…again.

Many of you know that I get most of my crap, er, furniture off Craigslist. It's a pretty valuable resource for cheap ass people like me, though there are a fair amount of creepy people on there as evidenced by the Personals.

Anyway, I've been intermittently searching for a chair for my room, and I have my eye on an IKEA Poang chair. I feel obligated to buy IKEA stuff not only because it's nice and affordable, but we're talking about a company run by my (Swedish) heritage here. Plus it'll match all the other IKEA furniture I have sitting around my room.

The Poang chair isn't huge, and is just the right size to fit in my room. Currently I strike all sorts of awkward poses on my IKEA bed with its IKEA mattress made up with IKEA sheets to watch the TV on my IKEA dresser without falling asleep.

Back to Craigslist. Like I said, I'm cheap, so finding a Poang chair for $50 would make my day. Today I saw a posting for a $50 chair and e-mailed the owner, half expecting it to have been snatched up by now. Well, apparently the guy who was supposed to buy it fell off the face of the earth, so it's still available… but there was one catch:

"The last guy had offered me $65." (says CL seller)

I e-mail her back and say, "I can pick it up tonight, but I was only hoping to spend $50 as that's what you have listed in the ad." He/she e-mails me back and says they'll take $60.

Okay, from what I remember in Used Stuff Negotiating 101 (as taught by my dad, aka "Cheap Charlie"), normally one bargains DOWN from the advertised price, not up.

I haven't e-mailed them back yet, as it seems kind of pointless. If I wanted to spend $60, I might as well spend $90 on a brand new chair that hasn't been used (and possibly peed on by someone's cat), or fork out a bit more on this cute Lillberg chair that someone has listed for $75.

Maybe I should just buy a folding lawn/lounge chair and just be done with it. I wonder if anyone on CL is selling one…