On Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 10:53 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I generally don't like "make an offer", unless the seller has already > >> stated an offer. If so,then I can decide whether what I want to pay is > in > >> a range that they would discuss it. > >> Otherwise,it is usually futile to start a discussion. > > On Thu, 27 Jun 2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: > > I make offers on eBay all the time and more often than not they are > > accepted (or a reasonable counter-offer comes as a reply). Maybe it's > > because I'm not chasing what everyone else is after. > > absolutely > eBay "make an offer" is actually a "counter-offer", since the seller has > already posted some sort of price. Those can be quite productive. > > The ones that I don't like are ones (particularly flea-market) where the > seller refuses to give any indication of what they want, and demands that > the potential buyer make the first offer. > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected] Regardless I think Sellam is on to something here, there is need for a service to manage the vintage computing collections of this who are not predisposed to do so themselves. At a minimum an objective consultation and report produced by an educated appraiser of vintage computing / electronics that can be referenced by the collector's surviving family. Something that says, here is what you have, here are your options. Bill > >
