Low-Ball Offer

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Low-Ball Offer

An offer to buy something for an exceptionally low price. For example, if the asking price on a house is $200,000, a potential buyer may make a low-ball offer of $125,000.
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"Also, you may get lowball offers from buyers, but be willing to negotiate, and don't let emotions get in the way of getting a deal done."
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WASHINGTON, Shawwal 11, 1435, August 07, 2014, SPA -- After months of lowball offers and heels dug in, it took only 24 hours forBank of Americato suddenly cave in to the government, agreeing to the largest single federal settlement in the history of corporate America.
Bank of America Offers U.S. Biggest Settlement in History
The source said that because people will steal try to sell scrap metal even if they are not licensed to do so, dealers have the power to make lowball offers.
The thieves who favour metal
In one case victims of an accident caused by an Allstate insured claimed that the company had abused the legal process through its MIST practices, including making lowball offers of settlement despite clear liability and damages; according to its lawyer, Allstate had decided to "draw a line in the sand" and aggressively defend even justified MIST cases.
Bad faith and beyond: the new law of claims practices
Brokers also noted that lowball offers gained little traction and bidding wars started anew at some properties.
Volatile, shmolatile: Serious buyers not deterred by market's ups and downs
Sutton's advice is not to make stupid, lowball offers, but to pay the right money for the right car, because next year you'll be glad you did.
PRECIOUS METAL; TOP MOTORS SNAPPED UP
That decline is what's led to lowball offers from companies like Time Warner, which offered $1.5 billion for MGM.
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Without piecing together any kind of rationale for pricing, Friedland said, brokers have few tools to convince tenants right now to do anything but cast out lowball offers in the hopes of bagging an office at bargain rates.
Getting the price right no easy task in today's stagnant market
Sellers want to and are willing to sell, but once they get a lowball offer, its difficult to work with them." She's seen potential sellers get insulted at lowball offers and reject them, only to call back later asking if there's any hope to revive the deal.
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"We have found, in the past year, a lot of lowball offers from investors, people that know the market is in the tank.
Florence sees big decline in median home price
Except when it comes to housing, which has become such a buyers' market in some locales that homeowners have taken their properties off the selling block because they have been so discouraged by lowball offers, Greiner said.
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Compensation decisions will not be reviewed by the ECHR unless they are blatant lowball offers, Meleagrou said.Just a handful of cases have been settled with restitution at the IPC, including partial restitution and one case of restitution after the Cyprus problem is solved.
ECHR 'rules out right of return for Greek Cypriots'

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