The amazing guitar bargaining skills

[bearclaw]

just a tip to sellers, if you have any sales experience outside this forum, you will know that one of the golden rule of negotiation is to never show your lowest acceptable price. Quoting a slightly higher price to give a little space for negotiation is a good idea most of the time, unless your price is really insanely atttractive

That aside, I would like to declare that I'm against lowballing haha. Theres a big difference between reasonable offers/negotiation and lowballing. If people cant get that straight, they should not be playing music.

Just my 2cts worth.

 

[goatfather]

well people can go all the way for a decent price

sold my cab last month to a guy who lowered my price because of the 'taxi fare'..
i didn't want to but out of pity i agreed to the price he wanted to. selling it at already a big loss.

carried my amp all the way down and voila
he's driving a honda crossroads

depressing no?

 

[Ratboy]

should have just immediately jack up the price for "NO Taxi fare"

 

[relinquish69]

well people can go all the way for a decent price

sold my cab last month to a guy who lowered my price because of the 'taxi fare'..
i didn't want to but out of pity i agreed to the price he wanted to. selling it at already a big loss.

carried my amp all the way down and voila
he's driving a honda crossroads

depressing no?

What did you tell him after that?

 

[theliverevolution]

should have just immediately jack up the price for "NO Taxi fare"

Seconded. What taxi fare is there?

 

[goatfather]

wasn't any taxi fare. he just wanted to probably crap out on a few dollars and get the feeling of a good deal i guess.

what could i say? a deal's a deal...

but the feeling of being 'cheated' just sucks!!!

 

[hub4thailand]

wasn't any taxi fare. he just wanted to probably crap out on a few dollars and get the feeling of a good deal i guess.

what could i say? a deal's a deal...

but the feeling of being 'cheated' just sucks!!!

got that afew times, what can i say the best people i deal with are not singaporean, so they fly here to get the solely guitar does it mean i have to pay for the plane ticket? and these people want me to write off their taxi fare from the guitar they is only one thing to blame for this GASSSS. thats the fuel that make someone call me early 3am in the morning and traveling all the way to jurong west to get a gibson.

 

[dodgethis]

wasn't any taxi fare. he just wanted to probably crap out on a few dollars and get the feeling of a good deal i guess.

what could i say? a deal's a deal...

The way I see it, he did not fulfill his end of the verbal contract, therefore, the contract can be considered as null and void. You could walked out of the deal without repercussion.

 

[bluelime]

Oh ya ymmak i think i had a bad deal with him before too.
if i'm not wrong its him. He made me miss slash's concert!
He put me aeroplane while making me waiting at payar lebar. Being nice and to deal at his convience this is what i get.
If u wanted to sell at higher value to someone else at least tell me. so i wldnt reject other offers.
And gig is ard 6-7 if im not wrong he told me meet 5. and in the end he pull stunt.
SO pissed till tdy.

 

[relinquish69]

If you were me, what would you do?

jr max ma.cpa2007@gmail.com:

I can buy your guitar for S$ 500 if you are amenable.. thank you

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Me:

which guitar?

regards
Jerry

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jr max ma.cpa2007@gmail.com:

the takamine acoustic guitar.

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Do note that I'm selling my guitar for $1200.

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Me:

You find for me 10 pieces at that price & I will buy all of them from you.

regards
Jerry

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jr max ma.cpa2007@gmail.com:

ok... I already have 9 pieces of it... when I buy yours, then I will sell it all to you.. I can give you special discount of 20% if you like.. that comes with a free amplifier also.. when do you want to meet?

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How to reply? yet another deal of a lifetime.

 

[J.custom]

WTF. That is retarded. Dude just ignore him. Stupid time wasters.

 

[ShredAddict]

Haha! what a load of rubbish! Bro relinquish you should meet up with him just to check out his 9 Takamines. as you said, deal of a lifetime!

 

[superpotato_30]

Oh ya ymmak i think i had a bad deal with him before too.
if i'm not wrong its him. He made me miss slash's concert!
He put me aeroplane while making me waiting at payar lebar. Being nice and to deal at his convience this is what i get.
If u wanted to sell at higher value to someone else at least tell me. so i wldnt reject other offers.
And gig is ard 6-7 if im not wrong he told me meet 5. and in the end he pull stunt.
SO pissed till tdy.

Woahh lime u missed Slash's concert for a deal? I would never schedule a deal on a concert day man..
If i were you i'd have no idea how i would react..

 

[superpotato_30]

If you were me, what would you do?

jr max ma.cpa2007@gmail.com:

I can buy your guitar for S$ 500 if you are amenable.. thank you

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Me:

which guitar?

regards
Jerry

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jr max ma.cpa2007@gmail.com:

the takamine acoustic guitar.

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Do note that I'm selling my guitar for $1200.

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Me:

You find for me 10 pieces at that price & I will buy all of them from you.

regards
Jerry

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jr max ma.cpa2007@gmail.com:

ok... I already have 9 pieces of it... when I buy yours, then I will sell it all to you.. I can give you special discount of 20% if you like.. that comes with a free amplifier also.. when do you want to meet?

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How to reply? yet another deal of a lifetime.

1) I would ask him for 20 individual photos for each guitar under different lightings with 9 different serial numbers to ensure no repeats with no dings no cloth swirls whatsoever to begin with.

2)Any tarnish on the hardware is a no go.

3)Any rusty strings also a no go. So if i dont get 180 different photos then i would openly call him a liar and a joke.

4)Each guitar must come with all the case candy and to ensure the pictures do not come from google the photos must be inside his camera with the date the pictures were taken when we eventually meet. ( if we do meet )

You tell him this. See what he replies.

 

[AaronSoFat]

I think no matter who you are no matter how big a transaction you're trying to make. You meet the guy, exchange a few nice words then sincerely ask for a discount the guy won't be a total ass and just say no. Most of the time they'll just say okay and give you a reasonable percentage off. like i got a modded ds-1 for 10 dollars cheaper. might seem small but it's still more than 10% off. nobody is really that heartless and cheapskate to just say no 10 bucks can buy me 3 bowls of bak chor mee.

 

[Godspeed64]

I tend to walk away when people bargain.
An agreement is an agreement. I prefer to give my own discounts right when dealing (which I usually do). I don't like them asking for it.

 

[zesn]

No it's such a horrible turn off when you ask for a discount last minute.

 

[ZhonSolitario]

But asking for discount the last minute works, most of the time. (In a meet up situation)
Saying that they only have xxx amount of cash with them, well not too much difference ($5-20) so it's still alright to me (As a seller) a few bucks would not kill anyone.
But there are some that can't stop bugging you for discount and start insulting when rejected.

 

[skipper53]

But asking for discount the last minute works, most of the time. (In a meet up situation)
Saying that they only have xxx amount of cash with them, well not too much difference ($5-20) so it's still alright.
But there are some that can't stop bugging you for discount and in the end start insulting you without reason.

It's this kind of mentality that is deterring many of my friends from this website. when a deal is made and a sum agreed upon why would you be an a-s-s and change the figure at the last minute? someone made the effort to come down all the way because an agreement was made. time, place and yes most importantly the price. be it $5 even, it's plain rude. unless the seller out of his good will offers to lower it.

please check yourself.

 

[ZhonSolitario]

Please check myself?