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04-16-2011, 01:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Southwest Missouri | | | He wouldn't buy it because I paid $500 less than he thought.
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I was in the process of selling a bass. I had already gone below what I was wanting, and the guy was interested in it for the price we had negotiated. . . . . . .until he asked "if I had paid over $2,000 for it". When I stated that I actually spent about $1,500 on it, he decided to NOT buy it "because he thought I had spend over $2,000 for it"!!!
Okay, everyone is entitled to purchase what they want or not. . . . but the bass didn't change suddenly JUST because I happened to spend $500 less than he thought! So, did he feel it a "better deal" if I loose even MORE money on the deal? 
Sorry, this just happened . . . and I had taken the time to pack it, . . . went to the UPS store to have it weighed to know what the cost would be, and then this???  It is okay to get a good deal, but for god sake . . . . . 
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04-16-2011, 02:01 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Close to Los Angeles, CA | | | That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, and I would refuse to sell the bass to someone that stupid. |
04-16-2011, 02:32 PM
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Endorsing Artist: MLaghus Custom Basses | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Boca Raton - FL | | | Some people feel fine knowing that a broker is making 30.000 when they buy a house but won't buy a bass from you if they know you're making 100 bucks out of the deal... |
04-16-2011, 02:35 PM
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04-16-2011, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Harrisburg PA | | | lesson learned dude, let him believe you payed however much he wants to believe, it was none of his business
he thought he was getting a deal, then saw you were making some scratch off of him and got turned off.. |
04-16-2011, 02:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Close enough to San Fran | | | Tell the next possible buyer you payed 500 grand for it, that'll lock in a sale
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04-16-2011, 03:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Southwest Missouri | | The thing is, I wasn't making a profit. Far from it. I was already about $700 below what I had paid for it. It just didn't make any logical sense to me at all.  |
04-16-2011, 03:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Go on to the next one. It's a bit stressing to deal with people who lack certain logic skills, you never know when they'll stick on a nonsensical issue.
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04-16-2011, 03:25 PM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | | Was it a TB'er? If so, remind me to never sell him/her anything!
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04-16-2011, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Southwest Missouri | | | It was, but don't want to drop names. |
04-16-2011, 04:49 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | Quote:
Originally Posted by line6man That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, and I would refuse to sell the bass to someone that stupid. | Quoted for truth. |
04-16-2011, 09:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | If there was an offer and an acceptance, it was a contract. Profit or loss by either party matters not. Even a bass player knows that much.
Neg his feedback at the very least. |
04-16-2011, 09:28 PM
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Beta Tester: Source Audio. Hacker: Heavy Drone FX | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Spokane, WA. | | | FWIW,...If I get a good deal on something I usually pass that deal along if I decide to sell it on the back end,....if that is even what the buyer's gripe was,..but frankly it just seems as though the buyer copped out.
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04-16-2011, 09:51 PM
| | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | I hope the would-be buyer finds this thread and reads the echoing sentiments of essentially everyone here that he's a fool! 
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04-16-2011, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by DaveCustomMade The thing is, I wasn't making a profit. Far from it. I was already about $700 below what I had paid for it. It just didn't make any logical sense to me at all. | So you put 1200 into it? |
04-17-2011, 02:00 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Close to Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Neg his feedback at the very least. | -1. (Pun intended.)
Feedback is not for people that decide not to buy your stuff, it's for people who either pay you, or get you to ship your gear to them. You can't just leave someone bad feedback because they decided not to buy. (Even though it's a douchey reason for passing on a deal.  ) |
04-17-2011, 02:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Portland, OR | | Quote:
Originally Posted by line6man -1. (Pun intended.)
Feedback is not for people that decide not to buy your stuff, it's for people who either pay you, or get you to ship your gear to them. You can't just leave someone bad feedback because they decided not to buy. (Even though it's a douchey reason for passing on a deal. ) | I don't know about that.
Feedback is feedback "How did the deal with so&so go?"
If they HAD a negotiated price (and they did) and if the seller told any other interested parties (maybe me for instance) that it was "sold, pending payment" like you see on TB a lot.
Then he lost a sale because he had a "deal" with "The Unknown Comic" and I have since purchased something else based on the fact that the seller said his was sold already.
Even though he was a fool for not going through with the deal, he screwed the seller in process.
I think the seller has the right to tell everyone else his negative experience with "the unknown comic" who was going to buy it when he thought the Seller paid $2000.00 for it then changed his mind and said no thanks when the seller said no, I actually paid 1500.00 for it.
Which is they way it looks to me.
Don't tell anyone what you paid for anything, btw.
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04-17-2011, 02:30 AM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | I've dealt with this a few times and honestly it nevers bother me... after all, it's their loss. If someone asks me what I paid for a bass I tell them. If they somehow get that confused with what the bass is worth, fine.
I have a knack for finding relatively bizarre deals on a regular basis and here's a simple analogy I offer folks: If I find a $20 bill, should I give it to you? After all, that was my cost of acquisition.
So I put my Surine 7 string that I found at GC on consignment at around $2k. A friend of mine bought it, knowing what I paid for it ($1000. I had told him) but also knowing it was still a stupid deal at that price. If I sell my Fodera Anthony Jackson Contrabass it's no secret that I bought it for $2500 several years back. Anyone thick enough to think that figures into what I should sell it for is welcome to do so.
Some people just aren't clear enough thinkers to understand that. IMO that's okay. Cost of acquisition does not equal resale value. What's funny is that the same people who don't get this never seem to think that gear you try to sell at well below what you paid for it should lead them to fork over more money. |
04-17-2011, 02:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Portland, OR | | I had a TB'er flame me here for asking a certain $ amount for a "like new - a few months old" amp.
He "knew" how much I paid because he saw the same advert.
I was asking more than I paid but almost half what it was currently selling for at the Dealer ... Go figure.
But since I wasn't selling it to him, I didn't post any feedback. 
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04-17-2011, 06:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Minneapolis (Chicago Native) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DwaynieAD lesson learned dude, let him believe you payed however much he wants to believe, it was none of his business ... | Bingo.
What you paid was none of his business.
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