Best Offer / Name Your Price

[hoffmabc]

Got a suggestion to think about giving buyers the option to haggle over the price a bit. Allowing merchants to set a Best Offer or Name Your Price input would be interesting, but not sure how feasible it is with the contracting system.

[BugsBunE]

i like the idea

[ghost]

Great idea

[drwasho]

Haggling would need to take place outside of the contract system with the end result being the generation of a listing contract with a locked-in price. In other words, we shouldn't use the Ricardian contracts for haggling, only to record the agreed upon price.

Could work like this:

• Listing contract has the item details (as per normal) with a price range or empty field for price
  • On the backend, the contract has in the schema something like: "negotiable_price" : true
• Once both parties agree to the final price, the Vendor clones the listing contract with the haggled price value in price, which is sent to the Buyer
• The Buyer 'accepts/rejects' the listing
• If they accept (which they should), order proceeds normally