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..but I've had a bit of a poop day as it is, but things like this really boils my wee.
I think I'm a nice chap, I try to be polite and try to ensure people are happy, but this kind of stuff I find really offensive for the blatant opportunist element.. I got quite angry when I read this, then I ate some pizza, but to be honest I'm still a bit angry....
I might be wrong, the guy might be lovely and a great husband/son/father...but just to be that blunt with such an effortless and ridiculously insulting offer just pisses me off.
I'd give it to someone if I though it would make someone happy, but for someone with the literary prowess of a stale walnut to offer £400 tomorrow in case I lose my load at the opportunity of seeing £400 0f notes in my hand?
It might be just me, but I find it really f'ing rude.
I'd say it's you.
Nought wrong with a low offer you can but say no.
*deletes post offering £350*
Not sure why you'd be angry. He(?) has made you a shoot offer you are entitled to say no. whats the beef?
Edit- a phrase I never thought i'd type "whats the beef?" 😀
You're selling something not exactly bike related on a bike site and then get upset when someone makes a humourous post. I find that funny which you will probably find rude too.
I've had much lower offers (by ratio) on Ebay for stuff. I just reply 'no thanks'.
its very cheeky and they know it
you refused
Move on I say
Not sure viral marketing is your thing as whilst you have drawn attention to your add you have not necessarily endered yourself to customers
You are not Brant and I dont claim my [s]hand built part to our design[/s] catalogue spec Chinese part
"Reports for advertising for sale post on main forum."
soops - Member
oops sorry! Hic!
Come on OP, haven't we all said (typed) something we've regretted when drunk? 🙂
It's you.
You've some emotion attached with the item, the other person hasn't.
Can see it's annoying, but he said sorry before you posted this.
To be fair to the OP, this sounds like the poo icing on a pretty crappy cake of a day. Maybe on it's own it wouldn't have sparked off such a horrendous chain of events such as this thread.
Oh, and I think the guy has had a few beers, so it's a free pass from me.
Well used rings are not worth much so he chanced his arm didn`t he? just say no ,dont be offended
chanced his arm in a well used ring [[b]MODS NO[/b] ]
but he said sorry before you posted this.
Yes he did, withdrawn my rant...
It's you.
You've some emotion attached with the item, the other person hasn't.
Ah yes, hadn't spotted it was an engagement ring....
Get over yourself. You're selling something, he made you an offer lower than you want. just refuse it and see if he improves the offer, although I guess that's unlikely now you've made a bit of a nugget of yourself and insulted him.
Yes he did, withdrawn my rant...
What? Have some commitment, man! A captain should go down with his ship.
Wasn't really a rant more off whinge
However, guessing as you're selling an engagement ring you're obviously very emotional. I expected a falling down moment
'Tis a very nice ring and a fair price but even when you state no offers people are going to have a bid.
OK £400 is chancing it somewhat but generally when haggling the buyer starts off ridiculously low and then you meet somewhere in the middle.
To cheer you up a bit just watch how Brian (as in Life of Brian) handles it...
Cheers
Danny B
However, guessing as you're selling an engagement ring you're obviously very emotional. I expected a falling down moment
Quick, Houns! He is vulnerable, and on the rebound. GO IN FOR THE KiLL!
What? Have some commitment, man! A captain should go down with his ship.
FFS, in the spirit of this place, reinstated...
Get over yourself. You're selling something, he made you an offer lower than you want. just refuse it and see if he improves the offer, although I guess that's unlikely now you've made a bit of a nugget of yourself and insulted him.
Epenis is large in you; wanna get engaged?
FFS, in the spirit of this place, reinstated...
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A quick phone call to the chap should suffice
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. but I can tell you I won't except that offer or that sort of insult. but i can tell you what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you apologise now that will be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you"
If he promises to push back.... I'll get down on one knee
I'll get down on one knee
Play your cards right, and you'll get a ring out of it.
So you paid 2200 for a bit of metal and then got it valued as a bit of metal for 2450, as somebody who knows nothing about jewelry, its just worth probably a teenner to me.
Where as a bike,tv, camera etc all have a value in the use youll make of them and can be easier seen as value, or the amount youre wiling to reduce the price by.
SH ring,litle value unleess you tell peeps the percieved value you paid for it.
'Tis a very nice ring and a fair price but even when you state no offers people are going to have a bid
Rather boringly, that's my point - decent jewellers today said top dollar £1150 private sale, min value £800, so I went with lowest value, kinda hoping some poor sod might be able to make someone else happy.
...I took the offer of £400 quite badly, possibly reads too much into it, but I did.
Would you take £450?
<goes and hides...>
as somebody who knows nothing about spelling, its just worth probably a teenner to me
FTFY
You always get chancers with jewellery. I tried to sell a similar ring a few years ago but wasn't prepared to give it away, so I still have it!
That said "no offers" never works. Should've put it up for £1200 ono...
£800 is tops you'd get in a private sale imho. Having bought and sold similar in the past.
[i]No offers[/i] or [i]firm[/i] prices are guaranteed to piss people off. There is always room for negotiation.
£800 is tops you'd get in a private sale imho. Having bought and sold similar in the past.
Cheers, but have been offered 600 in a shop already; who admitted they would put it up for around £1k.
No offers or firm prices are guaranteed to piss people off
Wouldn't piss me off. I'd either accept their stance or walk away, not offer them half their asking price. Besides, he's already apologised so I feel a bit bad, but you can't defend that stance as a sober person; assuming you are.
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These people give top dollar prices apparently...
but you can't defend that stance as a sober person; assuming you are.
Eh? Maybe [i]pisses off[/i] is too strong a phrase, but it certainly doesn't entice [b]me[/b] into thinking about buying something.
What if you'd been offered £750 or £775?
My dad died when i was six years old and he left me a rose gold signet ring.. I took it to the pawnbrokers when i was fourteen and short of hash and was offered the princely sum of £12..
I took the cash 😥
What if you'd been offered £750 or £775?
Reasonable point; especially as I like to haggle. Noted.
No worse than the comedy offers I got when selling a £2.5k bike.
You are obviously a bit tender about why you are selling.
Ah Yunki, you were 14 FFS. I'm sure your Pop would be laughing now at your impetuousness!
I bet he'd kick your ass more if you spent £2200 on a ring that you ended up selling 2 years on for £3.50 and a bag of ready salted 😉
Dammit, I only have salt n vinegar.
Have some more pizza...
To be fair you would have lost much more money if she had said yes and you had gone through with a doomed wedding.
So it's the result of a spurned proposal then...
Take it back to the shop if so?
bearnecessities - MemberEpenis is large in you; wanna get engaged?
No thanks, you couldn't even commit to keeping your rant up without outside assistance.
Bearnecessities - so far on this thread you have rescinded your original rant (thus implying that you have accepted that it could be possible that you weren't entirely right), AND you have taken note of another person's point of view.
This sort of behaviour is [u]entirely unacceptable[/u] on an internet forum, and therefore I feel that you should be banned indefinitely.
😉
I'll give you £20, an ayurvedic massage and
[i]and[/i]
I'll teach you how to make the most amazing beef and coconut curry, Keralan style.
Now that my friend, is priceless.
Ps.
Worst thinly veiled advert for a classified thread I've yet seen. 😛
I'd give it to someone if I though it would make someone happy
It would make me happy..
How quickly can you post?
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oh, wait...
Why don't you make a list of all the people who you don't like or who are rude.
Markie - I tried that, but they only offered me 39p for Basement Cat.
Are you overreacting? Yes.
Was the 'offer' massively insensitive given what you were selling? Yes.
Hope you're ok. Yell if you want either thread closing.
Bearnecessities. Hoping for a better day for you tomorrow.
Just to cheer you up, I got offered a swap with my for sale mtb frame today for a car stereo on MTB traders 🙂
I will give you nought pounds and you can marry me. How's that sound?
Quick, Houns! He is vulnerable, and on the rebound. GO IN FOR THE KiLL!
Houns, he's really got the measure of you, eh? 😉
I've had some offers for stuff that I've been selling lately that have been, frankly, utter bullocks. People are trying their luck with stuff and really you should just hold out for what you want. I don't know what goes through someone's head when they ask to buy something for half of what you've advertised it for, but it is a waste of everyone's time, so just don't do it.
I threw my engagement ring into a tarn on the hills above my town - most satisfying thing i did in regards to that bit of jewellery!
You overpaid, he under offerred simple misunderstanding. Could get a ring of equal colour and clarity for a grand all day long. Same diamond on the missis finger right now. If the guy messages me I'll show him how.
It was an s11 diamond so thought I was on the money
You could have just said no!
Ban No!
Hic 😉
This thread is brilliant! good work chaps.
Eeeerm, Mr Dwarf - what locale might that be...
😉
My dad died when i was six years old and he left me a rose gold signet ring.. I took it to the pawnbrokers when i was fourteen and short of hash and was offered the princely sum of £12..I took the cash
Don't beat yourself up about that. It's just gold.
Best bit of advice my late Dad ever gave me was, "**** 'em all bar four. They can carry the stretcher".
It's just stuff Bearneccesities, it's just stuff. It has a lot of emotional value at the moment maybe. But I'd take the £400 I think. Get rid of the thing and move on.
This reminds me a time when I went for a dip in a small mountain lake on holiday up north a few years and put my hand on an engagement ring. It looked pretty new so I wiped it off and sold it to a jeweller the day I got back - result! Paid for my whole trip and m next banger!
Konabunny, you are Gollum and I claim my five pounds.
Myyyyy Prleshussssss!
Keep it for the next woman?
Like a prepacked relationship pack?
Keep it for the next woman?
Like a prepacked relationship pack?
Actually, given the apparent depreciation these things go through, thats a pretty sensible idea.