Thread: 2 wade and butchers one big blade

found these at an antique show in town this weekend. Tried to buy the lot if sheffields he had but he priced astronomically high. He priced these to me way much more than i was willing to give. Snuck over when he stepped away and showed my dad these two snd gave him some money. That guy priced them less than half to him when he came back. So i ended up with them. I hate when people do this crap.

I always send the wife back and it always works.

I usually just walk away and let them chase me. I also never make an offer first. If they dont know how to price a blade, I wont do it for them. Having a person as your back up buyer is a great move as well.

It's always interesting to meet sellers, some have selling tactics.

Last encounter I had was with a lady in Covent Garden Market selling 2 razors.
Her tactic was to be cold, rude with no chance of budging on the price.
I had to walk away from that one..
Bye bye baby

Interesting. Yeah unless they are selling a unicorn I would walk. No time or energy for sellers BS.

Been through my share of sellers like that

Yeah, I'm not buyin' from a jerk seller just on general principle. One other tactic I sometimes use when buying more big-ticket items locally (say a used car, gun, guitar-something that's worth a few hundred or thousand) is to bring the cash in hundreds. I put the amount I'm willing to spend in one pocket-tell them that's all I have. Some sellers get stupid/greedy when they see a stack of Benjamins. Keep the rest in another pocket as wiggle room if they won't budge. Usually they budge!

This probably wouldn't work on smaller items at a flea market, and I definitely wouldn't try it in a potentially sketchy Craigslist meetup scenario. But many people still like cash in an off-line transaction. The government doesn't have to know everything we do!