Mar 27, 2012, 03:51 PM
You saw the same thing with horse/car trading. "This is my family horse/car and we all love her/him/it so you better have a good offer even though I've clearly dragged it out to market"
You always have to just remind them that these things have objectve monitary value, if they won't deal with you without bringing up sentementality or subjective marketing then let them sit on the item.
I'm surprised you don't see more of the classic buyer maneuvers.
Here's a good old tactic I'd like to see: Next time you go to a trader you should try finding their best item, haggling them down as far as you can go without breaking negotiations, and then when you bring up their second best item (or whatever you actually wanted from them) you should be able to get it for cheap as hell. I do this at pawn shops and it works amazingly.
On the reverse end it can also work if you have a cheaper item and a similar, but higher end item. I managed to sell my DSlite for 95$ (in 2010) to pawn one by bringing in an old DS fat and talking them up until they were about to kick me out of the store. They have a default offer of about 45$, I talked them up to 55$, pulled out the DS-lite and the offer went to 75$, and when we closed the deal I managed to throw in the charger for 20$ because "They had to have the charger and we already agreed on 75$ for the system alone". I probably wouldn't have gone that far, but last time I went into that store same guy tried to spot me 1/20th of bid price for a few ounces of silver I had.
However I don't know where the line is drawn between clever bartering and sharking here, so I've never been inclined to try it. Especially because I'm not bartering with an incorporated drone but a real person.
You always have to just remind them that these things have objectve monitary value, if they won't deal with you without bringing up sentementality or subjective marketing then let them sit on the item.
I'm surprised you don't see more of the classic buyer maneuvers.
Here's a good old tactic I'd like to see: Next time you go to a trader you should try finding their best item, haggling them down as far as you can go without breaking negotiations, and then when you bring up their second best item (or whatever you actually wanted from them) you should be able to get it for cheap as hell. I do this at pawn shops and it works amazingly.
On the reverse end it can also work if you have a cheaper item and a similar, but higher end item. I managed to sell my DSlite for 95$ (in 2010) to pawn one by bringing in an old DS fat and talking them up until they were about to kick me out of the store. They have a default offer of about 45$, I talked them up to 55$, pulled out the DS-lite and the offer went to 75$, and when we closed the deal I managed to throw in the charger for 20$ because "They had to have the charger and we already agreed on 75$ for the system alone". I probably wouldn't have gone that far, but last time I went into that store same guy tried to spot me 1/20th of bid price for a few ounces of silver I had.
However I don't know where the line is drawn between clever bartering and sharking here, so I've never been inclined to try it. Especially because I'm not bartering with an incorporated drone but a real person.
/sarcasm
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