[hyden]

I loathe when people trade me after i've stated the price in chat and ask me how much.

And then when I tell them the price they say "Too expensive for me"

Do they expect me to drop the price just because someone trades me? :x

Yes, they do. It is called haggling. If you want to sell X and I show interest in buying X, I as the buyer have two options:

1. Simply accept the price you are asking and purchase the item for you

2. Offer a counter offer and see if you are interested.

Being the seller, you of course would prefer the first option. And while you claim to disagree, I guarentee that almost all sellers would prefer counter offers than no offers at all. I cant tell you how many times I see sellers get exasperated when they get no response after spamming chat for an hour.

If nothing else, it gives you a baseline for 'willing to pay' vs. 'willing to sell'. Also, depending on the item and how long one has been attempting to peddle it, one might take a reduced offer to simply get it sold.

Now, if you state in your pitch 'No other offers will be considered', then I understand.

As for OP's comments, yes, that would drive me mad...almost like your doing a showing as opposed to a sale.

I dont buy/sell/market anything in TF2 (I play the game), but the principles translate to other forms of merchant type sales models.