Thread: Selling online..

Trying to sell our MGB on gumtree, some offers are really offensive

Originally Posted by jerryd

Trying to sell our MGB on gumtree, some offers are really offensive

MGB? Don't sell that on glumtree. There are forums for those.

First 'real' car I ever owned. Bought it from my dad. 1963, 3 bearing crank, one of the first brought into the country, white with red vinyl seats ( yuck ), no heater, no radio, wire wheels with knock ons, two piece hood bars, two 6 volt batteries in the back ( for balance, apparently....) God, I wish I still had it.

I personally cannot see the issue with making the reserve known. It makes it clear the minimum you will accept for the item and in theory, should weed out a lot of the low-ball offers.

Originally Posted by pop058

I personally cannot see the issue with making the reserve known. It makes it clear the minimum you will accept for the item and in theory, should weed out a lot of the low-ball offers.

Kinda defeats the point though, doesn't it? The reason reserves are held secret is to prevent collusion. Sure, in this case that's not really the issue, but for heaven's sake, if they want the thing let them bid for it. Oh, and I'm not getting 'offers', apart from some crap quad bike some bloke bought when he was 'refreshed'. I'm getting questions. Waste of my time and theirs.

Maybe I should have made it "Buy It Now", but maybe someone will pay more ( says he in hope ).

Anyway, fleabay don't give the option to make it known. I am talking about back door people. Won't help 'em. Let 'em deal in the real world.

I have just started to sell off my rather large coin collection, Mostly on eBay and I too have had several insultingly low offers.
I just either reject them outright or simply ignore them, It's all part of the game and not worth getting upset about.

Ignore them and treat them with the same BS attitude they give you

At least I now know I'm not the only one suffering the from the gumnutters and others who think I'm desperate to sell the Defender so make weird offers.
One loony asked if I'd take his old Nissan and boat in exchange! WTF? I want to sell a decent vehicle not start a junk yard.
Others have made very low offers as "it's not selling mate" and think I'll fall on bended knee and thank them.
Now the Cook has agreed to part with her old Camry shopping trolley looked after by me since we brought it 25 years ago and in good nick. That means I'll probably make the Defender our off road trip vehicle and the D4 the shopping bag carrier.
When I advertise the old car I'll state "No teenage wannabe F1 drivers allowed to test it". Hopefully that'll stop the rest of my hair and teeth falling out....
AlanH.

What self-respecting teenage wannabe F1 driver would want a Camry?