Corrective coefficients for bargaining for forensic commodity expertise of leather and haberdashery products

The relevance of the work is due to the need to improve the level of ensuring the requirements for completeness, validity and objectivity of the conclusion of a forensic commodity expert by introducing corrective coefficients for bargaining. The purpose of the study is to establish the numerical values of corrective coefficients for bargaining, which must be used by forensic commodity experts when establishing the market value of leather wallets. General scientific analytical methods (grouping, tabular, theoretical generalisation, analysis and synthesis of information, abstraction, formalisation); generating random numbers; questionnaire; audio recording of the bargaining process were used in the work. It has been established that the offer of leather wallets on OLX is 1189 units at a price from 30 UAH to 7799 UAH. A sample was formed – 80 offers of leather wallets at a price from 145 UAH to 6800 UAH, of which 76.3% were not in use. It was found that 17.5% of sellers of leather wallets provide the possibility of bargaining to a potential buyer regardless of the commodity condition and the initial price of wallets offered for sale, and only 7.5% of sellers did not reduce the price announced by them due to the insignificant cost (from 150 UAH to 350 UAH) and the commodity condition “new”. It turned out that after the bargaining procedure, the discount to potential buyers is ready to provide 92.2% of respondents or 88.8% of the total number of sellers; the absolute size of this discount – from 5 UAH to 350 UAH and most often is up to 50 UAH; discount percentage – from 3.0% to 29.5% and most often (48.8%) is in the range from 7.0% to 15.0%; arithmetic mean – 84.62 UAH. It is proved that it is advisable to apply a correction coefficient for bargaining in the amount of 11.2% in determining the market value of leather wallets. The practical value of the work is to determine the numerical value of the corrective coefficient for bargaining for the needs of forensic experts-commodity experts and the positive effect of the adjustment on bargaining on the degree of objectivity of the conclusions of forensic experts