Quote Originally Posted by DarkHyren View Post
Basically exactly like the example "$100 for this listing? Can I offer $20 cash?", you put a reasonable price and the low baller makes an "offer" of something extremely low.
Guh... how stupid. If you think that a price isn't worth it, then don't even bother making an offer. Happens a lot with real estate! When we were house hunting we saw a lot of really nice places that were massively overpriced so we wouldn't even bother contacting the agent about it. And when selling our agent said that he received offers so far below our asking price that he wouldn't even bother telling us what they were. Basically agents won't even contact the property owner if your offer is well below what they're expecting to sell for.

It's common sense, isn't it? If someone wants to sell something for a certain price then they're looking at something close to it. Why waste your time making an offer that's so far below what they want? You know that the answer is going to be no. We know that housing is overpriced and sure, you could make low offers that are closer to what these properties are actually worth. But the seller is NOT going to accept that offer, so why bother?!?

If I were selling a toy and someone made a ridiculously low offer, I reckon that I wouldn't even bother replying. If people think that the price is too high then just move on!