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rrlund

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So what do you think about this. Two weeks ago I parked a tractor by the road for a few days,asked $3500 for it and got so fed up with people acting like they were the king of the pawn brokers and I'd brought it to them for quick cash,that I put it back in the barn and left it there.

Been thinking if I do advertise it some time I'll ask "$3500 FIRM or $4000 if you'll feel better about yourself talking me down to $3700".
 
Yep, just keep raising the price, and pert soon, a curious person will stop and ask why! Then you can make him feel really great, when you drop the price to a bit above the original asking price. that way, he'll have bragging rights about how he flim-flammed you into selling yer tractor fer a low price. Mean while, you can slink quietly into yer house, clutching more than you originally asked for it. And he'll have braggin rights at home!
BT/DT: Rusty J.
 
My DAD gave me some selling advice that has worked well for me. He said that if you want to sell something say for $500, ask $750, settle for $600 and you both get a good deal.
 
I hear ya Randy. Been advertising a pickup here and running into the same thing. Told my brother I was going to put on the ad, buy it now, next week the price is going up $500.

Every buyer likes the satisfaction of knowing they haggled ya. So raise the price $500 and let them feel like they won, when you really got your asking price. Isn't that all that really matters?
 
My brother does a fair whack of wheeling and dealing on stuff that he finds and takes in on payment in the excavating business. He says since all these TV shows have come out about pawning and picking about nine out of ten people ask in the first phone call or email if he'll take any less without ever having seen the item.
I don't have it in me to play those games anymore. Especially on something I've had for 32 years. Not much anybody's gonna tell me about it that I don't know and haven't figured in to the asking price.
 
Same nonsense here. I had a 2000 triton 16 foot aluminum tandem trailer for sale for $1700, hoping to get $1500 for it. I can't believe the bozos that showed up to look at it, trying to buy it for $1100 ect. I think it was on Craig's list for 5 weeks, finally the right guy came along and took it for $1500. Glad I got it Otta here, been sittin for for a few years now. Don't know what kinda tractor you have. But $3500 don't sound awful for something that I'm assuming runs out good.
 
Ya,1020 Deere gas with a loader. Probably would have sold in a day or two if we hadn't had to deal with such people. One guy was here twice when I wasn't right in the yard. The wife got so tired or his crap that she told him to get in the road and not to come back. That's when it went back in the barn.

Oh well,somebody who would have wanted it won't know what they're missing now because of such jerks.
 
You are supposed at ALWAYS ask more than what you want for it, You should have posted it as $3,900 then you would have got $3,500 for it. That way when people jew you down they think they got a good deal.
 
Tried to sell a tractor once and didn't get any calls. The best salesman I've ever known said it was cuz I didn't ask enough and everyone thought it was junk. Re-listed it for 30% more and sold it the first day.
 
The banker was telling me a story one time. Said his uncle was a jewler. Had a ring in the window and a guy would stop outside and look at it every day. Said he finally took it out of the window for a few days then put it back for a higher price and the guy came in that day and bought it.
 
Buyers seem to have a mind of their own. Don't know if he was pulling my leg or not, but I had a city-dwelling friend who wanted to just get rid of his push lawn mower. It ran good, but it looked like a used mower instead of a new one. He parked it by the street and put a "Free!" sign on it. It sat there for a week and nobody even looked at it. Next he put a "For Sale" sign on it and it disappeared over night.
I've sold a couple of items on Craigslist and put the word FIRM behind the price. Just about everybody wants to haggle on the price. Once when I was selling a car, the guy wanted me to drive it 200 miles to his house so that he could just look at it. At least he told me over the phone that me driving it to him did not imply that he would ever buy it. By the sound of his voice, I'm pretty sure he was from a country where tactics like that were the norm. I wish I could have told him "Yup Uours!" in his native tongue.
 
Twice I bought something for the asking price, as was a good deal at a time it was needed and all of us would know that.

You'da thought I insulted their wife, or took advantagwe of their daughter the nite before.... Just looked all disappointed that they didn't get to haggle over the deal.

One just said it was $200 less and was pretty quiet after that, and the other was just disappointed and was happy when I left with the item, no more conversation.

I'm an auction type of guy I guess, I just don't understand these private sales things? Danged if you do and danged if you don't.....

--->Paul
 
I'll generally always haggle a little with dealers,but if somebody has something of their own to sell,I figure they know what it's worth and if I think they're right and I want it,I'll give them what they want,if not,I thank them for their time and move on. For me I guess that's what it comes down to,respecting what somebody else has. If somebody wants to run down my stuff instead of just thanking me for my time,at BEST I'm walking away.
 
I had a Bobcat skid steer loader for sale. I thought that $3800 was a fair price but hoped for more, put it out for $4000. The first guy to look at pulled in the yard in a brand new Lincoln. he wanted it for $3500 in the worst way. Finally, I just said. " Look, I just started advertising it, so I tell you what, you come back here in 3 weeks, and if it's still here, I'll sell it to you for that". He wrote out the check for the full amount on the spot.
 
I don't mind haggling a little bit, but I never run the seller's item down.
More often than not, all you will do is make them angry.
As they did in your case.
Most often guys do add in some wiggle room, so it's not such a bad thing
to ask. They'll tell you right off most of the time if they are willing to move
on the price.
Another thing that irks me as the seller is low ball offers.
Blue book or common market value is, say, $4000, I mark it at $3500
because tires are wore or whatever and someone offers me $500.
Really? What planet are you from?
 
Yep,that's just it. When somebody asks if I'm firm on the price and I say yes,that's when they should have enough respect to take it or walk away. But they get pizzy and start picking things apart like they think that'll help.

I left old Harlan Cropsey standing right in my driveway one time,probably wondering "what the heck?". But I had a New Idea UniHarvester for sale back when he was State Senator. When I wouldn't come way down,he started in with a bunch of garbage. I thanked him for coming and walked away. When I got to the back door he said "well thank you" in kind of a cocky way. I just waved my hand without looking back and said "yup" and went inside. He called me a few weeks later and asked if I'd sold it yet. I hadn't,but I told him I had. Wasn't gonna take that kind of crap.

And as far as this tractor goes,there are 8 on Tractorhouse. 7 without loaders,one with. The ones without are priced from $3800 to $6800 and the one with is priced at $7000.
 
I have a skidsteer on craigslist for $11,500 FIRM. Guy emails me and offers me $11,000. I tell him, sure, I will just keep the NEW bucket that is on the machine. He emails me back and says "well, the machines doesnt do me any good without the bucket"... Then he tells me that hes 280 miles away and he needs it shipped to him for the $11,000. Wasted my time and his...what a pain.
 
When I have something to sell, I put my price on it and when the tire kickers come and start making me low ball offers, I tell them that cash talks. Start counting out the hundred dollar bills on the hood and I will tell them when to stop. Without cash in hand they will never get my best price. Most of them leave.
 
No doubt that a little respect would go a long way.
It's not going to help to bash the machine you're trying to buy.
I haven't seen it, but the price sounds good.
I'm trying to sell a couple now too. No takers yet.
I may have them priced too high.
 
If the seller says "asking $xxxx" or "$xxxx OBO" I assume there"s some room to negotiate. If you are firm on the price you need to say so.

But if the price is more than about 10% over what I think it"s worth I just walk away.
 
True story (yes I know that means it's not sometimes, but this one happened)

I know a pawn shop owner who does the usual, buys cheap and sells high at the expense of those who don't know any better. For a long time he had an old shotgun hanging on the wall behind the counter that was smooth worn out. Had a sign on it for $25. It hung there forever it seemed. I went in one day and it was gone. I asked him what happened and he said his new guy put a "1" in front of the 25 and sold it that day to someone who offered a $100. It's a good deal if the seller and the buyer both think they got to the other one.
 
(quoted from post at 11:22:27 05/12/13) So what do you think about this. Two weeks ago I parked a tractor by the road for a few days,asked $3500 for it and got so fed up with people acting like they were the king of the pawn brokers and I'd brought it to them for quick cash,that I put it back in the barn and left it there.

Been thinking if I do advertise it some time I'll ask "$3500 FIRM or $4000 if you'll feel better about yourself talking me down to $3700".

You're to low, put back out with $4500 on it.
 
I hate when you have something listed for sale and someone calls and without even looking at the item make you a lower offer than what you have it listed for. I, at least go to look at something, then possibly make an offer.
DWF
 
I have never had alot of luck trying to sell things here by the side of the road. Dont really have the time or patience to deal with phone calls from tire-kickers and no-shows from ads. I have sold several old pieces of equipment that were setting along the woods and people would stop and ask about them, or people asking to buy something I use and dont want to sell. If people come here asking, I put what I feel is a fair price and they seem willing to pay it. Usually if I am dealing with an individual trying to buy something I might ask if the price is firm, if so I figure take it or leave it, many times people price things expecting a little haggling. Often ads around here will read B/O(best offer) or "asking" $xxx , which indicates flexibility. If you dont want to deal with haggling I would put a sign on the tractor with a brief description and price -$3500 FIRM. Maybe that would weed out a few pawn stars.BTW around here that JD 1020 with loader for $3500 would sell easy .
 
Well... personally... when I see an item advertised with the price being "FIRM" and an asinine number attached to it... I generally don't bother wasting my time. If it's a reasonable number... I might enquire. 'FIRM' generally means to me that the seller is asking more than it's worth and has no intention of selling.

Beyond that... as far as I'm concerned, the only things that matter are what it's worth to the buyer and what the seller is willing to take for it... not what he thinks it's worth, what he has invested in it... not what one down the road sold for, etc.
I bought a machine this winter that was listed at 28K. I paid 22K. In a certain market it's probably worth 40-45K.... but not in this market. Not what I wanted to pay. So... through conversation we found his bottom dollar which was more than I offered...

If you don't want to sell it, leave it in the shed. It's no loss to anyone else.

Rod
 
People always like to feel like they're getting a deal. Advertise it for $3900 if you'll take $3500. $4000 sounds a lot more than $100 over $3900.
 
Love how y'all are making judgements without even knowing what the tractor is, or if it's even worth $3500.

I've seen a d*mn LOT of grossly overpriced stuff lately. People with their gold shoeboxes.

Most of it's worth about half what they're asking, on a good day.

There's no point in even trying to talk to them. They just get mad at you. You're trying to screw them. You're trying to steal it. You're just some wannabe pawn picker schuyster trying to get something for nothing.

Makes you not wanna bother trying to buy anything.
 
(quoted from post at 11:22:27 05/12/13) So what do you think about this. Two weeks ago I parked a tractor by the road for a few days,asked $3500 for it and got so fed up with people acting like they were the king of the pawn brokers and I'd brought it to them for quick cash,that I put it back in the barn and left it there.

Been thinking if I do advertise it some time I'll ask "$3500 FIRM or $4000 if you'll feel better about yourself talking me down to $3700".

It is different selling now a days. People are getting to be a real pain. I especially dislike the texters. They send you multiple texts and want multiple pics and you can bet they will never show up. I am asking $1750 for a tractor and a guy keeps telling me that he will only pay $1300. After 3 times I told him I would call him back. Yea when hell freezes over.
 

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