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<blockquote data-quote="BryanDP" data-source="post: 4075078" data-attributes="member: 1111">I don&#039;t have any experience selling guns in this forum because up to at least this point in my life selling a gun has basically seemed like a form of sacrilege (though that may soon change since I have way more guns than makes any sense or than I even care about anymore) but I have recently been selling some items on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist.I tend to at least initially mark things above what I&#039;d take for them so I have a little room for bargaining with folks. The weird thing is that at least on those platforms you tend to either get 1) full price scam offers, 2) ridiculous lowball offers or 3) someone asking &quot;what&#039;s your bottom dollar.&quot;The first of those responses have gotten kind of fun to deal with. I&#039;ve already gotten one $50K check from someone buying the food trailer I have for sale. The second I usually counter with a higher price than the listing says and the last I refuse to entertain because I&#039;m not going to start bidding against myself. I always tell those folks, &quot;I will be happy to take the amount on the listing or respectfully consider any reasonable and substantiated offer. Most of those folks don&#039;t know what that means and very few ever make an offer.The other day someone inquired of my food trailer, &quot;What lead to needing to sell?&quot; as if they&#039;re trying to smoke out some drama or personal business. I just replied, &quot;I just don&#039;t need it anymore and it&#039;s in the way. Did you want to make an offer?&quot;&nbsp; Crickets, of course.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BryanDP, post: 4075078, member: 1111"] I don't have any experience selling guns in this forum because up to at least this point in my life selling a gun has basically seemed like a form of sacrilege (though that may soon change since I have way more guns than makes any sense or than I even care about anymore) but I have recently been selling some items on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist. I tend to at least initially mark things above what I'd take for them so I have a little room for bargaining with folks. The weird thing is that at least on those platforms you tend to either get 1) full price scam offers, 2) ridiculous lowball offers or 3) someone asking "what's your bottom dollar." The first of those responses have gotten kind of fun to deal with. I've already gotten one $50K check from someone buying the food trailer I have for sale. The second I usually counter with a higher price than the listing says and the last I refuse to entertain because I'm not going to start bidding against myself. I always tell those folks, "I will be happy to take the amount on the listing or respectfully consider any reasonable and substantiated offer. Most of those folks don't know what that means and very few ever make an offer. The other day someone inquired of my food trailer, "What lead to needing to sell?" as if they're trying to smoke out some drama or personal business. I just replied, "I just don't need it anymore and it's in the way. Did you want to make an offer?" Crickets, of course. [/QUOTE]

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