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Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

Just Daniel

Just Daniel

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I previously wrote sellers every now and again with info on their hat and try to be friendly, but in general it felt too much like a busy body and I’ve quit doing it. Sometimes it was cool, but at the end of the day while eBay is both a friendly swap shop and a business transaction for most folks it is more a business.




bowlerman said:
So, here is not so much a gripe but a peculiarism:

I’ve had several interested parties message me through eBay as if they want a friend to talk to. For instance, someone who will first correct my terminology (I typically just say button cord, but this person really wanted me to say wind trolley— whatever), then give me a history of the term (what a wind trolley is and how one would use it), and then present to me a hypothetical situation where if they purchase the hat, then they’d have to hide the purchase from “the wife.”

Interested party asked no questions and made no offers. I figure if it was a lounger who had a real issue with my
terminology they’d probably just message me here.

How do I respond?
“Ok, best of luck. I already alerted your wife?”
Or “haha yeah bruh, I hear ya?”
Or “thank you so much for bestowing your deep and prolific knowledge of hats upon me; I will update my listing so that it pleases you, for the benefit of my actually-interested buyers?”


I think I’ll continue to use “button cord“ and am now tempted to raise my asking price.

This is not an isolated case of its nature. Not too long ago an interested buyer was concerned as to whether the hat pin in the crown of a hat “went all the way through the felt.” Well, it wasn’t velcroed on there.

Also, I am baffled by the buyers who offer a price two dollars under my BIN. For instance $33 instead of $35. I most often accept, but in bewilderment. Is it so they can think they got the last word or something?

Maybe I just don’t understand people anymore, or maybe I just ate too much pizza.




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DanO

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For the Wind Trolley I would reply, Thank You and due to the awareness of the increased technology of the hat the price has gone up accordingly.
As for the BIN just counter with two dollars over the BIN!
 
Just Daniel

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Ha ha....I just offered $25 on a $30 price, but in my defense it is a $30 starting bid (not a BIN).

I generally take the best offer button on open auctions as an invitation to low-ball the hat.




>Also, I am baffled by the buyers who offer a price two dollars under my BIN. For instance $33 instead of $35. I most often accept, but in bewilderment. Is it so they can think they got the last word or something?

Maybe I just don’t understand people anymore, or maybe I just ate too much pizza.




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Frunobulax

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The one that gets me is a listing for, say, $100. The auction expires, it doesn't sell. Then it's relisted for $125.

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Woodtroll

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Frunobulax said:
The one that gets me is a listing for, say, $100. The auction expires, it doesn't sell. Then it's relisted for $125.

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Or you use the "Make Offer" on a "Buy It Now" auction, and you make a reasonable offer of 10-15% less than the asking price. They counter with an offer of, say, 50 cents off of a $50 item. WTH did the seller waste my time posting a "Make Offer" option if they weren't serious about considering offers? :mad::mad: Now I won't buy from them at any price...
 

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Just Daniel said:
I previously wrote sellers every now and again with info on their hat and try to be friendly, but in general it felt too much like a busy body and I’ve quit doing it. Sometimes it was cool, but at the end of the day while eBay is both a friendly swap shop and a business transaction for most folks it is more a business.
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Okay two bucks is grinding a bit tooo much BUT damn the bargaining is at least half the fun.
 
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