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Howard-
I guess I spend a good amount of time researching the cheapest option for someone to purchase what I’m selling and also historically what it has been sold for, rather than just what the general RRP is....
I feel it also really helps for sellers to justify why they think their sale price is reasonable, much more helpful than immediately brandishing someone a ‘lowballer’.
Dick
I think there’s sometimes a very fine line between a lowball offer and what someone is willing to pay for something based on what they’ve paid for things in the past!
I had an eBay seller respond to my offer with utmost disgust the other day highlighting just how much he had paid for the object I “lowballed” on, before I promptly responded with an informed example of where I could buy said object, with free postage, for a matter of about £3 more than I’d offered him...
Much like beauty, lowballing is often in the eye of the beholder, where someone who goes out and pays RRP for everything may baulk at an otherwise very sensible and well informed offer!