I guess he didn't like my offer...

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coolcomfort said:
I think a lot of you are over reacting. The $200 was an offer to start negotiations and I only offered it after having seen the aquarium on Craigslist for a couple days. If no one else is buying it, then is a low ball really a bad idea? I would disagree.

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Idk i dont see your offer as being so horrible. Like you said its a starting point


Lepisosteus said:
This is one of my all time favourite replies I have received. Still makes me laugh.

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Dang... hes gotta be a serial killer...definitely.

Man either you have a ton of patience or a sick sense of humor lol

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Lepisosteus said:
This is one of my all time favourite replies I have received. Still makes me laugh.

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Omg LOL!

You totally should have played on the goat thing and asked him a ton of questions about it.

How old is the goat?
What color?
What kind of goat?
Male or female?
Has it been desexed?
Has it been chipped?
Can I breed it?
What is the goats medical history?
Would you consider swapping three goats for my tank? As I feel like one goat only covers the cost of the stand. :P


I wouldn't have been able to help myself, anyone offering to trade a goat for a fish tank is just asking to be messed with.. :grinyes:
 
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My feelings are this. Respect goes both ways. Making a lower reasonable offer is fair in negotiations, but making such a lowball offer (40% of asking price when the asking price actually isn't too unreasonable) is just disrespectful so it prompts people to be disrespectful back. A starting point offer is one thing, but a lowball offer is only going to elicit a negative reply from the seller, or is simply going to go unreplied, which is normally what I do when I sell something and someone sends me a lowball offer.
 
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Steve_C said:
My feelings are this. Respect goes both ways. Making a lower reasonable offer is fair in negotiations, but making such a lowball offer (40% of asking price when the asking price actually isn't too unreasonable) is just disrespectful so it prompts people to be disrespectful back. A starting point offer is one thing, but a lowball offer is only going to elicit a negative reply from the seller, or is simply going to go unreplied, which is normally what I do when I sell something and someone sends me a lowball offer.
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Exactly. I feel 500 for a 220 is very reasonable. Now that one is a weird foot print, not one I'd buy. But to cut it so low in my eyes is disrespectful. A new standard 180 will cost about $800 here, RR will add 300 so would drilling it and buying a cheap overflow a good overflow and you are looking at 1500. So 500 not to unreasonable.
 
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