What would you do?

If the guy had said, I'll come and take a look before agreeing any price, I would have been OK with him offering £150. From that point we haggle to a price we are both happy with.
 
should have said the price has gone up now mate to £220 after he offered you £150:D

but losing out on £20 just cos he tried to haggle, I don't get it
 
ReltonBFD said:
Don't ask you don't get.

I can't be the only cheeky **** to ask for staff discount in shops?? Haha got it in Pandora, Size! And a few others
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The difference is you asked for it up front. A more accurate scenario would be you phoning a shop and asking them "how much for item X" and then saying great I'll be round to collect later put it aside for me. Then when you get there you pull a fast one about the price being to high etc.
 
ICDP said:
I would disagree, he was taught that some people will not tolerate that kind of BS and that he may end up out of pocket and wasting his time. His journey wasn't short in time or distance as he is from a town around 45 miles round trip. So about 1 hours drive an £5 fuel costs.
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^^^ this

It is one thing for someone to come round to look at an item and then maybe haggle over the price/offer a lower amount than the advert... it is quite another for someone to agree to price, then come round and tell a lie about not having any money to try and get the item for 25% less than they'd already agreed to

the first buyer attempted to screw you out of £50 and did mess you around, telling him to go away is absolutely fine IMO
 
wazza300 said:
should have said the price has gone up now mate to £220 after he offered you £150:D

but losing out on £20 just cos he tried to haggle, I don't get it
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At this point he was not trying to haggle as we had agreed a price and time to collect via text message. Then he showed up and spins me a line about "I only have £150 on me mate".

His 1st text message to me was along the lines of, "U still got ur monitor? wats ur bottom line? To which I replied £200 as I already knocked back interest at £180 (true), he replied OK, keep it for me and he will call to pick it up later.

The haggling was done as far as I was concerned.
 
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I'd have laughed it off with a "nice try but no" attitude and sold it to him for the £200.

No need to get the arse over it AND lose out on an extra £20.
 
I'd have done the same as OP. Automatically becomes the principle that I wouldn't want a **** buying something from me. £20 is irrelevant and something I'd crap out in 5 minutes.

I had a car buyer get into a huff when he came to look at a car I had for sale for £6k.

He said he'd offer £3k. I walked off without saying anything as I just couldn't be bothered.
 
FoxEye said:
Sadly I know middle-aged doctors who use txt speak. There's no rhyme nor reason to it.
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There was when back in the day you had to churn out a text message on an old school phone. But technology moves on... for some people bad habits don't. I'm a smoker, so I know. But I went from txt spk to normal writing when I got a phone that didn't make my thumb(s) ache after typing a message.
 
pepsilol said:
I'd have done the same as OP. Automatically becomes the principle that I wouldn't want a **** buying something from me. £20 is irrelevant and something I'd crap out in 5 minutes.
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exactly... sure the OP is down £20 but he didn't have to deal any further with a complete *****.

instead the guy who haggled honestly up front got himself a deal and the ***** wasted money and time

I think that result is worth £20 in itself
 
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