Funny you say this as I have made 2 offers today on contracts - both probably would be considered lowball offer, but they were both exactly what I paid for my last loaded contract. The first one, they countered, so I countered back and the broker said that they were suddenly “firm”. I have since gone back and challenged that they are now “firm” and requesting that the broker share my counter with the seller. I will probably get blacklisted for this one - oh well. The other one was a “only firm offers accepted” but I made a low offer anyway and got slapped down. There are still plenty of deals to be made.