29 Aug
1999
29 Aug
'99
2:01 p.m.
back. The
rollers and paint were even in good condition. After chatting a
bit, the seller said we should make an offer. While I was pondering if he
would take $50 or $100 for it and if I could justify that (I was in grad
school at the time), my wife piped up and asked "How about $15?" My college
chum and I just stood dumbfounded while the seller thought for a second and
said "Ok." And that's how I ended up with my rack.
I've found that making lowball offers sometimes is the *best* way to get
things from certain surplus outfits. Two places that I frequent seem to have
a tendency to accept offers for less than $25, but reject offers above that
amount (on similar sorts of items). My guess is that if you offer over $25,
they start to think that the item is valuable and that they should get a lot
of money for it.