make offer, no lowballing

I see this all the time. No price listed, just "no lowballing"

for some reason this really bothers me

I dont even respond to ads that mention anything about "lowballing", its a stupid term, and it usually seems to mean they just want an excuse to be rude if you dont want to overpay.

I HATE playing "make offer" game. I either make them made with a low offer or they accept the offer so fast I think I gave them double what they really wanted.

one dollar!

fitie cen..t

Three halfpence!

What I hate more is the "best offer". There was a guy selling a diesel ram and the price was listed as "best offer", not $X,XXX OR best offer. So I offered him $5. He got all bent out of shape but I explained to him that he's had the truck listed for months, has bumped it 6 times and had no other offers. Mine was clearly the best offer, and he is obligated to take it. He said no. I guess he didn't really mean "best offer" then huh?

one shilling

I also hate "I know what I got". And it is way over priced.

Also"I ain't hurting for nothing". I usually skip both those adds.

Forget lowballing and the make offer crap... How about just a title that says, "Ford", "Mustang", "Chevy", "Mazda", etc...?

Ranger50 wrote: Forget lowballing and the make offer crap... How about just a title that says, "Ford", "Mustang", "Chevy", "Mazda", etc...?

sometimes that would be an improvement, Many times I see "for sale"

I have seen title: for sale, description: I an need to sell my car, no emails, best offer.

and that was it. no details, no description, no even telling us what it was, no price.. no nothing.

I understand why people put no low balling in an ad that you put a price but then say best offer. But most people that do that also price things way to high.

I had the MINI S priced at $4500, which was the lowest priced S in Ontario at the time. I did say OBO. People would email and offer $2000. I'd usually reply with a simple no. Once I said, "I guess you'll just have to buy one of the other Cooper Ss at that price. Oh yeah, there aren't any."

Yes, I can be a bit of an ass

I got a few low-ball offers for my Cummins, but it wasn't too bad. But it was a running Cummins 5 spd 4x4 with a $3500 asking price... Mostly it was trade offers... tons of them. A surprising number of lifted Jeeps. And I was still getting them after I edited the ad to say, "no trades!"

In reply to Ian F:

You forgot to put "no offers from illiterates" in the ad .

BoxheadTim wrote: In reply to Ian F: You forgot to put "no offers from illiterates" in the ad .

"Stupid questions are cheerfully ignored." So don't ask if the FORD 302 heads I am selling will work on your Dodge Caravan and other similarly stupid crap....

In reply to BoxheadTim:

True...

That truck and it's effed-up VIN history is still haunting me... The guy who bought it is in MD and their DMV is giving him a hard time since the registration VIN is only shown on the dash. Fortunately for him, his mother lives in PA where we're less picky. Fortunately for me, the advantage of private tag places is they can be flexible with this sort of thing vs. him driving back up to a place near me or me going there... I had to fax some stuff to his tag shop since they generally like the buyer and seller when notorizing the title.

The mis-matched VIN was the first thing I stated in the ad, so he knew what he was getting into.

Oh gosh... Don't get me started. I especially love when people do the $xxxx FIRM at the top of the ad, and then at the bottom it says $xxxx OBO.

Which one is it?!

Also, I made the mistake of putting 'open to trades' on a car I was trying to sell. Never again. I have never been emailed so much pure, unadultured junk in my lifetime.

In reply to golfduke:

For "real" fun with trades, try this with a modded Talon.

I swear I could have refilled the crap aisle at the local PepZone with the take offs from the vehicles I was offered.

I see quite a few ads that state, "make me an offer, but no low balls because I know what these cars are worth!" If you know what it's worth then put a damn price in you ad you tool.

I'm trying to dig up a trade offer I had for a $500 toolbox. The guy was literally offering every basement piece of junk he had. It read like a yard sale table- vacuum bags, a hair dryer, expired MRE's, a super nintendo with 20 games...

TWO DOLLARS!!

What gets me is the folks that refuse to set a price and then say "make offer" then get all insulted when you make them one, like you just called their momma a whore or something. I mean, if you're going to take it personally, then don't ASK to be insulted.

Basil Exposition wrote: What gets me is the folks that refuse to set a price and then say "make offer" then get all insulted when you make them one, like you just called their momma a whore or something. I mean, if you're going to take it personally, then don't ASK to be insulted.

agreed.

at least gimme a ballpark of what you think car is worth. I offered a guy 3k, for his Rampage, he came back, LOL try more like 8k, I know what it is worth.

same happened with a guy selling a 2nd gen MR2. by the time I got him to give me idea of what he wanted, he said 20k.

i do not make offers without evaluating a vehicle in person. and a lot of times after seeing a vehicle i do not make an offer, i simply tell the seller what i believe their vehicle is worth. sometimes i even leave my number and ask them to call me when the rest of the world helps them reevaluate their asking price.

what makes me LOL is when people say how much they've "invested" in their car. no, dick-hole, it's not an investment, it's just spending.

330xi pretty darn close to book/ market

'no low balling'

oh, and has an R title...