MM and pricing ... what would you pay?

I completely agree with the OP. Complete time wasters sometimes in the MM with ridiculous, unrealistic pricing. There was a guy selling ram on there the other day for £1 less than a competitor was new. They were 2 weeks old. The argument is usually "yeah but this is basically the same as brand new and I used them like once...." but they just don't get that people aren't going to pay £1 less than brand new to save a quid, when new comes with warranty and piece of mind. Additionally the moaning about postage. Oh but these are costing XX to post. Yeah, we can get free shipping at most places now so take that into account with pricing too.
I'd say more than half of the prices I see are expecting way too much, even accounting for haggling some off the price. They then bump the threads for weeks hurrumphing about how it will go on ebay soon unless someone wants it. No...it was too high even before 4 price drops.
Yes I can take my dummy and pram into another for sale thread, but the point is it makes it frustrating and slow to use MM when sellers become stubborn.

Equally, there are silly buyers that take the **** with offers so....yeah. Most people are sensible.
 
Rroff said:
What makes me wince a bit is when someone knocks the price down to something very reasonable and people still try to offer less :S you could sell say a brand new, working monitor for £1 and people would still try and offer 50p :|
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I think that's a very British thing... The wincing that is. We in the UK don't like haggling but elsewhere haggling is a way of life.

I see no real reason why you shouldn't be able to put in a reasonable offer, even if the product is cheaper than it should be. All the seller can say is no and sell it to someone wanting it at full price (which someone will if the item is priced cheaply).
 
A second hand item is only worth what whoever is prepared to pay for it.

If that makes an SSD worth £500 to the odd weirdo, so be it! :D

Its not hard to find the going second hand rate for things by browsing the bay & the like, if you end up paying over the odds, perhaps you just have not done your homework, or just CBA! :
 
for example atm is a 60gb ssd on sale and offer were made of around 70, the hard drive is 2nd hand already and has no warrenty
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Dont presume MM sellers wont help with a warranty claim if they can.

Often the prices are quite high especially if OCUK has something similar in the clearance section but best way to get a price down is buy multiple items and combine the postage.
The best prices often go to people who can can collect it

Also sellers often use RMSD when normal recorded would already cover it. RMSD is for items upto 500, I think its not always needed under 100, Ive had someone spend 20 postage on a heavy item costing 40 .
I would have told them to send via private courier firm for 5 or 10 pounds and give me the difference if I had known.

Dont argue in a thread, send a polite message /offer
 
I'm not complaining about reasonable offers, I'm talking about situations like say someone wants to raise funds at short notice and decides to get shot of something fast - say lists some RAM that normally goes for £40 second hand at £25 and you will still get people offering say £17 - when elsewhere they'd have to offer atleast £30 to even be taken seriously for the same RAM.


EDIT: Tho I guess you potentially have the situation there where someone who could never afford to spend £40 on that RAM sees they could buy it at the lower price at a stretch :S
 
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What annoys me, say your selling a Graphics Card worth 2nd hand £100 say a 5850 and someone offers like £60 it's like be real! Also people e-mailing you in trust with really low offers.
 
Nelly said:
What annoys me, say your selling a Graphics Card worth 2nd hand £100 say a 5850 and someone offers like £60 it's like be real! Also people e-mailing you in trust with really low offers.
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Probably a bad example, you can find 5850's new for around £100 now :p
 
Think its too expensive, dont offer a price.

My access has been removed for the following 3 'strikes' (what i thought were quite daft reasons, no reply to emails i have sent dons either)


Having more than 5 (or maybe just 3) threads open at once in MM

Making an offer on someone’s item based on prices online (think it was listed at £70 and i offered £60 based on new price of £80 (I see lots of people doing this)

I wrote the word 'bump' in one of my for sale threads when i lowered the price (instead of putting 'price drop'


Quite silly really seems as I had all good feedback, for both selling and buying items from people on here
 
People over pricing goods is fine, just as long as they don't expect them to sell, but it does amuse me to no end when I see people trying to flog things at near double the price they paid for them in the members market a few months prior, get caught out and the proceed to drop the price.

But the buyers aren't without fault either, you get people coming in offering silly prices and making offers on steam bundles, I know 'if you don't ask you don't get' but I wouldn't dare.
 
£60 for a second hand ssd is too much given that they retail for ~£72 brand new. I would pay no more than £50. I want a 1/3 discount minimum for anything used to a significant degree.
 
MM works fine. The OP is at liberty to sell what he wants at what he considers a reasonable price. If you're of another opinion, email him via trust and discuss it.

I've had some absolute bargains off the MM, and net some bloody nice people to boot.
 
Yeah it works fine. HOWEVER OP has a point..............since the recession hit, bargaining has become a lot more .... hardcore? lol, like 4 years ago it was, make price, someone offered ball park, even a fair bit less, then seller usually said ok, now, its a lot harder and people are sticking to there guns more and more and more, I guess its because money is harder to come by, seller wants as much as he can, buyer doesnt want to pay near new, so yeah OP I agree in many ways, its become a lot more edgy. Saying that I picked up a mainboard and CPU for a pretty good price recently, not bargain of the century but good price non the less, these kinds of deals are a lot more few and far between now, infact I think its the only deal thats made me smile in the last 4 years.
 
Quite a few funny ones in the past.

Item up for say £2.00 and someone wanting it would say "I've not budgeted for that amount, can you do it for £1.75?" or some other token amount :p
 
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Making an offer on someone’s item based on prices online (think it was listed at £70 and i offered £60 based on new price of £80 (I see lots of people doing this)
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Is this not allowed then? I thought making a genuine offer and stating you can buy it online for £x was fair game?


Anyway, this has bugged me for a while people selling things that are say £100 for £10 or so less than new. Why bother buying second hand at that price. Fortunately I vote with the back button in my browser, if you list an item to high than you will discourage people making offers and will not sell the item.
 
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