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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 3041067, member: 43872&quot;]I&#039;m a buyer, not a dealer.&nbsp; On a &quot;best offer&quot; eBay item, I&#039;ll sometimes bid much lower if, for example, the item has been listed for a year or more and the dealer may just want to dump it.&nbsp; Like any offer, whether it is a regular bid or a friendly visit at my local dealer, I only bid or pay what the coin is worth to me and my budget.&nbsp; If a dealer must have a certain price and that is higher than I can afford, I wish the dealer well and hope he or she finds someone who will pay it.&nbsp; On a &quot;best offer,&quot; I will usually offer a little lower than my top price, just as I assume the dealer has listed it a little higher than his or her low price.&nbsp; That leaves room to compromise to mutual satisfaction.&nbsp; I once bid $75 on a Continental Currency bill listed as &quot;$1,000,000 or best offer.&quot;&nbsp; We settled on $85.&nbsp; (A bit steep for me but I liked the signature, which matched my father&#039;s name and almost matched his handwriting.)&nbsp; Of course, I had seen the bill earlier, which had not sold.&nbsp; The dealer relisted it so high, I suppose, just to attract attention.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whatever, whether dealer or seller, it is terribly rude to just leave the other people hanging, especially if they have gone out of their way to accommodate you.&nbsp; I believe the reason for this is the anonymity of the internet.&nbsp; People feel, consciously or not, that they are dealing with impersonal, virtual things, not living, feeling people, and feel no more obligation to be polite than they would playing a computer at chess.&nbsp; The same phenomenon helps explain things as diverse as road rage and stealing from companies.&nbsp; People who would never act like that to people in person think of the car--and by extension its driver--as an inanimate object.&nbsp; People steal from big companies because Walmart, Apple, etc., are &quot;things&quot; and not the real people who work there, own stock in their retirement funds, or pay higher prices as customers because of the loss of revenue for the company.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, some people are just jerks and act that way in person, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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