need help - maybe ripped off by a buyer

[HORSELOGGER]

Somethin about negotiating prices that i find interesting. If I have something to sell, I know about what i want to get for it, and I might ask for an offer, but reserve the right to have final say so. If I made an offer on a pile of logs to someone that did not have an asking price, and he responded by fetching a chainsaw, I believe I would have watched the man cut it up. I would thank that would qualify as a little bit "hair triggery" on the sellers part. Too many people are hyper sensitive when it comes to negotiating a money deal. I am never afraid to offer low, because it does not hurt my feelings one bit to be told no, and I am never offended when some one tries to low ball me on lumber or flooring, but think its funny how many people are offended when I wont accept their offer.I think haggling is a lost art :

[Cedarman]

Horselogger, I agree with you. Sometimes you gotta haggle.  But to haggle you gotta have a goal. To reach the goal you hafta have done the research to know the true value of the item as it is and where it is. Like car shopping. If you don't know the normal selling price of a car you are looking at, you are at the mercy of the car dealer.  If you do know, then you've got some powerful ammunition and can hold your guns against all the spiel of the car salesman.  Never, never, never never let emotion enter its head in a negotiation or the other side will use it to their advantage. Keep focused on the goal.  I have had people offer low money, real low, but its my job to make them see that its worth a whole lot more.  There is a whole lot to the negotiation process.  The one group of people I dislike are those who begrudge me the right to make a profit.  I always feel that it is not how much you have invested in an item that determines its sales price, but what the market will bear.   I kind of wandered on this one . : : :

[Furby]

Maybe off topic, maybe not.
My parents and I had a lot for sale for a couple of years.
Finally had one fellow call back a year after first talking to us, and wanting to make a deal.
He had the nerve to find out how much we paid for the property, how long we owned it, and in his words "how much money we should make" on the property.
After a couple of months of going back and forth with the guy, we came down a bit and gave him a verbal agreement to the sale.
Same day someone else called up wanting the place, and when they found out we had just made a deal, offered to pay lots more. :

[WH_Conley]

Sold my business in the other life a few years ago, right before I came back to the sticks , a neighbor stopped in as we were moving out, wanted to buy boyh houses. Says " I don't know what you gave for that one but not for this one" I stopped him right there, pointed out that what I gave and what it took to buy them had nothing to do with each other.

P.S. Fifteen years worth of inflation and adjoining the new highway that had been built, last development lot left in that end of town ;D.