Tweet
Even Craig's List!
(warning, this is long, I used to be a typist and I'm not afraid to use those skills, LOL)
Background: For the past year life has been a bit uneven (DH has had layoffs, we're not sure whether to stay in this area or move to be near granddaughter, etc). So we may (or may not) be moving, probably something a bit smaller as we got lucky size-wise for the price on this place, or if we stay we want to eventually do some major rennovations, etc. So perhaps because of all that, I've gotten into an extreme de-clutter mode. And because of finances, instead of hauling it off to a charity, I've spent the past year "spring cleaning via Craig's List". The house gets decluttered, things get recycled, we get a bit of cash, and someone else gets a bargain. Wins all around.
For the most part, it's been going quite well. But suddenly, the SC's are out and about in full force. Maybe before, most people who shopped on CL either believed strongly in recycling, or were happy to save a bit of cash and so nice about it, and now the economy is forcing people to shop there who don't really want to? Any other theories?
Other than a few rude people who email they definitely want something then drop off the face of the earth, or a few who set up an appointment to pick something up then never show up, things have been pretty smooth.
But I've had two really SC's in the past week.
One guy bought a mouse from me - cordless, programmable, very upscale mouse, but I knew it worked on XP and not Vista (which I said in my ad). Sold it for very little, the guy seemed a bit lacking in computer knowledge, but it had the original disk with instructions. So an hour later, I get an email accusing me of selling him a useless mouse, that I knew it wasn't working, I'd deliberately deceived him, etc. Very ranty, very rude, very insulting.
Normally, I bend over backwards to help. If he'd nicely emailed "hey, I can't get this to work, any suggestions" I'd have suggested he check batteries in the base, double check compatability with his operating system, and maybe even gone so far as to try to walk him thru installation and so forth via IM or email. But ranting and raving and accusing me of cheating him (all over less than $10, btw) was just way too much. Emailed him back that I knew the mouse worked, and I'd be happy to help him with tech support for a going rate of $75 per hour
Also added it wasn't my responsibility to determine that the mouse was compatible with his operating system, or that installing the mouse (with directions on disk) was compatible with his IQ 
I'd be willing to bet he discovered it was some stupid little thing he was doing wrong, cause never heard from him again.
Then today, I get some paranoid woman with anger management issues. She wanted info (how wide it would cut) on a craft trimmer. But then she went off into a tirade about how I should have the info already in the ad, eleventy. The ad DID have that info, and if she'd just asked the question, I'd have been nice, we all miss things now and then. But after her rudeness, I just emailed her with the info (making it plain I was quoting the ad) and suggested in future she actually read the ad before being rude ranting about what wasn't in it.
Her next email said she wasn't sure if she should purchase the item from me, how terrible and deceitful I was because I went back to my ad on CL after her email and changed it to add the info she insists was not there in the beginning
and on and on. So I just wrote her back that no problem, I didn't sell to people who were rude and accused me of deceit, & she's now blocked from my email.
Ok, so I didn't get to it right then. And even if I had, my SW just dumps it into a junk mail folder automatically from then on, so I don't have to read it if I don't want. So I saw the next email from her, stating, no, it's her choice, and she won't buy it from me because I sell "misrepresented" garbage
Ok, shoulda left it, but couldn't resist sending her a "fine, whatever", and I suggested she both look up the word "misrepresented" and get some help on her anger management problems, and all further emails from her were on block, so go away.
And yep, got one more (you know I had to check my junkmail after that, LOL) and still going on about how I lied about the ad and about my email being blocked (what did she think, if I blocked her it would "bounce back" to her or something , how I lied about changing the ad, and how I sell misrepresented garbage.
Wow. And all over her misreading and not seeing the info she wanted in an for an under $10 trimmer for paper for crafts. Just Wow.
(warning, this is long, I used to be a typist and I'm not afraid to use those skills, LOL)
Background: For the past year life has been a bit uneven (DH has had layoffs, we're not sure whether to stay in this area or move to be near granddaughter, etc). So we may (or may not) be moving, probably something a bit smaller as we got lucky size-wise for the price on this place, or if we stay we want to eventually do some major rennovations, etc. So perhaps because of all that, I've gotten into an extreme de-clutter mode. And because of finances, instead of hauling it off to a charity, I've spent the past year "spring cleaning via Craig's List". The house gets decluttered, things get recycled, we get a bit of cash, and someone else gets a bargain. Wins all around.
For the most part, it's been going quite well. But suddenly, the SC's are out and about in full force. Maybe before, most people who shopped on CL either believed strongly in recycling, or were happy to save a bit of cash and so nice about it, and now the economy is forcing people to shop there who don't really want to? Any other theories?
Other than a few rude people who email they definitely want something then drop off the face of the earth, or a few who set up an appointment to pick something up then never show up, things have been pretty smooth.
But I've had two really SC's in the past week.
One guy bought a mouse from me - cordless, programmable, very upscale mouse, but I knew it worked on XP and not Vista (which I said in my ad). Sold it for very little, the guy seemed a bit lacking in computer knowledge, but it had the original disk with instructions. So an hour later, I get an email accusing me of selling him a useless mouse, that I knew it wasn't working, I'd deliberately deceived him, etc. Very ranty, very rude, very insulting.
Normally, I bend over backwards to help. If he'd nicely emailed "hey, I can't get this to work, any suggestions" I'd have suggested he check batteries in the base, double check compatability with his operating system, and maybe even gone so far as to try to walk him thru installation and so forth via IM or email. But ranting and raving and accusing me of cheating him (all over less than $10, btw) was just way too much. Emailed him back that I knew the mouse worked, and I'd be happy to help him with tech support for a going rate of $75 per hour
Also added it wasn't my responsibility to determine that the mouse was compatible with his operating system, or that installing the mouse (with directions on disk) was compatible with his IQ I'd be willing to bet he discovered it was some stupid little thing he was doing wrong, cause never heard from him again.Then today, I get some paranoid woman with anger management issues. She wanted info (how wide it would cut) on a craft trimmer. But then she went off into a tirade about how I should have the info already in the ad, eleventy. The ad DID have that info, and if she'd just asked the question, I'd have been nice, we all miss things now and then. But after her rudeness, I just emailed her with the info (making it plain I was quoting the ad) and suggested in future she actually read the ad before being rude ranting about what wasn't in it.
Her next email said she wasn't sure if she should purchase the item from me, how terrible and deceitful I was because I went back to my ad on CL after her email and changed it to add the info she insists was not there in the beginning
and on and on. So I just wrote her back that no problem, I didn't sell to people who were rude and accused me of deceit, & she's now blocked from my email.Ok, so I didn't get to it right then. And even if I had, my SW just dumps it into a junk mail folder automatically from then on, so I don't have to read it if I don't want. So I saw the next email from her, stating, no, it's her choice, and she won't buy it from me because I sell "misrepresented" garbage
Ok, shoulda left it, but couldn't resist sending her a "fine, whatever", and I suggested she both look up the word "misrepresented" and get some help on her anger management problems, and all further emails from her were on block, so go away.
And yep, got one more (you know I had to check my junkmail after that, LOL) and still going on about how I lied about the ad and about my email being blocked (what did she think, if I blocked her it would "bounce back" to her or something
, how I lied about changing the ad, and how I sell misrepresented garbage.Wow. And all over her misreading and not seeing the info she wanted in an for an under $10 trimmer for paper for crafts. Just Wow.
We've had some very rude and bad mannered people contact us via that. My rule is if they can't remember to say please, it doesnt matter if no one else wants the item, they aint getting it.
Comment