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Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I keep putting ads up but the response is crickets.

(Many/most) people seem to want/like to haggle and or get a deal. Are you putting items up at a price a bit higher than you're willing to take so they can "make an offer" that you can then take?

At our yard/garage sales, we always price an item by "well we want to get $X for this thing, so we'll tag it as $Y ($X + some amount)" so that when they say 'will you take ____' we can either say "yes", or comeback with some reduced amount that is what we actually want.

So if I want $20 for something, I'll probably price it as something like $25-28. Then they'll say "will you take $20" to which I can say "sure" or they'll say "will you take $15" and I can say "no but I'll take $20". We've had excellent results doing that. Sometimes we even get more than we wanted for stuff.

Obviously, the cost of the item sort of dictates the "added haggle surcharge". You probably wouldn't add 25% to the cost of a car.