Moron of the week

[Speng]

He sure does.

[Speng]

I've been selling a bunch of stuff on Craigslist in preparation for the move and have been dealing with all kinds of morons. I hate when I post something and they email me with a "call me". No, there's a reason why I didn't put my phone number in the ad, I don't want to talk to idiots.

I had one guy who emailed me late Sunday and wanted me to call him, I was busy and I didn't get around to it yesterday. I called him today and right off the bat, "why didn't you call me sooner?" he just sounded like an asshole. I said, "nope" and hung up on him.

I just had some woman email me with this: "Call. 828-6141 after 12:00 pm Bill" No please, no thank you. If you want the item, put a little effort into it...exchange an email or two. I'd rather hang on to the items for an extra week or two and deal with someone who at least sounds normal.

[Speng]

I just dealt with the bitchiest gay dude. I was selling a small animal trap, I bought it when I had a small orphaned kitten running around (why I now have a second cat) and it's been sitting in my garage ever since. He sends me an email and I say I'm available all day, meaning I'm not at work. He emails me a few times and then asks when we can meet. I said I can't meet anywhere, I'm cleaning the garage and packing up stuff and I'm pretty dirty. He then sends me three email in rapid succession:

Email 1: I guess I'm confused........ I am offering to buy something to take it off your hands (and help me with a squirrel problem) and in previous emails you said you were available now you're not?

Email 2: It would take a matter if 5 mins to take it off your hands; if you would rather not I guess I will need to find another trap--thanks!

Email 3: I am happy and willing to make the drive. Please simply tell me the address and I will be there.

All three were sent within five minutes, I don't know if he slipped off his meds for a few minutes. He shows up and is flamboyantly gay. I don't have a problem with gay people, but he was being a huge queen and a critical dick. "I don't see how this was only used once, it's dirty" I pointed to my garage and said, look (the garage is close to ninety years old and it's looking a bit rough).
"Did you buy it used?" No, it's an animal trap I bought for like $20, it's not going to be polished and great quality.

I had to show him ten times how to set the thing, it's not that complicated.
He tried talking me down $5. Normally I would have said yes but I didn't like his attitude and the tone of some of his emails.

[Hooch]

Theres nothing worse than a dirty animal trap. I like my traps sparkling clean before an animal is caught and shits and pisses all over it.

[Speng]

Exactly, he's going to catch squirrels in the thing. I don't think he knows that galvanized metal isn't going to be all shiny and new looking.

[Speng]

Craigslist: I actually had someone pay me more then I was asking for an item, I pretty much shit my pants. It was two 6'x8' fence panels I had sitting around for years. They were starting to rot on the bottom but I figured I'd throw them up and see if anyone wants them. The guy flipped me an extra $5, that's 25% of the asking price.

People will buy almost anything around here, I've sold so much shit I was tempted to just throw away. Plus they are willing to drive crazy distances to save a few bucks.

[Agileguy]

I had a guy give me an extra $10 when I sold him my 3DS. Some people just don't care about money. But then why don't they just buy a new one?

[Speng]

I give up trying to understand people on Craigslist. I know it's part of the process, haggling, but don't cut my price in half and get shitty when I don't accept the offer.

To all people on Craigslist: I've said it before, but don't email me with your phone number and expect me to call. There's a reason I don't include my phone number in the post. I'd rather bounce a few emails back and forth before I give you my number and my address.

[johnjohn]

Stories like this scare me off of Craigslist and Kijiji.

Here's my only story of dealing with selling stuff this way:

Several months ago we sold off the winter tires from our old car.
Just the tires, no rims.
I paid about $720 Cdn for the tires (Michelin XIce2's) and only put a season and a half on them.
We were asking $320 but agreed to $260 to get rid of them.
We met, got the money and gave him all the info on where to pick the tires up, (we had them stored and made sure all was clear from him to go get them).

A week after we sold them I get a call from the guy asking some odd questions about the rims they were on, the condition of the tires and do I think he needs to return the rims he bought and just use the ones on the tires.

I was a little confused since the ones we sold didn't have rims and we had sent him a number of pics showing the tire condition from every angle and the tread depth.

I phoned him back and told him all that, reminded him of the pics and said that he should probably call the company where we had them stored to make sure he got the right tires.

A week later I get a call from the company we had stored the tires with, (where we had bought them and had our tires changed) asking me if I was coming to pick up my tires.

Now I was really confused.
Not only had I sold them but the guy had told me that he had picked them up and installed them on his car.
When I called the company back and they told me the tires were still there.

I finally put it all together and realized that when this guy had gone to pick the tires up he had been given the wrong tires.
I told the person on the phone what seemed to have happened and suggested that they might want to get ahold of the guy before someone turned up looking for their tires.
I also left a message for the guy explaining what had happened and suggested that he may want to call the company if he wanted the tires he had actually bought.

I left it at that and walked away from the whole affair.
If he wanted free rims on older tires to save money and the company wanted to hand out the wrong tires I figured that was all their problem, and I had done my part to resolve the whole situation.

My first, and so far last time selling stuff that way.

My wife has been buying and selling her text books that way in the past couple years.
Wow, just wow at some of the dingbats out there.

[Speng]

That's a Hell of a story. I haven't really had too many weird encounters.

I'm still surprised by the number of females that let a guy into their place without any thought. I've gone to a few places and the women let me in with no issues. I guess I mustn't give off the serial killer vibe.