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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ddddd, post: 2968944, member: 22377&quot;]I&#039;ll start with 3 &quot;cases&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1.</b> I&#039;m not here to make you money.</p><p>This involves multiple people on ebay contacting me and asking for a better price. That&#039;s ok; everyone wants a deal and I can reduce some items if I want to move the funds into a new collecting area. What makes me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> is when these same people respond to me lowering the price with something as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>I can&#039;t make money selling this to my clients!</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Well am I here to help you make money (response not sent <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2.</b> The sad story.</p><p>I had a person contact me via ebay asking to lower a price on a coin. Ok, I&#039;m reasonable and willing to deal. This person however decided to be creative. The message paraphrased as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="4">Hello, I really like that mouse coin (Australian Year of the Mouse)! I have a friend whose nickname is &quot;Minnie&quot; and she&#039;d love that coin. She has cancer and I&#039;d really like to give it to her. Can you take 50% off?</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>This one touched me. Just like many others, I&#039;ve had family affected by cancer and I am empathetic. However, using that to get 50% off a coin just seems slimy and disingenuous. I replied to this person wishing my best thoughts and suggesting they do something more personal for their friend that does not involve spending money on a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>3. </b>There is still hope!</p><p>Yes there is! I had a buyer offer $110 on a $220 item via the best offer feature. Most of the time these are just lowballers that disappear when one counters at a reasonable price. Still I decided to test my luck. I replied to the offer with a $210 counter and a &quot;friendly&quot; jibe asking whether the person may have had a typo and really meant to offer $210. Oddly enough, they accepted the $210 counter, paid in a timely manner, and left positive feedback! They didn&#039;t ever message me, so I don&#039;t know if it really was a typo or the person was just embarrassed enough by the reply to their first offer. I will be an optimist and assume this really was a nice ebayer![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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