10 Dec
2018
10 Dec
'18
6:52 a.m.
At 04:11 PM 9/12/2018 -0800, you wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
I've never encountered that. When I'm ebay buying I routinely make offers that
are
much less than the list price (if it's fairly high.) Sometimes they accept.
Just be polite and nice in your message with the offer, explain why it's a fair
offer from your perspective.
Al, why not offer $5 or $10, explain you want to try data recovery for bitsavers,
but the disks may well be unreadable.
It now has 5 watchers. Maybe they are all members of this list, maybe not.
I assume you are aware of snipe-bidding services? Some of those watchers may
be too, but you won't know till after the end.
I've used bidnapper in the past very successfully.
theres a make an offer thing on it why not just
use that
Because a "make an offer" can carry some risks of OFFENDING the seller, if
they had thought that the value was not in the same general range as your
offer.
Not much known history with that seller. If nobody else bids, then it will be cheap, other than
the shipping (the
seller does not seem to know about media mail: "Computer-readable media
containing prerecorded information")
He will know if you tell him.