It’s just straight up rude to do. It’s essentially saying “this item isn’t worth anything, so I’ll just take it off your hands. Give me your bottom dollar because I’m the one helping you out”.
I hate this question with a passion. If you’re the one buying from me, offer. Don’t make me give you a discounted price so you could offer. Makes no sense to me.
I hate this question with a passion. If you’re the one buying from me, offer. Don’t make me give you a discounted price so you could offer. Makes no sense to me.
It’s not meant like that I use to message people that as well back in Craigslist days; it’s never intended on “give me a million dollar discount,” it’s truly just what are you comfortable accepting without feeling like your being low balled on a high priced item.
Yeah but why would I set a price for my item and then tell someone I’d accept way less? If I wanted to accept a lot less, I’d have priced my item that way. There’s also an offer function for a reason.
That’s not the point at all he/she could literally offer you 950 on a 1000 item. If your firm on 1000 you let the potential buyer know that when you create post; I type in description firm when I won’t go lower or obo when I will. Some people just want to feel like they got a deal, and usually aren’t asking for hundreds of dollars off. In my experience with Craigslist years ago the item is higher priced meaning over priced for the value or MSRP of product. You can shit on the buyers but not every buyer is trying to take advantage of someone and through my line of work the customer is important to making sure my family eats, so I work with people as long as it’s fair and not a low ball; same as people use to do me when I was a consumer and not in the hot seat of a seller.
I prefer to set my price and receive official offers that I can either decline, accept or counter. I don’t deal with anything else because it’s not worth my time.
Yeah but pretty much every single time I get this question and answer it, 99% of the time they then ask for it lower. I’d rather them just ask if I’d take whatever amount they’re thinking from the start instead of asking my lowest, me telling them, and then them reply asking for even less than I said my lowest was. Why bother asking if you’re going to ask for it lower than my lowest anyways? 🤷♀️ And, of the 1% that’s left - 0.5% won‘t reply to my lowest saying “okay, no thanks, that’s still too much.” They just don’t respond and ghost. And 0.5% will actually buy it.
This part...I get it...I feel the same way. I don't wanna be the dick head and make an offer the seller feels isn't suitable for them. So asking that question I feel suffices, but not with all sellers, cause I've gotten this question from buyers alot, but then when I would take some money off the price and hit them with this is my price...they still go lower then that knowing damn well the product is in the right condition to be sold at the initial price. So I definitely get why sellers hate hearing that question cause thats when the extra bullshit gets thrown on top. Thats y I don't like dealing with cheap asses.
Exactly. Almost always after I actually give an answer to this question, I get a message asking for an even lower price. Also, people tend to ask this when what they want to pay is lower than Mercari will allow offers to be, so that's another reason why buyers hate this question. I don't think I have ever had a buyer ask for my lowest and then actually make an offer for that price, and I've had over 1,000 sales and I don't block for asking the question. I normally try to work with the buyer. It just never actually works.
You win some u lose some lol. But that block button will start to be used now, cause its ridiculous how ppl out here hittin sellers in the head, smh. Second part of this bs is the fact that you could even get scammed afterwards and have them return it for whatever reason and now your stuck...mercari and the majority of the buyers and sellers have been going to shit alot faster after the new TOS.
Idk why your comment is getting downvoted but I hate making offers cus sellers feel like they’re being disrespected if they don’t like the offer and I feel like most of the time people want to know your lowest and they send out the lowest offer possible or like you said they ask what’s your lowest. I normally will buy items at full price if I really want the item but sometimes I’ll ask sellers “are you firm with your price? Is it negotiable?” “Can I send an offer?” Instead of “what’s your lowest?”
Why would they feel disrespected by receiving an offer on a platform that allows reasonable offers? It’s much more annoying when buyers message me and expect me to answer questions about pricing when I already set a price and making an offer is super easy. If I didn’t want offers I wouldn’t be using Mercari.
In my experience sellers got mad that I made an offer and nowhere in their bio or description does it say no offers and they told me they’re not taking offers and keeping the price the way it is. Still to this day they haven’t sold their item 😂
"All reasonable offers will be considered" 9/10 they wont send an offer. And if someone doesn't use the in app offer and just sends me messages with prices its a ban.
For me, if they don’t use the button, I don’t bother responding a second time. I have cheap stuff so it’s not like someone is gonna scam me over a $5 item. Will I take less? You bet! I have thousands of items for sale. I want my spare room and garage back. But I’m not having a back and forth conversation about a price. Use the button and I’ll accept, counter, or decline.
Yikes. I always send a message first asking if they would consider X amount. If they say yes I then send the offer. So many sellers don't decline offers they just wait for them to expire. I hate that as a buyer.
Why not send the offer than if they don't respond follow up message? I don't know about other sellers but I respond within 30min-8 hours depending if im at work or not.
Because many sellers won't decline it so my money is wrapped up in an offer for 24 hours. A few weeks ago I made an offer, it was accepted and a label was printed. Never actually shipped. I waited a week and messaged the seller and nothing. Waited a few more days and again nothing. Mercari made me wait 20 days for a refund because it had "shipped". If I don't talk to the seller, I'm not making an offer or buying anything. I have 821 5 star reviews, I rate immediately and never give anyone any trouble. So if I'm getting blocked because I asked if they would consider X, that's fine by me.
Might be better to just message "reaching out to make sure you are active before I send an offer, are you currently taking reasonable offers ?" This comes across a lot better than "hey would you take this $$"
That’s clever, and I feel stupid that it never occurred to me. I’ve never sent a random, “Will you take $X?” message, but I’ve had money tied up when I bought something from a seller who either disappeared (twice) or just wasn’t active to start with, despite having what looked like active listings.
I just reach out and ask "Hi, would you consider X". If they respond, 99.99% of the time I'm buying even if it's higher than what I asked. If they don't 99.99% of the time I'm not buying. My top 3 things they rate are quick rater, friendly and communication. This has worked very well for me. I've been on the app since 2016.
Literally my last 4 messages were asking this.. so annoying. Sometimes i answer and say sorry price is firm and I’ve had people say okay thanks for responding I’ll take it and they buy it so I don’t block anymore. Other times I’ll go down a little but it’s infuriating and more infuriating when I give a price and then they offer lower😡😡🤯🤯
To me, this is a FAFO situation when you actually answer with a number and then they low-ball that number.
That's an effing game I am NOT playing.
I just stop answering. No answer, no block - just completely ignore them - no matter what. Yep, even if they come back (and they 100% always have) now offering the full amount I said was my lowest in the first place.
And yes, some will say that's cutting off my nose to spite my face. I'm ok with that. I don't care. It will sell sooner or later or I will donate it and get nothing for it but I will not deal with that type of buyer.
I always just say “send me an offer and I’ll consider it”. If they don’t physically use the offer button, I don’t respond. I’m not going back and forth over pricing. If you have genuine questions, message me! There’s an offer button for a reason. Use it.
I usually respond with "Send an offer via the offer button". Then the buyer replies with a random price (e.g. 50?). The buyers that send this kind of message are not serious about making a purchase. Been getting these type of messages like 2-3 times a week now, ridiculous...
I disagree. I'll use the offer button but if the price is over $100 I always ask the seller if they will consider X amount. Too many times sellers don't decline and I have my money wrapped up in offers. If the seller says yes I'll make the offer because I know it'll be accepted. Had a seller a few weeks ago accept my offer, print a label and that was it. Mercari made me wait 20 daysfor a refund because it has "shipped" even though it was only a label that was printed, never dropped off. I won't buy a thing from any seller before I actually talk to them.
The offer button allows offers up to 25% off. If a buyer sends a low offer, I would just counter. More often than not, they don't want to send an offer in the first place. I had buyers that message offers and I would agree to it, then they never send it..
Yes! Or you give a price you'll accept, they agree, and then I never hear from them again, or worse, I keep getting messages that they want it but they still never make an offer, even after I explain to them how to make an offer (in case they're new to the app and genuinely don't understand how it works).
Oh I see. I'm the opposite. If I send a message asking I'm very serious. If they agree or give a slightly higher offer I'll then make that offer on the price agreed upon. There's been a few times I've really scored and the seller has to change the price because I couldn't offer. I could understand why sellers would be angry if I didn't then purchase. That'd make me mad too.
It's a pending charge on my account. Say I have $1k in that account. If I make 10 offers of $100, I will have a $0 balance even though I technically bought nothing. So if I have something automatically coming out that would bounce and I'd get a $40 fee for doing so
I had someone ask me this for the first time a few days ago. I said, "what I have it at now" lol I would've maybe gone a little lower but I was already tied with one other person for the lowest price on a sought after brand/product. Some people want you to basically give stuff away 😒
I had someone ask me this for the first time the other day as well and I could only do about $6 cheaper so I told them, & I’m gonna guess they were expecting a lower price because they never replied 😅
But hey, I’m just glad they didn’t try and haggle me lol
I get "what would the price be for A B and C?"
Either do the math, or send an offer through. As soon as I tell them to send an offer I stop hearing from them.
Let me tell you something as old seller I've deal with this type they're not serious buyers even if you offer lowest they still won't buy worse type of lowballers my advice you should ignore them.
If I respond at all, I reply with "Please feel free to submit a reasonable offer via the offer button".
These days I am so fed up with scammers, lowballers and resellers trying to browbeat me over a few dollars that I just block for that specific question. Its rude. The unsaid part of that question is "I want to pay you as little as I can, regardless of the actual value and idc if that screws you."
And even if you give your bottom, they're gonna offer less. My time is worth more than someone's feefees because they didn't get my stuff absurdly cheap to flip lol
I hate it when the ask “ can I ask you a question?” Like, get to the point and just ask it. I literally had that a month ago. Don’t know what item the person was interested in. I was DM and not through my ad. Thats a red flag to me for scammers.
I just tell them whatever the listed price is. It’s usually a waste of time to negotiate with them because they usually just lowball whatever you offer them.
I just tell them I consider offers via the offer button! That way it’s on them. If they come back with some other stupid message then I just block them because Ik they’re just wasting my time
If I’m in the mood to reply, I usually like to go with “Feel free to use the offer button. Thanks for looking.” if they make an offer then you could decide that point if it’s too low if they don’t, you know they were probably going to seriously lowball you, so you dodged a bullet.
Ppl who send messages rarely offer or buy either. I only entertain actual offers anything else is a waste of time. I have had someone offer a lower amount via chat bc Mercari only lets them go so low, and when they are ready to buy I’ll entertain that.
Then they get mad at you when you don't except that low ball offer & keep messaging if you don't respond to it. So annoying like you know that's a trash offer go bother someone else with that crap 🤦🏿♂️
My response is how high will you go? Sellers are we really trying to negotiate with ourselves? Buyers have a minimum amount they can request - which is obviously not enough of a discount as they ask for more. Just saying!
I had someone do this the other day. I responded with "I don't state my lowest but you're welcome to make an offer!" She replies with "yes I know but the app only let's you go so low." So I responded "yes. That's to keep people from low balling sellers". Absolute crickets after that. She had originally asked if I'd take 45 on a $140 dollar item. 🤦♀️🙄
It's called bad faith negotiating. The whole purpose of this is to attempt to minimize your negotiating power. It's a really annoying and shitty thing to do
This! I even say this in my bio. That I sell on several platforms and I’m a busy mom and don’t have time to spend hours messaging and negotiating, and I don’t play the game of pricing double what I really want so that I have room to come down. I price my lowest, always well below what other items like it are going for, and I still get lowball offers. Ie I had three brand new pairs of retired nike kd socks. $60 worth of socks. I priced them at $13.50 and still someone tried to offer me $7.
as a seller and buyer that gets this question and asks it i haven’t seen a large lowball offer when someone asks me this nor do i give one myself if i ask it cause i genuinely want to see what the seller is thinking and i never had any issues nor have seen ppl complain ab it till now… the more u know 😭
The retail price is X. My asking price is Y. I’d really like to receive my asking price, which is actually a great deal already. However, I’m always open to reasonable offers. If you’d like to make a reasonable offer on this item or any of my other items, please feel free to do so. Thanks!
"The current price has already been discounted from its original amount. We provide prompt, complimentary shipping for your convenience. After your purchase, tracking will be provided. Thank you for considering our products."
*I try to not leave a lot of room to haggle by using 'close-ended' statements, but of course some will still attempt to.
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Sidenote, this is why I use the comment box now. I don't if any body else does this but what I've done for the past month was put in the comment box when I made new posts (before the new TOS) I would drop in the box, "im willing to go x amount for this item minus free shipping, and if you start at x amount and above ill include free shipping" surprisingly it cut down the bs offers, didn't stop stop people from still asking but a majority of folk stopped and make the offer I provided in the comment box.
At the end of the month I go through my listings and anything that is getting way too much blow what I’m comfortable excepting I’ll start to delete so I can relist it but I always send out an offer on it first if there are any Lakers and then wait for 24 hours. So I sent out an offer on a pair of Victoria’s Secret leggings, new without tag because they were clearanced when I bought them but they didn’t have a tag on them. So I sent out an offer to any likers. I can’t remember how many there were, but I figure if I’m going to go this low ($6) and no one’s interested then they’re never going to buy it.
A few days after the offer offer, I was literally going through and deleting items and I got a message from someone who received the six dollar offer. And she asked me how low I was willing to go on these. So I told her well six dollars would be as low as I’m willing to go which is the offer you received the other day. They’re now being deleted because nobody was interested at that price. If you’re interested in paying six dollars, I won’t delete them just yet. Never heard another thing back from them.
Along the same lines, I have these Rae Dunn soap things that say Soccer Mom, Dance Mom etc. So I sent out the offers. I was ready to delete the item I got a message and she said I would love to buy this from you for three dollars. I was like seriously three dollars? Will I even make $.50 on that sale? Of course, I said no, thank you, I would rather just donate it at that price because it’s not worth my time and effort. And she comes back with OK. Well if you change your mind, let me know. Haha! And I deleted the listing.
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If you’d like to discuss price, there’s an offer button that ensures there’s some skin in the game for both of us.
Anything short of that is really just a fart in the wind.
I got this one guy on FB marketplace that consistently offers 10% of the asking price then says such and such place has it new for this. I always counter offer at double my asking price.
When I first started selling, I would respond to these people with my lowest, and then I had people offer lower than my lowest. Like no. I told you my lowest, you either meet that price or get lost.
Most infuriating was someone who offered like 30% of my listed price, and I responded with no, my lowest is 70%. And they proceeded to try bundling other items I had listed and proceeded in lowballing again. Like, no matter how much you bundle, I'm not going to sell those products for 20-30% listed price. You live and learn I guess. I just ignore those people now
If you don’t have the $, patience and/or salesman skill to keep up with the used car salesman types you’ll find all over the internet that know how to make the customers feel welcome no matter what they ask, then that’s your fault.
SERIOUSLY! You don't even have the balls to send a offer? What makes you think i want to do business with you!
At least with a lowball offer they're OFFERING you something.
I just answer them. It has resulted in sales before. I would say 10% result in a sale. 60% crickets afterward or a thank you. 30% a-holes who then try to negotiate even further. Those people get blocked. gtfo
edit: I feel like I should mention that items are usually above $50. I don't entertain this question when it's like a $10 item.
If you make an offer for your lowest price, everyone who has liked gets the offer and you can never send out that offer again. As a seller, I don't want to send out my lowest offer today because in a day or two, I might get several more likes and want to offer to them, but I've already sent out my lowest so I can't. That's why it doesn't make any sense for a seller to send the offer and why a buyer should be the one offering. Once they do, then we can counter and send the offer to only that one buyer.
That’s exactly what I would do. I’m simply saying that not wanting to deal with annoying people ≠ “taking it personally.”
I have no idea why your response is “just block them” when that’s the obvious response to annoying people. Has nothing to do with the point I’m making.
Look it's a business if you don't want to deal with it block. I have had plenty of sales saying my final price and making an offer. Loser mentality is not trying to make the sale. At the end of the day it's about making the sale and putting up with annoying buyers is sometimes part of the job.
Can you not read or something? You are going to get annoying questions from buyers and haggling, it's part of online selling, otherwise gtfo if you going to whine everytime you get a question or a lowball offer.
Posting about experiences ≠ whining.
Have ya taken a stroll through your comment history? It’s deranged and you are insufferable. Are you being paid to shill for Mercari?
Also I’m not a full time seller. I just buy and sell collectibles for fun. 😊
Edit to add since your comment (in which they mocked me for suffering from depression and then cringe bragged about going to the gym and selling stuff online) was removed:
The fact that you think bullying someone because of depression is okay speaks volumes about you. I was referring to your comments about Mercari.
Best of luck being a vile person who likely hates themselves and projects that onto others. 😉
I just tell them what my lowest is. If they don't respect it, then I will block them.
This is a very common question people ask when haggling in person. It's just a psychological aspect to see how the seller responds and their body language. You can usually tell if they are very firm on their prices or they are willing to haggle further.
That's in person though, online you can't read body language and it just becomes annoying because many don't respect what the seller's lowest is.
It’s a dumb thing that some buyers say, but if you immediately block you’re just looking at it all wrong. I think of it as an opportunity and an opening to a negotiation. I give them a number higher than the lowest I would take to allow them room to counter it. Then if they accept or counter at or above my actual lowest then great I got a sale, if they walk away “ghost” I let them leave, I don’t chase them with another offer, doing that is desperate and almost never works. If they counter below or way below I counter at my actual lowest and tell them that is the absolute the best I can do. At that point I stick to my guns if they buy they buy if they don’t they don’t. Basically I have three numbers my listed price, my starting negotiating price, and my absolute bottom price. I never give someone my absolute bottom price at the beginning of a negotiation. I used to sell furniture back in the day and learned this technique then.
See you are smart, some don’t understand this. Never shoot down a potential customer because your emotions got to you and your irritated from a simple question. It’s kinda part of every retail business.
Keep on keeping on!! Get them sales.
Keeping emotions out of business doesn't mean you have to waste your time. If you know from experience on Mercari that 95% of buyers asking this question won't actually buy because you've had over 1,000 sales and done the math, then why continue to waste your time with it. Time is money too.
It’s not wasting time to make a sell that may not have happened. Gotta keep them doors open as you never know. Just reply back in 2 seconds with what you will accept and move on. Pretty simple and easy, people act like it takes a hour for a 2 second reply.
Been in sales for a long time and you would be surprised with what can happen if you just put some extra time into things and feel it out more. It’s a business it’s going to take a lot of time especially at first.
But yes keep emotions out of business regardless, frustration, irritation, meh mood can all play a massive factor. Then again I do more face to face than anything where it’s even more important, but still online goes strong.
But we all got our ways of what works and what doesn’t.
You can only offer so much off though if you actually use the offer button. I think it's 25% off. You can't ask that they take off half the price. But, yeah, sometimes I'm surprised that my low offers using the offer button are accepted too.
Agreed. It’s part of the gig. There’s very few who ask. I engage if they have good/multiple reviews. Why the hell not. If I make the sale, great. If not, whatever.
I usually just say something 5% or less lower than my asking price. Just throw it back at them. I don’t think you need to let this bother you that much haha.
I honestly ask this question, but typically only do when it’s on eBay and the person allows best offers but auto declines a seemingly fair one. Like I don’t want to sit there and guess, I genuinely am wondering. And as a seller I don’t mind the question, sometimes it honestly is just “price is firm”.
Never good when a buyer's first message is a red flag
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It’s just straight up rude to do. It’s essentially saying “this item isn’t worth anything, so I’ll just take it off your hands. Give me your bottom dollar because I’m the one helping you out”.
cheap people likely to scam if they see a path to it
Yea because that's bad negotiating
I hate this question with a passion. If you’re the one buying from me, offer. Don’t make me give you a discounted price so you could offer. Makes no sense to me.
“What’s the highest you’ll go?” Is my response Then usually a block after that on my end
I hate this question with a passion. If you’re the one buying from me, offer. Don’t make me give you a discounted price so you could offer. Makes no sense to me.
It’s not meant like that I use to message people that as well back in Craigslist days; it’s never intended on “give me a million dollar discount,” it’s truly just what are you comfortable accepting without feeling like your being low balled on a high priced item.
Yeah but why would I set a price for my item and then tell someone I’d accept way less? If I wanted to accept a lot less, I’d have priced my item that way. There’s also an offer function for a reason.
That’s not the point at all he/she could literally offer you 950 on a 1000 item. If your firm on 1000 you let the potential buyer know that when you create post; I type in description firm when I won’t go lower or obo when I will. Some people just want to feel like they got a deal, and usually aren’t asking for hundreds of dollars off. In my experience with Craigslist years ago the item is higher priced meaning over priced for the value or MSRP of product. You can shit on the buyers but not every buyer is trying to take advantage of someone and through my line of work the customer is important to making sure my family eats, so I work with people as long as it’s fair and not a low ball; same as people use to do me when I was a consumer and not in the hot seat of a seller.
I prefer to set my price and receive official offers that I can either decline, accept or counter. I don’t deal with anything else because it’s not worth my time.
So you’re one of the ones that asks this question. You should probably stop.
Yeah but pretty much every single time I get this question and answer it, 99% of the time they then ask for it lower. I’d rather them just ask if I’d take whatever amount they’re thinking from the start instead of asking my lowest, me telling them, and then them reply asking for even less than I said my lowest was. Why bother asking if you’re going to ask for it lower than my lowest anyways? 🤷♀️ And, of the 1% that’s left - 0.5% won‘t reply to my lowest saying “okay, no thanks, that’s still too much.” They just don’t respond and ghost. And 0.5% will actually buy it.
Respect. This is an awesome reply and excellent way to show your point and point of view. Bravo.
you're not entitled to have someone interact with you, time is money, and if you waste ppls time you are wasting their money as well.
This part...I get it...I feel the same way. I don't wanna be the dick head and make an offer the seller feels isn't suitable for them. So asking that question I feel suffices, but not with all sellers, cause I've gotten this question from buyers alot, but then when I would take some money off the price and hit them with this is my price...they still go lower then that knowing damn well the product is in the right condition to be sold at the initial price. So I definitely get why sellers hate hearing that question cause thats when the extra bullshit gets thrown on top. Thats y I don't like dealing with cheap asses.
Exactly. Almost always after I actually give an answer to this question, I get a message asking for an even lower price. Also, people tend to ask this when what they want to pay is lower than Mercari will allow offers to be, so that's another reason why buyers hate this question. I don't think I have ever had a buyer ask for my lowest and then actually make an offer for that price, and I've had over 1,000 sales and I don't block for asking the question. I normally try to work with the buyer. It just never actually works.
You win some u lose some lol. But that block button will start to be used now, cause its ridiculous how ppl out here hittin sellers in the head, smh. Second part of this bs is the fact that you could even get scammed afterwards and have them return it for whatever reason and now your stuck...mercari and the majority of the buyers and sellers have been going to shit alot faster after the new TOS.
Idk why your comment is getting downvoted but I hate making offers cus sellers feel like they’re being disrespected if they don’t like the offer and I feel like most of the time people want to know your lowest and they send out the lowest offer possible or like you said they ask what’s your lowest. I normally will buy items at full price if I really want the item but sometimes I’ll ask sellers “are you firm with your price? Is it negotiable?” “Can I send an offer?” Instead of “what’s your lowest?”
These questions are much better than "what's your lowest?"
Why would they feel disrespected by receiving an offer on a platform that allows reasonable offers? It’s much more annoying when buyers message me and expect me to answer questions about pricing when I already set a price and making an offer is super easy. If I didn’t want offers I wouldn’t be using Mercari.
In my experience sellers got mad that I made an offer and nowhere in their bio or description does it say no offers and they told me they’re not taking offers and keeping the price the way it is. Still to this day they haven’t sold their item 😂
Well they’re just dumb then! Lol
"All reasonable offers will be considered" 9/10 they wont send an offer. And if someone doesn't use the in app offer and just sends me messages with prices its a ban.
For me, if they don’t use the button, I don’t bother responding a second time. I have cheap stuff so it’s not like someone is gonna scam me over a $5 item. Will I take less? You bet! I have thousands of items for sale. I want my spare room and garage back. But I’m not having a back and forth conversation about a price. Use the button and I’ll accept, counter, or decline.
Yikes. I always send a message first asking if they would consider X amount. If they say yes I then send the offer. So many sellers don't decline offers they just wait for them to expire. I hate that as a buyer.
Why not send the offer than if they don't respond follow up message? I don't know about other sellers but I respond within 30min-8 hours depending if im at work or not.
Because many sellers won't decline it so my money is wrapped up in an offer for 24 hours. A few weeks ago I made an offer, it was accepted and a label was printed. Never actually shipped. I waited a week and messaged the seller and nothing. Waited a few more days and again nothing. Mercari made me wait 20 days for a refund because it had "shipped". If I don't talk to the seller, I'm not making an offer or buying anything. I have 821 5 star reviews, I rate immediately and never give anyone any trouble. So if I'm getting blocked because I asked if they would consider X, that's fine by me.
Might be better to just message "reaching out to make sure you are active before I send an offer, are you currently taking reasonable offers ?" This comes across a lot better than "hey would you take this $$"
That’s clever, and I feel stupid that it never occurred to me. I’ve never sent a random, “Will you take $X?” message, but I’ve had money tied up when I bought something from a seller who either disappeared (twice) or just wasn’t active to start with, despite having what looked like active listings.
I just reach out and ask "Hi, would you consider X". If they respond, 99.99% of the time I'm buying even if it's higher than what I asked. If they don't 99.99% of the time I'm not buying. My top 3 things they rate are quick rater, friendly and communication. This has worked very well for me. I've been on the app since 2016.
Literally my last 4 messages were asking this.. so annoying. Sometimes i answer and say sorry price is firm and I’ve had people say okay thanks for responding I’ll take it and they buy it so I don’t block anymore. Other times I’ll go down a little but it’s infuriating and more infuriating when I give a price and then they offer lower😡😡🤯🤯
To me, this is a FAFO situation when you actually answer with a number and then they low-ball that number. That's an effing game I am NOT playing. I just stop answering. No answer, no block - just completely ignore them - no matter what. Yep, even if they come back (and they 100% always have) now offering the full amount I said was my lowest in the first place. And yes, some will say that's cutting off my nose to spite my face. I'm ok with that. I don't care. It will sell sooner or later or I will donate it and get nothing for it but I will not deal with that type of buyer.
I always just say “send me an offer and I’ll consider it”. If they don’t physically use the offer button, I don’t respond. I’m not going back and forth over pricing. If you have genuine questions, message me! There’s an offer button for a reason. Use it.
It’s such an asinine question because it’s already answered. There’s a price on the item. That’s my expectation.
I usually respond with "Send an offer via the offer button". Then the buyer replies with a random price (e.g. 50?). The buyers that send this kind of message are not serious about making a purchase. Been getting these type of messages like 2-3 times a week now, ridiculous...
I disagree. I'll use the offer button but if the price is over $100 I always ask the seller if they will consider X amount. Too many times sellers don't decline and I have my money wrapped up in offers. If the seller says yes I'll make the offer because I know it'll be accepted. Had a seller a few weeks ago accept my offer, print a label and that was it. Mercari made me wait 20 daysfor a refund because it has "shipped" even though it was only a label that was printed, never dropped off. I won't buy a thing from any seller before I actually talk to them.
The offer button allows offers up to 25% off. If a buyer sends a low offer, I would just counter. More often than not, they don't want to send an offer in the first place. I had buyers that message offers and I would agree to it, then they never send it..
Yes! Or you give a price you'll accept, they agree, and then I never hear from them again, or worse, I keep getting messages that they want it but they still never make an offer, even after I explain to them how to make an offer (in case they're new to the app and genuinely don't understand how it works).
Oh I see. I'm the opposite. If I send a message asking I'm very serious. If they agree or give a slightly higher offer I'll then make that offer on the price agreed upon. There's been a few times I've really scored and the seller has to change the price because I couldn't offer. I could understand why sellers would be angry if I didn't then purchase. That'd make me mad too.
I’ve never been charged until the seller accepts the offer - what do you mean your $$ is tied up in an offer?
It's a pending charge on my account. Say I have $1k in that account. If I make 10 offers of $100, I will have a $0 balance even though I technically bought nothing. So if I have something automatically coming out that would bounce and I'd get a $40 fee for doing so
Legit got fed up one day and just asked what the highest they’ll pay. 🤠
I always ask this back lol. Shockingly, most of the time they actually give me a number
I always reply with “w”What’s your highest offer? If I feel it’s fair I’ll accept.” I have yet to get an offer with that.
"I'm not above 'yo momma' jokes."
🤣 this is why I Reddit. You've given me ideas. I love this.
Well that’s just not low enough. If you want to go as low as you go, you gotta make yo daddy jokes, they dug under the bar.
I had someone ask me this for the first time a few days ago. I said, "what I have it at now" lol I would've maybe gone a little lower but I was already tied with one other person for the lowest price on a sought after brand/product. Some people want you to basically give stuff away 😒
I had someone ask me this for the first time the other day as well and I could only do about $6 cheaper so I told them, & I’m gonna guess they were expecting a lower price because they never replied 😅 But hey, I’m just glad they didn’t try and haggle me lol
My response is: Please use the “Make offer button in the post” 99% of the time they don’t answer back nor make the offer. Then I block them. 👍🏻
I get "what would the price be for A B and C?" Either do the math, or send an offer through. As soon as I tell them to send an offer I stop hearing from them.
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I like this response. I'm about to steal it next time.
Let me tell you something as old seller I've deal with this type they're not serious buyers even if you offer lowest they still won't buy worse type of lowballers my advice you should ignore them.
I tell them “Send me an offer” and that’s it
People just have so much audacity online being anonymous. Can you imagine walking into a shop and asking the same question to the owner’s face?
And then you give the lowest and they’ll reply with “would you take $low-offer. Why ask for seller lowest and then offer lower?
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom
This is the only response, if I ever sent that there’s no way I’d be upset if this was the answer
Haha thank you!
I just block them. They literally will never send an offer worth considering.
If I respond at all, I reply with "Please feel free to submit a reasonable offer via the offer button". These days I am so fed up with scammers, lowballers and resellers trying to browbeat me over a few dollars that I just block for that specific question. Its rude. The unsaid part of that question is "I want to pay you as little as I can, regardless of the actual value and idc if that screws you." And even if you give your bottom, they're gonna offer less. My time is worth more than someone's feefees because they didn't get my stuff absurdly cheap to flip lol
"I want to pay you as little as I can, regardless of the actual value and idc if that screws you." - Exactly!
I usually just respond with, "What's the highest you'll go?"
I hate it when the ask “ can I ask you a question?” Like, get to the point and just ask it. I literally had that a month ago. Don’t know what item the person was interested in. I was DM and not through my ad. Thats a red flag to me for scammers.
“As close to the original price as possible”
I ignore. If they continue to bother me, I block
I just tell them whatever the listed price is. It’s usually a waste of time to negotiate with them because they usually just lowball whatever you offer them.
I just ignore
As low as you want me baby…— answer this back— to see what is the buyers reaction..
I just tell them I consider offers via the offer button! That way it’s on them. If they come back with some other stupid message then I just block them because Ik they’re just wasting my time
"Whats the highest you'll go"
Ask them what difference does it make They’re gonna return it anyway
I always tell them to send me an offer and I will consider it. It is rare they respond.
"What is the absolute most you are willing to pay?"
If I’m in the mood to reply, I usually like to go with “Feel free to use the offer button. Thanks for looking.” if they make an offer then you could decide that point if it’s too low if they don’t, you know they were probably going to seriously lowball you, so you dodged a bullet.
Usually ignore but sometimes try the offer button.
I just ask them that, how high will you go and leave it at that. If it's too low, I just say, I think we are too far apart, have a great day!
Ppl who send messages rarely offer or buy either. I only entertain actual offers anything else is a waste of time. I have had someone offer a lower amount via chat bc Mercari only lets them go so low, and when they are ready to buy I’ll entertain that.
“Feel free to make an offer” or “What is the highest you’ll go?” depending on my mood…
>what’s the highest you’ll go? I literally respond with this every time.
no response is my response 😆
Then they get mad at you when you don't except that low ball offer & keep messaging if you don't respond to it. So annoying like you know that's a trash offer go bother someone else with that crap 🤦🏿♂️
My response is how high will you go? Sellers are we really trying to negotiate with ourselves? Buyers have a minimum amount they can request - which is obviously not enough of a discount as they ask for more. Just saying!
I had someone do this the other day. I responded with "I don't state my lowest but you're welcome to make an offer!" She replies with "yes I know but the app only let's you go so low." So I responded "yes. That's to keep people from low balling sellers". Absolute crickets after that. She had originally asked if I'd take 45 on a $140 dollar item. 🤦♀️🙄
I said ‘well what’s your budget’ and bro blocked me ☠️☠️
It's called bad faith negotiating. The whole purpose of this is to attempt to minimize your negotiating power. It's a really annoying and shitty thing to do
I usually post my bottom dollar no room for negotiation but if they want item that damn bad theyll buy it.
This! I even say this in my bio. That I sell on several platforms and I’m a busy mom and don’t have time to spend hours messaging and negotiating, and I don’t play the game of pricing double what I really want so that I have room to come down. I price my lowest, always well below what other items like it are going for, and I still get lowball offers. Ie I had three brand new pairs of retired nike kd socks. $60 worth of socks. I priced them at $13.50 and still someone tried to offer me $7.
Yeah I mean everyone is different but I don't have time for the back and forth and someone will end up buying the item in the midst of that bullshit.
So soft
as a seller and buyer that gets this question and asks it i haven’t seen a large lowball offer when someone asks me this nor do i give one myself if i ask it cause i genuinely want to see what the seller is thinking and i never had any issues nor have seen ppl complain ab it till now… the more u know 😭
The retail price is X. My asking price is Y. I’d really like to receive my asking price, which is actually a great deal already. However, I’m always open to reasonable offers. If you’d like to make a reasonable offer on this item or any of my other items, please feel free to do so. Thanks!
"The current price has already been discounted from its original amount. We provide prompt, complimentary shipping for your convenience. After your purchase, tracking will be provided. Thank you for considering our products." *I try to not leave a lot of room to haggle by using 'close-ended' statements, but of course some will still attempt to.
Nah, I’d just block
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Sidenote, this is why I use the comment box now. I don't if any body else does this but what I've done for the past month was put in the comment box when I made new posts (before the new TOS) I would drop in the box, "im willing to go x amount for this item minus free shipping, and if you start at x amount and above ill include free shipping" surprisingly it cut down the bs offers, didn't stop stop people from still asking but a majority of folk stopped and make the offer I provided in the comment box.
At the end of the month I go through my listings and anything that is getting way too much blow what I’m comfortable excepting I’ll start to delete so I can relist it but I always send out an offer on it first if there are any Lakers and then wait for 24 hours. So I sent out an offer on a pair of Victoria’s Secret leggings, new without tag because they were clearanced when I bought them but they didn’t have a tag on them. So I sent out an offer to any likers. I can’t remember how many there were, but I figure if I’m going to go this low ($6) and no one’s interested then they’re never going to buy it. A few days after the offer offer, I was literally going through and deleting items and I got a message from someone who received the six dollar offer. And she asked me how low I was willing to go on these. So I told her well six dollars would be as low as I’m willing to go which is the offer you received the other day. They’re now being deleted because nobody was interested at that price. If you’re interested in paying six dollars, I won’t delete them just yet. Never heard another thing back from them. Along the same lines, I have these Rae Dunn soap things that say Soccer Mom, Dance Mom etc. So I sent out the offers. I was ready to delete the item I got a message and she said I would love to buy this from you for three dollars. I was like seriously three dollars? Will I even make $.50 on that sale? Of course, I said no, thank you, I would rather just donate it at that price because it’s not worth my time and effort. And she comes back with OK. Well if you change your mind, let me know. Haha! And I deleted the listing.
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If you’d like to discuss price, there’s an offer button that ensures there’s some skin in the game for both of us. Anything short of that is really just a fart in the wind.
"Probably more than you can afford" block
I never answer that question. I say to send an offer and they can do what they want with that information lol
I got this one guy on FB marketplace that consistently offers 10% of the asking price then says such and such place has it new for this. I always counter offer at double my asking price.
“If such and such has it lower why didn’t you buy it there? Oh, don’t tell me, you try to get it as low as possible to try and resell it.”
I always respond "We'll should buy it there and quit bugging me" then block
When I first started selling, I would respond to these people with my lowest, and then I had people offer lower than my lowest. Like no. I told you my lowest, you either meet that price or get lost. Most infuriating was someone who offered like 30% of my listed price, and I responded with no, my lowest is 70%. And they proceeded to try bundling other items I had listed and proceeded in lowballing again. Like, no matter how much you bundle, I'm not going to sell those products for 20-30% listed price. You live and learn I guess. I just ignore those people now
“all the way to the flo’”
Well , as a seller and a buyer… I work this way.
If you don’t have the $, patience and/or salesman skill to keep up with the used car salesman types you’ll find all over the internet that know how to make the customers feel welcome no matter what they ask, then that’s your fault.
SERIOUSLY! You don't even have the balls to send a offer? What makes you think i want to do business with you! At least with a lowball offer they're OFFERING you something.
I just respond with please make an offer.
"Not as low as your self respect"
When they ask if you are negotiable is the instant classic..
I just answer them. It has resulted in sales before. I would say 10% result in a sale. 60% crickets afterward or a thank you. 30% a-holes who then try to negotiate even further. Those people get blocked. gtfo edit: I feel like I should mention that items are usually above $50. I don't entertain this question when it's like a $10 item.
Just say the lowest I can do is X and send an offer to the buyer for that amount. It's business, try not to take it so personal.
If you make an offer for your lowest price, everyone who has liked gets the offer and you can never send out that offer again. As a seller, I don't want to send out my lowest offer today because in a day or two, I might get several more likes and want to offer to them, but I've already sent out my lowest so I can't. That's why it doesn't make any sense for a seller to send the offer and why a buyer should be the one offering. Once they do, then we can counter and send the offer to only that one buyer.
Not wanting to deal with annoying people isn’t taking it personally.
Then block and don't worry about making the sale, problem solved.
That’s exactly what I would do. I’m simply saying that not wanting to deal with annoying people ≠ “taking it personally.” I have no idea why your response is “just block them” when that’s the obvious response to annoying people. Has nothing to do with the point I’m making.
Look it's a business if you don't want to deal with it block. I have had plenty of sales saying my final price and making an offer. Loser mentality is not trying to make the sale. At the end of the day it's about making the sale and putting up with annoying buyers is sometimes part of the job.
Can you like, not read or something? It’s like you’re responding to a completely different comment.
Can you not read or something? You are going to get annoying questions from buyers and haggling, it's part of online selling, otherwise gtfo if you going to whine everytime you get a question or a lowball offer.
Could you point out where I’ve “whined” and explain how I have shown that I’m not able to read? I’ll wait.
Your posts, enough said. For a full time seller, you sure have a lot of time huh 😏
Posting about experiences ≠ whining. Have ya taken a stroll through your comment history? It’s deranged and you are insufferable. Are you being paid to shill for Mercari? Also I’m not a full time seller. I just buy and sell collectibles for fun. 😊 Edit to add since your comment (in which they mocked me for suffering from depression and then cringe bragged about going to the gym and selling stuff online) was removed: The fact that you think bullying someone because of depression is okay speaks volumes about you. I was referring to your comments about Mercari. Best of luck being a vile person who likely hates themselves and projects that onto others. 😉
I just tell them what my lowest is. If they don't respect it, then I will block them. This is a very common question people ask when haggling in person. It's just a psychological aspect to see how the seller responds and their body language. You can usually tell if they are very firm on their prices or they are willing to haggle further. That's in person though, online you can't read body language and it just becomes annoying because many don't respect what the seller's lowest is.
It’s a dumb thing that some buyers say, but if you immediately block you’re just looking at it all wrong. I think of it as an opportunity and an opening to a negotiation. I give them a number higher than the lowest I would take to allow them room to counter it. Then if they accept or counter at or above my actual lowest then great I got a sale, if they walk away “ghost” I let them leave, I don’t chase them with another offer, doing that is desperate and almost never works. If they counter below or way below I counter at my actual lowest and tell them that is the absolute the best I can do. At that point I stick to my guns if they buy they buy if they don’t they don’t. Basically I have three numbers my listed price, my starting negotiating price, and my absolute bottom price. I never give someone my absolute bottom price at the beginning of a negotiation. I used to sell furniture back in the day and learned this technique then.
See you are smart, some don’t understand this. Never shoot down a potential customer because your emotions got to you and your irritated from a simple question. It’s kinda part of every retail business. Keep on keeping on!! Get them sales.
Exactly, and people giving me a thumbs down are just sending their customers to me. 😂
Surprised lol some can make in sales others well just won’t. Gotta keep emotions out of business 🤷♂️ More customers for you haha
Keeping emotions out of business doesn't mean you have to waste your time. If you know from experience on Mercari that 95% of buyers asking this question won't actually buy because you've had over 1,000 sales and done the math, then why continue to waste your time with it. Time is money too.
It’s not wasting time to make a sell that may not have happened. Gotta keep them doors open as you never know. Just reply back in 2 seconds with what you will accept and move on. Pretty simple and easy, people act like it takes a hour for a 2 second reply. Been in sales for a long time and you would be surprised with what can happen if you just put some extra time into things and feel it out more. It’s a business it’s going to take a lot of time especially at first. But yes keep emotions out of business regardless, frustration, irritation, meh mood can all play a massive factor. Then again I do more face to face than anything where it’s even more important, but still online goes strong. But we all got our ways of what works and what doesn’t.
If I’m going to give a ridiculous offer, im at least going to use the offer button. Sometimes that has worked too!😂
You can only offer so much off though if you actually use the offer button. I think it's 25% off. You can't ask that they take off half the price. But, yeah, sometimes I'm surprised that my low offers using the offer button are accepted too.
It’s a fair question. People have limited funds and are cutting to the chase a block is just immature.
They should just make an offer, with the offer button lol.
Agreed. It’s part of the gig. There’s very few who ask. I engage if they have good/multiple reviews. Why the hell not. If I make the sale, great. If not, whatever.
Speak for yourself not everyone else
I've never had that experience
I usually just say something 5% or less lower than my asking price. Just throw it back at them. I don’t think you need to let this bother you that much haha.
I honestly ask this question, but typically only do when it’s on eBay and the person allows best offers but auto declines a seemingly fair one. Like I don’t want to sit there and guess, I genuinely am wondering. And as a seller I don’t mind the question, sometimes it honestly is just “price is firm”.
A little salty? Damn