deal and I was being unethical etc. I calmly told him, "Reread that text I sent to you. Does it look like an agreement to you? I said we would discuss price when you came." He actually admitted that there was no deal in place and that next time I should be more clear.
Me thinking: Ok. No prob. Maybe I was at fault too. "Sorry man." I tell him over the phone.
He then begins to insult me, wish ill will to me hoping I crash the car before I sell to the other guy plus sarcastic sounding blabbing in another language... so I wished him good luck on finding a car interrupting whatever he was mumbling at me and hung up.
I'll use Kijiji, but I'll be more aware of being careful how I do transactions there from now on. The wording tricks some of you use sound super helpful.
I've acquired a few items from buy sell on this forum. Good guys and experiences thus far.
I did that to a guy for hockey tickets. I was already selling below face value and we had agreed to a price. He got there and knocked $20 off his offer. So I countered with face value. He offered me the original agreed upon price. I said no and countered with $10 more.
After much arguing and feeling stupid for doing the exchange at my house I got the $10 extra. It felt good but wasn't really worth it.
I probably would've just went with the original agreed price rather than trying to make a point, but I can see why you did. If someone comes to my house to buy something, it's usually at a time when I'm not busy. If they offer less than the original agreed price, I'll just say no. It took me 5 minutes to come outside to talk to them, it probably took them much longer to drive over. If they want to invest that much time and go home empty handed, have at 'er.
We've started venturing into Kijiji more and more.
Often times for cheaper items, we agree to a price and then tell people it will be in our mailbox or on our front steps for you to pick up. We ask them to leave the agreed upon money in our mail box. That way we don't have to sit around and wait for the doorbell to ring for some kid toys or whatever.
We always add in some line of "don't be the one to destroy our faith in humanity and not leave the money". I'm sure we'll get taken one of these days, but so far so good - people have left the correct amount of money every time. We've had a few no-shows, as usual, but no biggie as at least we didn't have to sit around waiting for them not to come...
I tried selling my old car around 2 years ago. I am Kijiji n00b but know enough. (Didn't know of the "Will ignore ridiculous low baller line though, but I did write OBO so, I expected it").
Anyways, I try selling my car for $800. I even have paper on my car window saying $800 OBO. Best offer I get is some guy offering $500 on Kijiji. Everything else is crap tons of $300-400 offers. I'm hesitant but willing to let go at $500 if that's the best offer in 24 hours (I want it gone). I carefully consider the wording and text the guy with the following, "How about you come over, look at the car and we will agree on a price when you come?" plus text address (No acknowledgement of agreement)
I hop in the car and run a quick test drive/last sentimental trip. Swing on Stony and turn around at Royal Oak to go home. I get a call. Pick up thinking it's test drive guy and it's instead some other random guy who saw me drive by in Royal Oak not 2 minutes prior and is super interested in the car. (just by seeing me at a stop light). So I swing back, meet him in Citadel and he offers $800 right there. What luck! I tell him as a courtesy, there's an offer on the car, but if it doesn't work out, I'll give him a call. He asks if he can take the car for a quick spin anyways (leaving a car at a gas station) and I agree.
Call Kijiji guy back. "Hey, I have a different offer on the car that's full price. But since you were interested first, I'm giving you first swing at matching. Are you still interested in the car?" The #### fit this guy threw about how we had a deal and I was being unethical etc. I calmly told him, "Reread that text I sent to you. Does it look like an agreement to you? I said we would discuss price when you came." He actually admitted that there was no deal in place and that next time I should be more clear.
Me thinking: Ok. No prob. Maybe I was at fault too. "Sorry man." I tell him over the phone.
He then begins to insult me, wish ill will to me hoping I crash the car before I sell to the other guy plus sarcastic sounding blabbing in another language... so I wished him good luck on finding a car interrupting whatever he was mumbling at me and hung up.
I'll use Kijiji, but I'll be more aware of being careful how I do transactions there from now on. The wording tricks some of you use sound super helpful.
I've acquired a few items from buy sell on this forum. Good guys and experiences thus far.
For the most part, I have stopped being courteous to Kijiji buyers. I'll usually put in the ad "first come, first serve" or something similar. I've had waaay to many times when someone says they're going to come over and buy something or look at something, so I tell others that it's spoken for, but I'll let them know. I end up waiting for the buyer to arrive and eventually send them a text that gets a reply like "hey sorry, we found something better".
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