What is "low ball"

Sorry, I meant agon. Still, if you don't have the money look elseware. Nobody else should have to deal with other peoples problems, classy or not.

Herman,

Lets take your senario of "Got something you want to get around $1,500 for? List it at $1,700 and include free Paypal and ground shipping"

So you list it at $1700.00. And lets say that this item has (recently) sold on Agon before for $1500.00 to $1700.00. You get an offer of $500.00 to include shipping and Paypal. This is approximately the OP's 75% off of asking price (which is where he thinks lowballing kicks in).
What would you do?

Do you think he is really going to even come close to your $1500.00 by negotiating with him? I don't get offended, but I also won't give this person even one minute of my time to respond.

I agree with Markpao... but you never know, $600.00 might just do it.

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Mark, I would respond with a price near my bottom line. "I can take X including shipping and Paypal and no less." It takes about 20 seconds to respond, why should I ignore a potential customer no matter how low they start? Some people start very low looking for desperate sellers.

I'm not charging a paypal fee. If the buyer pays with a money order, I'll deduct what I would have paid paypal.

Polk, yes you are charging a PayPal fee to those who want to use it. If you charge $100 by money order and $103 if I use Paypal then you are charging a fee to use Paypal. Your logic is the same as the pizza places that have free delivery but give you a discount if you come pick it up. That is not free delivery.

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Fair enough Herman. I guess you never know.