I’m slowly learning from you guys, those were my thoughts. Offered him $50, said he wouldn’t go lower than $100, told him good luck. Big flea market tomorrow, maybe I can find something there.
I just try to be cordial with folks because he obviously wants to sell it and something may come up where he's willing to take 50 and I want him to call me before anyone else. Same with folks who make stupid offers on CL for things I'm selling. Last weekend it was a Honda trx90 kids quad I had listed for 950. I had a lot of interest especially for trades because I said I would take saws as partial trades. I get a guy who want to trade for a saw and he says he has a ms261, sends pictures and it's a version II and I'm like he we can work something out
(more about the deal than it being a stihl LOL), and I asked how much he wanted for it and he says it was bought last yr for 800
and I said okay how much do you want for it. He relies he would do 150 and the saw for the quad
, let me do the math here, I want 950 for the quad you are going to give me 150 cash, so I'm at 800 for the quad and you will give me the saw for the 800, I don't think so. It was very tempting to send a text saying how about you give me the saw and 2400 cash and I'll give you the quad since we all want to get the new value out of what we have, I restrained, but was very tempted
, but I just said no thanks. I ended up selling it to a guy who drove about 60 miles for it in his sweet 2000 f350 crew cab diesel( I wanted to offer 150 and the quad for the truck
) with his two young boys. He handed me 950 after we chatted a good bit and I handed him back 50 and said put it in your tank, he was grateful and there was no bullcrap!
Moral of the story even the guys who offer 150 and a saw that's worth 400 max to me actually want what I have so I treat them that way with the hope they will change their tune as I know everyone wants a deal and want to sell their item for full price if possible. I also believe if I treat them right it will come back to me in the long run and it ALWAYS does, and sometimes I get to see it right away
;.
Most likely you will find some saws there and if you buy them that guy will call saying you can have it for 50, just how things seem to go.
