Joys of selling cars and caravans - NOT!

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Had guy yesterday on the phone. I couldnt get him off the phone. Offered me pretty much just over 50% I said nope.

He then gave me a 5 min speech about how skint he was, how much he liked the caravan etc. I still said no. Then he wanted my address to come around to "discuss the price further". I was in work anyway but sure wife would not have been happy to have this guy around.

In the end I had to say "look, we're nowhere near agreeing on this, Im not giving you my address until I get some idea that you're realistically going to buy it, but I've got to got to go now"

Im going to pop in the Porsche garage on the way home and tell them how much I love their car, how skint I am and can I have one for half price.......

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vikingaero wrote: »

There's sensible haggling and being an insulting !!!!!!.

Let's say we have a £4,000 family hatchback, an in demand everyday car, good condition and similar cars are advertised at similar prices.

Offering £2k is unacceptable. If someone is going to do this then close the door immediately. It is unlikely to be someone serious.

Offering £3.5k is OK and it's closer to the asking price to tempt the seller by showing you are serious. Then you can negotiate to a buying/selling price that both parties are happy with.

Offer me less than 75-80% of advertised price and you can forget it with me.

Caroline_a

Slightly different slant to selling things from home. I recently tried to sell a grand piano - none of my family play and it was left to me. I was astounded at the amount of scammers I had try to "buy" it. The emails all went the same way, asking if it was still for sale, then telling me they wanted to buy it, could I take it off sale and send them all my details, bank account blah blah and then they would arrange transport - mostly to Thailand!!! Needless to say I didn't bite and ignored after the first email.

Then I had someone who was genuinely interested. As they had an oriental name and most of the scammers had been from Thailand allegedly I was very cynical! However we exchanged several emails and they arranged to come and try out the piano with their teacher. That was the point which I decided that it was genuine. They came, loved the piano and handed a cheque over. They have to organise transport and that doesnt happen overnight, but the cheque cleared and all was good.

However, the scammers were a wake up call to me - they are everywhere!!

pinkshoes

We had a £5.3k BMW advertised on EBay. It was very sensibly priced reflecting age, mileage and condition. We were happy to take £5k

We had 50+ watchers, lots of "will pay cash mate" £3500 offers, but just declined. Some of them kept emailing back and pestering, trying to get us to accept, some being cheeky verging on rude.

Just one guy came to see it, asked lots of sensible questions, thought about it, then offered £5k. We accepted. He paid a 10% deposit and collected 3 weeks later.

No sooner did we mark it as sold on eBay, we had over 10 messages saying they would pay full asking price blah blah blah and desperate to buy it, and really narky that we had sold it. Huh?????

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pinkshoes wrote: »

We had a £5.3k BMW advertised on EBay. It was very sensibly priced reflecting age, mileage and condition. We were happy to take £5k

We had 50+ watchers, lots of "will pay cash mate" £3500 offers, but just declined. Some of them kept emailing back and pestering, trying to get us to accept, some being cheeky verging on rude.

Just one guy came to see it, asked lots of sensible questions, thought about it, then offered £5k. We accepted. He paid a 10% deposit and collected 3 weeks later.

No sooner did we mark it as sold on eBay, we had over 10 messages saying they would pay full asking price blah blah blah and desperate to buy it, and really narky that we had sold it. Huh?????

The world seems to be full of people who spent their days making crazy offers for things. Must work for them I guess.

Best we had was the guy who turned up. Yeah great I'll have be back tomorrow with the cash. Never showed. Phoned him, text - he ghosted me.

Two weeks later he emails and then phones. Got the money now be round tonight. Then had a right dig because it was sold and we'd shaken on deal.

Seemed to forget that he'd disappeared for two weeks and didn't bother contacting me.

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Sick of this - whats the lowest offer you'll accept rubbish. What is going on with that?

I advertise it at price A. If you want to come and look, do so, then make me an offer if you like and then we'll haggle. I got wise to this one. Told one guy £1750 (it was advertised for £2000), so he then offered me £1000. What was the point in me even telling him.

One woman even said I was rude because my reply was "what the most you'll pay?"

Sold now. Had enough of dealing with people.

hollydays

[quote=[Deleted User];71076562]Sick of this - whats the lowest offer you'll accept rubbish. What is going on with that?

I advertise it at price A. If you want to come and look, do so, then make me an offer if you like and then we'll haggle. I got wise to this one. Told one guy £1750 (it was advertised for £2000), so he then offered me £1000. What was the point in me even telling him.

One woman even said I was rude because my reply was "what the most you'll pay?"

Sold now. Had enough of dealing with people.[/QUOTE]

Yes that first one always got me. I used to say, " well perhaps you'd like to take a look at it first" . Of course they didn't.

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hollydays wrote: »

Yes that first one always got me. I used to say, " well perhaps you'd like to take a look at it first" . Of course they didn't.

Yes it seems to be a bit of a rude approach. If I advertise it for £2000 then I'm going to want that or slightly less.

It just seems rude that someone is expecting me to give them a rock bottom price without even looking at it. If someone comes and looks and thinks its worth £x then make an offer.

I suspect a lot of these "lowest offer" people see the advert like it bit can't even afford close to the price so are trying it on.

Have two people now also begging me to sell it for £1000. Because "they really like it" and "you've really looked after it". As if I'm going to knock £1000 off because someone is keen or compliments an item I'm selling !

owen_money

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Selling a few bits off as well from the caravan. Got one or two things for £10 each. One guy must have text me 10 times offering a fiver. No. Cant believe the effort he went to try and save £5.

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Will you take £6.50 each? I'll be around in a hour, and I've got cash

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A knock-on effect from retailers elevating customer expectations beyond the roof - that and people are rude what-names these days.

I sold a bicycle a couple of years ago, quite a good spec one, full suspension, worth at least £1,000, i had offers ranging from £900 right down to £250(!) and one guy even said "if you dont sell it to me for £500 i'm contacting trading standards because it's misleading". What is? The price? Go to town mate, i'm sure TS would love you wasting their time!

I had another one arrange to visit me at the shop I worked at at the time (it was a bike shop) and he ranted and raved about how it looked so nice, how he could use it for this and that, then offered £800 and for me to throw in a service and two spare tyres. When I said no he said "but you work in a bike shop, your mate can service it and you can get the tyres for trade, I dont understand why you won't accept the offer" - at that point even the manager told him to gtfo!