A Juicy Price Came For An X Account I Really Don't Need At The Moment

Somebody wanted to sell an X account to me with 550 followers for ₦12,000.
I told him I wasn't interested.
He said, “Please, just buy it. How much do you have?”
I told him I had ₦2,000.
He said I should bring ₦5,000.
I told him again that I didn't need the account.

He kept insisting.

Then he told me he needed the money urgently.
That part actually got me thinking.
I can't relate to being under the kind of pressure where you have to start selling your property or things you've built because you urgently need money.

But I know it is real.
Sometimes, when someone is desperate for money, they don't really care about how much something is worth anymore. They just want to get something, anything, that can solve the immediate problem in front of them.
And that's how I started looking at the whole situation differently.
Selling an X account with followers is actually an interesting thing.
Think about it.

You've spent months or years building an account. You have followers, tweets, engagements, maybe mutuals, maybe people who know you from that account.
Then one day, because you urgently need money, you decide to sell it.
It's almost like selling an old laptop.
You may not be using the laptop every day anymore, but after selling it, there will still be that moment when you remember it and say, “Damn, I used to have this.”
Same thing with an X account.
You might tell yourself, “It's just an account.”
But after you've had it for a long time, it becomes something you are used to having.
You know the username.
You know the people following you.
You know the communities you've interacted with.
You know the posts you've made.
You know the random memories attached to it.

Then someone else takes over the account and starts tweeting with it.
You'll probably see the account one day and remember that it used to belong to you.
That's why I think selling an X account can be emotional, especially when you've actually built the account yourself.
But at the same time, people genuinely make money from selling X accounts.
There are people who deliberately grow accounts just to sell them.
They build the followers, make the account look active, create engagement and then find someone who wants an account with an existing audience.
So to them, it's not emotional at all.
It's business.
Build account.
Grow account.
Sell account.
Move on.
And honestly, I understand it.
If somebody can build an account from zero to thousands of followers and sell it for a good amount of money, that's a business model.
The funny part of my own story is that the guy was so desperate to sell the account to me that he kept reducing the price.

He started from ₦12,000.
I said no.
He asked how much I had.
I said ₦2,000.
He said I should bring ₦5,000.
I still said no.
I wasn't trying to negotiate because I wanted the account.
I genuinely didn't need it.

There was nothing I wanted to do with an account with 550 followers at that point.
But he seemed to be thinking, “Let me just collect whatever this guy has.”
I could understand the desperation.
Still, I didn't want to buy something simply because someone needed money urgently.
That's another thing I've learnt about money.
Someone else's urgency doesn't automatically make something valuable to you.
If I don't need something, I don't need it.
Even if the person reduces the price from ₦12,000 to ₦5,000.
Even if he reduces it to ₦2,000.
It doesn't suddenly become something I need.
And that's exactly what happened.
The next day, he sent me another message.
He said I should just pay the ₦2,000 and have the account.

Lol 😂

At that point, I just laughed.
This guy had gone from ₦12,000 to ₦5,000 and eventually to the exact ₦2,000 I initially told him I had.
He was basically saying, “Forget everything. Just give me the ₦2,000 and take the account.”
But honestly, I still didn't need it.
I could have taken it because the price was now cheap compared to what he initially asked for.
But what would I do with it?
That's the part people sometimes forget.
Cheap doesn't always mean useful.

You can buy something for ₦2,000 and still waste ₦2,000.
So I told him I would help him find a buyer instead.
At least, if I couldn't buy it, maybe I could help him connect with somebody who actually wanted an X account with 550 followers.
And that's where the whole thing ended.
But the situation stayed in my mind because of how quickly desperation can change the way we value things.
Something you spent months building can suddenly become “₦2,000, please just take it” when you desperately need money.

And honestly, life can put anybody in that position.
You can have something today that you never imagined you'd sell.
You can have a phone you love, a laptop you've used for years, an X account you've built from scratch, or even something more valuable.
Then one unexpected problem comes.
And suddenly, you're looking around your room thinking, “What can I sell?”
That's the scary part.
It's not always because someone is irresponsible.
Sometimes, life just happens.
Bills come.
Emergencies happen.

Plans fail.
Money doesn't come when you expect it to.
And before you know it, something you once considered important becomes something you're willing to exchange for cash.
I don't know whether he eventually found a buyer for the account.
I hope he did.

Because if he really needed the money urgently, I understand why he was trying so hard.
But as for me?
I wasn't buying that account.
Not for ₦12,000.
Not for ₦5,000.
And apparently, not even for ₦2,000. 😂
I'd rather help him find somebody who actually wants it.
Because sometimes, the best deal isn't the one with the lowest price.
It's the one you actually need.