On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 13:33:47 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie
wrote:

On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 12:06:39 PM UTC-7, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 09:03:34 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

So far I have had absolute morons trying to buy my stuff off of Craigslist
and I suppose I will have to put them on eBay instead. I like the idea of
not having to pack and ship and worry about good delivery. But I don't
like some moron emailing me that he would offer 25% of the asking price.

I suggest the you raise your price to 4 times what you are currently
asking. Then, when some moron offers 25% of your new price, you
should have little difficulty accepting their offer.

My son did that with his Roubaix -- not four times the price, but he posted it on a local Craigslist-ish site in SLC for a reasonable price, and it didn't sell. He relisted it for more money, and it did sell -- at his original asking price. He tells me that Specialized sells well in the used market. He got a really good price, but the bike had a lot of after-market stuff on it that he had accumulated from his jobs, like a Stages power meter and some pretty high-end disc wheels. I don't know what is deemed valuable in the used market, but its probably none of my bikes.
-- Jay Beattie.

Nicely done. A friend had something similar happen when he was
selling his house in about 2010. He had it priced to sell, which
meant severely discounted. He had a few prospective buyers, but all
of them failed to deliver a workable offer, mostly because of lousy
credit, or inability to scrape together any financing. So, his
realtor suggested that he RAISE the asking price. Everyone, including
me, thought that was a really dumb idea, but lacking time and
alternatives, he did it. The result was instead of poorly financed
potential buyers, an entirely different and better class of buyer
appears to look at the house. They had money, decent credit, and were
able to make a workable offer, at a much higher price. The house sold
quickly and easily.

The lesson here is that if you want to sell something, one needs to
determine what class of buyer should be targeted. Your son would not
do well selling a high end bicycle on Craigslist or eBay, other of
which full of bargain hunters and scammers. However, in a bicycle
shop, it can be presumed that someone who purchases a bicycles wants
quality and is willing to pay for it.



--
Jeff Liebermann
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558