Selling my XXXXXXX bass online... maybe I'm just too impatient(?)

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So I decided to part with my XXXXXXX bass, because I’ve got small-ish hands, not much reach, and I just never got used to the 35” scale. I absolutely love everything about this bass, except the scale… the tonal capabilities are XXXXXXXX, and the instrument is in XXXXXXXX condition. So, going on the advice of a very knowledgeable bass salesman at a local music store, that I’ve known for years…. so I throw it out there for a starting price of (X) dollars. Within a couple hours, I get a couple offers at (X – 150) dollars and (X – 125) dollars. Well, I was kind of caught off-guard and thought there must be some interest here, and that it would be a bit odd to accept a (X – 150) discount so quickly upon posting the add, so I declined their offers. So I figured I’d let the listing run for a week or so before I resorted to dropping the price. Well… it’s been crickets ever since. I have progressively dropped the asking price down to (X – 150) dollars, where it has been for a few days now, and nothing… zero, zip, nada! Now, mind you… I am literally a few hundred bucks below other like XXXXXXX basses currently listed online (on XXXXXX and elsewhere that I’ve seen). If I were to drop the price much more, well… I might as well walk it into a XXXXXX Center and sell/trade it and forego the hassle of the transaction and shipping, etc. I was also toying with the idea of selling my fretless, but now probably not. I’ve been a bassist for decades, but I’m a rookie at the selling game. Am I doing something wrong, or am I just being impatient? Maybe there’s not much of a market for these XXXXXXX basses?

 

Very good point there