Items for Sale and their Price.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by bmitchell82

If you never ask you never know, its the way of the world now, sellers ask for 30% more than what the item is worth, knowing that somebody is going to try and bash them down in price.

I use astromart as a starting point to current market value.

Items that are current, and in excellent condition should get 70-75% of new price imo and i wont go much lower. Most often on IIS if you want to get a fair price, you often have to wait for a genuinely interested buyer instead of entertaining opportunistic bargain hunters who want everything for nothing.

Im a hard bargainer when it comes to it and hell, ill play one sales man off against the other and let me tell you it works a dyam treat. How do i know how to bargain / barter? I used to be a sales man and yes a very good one

Reminds me of a "gentleman" at my garage sale who thought he might try bargaining with me on a quality and perfectly good clock radio with a sticker price of $5 on it. He got told where to go in no uncertain terms.

Gone are the days where a fair price was asked for a good product. now a exorbanent price is asked for a piece of 5h17

Nobody forces you to buy anything and the buyer always has a choice. Sometimes the seller does not.

[mick pinner]

personally l don't haggle, although l rarely buy second hand anyway.
in my experience anyone who has a substancial item for sale and knows their gear will ask a fair price in the beginning with the hope of not being besieged by the bargain hunter who would not know a good deal if it bit them.
my main criteria when buying secondhand is who l am buying from in the first place, l tend to get a feeling by the way the for sale ad is structured and the impression l get of the seller from past history of their posts on the forum in all catergories not just buy/sell.
l have bought various items although not many and on every occassion what l have bought has been as advertised and in very good condition and on one occassion an absolute bargain and all witout haggling.

[John0z (John)]

Hi, I realize that this is an old thread, but I came across it while researching on prices for items to sell. I have noticed that if it is a bargain, it gets snapped up quite quickly, and then occasionally, it is offered up for sale again at an inflated price. I am about to get a granny flat built and a swimming pool removed, which is an opportunity to put in a small observatory, albeit in suburban Sydney, so a lot of portable equipment will have to go.