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RE: Slackers and Entitlement: Who ARE These People, Anyway?

in #sales8 years ago

The tactics people use these days even more so when they turn out to be reseller’s gets on my nerves.

Had one person who did not want to buy 100% of the listing just 1/3 of it. They just wanted to buy parts to fix theirs—they claimed. So we told them if we don’t find a buyer in a week we will sell it cheaper to you for parts.

Next day person contacts again. Says “hey I’m at local Walmart, I decided I’ll buy ½ of it for the parts. I’ve been waiting here for over an hour already where are you?” Umm what???? Clearly this person must have contact the wrong person? Nope.

Week goes buy and we contact the person letting them know we are willing to sell for parts. They say they are our local Walmart again and been waiting hours for us to contact them. So we go to the local Walmart and they are nowhere to be seen. Person lives 2 hours away and is at their Walmart even though it’s been made clear in the past which Walmart.

So the person then continues to contact almost daily trying to “reduce the price” and they are willing to “come out.” Then on day of the trade they contact after being an hour late and say “sorry it’s raining I can’t go out right now how about tomorrow.

Another week of bull goes by of the person trying to haggle price, location, and them failing to show up. Then saying another third party a “friend” would come and pick it up and pay. Bla bla bla.

Last message was “sorry the buyer no longer wants it for parts I found another buyer thought. They just want this one piece off the entire thing so they where only willing to pay for all of it--- $1.50….

The buyer??? First time finding out this person was a “reseller” and they made the mistaken of informing us they will be selling it to some person for $45 "slightly used" in a couple of hours but the "car" ran out of gas so they are waiting on ride for that meetup to trade with some other preson….

Naturally we blocked the user and never made the trade. That is when I learned to not be so dam considerate when dealing with others.

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It's weird how much of online marketplaces have deteriorated into these odd fleamarket-horsetrading venues.

I did a LOT of eBay trading back in the early days when it was a cool venue where peer-to-peer marketing for enthusiasts and hobbyists ruled the day. Sure, someone might ask for a small discount now and then... but it's nothing like now where having the "make an offer" option turned on is an open invitation to have half the world cruise through and offer you 99 cents for every thing you have, even if the asking price is $500.00.

Sadly, your story is not that unusual... there seems to me more and more resellers out there, and they are all trying to make something from a smaller and smaller slice of pie... and that has to come out of SOMEone's pocket... usually the original seller's.

I'm pretty much done with craigslist, except for really bulky/heavy items that would be impossible to ship. But those listings DO bring out all the weirdos... and the scammers.