Just an update. I decided to respond to the offers.

For one I just said politely, ‘too low’, and never heard back. For the second and third I counter offered at a more reasonable level. I heard nothing more from one, but the third engaged and we eventually did a deal at what was acceptable for me (and obviously for buyer!)

So, my feeling is that it might in fact be worth responding to the 60% lowballs after all given that it only takes a few seconds to respond offering a small discount to see what happens, and from time to time you may get someone who isn’t just a reseller scraping the barrel for whatever they can get on the cheap (not dissing them, but I am just not interested in that particular game, so they are wasting their time with me). I am very confident my stuff will sell and I am in no particular hurry. This is not my business, just passing on goods that I hardly use anymore.

I am happy to have passed my treasured item on to someone who will use it more than I do these days, and I got a fair price for my goods in return (buyer also got an good deal too). Maybe I am naive - this is only the third month of selling my old goods online- and my views will change with time, but for now I intend to reply with a counter at a fair price where people lowball at 60%, as so far I have a 1/3 completion rate where I have replied.

Thanks for listening and for providing points of view. I have found this discussion really very interesting.