Agree with everything you say Paul and I've had the same responses as you did.
I'm only in it to sell things to put food on the table for my family. If it doesn't sell first time, it gets reduced, and so on, until it goes. It's great if you have a stock of 10,000 records and it doesn't matter if they sell or not because there's always something else you can list, but when it's your only income, and you run out of records rapidly, you do what you have to do.