You know. I looked all over down there and couldnt find a single 73 74 Valiant Duster hood. I bought one and someone stole it off of me. Should of just bought yours. Thats karma lol.
It's proportional to how badly I need the part. I definitely am quicker to buy something with price marked. If I really need something, I will ask. If I see something I am interested in, but don't really need, I am probably not going to make the effort when not marked. If it's marked cheap enough, I might impulse buy something I might not use for a long time, garage art, etc.
I had a great year at Carlisle, sales up from last year. I just lowered almost all my prices to move the parts. I worked with almost everybody that had realistic offers. Sold all my sheet metal that I brought. I did loose some sales because my spots was just to big and busy at times and I watched people walk away. I did have more spots this year (6 spots). It seemed that people came in clusters. I will down size for next year or have somebody else to help me. I also think why this year sales were down because its election year. I think next year will be back to normal. Don't give up guys. I only price about 10% of my stuff
Good comments here. I also noticed if you had someone looking at your parts, that seemed to draw more people in.
One thing I tried is to have the buyer "make an offer" on an unpriced item. Seems like a simple way to close the sale, right? It wasn't.
Out of 5 "make offer" transactions, only 1 buyer actually made an offer, which I accepted.
The other 4 never even gave me a number!
Maybe they didn't want to insult me?
Maybe they didn't really need the part?
Maybe I'm over analyzing this, lol?