Can They Haggle? No Or No?, Part 4
I play an expansive web-based game that has its own items, pets, and site-based currency, among many other things. There are multiple versions of the same item accessible across the website. Some are just rarer than others, i.e., you can find a “red ball” for cheap in nearly any other store, but a “magical red ball” item is rarer and thus more expensive.
I obtain some rare items and put them in my site shop, pricing them at the lowest they happen to be selling for. I then have this exchange over the messenger.
User: “Hey, I’d like your [item #1]. Can I offer other items for it?”
Me: “Well, I prefer pure [Site Currency], but if the items are on my public wish list, then sure.”
User: “Great! I have [items #2 to #8].”
[Items #2 to #5] are low-value items and not worth the [Site Currency] value of my item. [Items #6 and #7] are of equal value but not on my wish list; I don’t want them. [Item #8], however, is on my wish list and of equal value.
Me: “Well, [item #8] is the only thing that I really want, so I’ll put up a trade in the Trading Post for it.”
User: “But I really don’t want to give up [item #8]. Don’t you want anything else?”
Me: “Nope. [Item #8] is the only item I want.”
User: “But I don’t want to give up [item #8].”
Me: “Then you have to offer me [Site Currency].”
User: “But I don’t have the [Site Currency] to afford it.”
Me: “I guess we can’t do the trade, then.”
User: “Why can’t you just accept something else?”
Me: “Because I don’t want anything else. If you didn’t want to give up [item #8], then why did you suggest it as a possible trade?”
User: *After a long silence* “I was hoping you wouldn’t want it.”
Me: “I’m putting my item back in my shop for [Site Currency]. Good luck getting the item from someone else, then.”
They whined at me some more, but eventually, they gave up when their spiel continued to fail.
Related:
Can They Haggle? No Or No?, Part 3
Can They Haggle? No Or No?, Part 2
Can They Haggle? No Or No?
