Clayton Thibert from Windsor with an email starting with this msugradd94@

Possible transaction happening this weekend

Just curious...

No news is good news I guess!

This guy is willing to rent a van and drive down to Ottawa on Saturday to p/u my BK if it hasn't sold by Friday evening. He didn't haggle much which leads me to believe he'll get here and find every reason possible to bring the price down because he drove a bunch of miles or whatever else. I'll send him an email on Friday to  re-iterate the 'as is' pinball clause as well as the firm price. Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Wow.., Windsor to Ottawa ( ..and back !  )... that's a looooong drive.

I guess if you make it unmistakingly clear that it's "as-is" and "non-negotiable",
then you have every right to send him back empty-handed if he tries a song-and-dance to lower the price.

Then again , if he's actually going to rent a van and drive 1600km (return) to pick-up a pin,
I'm guessing he's pretty serious about buying it...
(... heck, van rental and gas alone is going to cost him $400 ! )

Good luck....

Steph

I guess it comes down to a question of how bad you want to sell.

If he's standing there with 10-15% less than your asking price and you don't have any other potential buyers anywhere on the horizon, you can choose to accept the sale or wait for someone else to come around that may (or may not) offer you your asking price.

Sometimes it's better to take the easy sale than it is to squeeze it for every penny.

My two cents.  

^^^^^^

Well said.

Dan

Although I agree that selling a game
for a bit less that you want
is better than not selling it at all,
I guess my point is that a firm price should be set "before"
the buyer drives down to pick-up a game.

(...of course, this assumes you've described the game fairly and accurately ).

If I'm going to drive any long distance for a game,
I agree to a price beforehand, and trust the seller
to have described the game fairly.

If the description is way off,
or there are some obvious flaws that the seller
purposely tried to hide, then all bets are off,
and I would be in my right to counter-offer a lower
price given the newly discovered/undisclosed flaws.

However, if the game is as descibed and I've agreed to a price,
then I would think that it would be in very poor taste
to try and haggle a new (better) price once I meet the buyer.

As a seller, I would be quite irate if someone tried that on me,
...and even if I had been willing to sell for less,
I likely wouldn't, just out of contempt for the buyer.

... but that's just me...  


Steph

A new pinhead in Windsor.  Yeah.  Maybe we can start our South Detroit branch of MAACA, lol.