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lilshawn:
if i'm buying CL / Kijiji stuff, i call when i have the time to go get it. then i go get it. I also shop for the price i'm looking for... i was looking for x-boxes a while back for about $20. so unless it said $20 or 30 with some accessories or a game or something i didn't even bother to contact.

random guy: Hello?
Me: yeah i'm calling about xxxxx still got it?
RD: yep, it's $40
Me: okay i'll take it, where you located at?
RD: 123 fake street.
Me: okay, i'm in the north end, take me about half an hour to get there.
RD: cool
ME: see you in 30
RD: later
Me: bye *click*

then i drive there and hand the dude a couple of 20's and i go home... no bargaining down the price, no humming an hawing about having to drive 30 mins, nothing. Business. Period. Done.

see how it works? why can't people understand that?

people want crap delivered to them? get real! You want to haggle down a wireless router that's valued at $30 or $40 that is advertised on CL for $10 already... and you want it for $5? c'mon really?

love the ones who show up to buy something for $10 or $20 and want to pay with a $100 bill... do i look like a bank?

Nephasth:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 30, 2011, 12:36:12 pm ---I tried to sell a pinball machine to a member here in exchange for a case of Shiner Bock.  He wanted me to deliver it and thought my asking price (~$18) was too much.

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I would drive a few hundred miles one way to "buy" a pinball machine for a case of Shiner Bock. That guy is nuts. As a side note, Shiner Bock is the only good thing to come out of Texas, one of my favorite beers.
lilshawn:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 30, 2011, 03:14:57 pm ---I take exact change plus an extra $20 or so whenever I buy something.  Tend to get a lot of accessories free or dirt cheap that way.

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yeah i have similar tactics. I'll take extra cash and ask if was selling anything else or had anything he wanted to get rid of. if anything interests me, i'll buy. I'll often haggle last second things like that, but if they don't budge, no big deal... i got what i came for.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=107965.msg1157813#msg1157813

scored 3 computers for $10. i originally was going to purchase 1 for $10 but he was anxious to be rid of them so he knocked it down to $5 for all of them. he even wanted to give me a bunch of keyboards and mice, but it was a bit of a trek back from his apartment to my van parked out on the street, and carrying 3 computers at the same time by myself was hard enough. shot the guy $10, no biggie.
wizkid32:

--- Quote from: lilshawn on December 30, 2011, 03:08:51 pm ---
love the ones who show up to buy something for $10 or $20 and want to pay with a $100 bill... do i look like a bank?


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Not to do that is the first rule of trading.

Much harder to convince someone that you're broke and they should knock off a couple bucks if you're waving around a $100.   ;D
Mac Green:

--- Quote from: wizkid32 on December 30, 2011, 10:30:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on December 30, 2011, 03:08:51 pm ---
love the ones who show up to buy something for $10 or $20 and want to pay with a $100 bill... do i look like a bank?


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Not to do that is the first rule of trading.

Much harder to convince someone that you're broke and they should knock off a couple bucks if you're waving around a $100.   ;D

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  :lol  :lol  :lol
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