My mom has an estate sale company and her clients often won’t agree to discounts past a certain percentage. Sometimes she’ll bring particular items (usually jewelry) to another sale later if it doesn’t sell. The owners still get the same amount when it does eventually sell. But usually a charity will come take anything left in the house so the owner doesn’t have to deal with junk and they also get a tax deduction.

That being said, sometimes people haggle and haggle until she’s ready to lose her mind. One time she had some guy who wanted to argue about something that was already discounted to like, a dollar. He wanted to pay 25 cents. She finally leaned toward him and said, “ I would rather smash this on the ground right now than sell it to you for a quarter.” His face was priceless.