Thread: Selling online..

Selling online is just like selling in the Trading Post in the old days except that you get access to a wider audience of morons and the stupid questions come by email instead of by phone.
As far as a reserve price goes, I always just start the auction at the lowest price I'm prepared to accept.

POD - you've got it. Start an auction at your (realistic) 'resistance point'.
Negotiation theory is an interesting topic- there's quite a few concepts in how it all works, and the winner is the person who can manipulate it all to their benefit, and see thru the bulldust that is thrown around while doing the dance.

One thing to keep in mind is that buyers and sellers have fundamentally different goals! Understand this, and you can make it work for you.

The negotiation starting point is where the bidding starts - might be your $99,000 OBO Toyota camry- (there just might be someone stupid enough to pay that!) or your starting bid of $10 for a widget with an unknown reserve.
Realistically both the buyer and seller have a target point- what they actually want to get- obviously seller wants a high price, buyer a low one. The seller could consider this his reserve price.
The seller and buyer both have a resistance point- the 'bottom (or top!) line' where they will not take a penny less (or more). Probably more applicable for traditional face to face negotiation for a car, a pay rise, etc.
Where these resistance points overlap is your bargaining range- the settlement point, if reached, lives within this.

Sometimes when you have no overlap in your bargaining range, you just need to call it for what it is- 'sorry mate, unless you can raise your offer, we won't be able to make a deal'. I've found when you are open and honest, and the buyer is fair dinkum about buying, you can bring them around- as long as your settlement point is realistic (ie I'll take no less than $80K for that Camry)

When potential buyers start throwing in 'trade' items, you need to understand people will generally trade what is cheap to them, but valuable to the opponent. If you don't value it, it ain't work squat. A good tactic is to use 'if' and 'then' conditions when they arise- If you offer your ****ty chinese quad bike plus a VL diff and a fishtank for the car, then I'll take $300 off my asking price of $X. This helps to solidify your value of their concession, and can often diffuse the offer when what value you're willing to accept from their offer is less than what they consider it worth... What something is 'worth' and what it's value is, can be two vastly different things.

Did I mention it's an interesting topic?

We will be selling our camper soon as we have upspecked
Swmbo has taken it on to sell the old one .
Why i had 12 mths of ebay and Gumtree for the first 3 month`s till i cancelled that one and stuck it on trucksales when i was selling my truck.
I had every oxygen thief in Australia contact me one way or another with any dumb offer or dumb swap .
It does not matter what you write in the Ad as these dumb ass`s can not read and do not comprehend .
Towards the end of selling my truck i just wanted to burn it and or choke the living **** out of theses oxygen thiefs.
I did get very short towards the end and did not believe any one as the amount of bull **** you get told is very frustrating

You can actually have some Fun with the "Lowballers" and oddballs especially when they offer up "Trade In's" by feigning interest and asking questions about the junk they have on offer then when they think that they have just about got you take the Bait tell them Thanks but No thanks

Aggression is a valid negotiation strategy too. Think of the 'good cop bad cop' tactic. Works better when negotiating face to face though. The keyboard warrior agression doesn't really hold much weight/impact.

Originally Posted by rangieman

We will be selling our camper soon as we have upspecked
Swmbo has taken it on to sell the old one .
Why i had 12 mths of ebay and Gumtree for the first 3 month`s till i cancelled that one and stuck it on trucksales when i was selling my truck.
I had every oxygen thief in Australia contact me one way or another with any dumb offer or dumb swap .
It does not matter what you write in the Ad as these dumb ass`s can not read and do not comprehend .
Towards the end of selling my truck i just wanted to burn it and or choke the living **** out of theses oxygen thiefs.
I did get very short towards the end and did not believe any one as the amount of bull **** you get told is very frustrating

That's false advertising. Your camper is not a camper. It's a Palace.

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

That's false advertising. Your camper is not a camper. It's a Palace.

That Palace will sit perfectly behind your 110

Originally Posted by Toxic_Avenger

Aggression is a valid negotiation strategy too. Think of the 'good cop bad cop' tactic. Works better when negotiating face to face though. The keyboard warrior agression doesn't really hold much weight/impact.

Mate you get stuffed around on the phone by the same spanker for 2 hours every day for a week with the promise of a deposit then they fall off the face off the earth .
And this happened more than once and all interstate people , I had about 4 of these ******* and many other 1 call tossers .
In the end i got very short and blase with any potential buyer and was very supprised when a fella from the NT put the cash in my bank and that was the end that story.
I am a firm believer in something is only worth what someone will pay for it , But why when you want to sell something do you have to deal with the faceless keyboard , brainless , ****** , tosser , spanker , oxygen thieves
End of rant