2010/3/25 CheekyGeek <[email protected]>: > Could I just do a mini-rant here and ask why people are so afraid to > name their price these days? I, for one, can't be the Buyer and the > Seller too. > The seller should set a price (which could/should drop over time if > there are no takers) and the buyer decides if he wants it at that > price or not. If the seller wants an auction, put it on an auction > site, I say. The ONLY reason taking "offers" might make sense is if > there is no way to determine the value for something (rare, so few > ever offered, for instance).
<mini-rant> It is simple - there is eBay, there is permanent discounts all over the place, there is Craig's List and so on and so forth plus there is the media always telling you that you need to and how to get everything at the lowest price and it is just not possible any more to name a price with confidence and now that the person you are dealing with won't just look around and buy wherever is cheapest without giving you an opportunity to match that price. And then there is the difference between what you think it is worth and what it sells for on eBay and what the used photographica lists say and so on... what I am trying to say is that the markets are such a mess that they erode your sense of price and more importantly of the VALUE of any given item you are looking to sell as well as your confidence in the relationship underlying the transaction... </mini-rant> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
