"What's Your Best Price?"

Tvad wrote;

I don't believe replying with, "What's your best offer?" is a smart a** response.

I agree. I was thinking more like someone else's response here that went like;

" just pick your favorite number and keep adding zeros till I tell you to stop"!

Soon after reading this post I received an email (just yesterday) from a potential buyer with that god awful question "What is the absolute bottom dollar you would accept". Well I thought for a few moments as to how I should answer this, a smart a-- response or be nice. I took the nice route thinking I do want to sell these speakers and hey, you never know. Today I got the "thanks but I found something cheaper and closer. Most responses to this post agree that this question rarely ends in a sale and now I am a believer too, I'm going for the smart a-- response next time.

I believe most here, including myself, who won't acknowledge a "what is your best price" buyer (particularly as an opening statement) do so from prior experience. I am sure there are just a small hand full that might actually be buyers, but most are not. I think they are in hopes that the seller might be desperate and perhaps the buyer thinking he might get this "deal of a lifetime". I say this from experience of selling a fair amount of audio here on Agon. I get this occasionally in my business as well (not audio related). Never, ever had a buyer.