Didn’t read it all and maybe I missed it, but is it possible the customer wanted to pay $420 because it’s a pot thing?
He’s sitting around with his stoner friends playing the guitar and says "Dudes [blows out smoke], check it out. This guitar is four-twenty.
Friends say “Whoaaa.”
Sure, it was the customer who pulled out that number. The simple answer to “what’s the best you can do?” is $430 taxes included. A simple “I’ll take it” or “No thanks” is all that’s required.
This is why I build all my guitars. Buying them is way too complicated.
Aha - on reread, this is what I recalled: “The customer pays $460, total and takes the guitar.” when in fact the sentences read "The customer pays $460, total and takes the guitar. The customer still wants to think about it. ". I forgot about the “still wants to think about it”.
Do those prices include tax?
It’s why I increasingly buy stuff over the Internet.
I don’t have to deal with salesmen in brick-and-mortar stores; they’re spared the intense angst of dealing with customers.
Win-win.
I had him pegged the moment he started posting. I would like to string him up, tho.
So did he come back to buy the guitar?
Ah, this was a little satisfying. He came in on Monday to talk to his original salesperson who had gone home a bit early. Told me I was a little too much in his face. Tuesday we sold the guitar for more than it wasw offered to him for to someone else. When he came back in it was gone, and the salesperson told him the customer had paid more than what was offered to him.
Maybe he wasn’t that serious about the guitar, but he did get offered a smoking deal and lost the opportunity because he wanted to keep negotiating. 