[Guitarhack]

There's a lot of scammers trolling kijiji who are looking to resell your high value item.

It's not just you. They will contact 10 people with a similar item - usually offering half price.
Whoever bites at their "offer" - will get the treatment. It's damaged, broken, etc...

It's best to not respond. I usually note in my ad what the item retails at new, and that my price is FIRM &FAIR.
I also usually have a caveat of " No email offers"

Scammers make listing items a drag.

 

[Okay Player]

I posted a pedal this morning for $200 price negotiable within reason. I just received a message from someone with a link to a Reverb ad that shows the pedal priced at $170 plus $30 for shipping and no other comment. I'm guessing he's saying my price is too high, but I guess he's not very good at math.

 

[colchar]

I once had someone lowball me, so I responded with a counter offer that was higher than my original price. They freaked out and started claiming they were going to call the police because I was committing fraud. They claimed I had to sell it at my asking price. When I asked why, if that were true, they were trying to negotiate another price they freaked out even more.

A similar thing happened with someone else, but that one claimed they were going to have their lawyer charge me. They were obviously too stupid to understand that lawyers do not charge people.

Bottom line, people are idiots and are best ignored.

 

[sulphur]

I once had someone lowball me, so I responded with a counter offer that was higher than my original price. They freaked out and started claiming they were going to call the police because I was committing fraud.

A similar thing happened with someone else, but that one claimed they were going to have their lawyer charge me. They were obviously too stupid to understand that lawyers do not charge people.

Bottom line, people are idiots and are best ignored.

I had a Squier VM Jag with a HSC that ran me around $600 for around $400 on Kijiji.
Somebody messaged me with an offer of $125, I countered with $525.

If they made a reasonable offer to start, there might've been room for negotiation, but that was a bit extreme.

 

[Abiguitar]

I’ve dealt with so many idiots on Kijiji that now whenever I list an item for sale, I price it aggressively with a sentence along the lines of “Price is non-negotiable. Please don’t contact me unless you’re willing to pay the listed price”. I might get less money but it’s worth not having to deal with all the low ballers.

 

[Arek]

Naw its not that its just crazier white men are coming out of the wood work.

maybe it is crazy brown man?
Why does it even matter?

 

[colchar]

I had a Squier VM Jag with a HSC that ran me around $600 for around $400 on Kijiji.
Somebody messaged me with an offer of $125, I countered with $525.

If they made a reasonable offer to start, there might've been room for negotiation, but that was a bit extreme.

I love the ones who respond with offers that are about a third of the asking price, and stating that they will pick it up that day. I guess they think everyone selling on Kijiji is desperate for money.

 

[Okay Player]

I love the ones who respond with offers that are about a third of the asking price, and stating that they will pick it up that day. I guess they think everyone selling on Kijiji is desperate for money.

When I get those I like to give them a clock they can't possibly make.

 

[TimH]

It's probably Trumps fault. Riiiight. 😅

I'm happy to blame him for anything and everything just to see what sticks.

 

[Frenchy99]

If you drop the amp from the other side you might fix it !

 

[laristotle]

I counter low ballers with 'sorry, not accepting deposits'.

 

[colchar]

I counter low ballers with 'sorry, not accepting deposits'.

Yeah I use that one too.

 

[Guncho]

I'm going to speculate that the type of person who would do this is the type of person who has personalty traits I do not like.

 

[Guncho]

I once had someone lowball me, so I responded with a counter offer that was higher than my original price. They freaked out and started claiming they were going to call the police because I was committing fraud. They claimed I had to sell it at my asking price. When I asked why, if that were true, they were trying to negotiate another price they freaked out even more.

A similar thing happened with someone else, but that one claimed they were going to have their lawyer charge me. They were obviously too stupid to understand that lawyers do not charge people.

Bottom line, people are idiots and are best ignored.

People are the worst!

 

[Guncho]

When I get those I like to give them a clock they can't possibly make.

I don't think I could make any clock. Looks hard.

 

[Guncho]

When I sold our minivan recently I had people try to talk me down because, "It has high mileage!" "One of the power doors doesn't work!". My response was, "if it had lower mileage and the power door worked, I'd be asking for more money"

 

[Richard Gear]

On one hand you have folks who are professional scum bags. The kind who expect the whole world to give them a discount and that they are entitled to it. The kind of person who has no genuine interest in the item, especially not enough to go out and work and save money and then buy it new, but expect someone else to do that for them and then give them a discount. Their only real interest in any item IS the discount itself. They are basically hoarders who feed their addiction for bargains at all costs.

And on the other hand one could have someone who did work hard and save up and buy the same item new and then have sold it themselves and gotten the run around and eventually took a mean loss and now they are bitter and trolling other for fun who ask outrageous prices.

It’s a mixed bag. But both scenarios come from those who really abuse the concept of “fair offer”.

I’m at a point where I won’t sell something unless I’m willing to take a huge hit. Because the bottom line is that I would move to Iran and open an antique store in a bizarre if I wanted to barter with strangers lol. If I decide to sell something, it’s to fund something that will replace a number of things or provide enough solutions for me to justify selling on the cheap. Or it’s something that I resent so much for paying too much that the very sight of it angers me lol.

But the point I’m making is that, I know that selling something even brand new is going to be a huge loss in 9/10 cases, so I just look at what everyone else is listing for and then find the cheapest similar listing and list lower than that.

At that point if someone low balls me, I say one thing to them “does that offer come with some suction?? Because the only time I’m going to work and save money and buy something and essentially hand it over to someone else is if they are the woman responsible for advancing my bloodline”

 

[Distortion]

Block them. I do it all the time. But be careful if you send too many comments back and forth you'll get an email asking to leave feedback. You may get a negative if you are not careful. That's why I block. Leave the conversation as short as possible

that has changed. Both parties have to agree a sale was made before they can leave feedback. That is the notice I got last time I bought something on Kijidiot.

 

[slash@roses]

I'm trying to sell a custom made tele and people are offering me used winter tires for trade in a different province

 

[Alex]

I used Kijiji quite a bit in 2020 for selling and sold quite a few high $$$ ticket items and my success was starting my ads with a one liner: * No trade offers and price is firm*. It's worked beautifully.

I still occasionally get trade offers but very few and other than the guy with the one star rating asking if I would straight trade $2,000 of photography equipment for an instrument that I'm selling for $3K or more. I just don't know why he doesn't match the dollar figure of what I'm selling......