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Say you are looking at a desired item in the MP, and find that its price is incredibly inflated and a little difficult to sell. Hoping to find a much better deal, you look for sellers hoping to sell at a fair price. You find a seller, and they are expecting an amount around the inflated MP price. You politely tell them that the item is very inflated and since its in low demand, it could be hard to sell. You give an offer that is low, but only because its inflated. Youre also willing to haggle it out a bit. You receive your response, but its very rude, and the seller went ahead and blocked you.

I just recently received a response from a seller, but it was very rude and immature. Im used to getting declined offers from time to time, but this time, Im a little annoyed that after I sent a polite pm back, the response wasnt. I was expecting, "Im sorry, but I cant sell for that only that much. Thank you anyway." or something like that. Im fine with that. But Im not all that fine with receiving a response that made me look like the bad guy. The user had blocked me. Okay then. If I wasnt, I would have sent a polite response back, since i find it it stupid to send an angry reply after getting an angry reply. "Thank you for considering my offer. Good luck selling."
Maybe its just how I am normally, but when I show someone respect or politeness, I do expect some sort of respect back.

So, ever had any sort of similar experience?

Telling someone that their item isn't worth alot isn't going to get you much of a nice response when you PM them. It's just not tactful.

I've gotten people who have stalked me trying to haggle badly for like 4 days straight. I don't block people but I definitely chewed him out about how he was harassing me and could have just easily gone after any of the other 12 people listing the item.

Honestly, it's your fault. If I put something up on the MP, I put it up at that price because I want it to sell at that price. It's incredibly rude to ask someone to lower their price for little to no reason at all. It's none of your business what they want to sell their items at, you either choose to buy it or you don't.

I never PM users about lowering their prices in the MP, whether those prices are reasonable or not. The way I think of it, users who post their items up in the MP don't want to haggle. That's why they place their items in the MP and not in the exchange, and placing items up for unreasonable prices in the MP either indicates a lack of desire for the item to sell (you'd be surprised by the number of users who place their items up in the MP for a reason outside of selling their items) or a completely unreasonable mind on the seller's part. Either way, the chances of you getting a successful bargain out of it are very slim.

So even though the user you're describing probably did react more severely than he should have, and even though how he chose to act probably indicates a lack of maturity on his part, his actions weren't completely unwarranted. If you PM users about their items in the MP, you'd better be prepared for the consequences. There's no point in getting upset over another user's rude response to you when you're effectively walking into their homes without an invitation to do so. It doesn't matter if you're polite about it, you still came in without being asked to.

On a more personal note, I get very irritated whenever I receive a PM or a comment on my profile over an item I have listed in the MP. I find it disrespectful. I'm not usually rude in response to anyone who PMs me about an item in the MP, but I understand why someone would be.

I've not really had that issue.
But I have recently (after a stint or two in the CB) had people PM and demand my items.
"you don't need it" is probably the rudest I have had.
I got one last night that said "Can i have your death whispers, I want them"
... no. scream
i find it hard to not rip the shiz out of people like that sweatdrop

I never pm people for lower prices since I find it so annoying but once i got a pm from some guy saying he'd pay less than 100k for everything in my shop despite the fact that everything in my shop was worth over 500k. Not even reasonable, just annoying.
And not only that, but he was very rude about it, he typed something along the lines of "I'll pay 91k for everything in your shop". No "Hi" or "would you consider" or "please"? I'm not going to sell to you Sir, even if you did have a reasonable price~

Oh wow. The general attitude towards "lowered prices please" PMs here is pretty negative... and with reason, since everyone's out to profit. xD

I am slightly more lax, I guess? If I stalk the person and notice they've had a quest thread going for a while for the particular item I'm selling / it's part of their dream avatar outfit, I've given up to 10% off what I listed the item for (through a trade).

But if it looks like they want to profit as well, I more or less tell them to piss off. .-. Whiiich means I probably would've treated the OP the same way. Sorry.

that happened to me a few times although i do believe all the anger was started by noobs trying to become exchangers and making excuses that everything is inflated so they get a better deal sweatdrop