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The process I use is a combination of discount to current retail price and sold items on eBay. That sounds similar to what you do @Dick, doesn’t it?
Additionally, I’m not so sure I’m worried about different perceptions of value. Everyone is always going to have a different use of an item and willingness/ability to pay. No problems!
It’s when lowballing on this forum becomes a business model. Everyone knows prices here are a touch lower than elsewhere, there’s a community element that’s in play.
What got on my nerves was the suspicion that someone is using that community spirit to make a quick buck, at the expense of the community.
Specific red flags, each by themselves completely harmless, but together made me post the above:
- Immediate DM when items listed
- Move to text ASAP
- “Are you ready to sell quickly?”
- After firm no, repeated text check-ins: “Hey, hows everything?”
- Same user constantly selling high end kit, claiming ‘new whip’
- Ads for same stuff on other sites at the same time
My honest guess is they’re playing a marketplace arbitrage game. Can’t prove it, have no interest in doing so. But I can choose not to be a part of it.
The reason I didn’t name names was I’m not certain, and it came up. No big deal.
- Immediate DM when items listed
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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’.