Let me give some advice for a few of our newer members who currently have listings on the Sales Forum.

If you want to sell your watch, you should have an accurate description, several good pictures, and proof of a decent reputation helps. However, there's one thing that makes or breaks your sale:

A REASONABLE ASKING PRICE!!!!!

Seriously, some of the prices I've seen are RIDICULOUS. I just listed a 14k Longines, without even knowing for sure what caliber was inside (which means no movement pictures), and it sold within a day. Wanna know why? I DIDN'T ASK SOME INSANE PRICE. Imagine that - a realistic value resulting in a sale at the asking price! Go figure!

Now, don't make me link to the listings and embarrass the particular members - but have a look for yourself at the first couple pages and you'll figure out who I mean.

Opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect those of Omega Forums' management. We now return you to your normal gawking and debating over watches.

*If this persists, I'm going to list my Seiko Pepsi for $25,000.

 

Let me be the first to offer $1 for that Pepsi.

 

It's an ask whatever you want sort of pricing these days...

 

Would it narrow things down to look at still-active FS posts that were originally posted in May?

 

Sorry you don't like my asking price, but it's my watch and my price. If that doesn't meet your preconceived notion of what the number should be, then so be it. Or you can PM or email me an offer. Otherwise, just push your buggy on down the aisle and look at something else.

Besides, I didn't really want to sale. I just needed a listing to prove to the wifely-unit that I was trying to reduce the aggregation.

 

You'd think by the 15000th view and hundredth bump they'd get the message... but no...the price is right, it's the buyers that are wrong!

 

Oh go on. Please do....

 

Believe me, I'm tempted.

Yeah, yeah.... we had that already. Event Horizon earned part of his custom avatar message because of this FS thread:

https://omegaforums.net/threads/reluctant-sale-speedy-triple-date.23251/#post-253493

Hell, I've even done a semi-faux FS listing:

https://omegaforums.net/threads/1969-audemars-piguet-18k-classique-ultra-thin-caliber-2003.51237/

Using my own $1 offer against me, eh? Nicely played.

 

I have said this before and I'll say it again (sounds like Dennis), The ONLY reason something doesn't sell whether it be a house, car, boat, or watch....is it is overpriced, PERIOD! If it is priced right it will sell. I think people in general see something that is way overpriced and immediately think there is no way to bargain it down to reality, so they just give it a pass. You see watches on here all the time that start off with a price and it just sits there. Then the price drops start and keep going and going down until the watch finally sells because now it is at a price that someone feels is justifiable to buy.

 

Ill add, as a newbie who just sold an item, if you research asking prices and come up with a reasonable average starting price you can come to a fair agreement quickly.

@ulackfocus ill offer $2 for the Pepsi Seiko

 

Okay, here's a hint about two of the listings (one picture per listing):



.....and....

 

MMMMM a put together....and an old deep sea diver......MMMMM......Am thinking, am sinking, am thinking...

 

Glad someone with thick skin decided to post this. Of 49 listings on the first Private Sales page, 6 contain the word "reduced" (and no, I'm not counting the 3510). As I've noted before, it really makes me chuckle to see listings like

Price is $3,599 net to me, buyer pays fees. [That is, the seller won't settle for a penny less than $3,599.]

A few days later it's

Reduced to $3,199, net to me, buyer pays fees. [But wait! That's $400 less!]

And so forth.......

 

@ulackfocus :



I liked your old avatar much better. Somehow, that squirrel captured your OF persona. Maybe we need to take a poll and force the squirrel back on you. After that, we can address the inflated pricing in some of the ads.

 

Oh, I almost forgot...



@ulackfocus : you ARE loved here!

 

How many times do we need to have the discussion about what those words mean, on a forum with international members working in different currencies?

 

Sellers set the sale price and terms . Market decides if it's set right or not. No problem.

Now daily bumps for months on end for a watch that is clearly not priced well? That can get annoying.

 

I'm about to switch back. I was going to take a break for a few days or so as the Longines I just sold was shipping down under, but I noticed it's already in Australia.

.... and yes, that squirrel with 'tood certainly was perfect in conjunction with the custom avatar message. I flirted with this:



using "You talkin' to me?" as the message, in an homage to Taxi Driver.



It was close, but the "What're you lookin' at?" won.

 

Honestly, that squirrel avatar was much more threatening (in your face) than De Niro’s Taxi Driver — and that’s saying something.