This just goes to prove that no ad is too small to make fun of.
Score Collector Set(Baseball Cards) (Durham)
Looking to sell a complete unopened set of score baseball cards. 1990 edition. Includes 56 Magic Motion Trivia Cards. Make me an offer. Looking to sell now. Serious inquiries only.
My first take: At first I wasn’t going to bother, but then I saw the make an offfer / serious inquiries only (total douchebag thing to put in an ad by the way) tags and I had to go and find out what A) a serious offer would be on an $8 set and more importantly B) how much is he/she trying to get. Also, I love the salemanship of this ad . . . if you act now I’ll throw in 56 magic motion trivia cards . . ooooooh tempting very tempting. Are you ready for some fun?
The Emails:
Me: Hi, I was wondering if this is still available?
Craigslist Idiot (CI): They are, would you like to come by and look at them? (look at what? A sealed yellow box? I’ll have to pass)
Me: What are you looking to get for them? (Can you already sense the answer . . . . wait for it . . . . )
CI: What would your offer be? (Fucking people! I can not stand when a CI does this, it’s my single pet peave when it comes to negotiating, and usually illicits a response like this:)
Me: I’m not sure how much it’s worth so let’s start with a dollar and negotiate from there. (Makes me so happy to drop that bomb on them after they dropped the, “what’s your offer” crap on me)
CI: I wouldn’t call that a serious offer. (Oh you wouldn’t huh? How about a little of this:)
Me: What is the dollar value in your head that you are hoping to get from this set. (I think this is about as clear as I can get, by the way if she is reasonable I’d buy this set).
CI: I was told it’s worth at least $25. So I won’t go lower than that? (Whoa! 2-5 seriously what delusional idiot told her that?)
Me: I saw it on eBay for $1.50 (which is where my offer of $2 came from) see it <here> . There are several others right around the $2-$4 mark. How about I go $4 (double the eBay value!!!) and I can come by tomorrow. (I threw in the extra exclamation marks to show her how serious I am!!!)
CI: No $25 is as low as I will go, thanks for you interest. (Hmmm she isn’t getting away that easy!!!)
Me: Look before you bail on my offers, please review this video price guide of cards from that era. The link can be found here: http://voiceofthecollector.blogspot.com/2008/10/long-awaited-junk-wax-how-to.html this is actually the video I used to come up with an offer, it really is helpful. (How to build a fire, step1 . . . so helpful!)
CI: You know your an asshole, why do you waste time of people trying to earn a few dollars to pay bills. (I think that’s my third asshole, how happy that makes me)
Me: The only bills this set will help you with is your heating bills . . . make a fire with them and warm your hands.
End of Emails.
Final take on his CI: As I said earlier, there is nothing that pisses me off more than being asked to name a price. To that I will always respond with $1 because I have nothing to lose and why should I offer more? They are only going to try and squeeze an extra few bucks out of me. If I offered 15 she would have wanted 20 or 25. If I offered 20 she would have wanted 25 or 30. Just grinds my gears. Any way you look at it, it’s a freaking Score set, Magic Motion Trivia cards be damned it’s just not worth much more than $4 off of Craigslist. By the way I seriously would have bought it if she agreed to $4.
That’s great…trying to “earn” a few dollars. I love when they get pissed after you call them out.
As much as I love old Score, and my 88 Score set is the highlight of my collection, there’s no way in hell I’d pay more than $10 for the set.
1990 Score… I’d probably pay even less.
Maybe she read Ben Henry’s blog post about 1990 Score being the best set of the 1990s…
The heating bill comment probably gave her a heart attack. “WHAT WHAT WHAT?!? THESE CARDS ARENT WORTH ANYTHING? YOU ARE THE ASSHOLE.”
I’d guess that if she really has three assholes like she claims, her medical bills must be staggering.
Out of curiosity I looked up the BV on this set. High BV is $15. Not that BV means anything. I’m just trying to figure out how anyone came up with $25. This leaves 3 possibilities:
1. She knows the value and is trying to scam someone.
2. She knows the value and thinks that the world owes her something and she’s simply entitled to what she wants.
3. She is too lazy to do any research on the value of her item. When confronted with evidence of the actual value she, instead of changing the price, she chooses to ignore it through stupidity and the lack of understanding of basic supply and demand principles.
Any of these 3 types of people piss me off by using perfectly good oxygen.
You know fellas… not that I think of myself as an idiot, but I did pay $30 for this very same set. Of course, I was 8 years old and it was in 1990. I considered it an “investment.” **sigh**
I hate to tell you how many 1988 Score Mackey Sasser Rookies I have.
This is hilarious.
That ‘serious offers only’ tag is the calling card of the North American spotted E-bay dick. My Grandma has the same thing–anything more than 30 years old is an ‘antique’ and insanely valuable. People hear ‘old baseball card’ (these aren’t even that old) and start thinking Fort Knox. ‘Seriously offer’ them an ass-kicking and tell them to sell something they have a clue about–like beanie babies. Those are worth, like, $300 apiece now, right?
Dont forget to add shipping is part of the price on these sets. The sellers on eBay are typically making a few dollars off that. Either way, it should be included. I’d put the value at about the same though, $8-$12. I actully like 1990 Score.
That’ was a lot of work for $4 bucks!
You mean “elicits” not “illicits.”