It's been about a month since one of the greatest Ozbargain call to arms - "Ozbargain Unite and Lowball all the Stupid High Sellers."
For those who answered "Destroy the Dirty Greedy sellers," How did you go LOWBALLING THE HELL out of sellers?
How Did You Go Lowballing Stupid High Sellers?
ihfree on 20/03/2023 - 21:09
Last edited 20/03/2023 - 22:06
Last edited 20/03/2023 - 22:06
Poll Options
- 16Great Success! - Inflation Reversed!
- 0Moderate Success - Greedy Sellers Rekt and Miserable.
- 3Success - I got realistic prices
- 1Small Success - I managed to save a bit
- 2I didn't change my behaviour
- 1No luck - an attempt was made
- 2No luck - People blocked/ignored me
- 70I just like clicking polls
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bikies
Good. Managed to get a motorcycle down from $1,900 to $800, and another one from $1,500 down to $300. But just means I made work for myself. *sigh*
It hasn't been a month…
23 Feb 2023 to today isn't a month, There are 25 days between 23/02/2023 and today. :+(30 days is pretty long for a month #lowballed
OP lowballed us!
I think the reason why some Gumarket sellers ask so much is because they know people will offer half the asking price. And if someone does want to pay full price then that's a bonus.
I remember pre-internet times when you could go to rich suburb garage sales and pick up high end stuff cheap because rich people don't know any better. Nowadays they just search what they are selling and see what they actually go for.
One below from a 'qualified computer technician' no less:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/wanneroo/components/asus-rtx…
$1400Ridiculous asking price for a card which has been taken apart (missing warranty void sticker on GPU screw), and put back together somehow 2 screws short from the display outputs area (also showing corrosion on the metal).
That one is ridiculous. If you were to offer on it, you'd be offering market rate which would be significantly lower than the asking price. It wouldn't even be lowballing.
I offered Amayzingone 50c to delete/rewrite his negative comment on Sinnerator's thread but he never did.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/13428125/redir
Worse still I received no upvotes. So my efforts as a lowballer have been a dismal failure. Best sticking to being a massive cheapskate - it's what I know best.
I chose not to be a butthole.
Offered $2k less on asking price, got the win.
Tried with other sellers, didn't work, but sadly for them, their stuff is still on sale while reasonably priced ones on sale from smart sellers have sold.
"Sadly for them, they didn't accept less money for the item, and they still have the item available for the price they want". -someone who doesn't know how prices work
and you know, really? right. keep buying OVERPRICED items then, you might be one of those delusional sellers, goodluck!
- Pop up to the service desk at Woolies and offer them $10 for everything in the store.
- When the service supervisor looks confused and says "We can't do that" say "I AM MAKING A CASH OFFER, TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, $10 FOR EVERYTHING, YES OR NO??"
- When they say "No", give them a smug little smile and say "Sadly for you, you're stuck with all this stuff. You could have been a smart seller, because a smart seller gives me the prices at the amount I want, because I am a smart buyer".
- Moonwalk out of the store like the alpha wolf you are.
@CrowReally: so you're citing Woolies as all overpriced, sigh, feel sorry for you. here's 10 cents, go buy yourself someone to chat with.
@kiwiyonip: I'll take $0.09.
You can keep the last one for when the penny drops that 'overpriced' is a word you use when using your value system in relation to their prices.
The people you tried to lowball and then they told you to go piss up a rope 'missed out' on your sale in the same way Woolworths did.
If you want/need to tell yourself a little story about being better off not getting the thing you wanted, The Fox and the Grapes is a classic (and better suited to your apparent reasoning ability).
I'm the opposite kind of seller, I list it 50% below market price and to show up after 1PM on Saturday. Why? Get a queue of people who will offer more against each other until price is like 200% of asking. If it goes below 200%? No problem, I just refuse to sell it until they bid more.
Want to buy some property?
IIRC, that behaviour is illegal
Are you going to arrest all the buyers who are desperate to buy it and started bidding on it?
Well, it's more that the vendor can be fined for underquoting. I don't know much about the topic so here's a link, you can assess for yourself:
https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/housing-and-property/prop…
@ihfree: Good luck enforcing that for auctions with the 'price guides'. What should be illegal is not publishing a reserve.
@orangetrain: Interesting idea. Do you think that would swing things too far the other way? It would certainly encourage pre auction offers.
I use a technique I like to call the double low-ball. It goes like this…
It wont work for high demand items but lets say the item I want is a dresser and the owner has it up for $600. Thing is probably actually worth closer to $450, I want to pay somewhere around $350-$400.
- I go in first with an offer slightly below my final price… probably $300. Seller rejects.
- I then get my buddy to message the seller with a really low lowball, say $200. This makes the seller question the actual value of their item and probably adds a little seller fatigue.
- I then come in with my final price which is slightly above my original lowball and offer ~$350. This price now seems a lot more attractive to the seller and they accept.
I've used this method countless times with great success.
The seller is a moron to fall for that..
Yeah easy to say when you know the play.
Interesting. I could see that working for certain items. I also wonder if some people have tried that on me.
I've seen this method and ignored it many times on Gumtree, generally cutting communications with both. Then you have the first person asking:
"Is item still for sale?', 'still for sale?', 'When can I pickup?'
Plenty of other buyers around as I check current pricing locally & nationally then advertise for ~25% (or more) lower than the cheapest similar quality unit, so need to deal with hagglers.
Yeah, I could only see this working for more demand items. Furniture for example can be quite hard to sell.
I've used this technique on 2 sellers with cars priced at $18k each, but didn't work. I asked them if I could take the car for $14k on that same day quick cash, they said, 'I prefer to wait it out and see…', so I got myself a really nice car for $14k and newer than the previous 2, and to this day those 2 cars are still listed, I checked today now down to $14.5k, it's been weeks since then, so a few more weeks and the price will be reduced to $13k and lower, hahaha.
No wonder OP I like clicking is winning the poll . I've never seen such crappy options in a poll here .
In the original poll, there were two options. This poll is relevant to those who voted or think "Destroy the Dirty Greedy sellers." The poll options are based on that thread and comments.
"I just like clicking polls" is basically a catch all for anyone else or those that think "Lowballing is wrong because sellers deserve all my money"
yes