How low was your offer

Because you're not paying what they want, so you go on a list and if you're up there near the top it may work out for you.

If it was a good enough offer, they would have responded cheap ass

Irrelevant. I don’t care if you offered 1% of asking. The offer deserves a response.

Not to me it isn't. OBO mean the best offer out of all the best offers. If I said 4K or best offer, and you said 3K, my "counter" would be 4K, because that's what I'm asking.

Do you know how long he's been waiting for the reply?
Hey OP, how long?

I disagree that all offers deserve a response. There are some super low ballers out there and I don't even waste time responding.

Could be busy, could be fielding actual offers, could be getting braces for his daughter

You guys need to, and I get the humor of me saying this, get over yourselves a bit.

Because if you offered 300 dollars less and i offered 200 less you don't have the best offer.

Why? I doubt anyone is getting hundreds of offers on a game. Takes 2 seconds.

BS. If i list something at 1000$ and i get an email offer at 10$ i am not responding. Clearly someone like that is not serious and wasting my time.

Maybe a ton of things.
Maybe he has someones that's closer to him. maybe hes waiting for someone he's dealt with in the past. Maybe, JUST MAYBE, the OPs mail was a little weird and had a bunch of shit we don't know aboot? We have none of the facts and you're acting like every situation is the same.

My standard answer to those is "I'll burn the fucking pin in my firepit before I sell it to you for that price".

Has this ever happened to you?

then that's not your best offer. Your best offer would be 1200.

The most response I would say is "No."

And that’s fine. Just respond. Takes no time at all.

$10 might be an extreme outlier but I've received 50% of asking price and that is below my threshold of 'no response would be rude.'

I've bounced items on the sidewalk in front of low-ballers at a garage sale when I didn't have control of my anger. Now I just do not respond rather than letting my blood pressure get elevated.

I could totally see myself not responding to a $900 on a $1500. That is a borderline rude offer IMHO.

I suggest in an OBO situation buyer or seller. Buyer make the max offer they are willing to pay. Seller respond with the lowest they are willing to take. If buyer doesn’t agree to that, negotiations over. Pretty simple.

Wow. I will never understand why people take these things so seriously. I understand that you feel a low offer is in some way a complete insult to you, but in actuality it’s what someone is willing to pay for your item. If you are not interested, say “not interested”.

I used to get really annoyed when someone would offer half my asking price. Now I realize that some people are just trying to start a dialogue. I know a few guys also that approach things with a what do I have to lose attitude. Go low and see what happens. From my perspective it's hard to take those people very seriously and are never my first choice to deal with. This is a competitive hobby, often times if you want to win out you have to be the path of least resistance.

Thats 40% ....OBO usually means 10-20% of asking price, IMO. Thats what im thinking when I list OBO. If you wanted to meet in the middle why didnt you offer 1200?
Also, what everyone forgets...OBO also means a higher price. Say 1700, means you want it now and seller is asking to little.
But this is pinside, everyone wants a barn find, cheap craigslist, deal, deal deal. I really want it, just cheap.

Ill upvote that, im a cheap basterd.

Ive also just asked before. Whats your best price? Seems to work, gets a couple hundred knocked off, well sometimes.

My rule of thumb is any offer at half price or less I ignore I and politely decline anything over that if it's not within the range I'm willing to let it go for.

Me too. Lowballers get no response. Let them wonder.

I believe every PM someone sends me deserves a response.

On OBO, you are SELLING a game, if I was offered $900 on a $1500 I would respond politely with a no. If I had no other offers I would call you and see if that really was your best offer and explain to you why the game is worth more.

Apparently its 40%...lol.
Sorry, i couldnt resist, no ill will.
I totally get your point.

You may not even get a response if the emails, especially from Craigslist, are going to the person's junk email box and getting automatically deleted after a period of time.

Usually, I will respond to all offers. I typically haven't had anyone really rude...and sometimes...they may have something for trade

Negotiating via email/PM when you've never seen the game in the first place usually ends up poorly.

If you want to haggle... get a live conversation going.

To me any offer less than 75% of asking price I consider a low ball, tire kicker and don't bother responding. If they're really interested they will send a better offer. If not, no loss to me, they weren't really interested any way.

It's just like someone fishing for the biggest sucker with a price that is twice market value. They aren't any more interested in selling than the lowballer is in buying.

I've never sold a game that the negotiation started at less than 75% of asking. I used to respond to those but don't bother any more.

I'd say anything much more than 20% below fair market (based on what this title in this condition has been fetching.) So, in this case, if this pin has been selling for around $1500, anything below $1150, to me is a low-ball. Now that being said, I'd still respond thinking it is possible to negotiate to a fair price. At $900, I'd just answer "I appreciate the interest; however, I believe I've priced it fairly" I probably wouldn't ask for another offer and I wouldn't counter. The sticky wicket is fair market. But it cuts both ways. If fair market is $1500 and the seller is listing for $1900, I wouldn't even bother to make an offer.

I would consider your offer a low ball

I don’t doubt that low offers rarely result in a sale. My point is, why not just respond and say no thanks?