ibrewtoo posted:Tom Tee posted:Because.
One thing I dislike is disrespect from either the seller or buyer. At last Saturday's show I had a brand new $135 Woodland Scenics custom building literally just cut out of its box with an $85 price tag. Some bottom feeder insisted I needed to sell it to him for $80. I just ignored him, repriced it at $95 and someone purchased it in front of him. Sweet.
$5 off is hardly a bottom feeder but if it makes your blood boil, spare yourself and others and write FIRM if you aren't willing to negotiate.
...or don't haul your stuff to a train meet.
Rather than responding with ill will, "Thanks, but that's my rock-bottom price" would work a lot better.
On a completely unrelated note, I recently respectfully offered a guy what I thought was a fair price for an item on his table. He was a total jerk - completely ignored me and put a higher price on his item. People like that make my blood boil. If I was that thin-skinned, I'd quit going to train meets.
Here's a real train-show story from Wheaton many years ago. Guy had a fairly common item that was grossly overpriced. I looked at it and made a reasonable opening offer. He replied "I didn't bring my stuff here to have people try to jew me down (yeah, that was his exact phrase); this isn't a garage sale". I was so stunned that I just put it down and walked away. I still kick myself for not ripping into him about the ethnic slur and remind him that it was indeed a swap meet. I also should have thrown the item at him.
