doubt it. its a bad buyer experience. If if hes full on dumb and ignorant to the product he bought. They arent going to remove a neutral which is the same as a negative. Thus wont remove the defect.
Brian. I understand your pain. Ebay freaking sucks. Buyers suck even worse.
lucky for me guys this was a amazon transaction/feedback
i email them right after about this and like an hr ago they took it off , so it won't affect my account.
idk if ebay would even do something like that, def' lucked out
God I sure do hate the new Paypal layout...I had a 0 balance according to my records, and got a payment of $30...and now I somehow have $43 something...wtf. I also have a pending withdrawal of $8 something, but even when subtract it out I still have a few bucks more than I should.
So I'm on craigslist right now and the guy has an ad with a picture of Super Metroid, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Kart, and DK Country and the list price is $20, but then you click on it and they are all individually priced (Metroid: $60, Yoshi's Island: $35, SMK: $40, DK Country: $25)... Why the hell do people put a list price that doesn't apply to any of the games????
I'm getting annoyed with people responding to my CL advert with "well price charting says these are worth $xxx" when a. they're applying complete prices for loose games b. they are using the highest sold for prices and c. I clearly state I will not pay pricecharting or ebay prices since I need to resell the games
I've had like one person understand that... sold me a copy of Earthbound for $100... I've had 20 retards not understand.
So I'm on craigslist right now and the guy has an ad with a picture of Super Metroid, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Kart, and DK Country and the list price is $20, but then you click on it and they are all individually priced (Metroid: $60, Yoshi's Island: $35, SMK: $40, DK Country: $25)... Why the hell do people put a list price that doesn't apply to any of the games????
This is so frustrating...
People do it all the time, presumably to get people to click on the link. Clearly it works.
The only promising CL listing in my area is obviously a setup to rob people with cash... the map location is literally in the most violent neighborhood in all of Chicago (Englewood, which as we all know, is always up to no good).
The only promising CL listing in my area is obviously a setup to rob people with cash... the map location is literally in the most violent neighborhood in all of Chicago (Englewood, which as we all know, is always up to no good).
Same thing happened in my area several months ago ... guy on CL was selling a Dino Peak cart for "two fiddy" but wanted to make the transaction in an alley (with security lights though!) ... behind his warehouse ... after 9pm ... in a real sketchy area. Hahaha, no thanks. The scary part though was the pics of the cart he put up kinda looked legit. They looked like they were taken in an old abandoned building.
The only promising CL listing in my area is obviously a setup to rob people with cash... the map location is literally in the most violent neighborhood in all of Chicago (Englewood, which as we all know, is always up to no good).
Same thing happened in my area several months ago ... guy on CL was selling a Dino Peak cart for "two fiddy" but wanted to make the transaction in an alley (with security lights though!) ... behind his warehouse ... after 9pm ... in a real sketchy area. Hahaha, no thanks. The scary part though was the pics of the cart he put up kinda looked legit. They looked like they were taken in an old abandoned building.
Somebody should make a movie or TV show where the plot centers on a vigilante who finds criminals through Craigslist "set ups"...
Sold an item and the Corporate thugs came along and stated I was taking their profits away so I received a mc999. Poof the item disappears. Received a email stating eBay had dealt with all fees which I believed they had refund the buyer since they removed my ability to do it through eBay. Now remember this was after I sold the item.
Fast forward today which is about a week later, I wake up with a case opened against me for the item not received. Now I am given a option to refund, which I do right away. Phone call to eBay directed to someone this has no understanding of the English language and just keeps telling me the the defect will go away after a week.
Sold an item and the Corporate thugs came along and stated I was taking their profits away so I received a mc999. Poof the item disappears. Received a email stating eBay had dealt with all fees which I believed they had refund the buyer since they removed my ability to do it through eBay. Now remember this was after I sold the item.
Fast forward today which is about a week later, I wake up with a case opened against me for the item not received. Now I am given a option to refund, which I do right away. Phone call to eBay directed to someone this has no understanding of the English language and just keeps telling me the the defect will go away after a week.
So I'm on craigslist right now and the guy has an ad with a picture of Super Metroid, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Kart, and DK Country and the list price is $20, but then you click on it and they are all individually priced (Metroid: $60, Yoshi's Island: $35, SMK: $40, DK Country: $25)... Why the hell do people put a list price that doesn't apply to any of the games????
THIS. I have resorted to only checking listings that are priced at 50 or so for a lot.
The other thing I dislike about craigslist now is that (at least in my area) any single game postings are above Ebay prices. I see a NES with a zapper, 1 controller, hookups and super mario/duck hunt for 130 dollars... seriously? It must be all of the retro game stores in my area (we have 5-6 places that sell in my city alone).
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
I had a similar situation happen before. I was selling a 20 inch LCD TV and agreed to meet the guy halfway. I drove about 40 minutes to meet up with the guy at a McDonalds. I plugged it into my power converter to show him that it worked and began to wait. I got texts from the guy that he was running late for about 20 minutes, no big deal I'll just eat some lunch. After around 45 minutes had passed the guy called me and asked if I would take 35 dollars after we had already agreed on 50. I said we had a deal and I have been waiting, if you want to look at it and decide you want it we may be able to work something out. Needless to say I waited another 20 minutes with no response. I drove home and ended up selling it the same night.
Sometimes that stuff happens on craigslist, that is why I only do meetings near my home now to avoid wasting half a day away over $50. Personally I think it would be funny if you gave him the run around but then again, is it really worth your time?
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
Yeah. It makes me not want to buy stuff online because sellers seem to think their items are made of gold and want me to grovel in order to get them. I think you're right about not having P2P contact much anymore which results in terrible customer service and general inconsideration.
Yeah. It makes me not want to buy stuff online because sellers seem to think their items are made of gold and want me to grovel in order to get them. I think you're right about not having P2P contact much anymore which results in terrible customer service and general inconsideration.
In my area there are 4-5 stores that sell retro games, so anything posted on Craigslist here is either bought up by one of the stores, one of the resellers or the price of the item(s) is well over what it is actually worth. I'm sorry but a standard NES with a controller and mario/duck hunt is not worth $145. It's probably not even the posters fault though, they just look at the prices at one of the game stores and believe they have gold.
On a side note, I have noticed that on these forums I have not seen anyone selling things who nobody trusts. It gives me peace of mind to know I can trade or buy from someone here and be treated in a positive way by a fellow collector.
I'm getting sick and tired of people on Craigslist leaving ads up for days/weeks after they've sold what was listed. Even worse are the idiots who renew listings they've already sold. A few weeks ago, I found an ad for a bunch Laser 128s for $20 each. Listing says it was originally posted 2 weeks before, but it had recently been renewed. Contacted the seller; she said she sold them all over a week ago.
More recently there was an ad for a Saturn that had been up for 4 days. Contacted this seller, said it sold the same day it was listed. Are people really this dumb?
Yeah. It makes me not want to buy stuff online because sellers seem to think their items are made of gold and want me to grovel in order to get them. I think you're right about not having P2P contact much anymore which results in terrible customer service and general inconsideration.
In my area there are 4-5 stores that sell retro games, so anything posted on Craigslist here is either bought up by one of the stores, one of the resellers or the price of the item(s) is well over what it is actually worth. I'm sorry but a standard NES with a controller and mario/duck hunt is not worth $145. It's probably not even the posters fault though, they just look at the prices at one of the game stores and believe they have gold.
On a side note, I have noticed that on these forums I have not seen anyone selling things who nobody trusts. It gives me peace of mind to know I can trade or buy from someone here and be treated in a positive way by a fellow collector.
Same situation in Phoenix. I've never had an issue for the most part with NA members so I know there's always them to fall back on!
I'm getting sick and tired of people on Craigslist leaving ads up for days/weeks after they've sold what was listed. Even worse are the idiots who renew listings they've already sold. A few weeks ago, I found an ad for a bunch Laser 128s for $20 each. Listing says it was originally posted 2 weeks before, but it had recently been renewed. Contacted the seller; she said she sold them all over a week ago.
More recently there was an ad for a Saturn that had been up for 4 days. Contacted this seller, said it sold the same day it was listed. Are people really this dumb?
Yup. OR you have the people who repost ads with pictures of tons of games but the description with the list of the games has SOLD next to every single one except for one or two titles...
Hard making up my mind whether to post this here or in Seller Silliness.. but I hate seeing shit like this on eBay. I'm either missing something here, or this douchenozzle is inflating his price and somehow hoping to snag a sucker, and not being very sneaky about it. Same seller has the exact same thing in the sold listings, and had been bid up astronomically the same as this one by what appears to be one of his other accounts. Guess he didn't feel like paying for his own shit.
Hard making up my mind whether to post this here or in Seller Silliness.. but I hate seeing shit like this on eBay. I'm either missing something here, or this douchenozzle is inflating his price and somehow hoping to snag a sucker, and not being very sneaky about it. Same seller has the exact same thing in the sold listings, and had been bid up astronomically the same as this one by what appears to be one of his other accounts. Guess he didn't feel like paying for his own shit.
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Originally posted by: quest4nes
Originally posted by: JNovo79
Contact eBay, get it reversed...
doubt it. its a bad buyer experience. If if hes full on dumb and ignorant to the product he bought. They arent going to remove a neutral which is the same as a negative. Thus wont remove the defect.
Brian. I understand your pain. Ebay freaking sucks. Buyers suck even worse.
lucky for me guys this was a amazon transaction/feedback
i email them right after about this and like an hr ago they took it off , so it won't affect my account.
idk if ebay would even do something like that, def' lucked out
I've had like one person understand that... sold me a copy of Earthbound for $100... I've had 20 retards not understand.
Originally posted by: NESticles
So I'm on craigslist right now and the guy has an ad with a picture of Super Metroid, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Kart, and DK Country and the list price is $20, but then you click on it and they are all individually priced (Metroid: $60, Yoshi's Island: $35, SMK: $40, DK Country: $25)... Why the hell do people put a list price that doesn't apply to any of the games????
This is so frustrating...
People do it all the time, presumably to get people to click on the link. Clearly it works.
Originally posted by: JNovo79
The only promising CL listing in my area is obviously a setup to rob people with cash... the map location is literally in the most violent neighborhood in all of Chicago (Englewood, which as we all know, is always up to no good).
Same thing happened in my area several months ago ... guy on CL was selling a Dino Peak cart for "two fiddy" but wanted to make the transaction in an alley (with security lights though!) ... behind his warehouse ... after 9pm ... in a real sketchy area. Hahaha, no thanks. The scary part though was the pics of the cart he put up kinda looked legit. They looked like they were taken in an old abandoned building.
Originally posted by: arnpoly
Originally posted by: JNovo79
The only promising CL listing in my area is obviously a setup to rob people with cash... the map location is literally in the most violent neighborhood in all of Chicago (Englewood, which as we all know, is always up to no good).
Same thing happened in my area several months ago ... guy on CL was selling a Dino Peak cart for "two fiddy" but wanted to make the transaction in an alley (with security lights though!) ... behind his warehouse ... after 9pm ... in a real sketchy area. Hahaha, no thanks. The scary part though was the pics of the cart he put up kinda looked legit. They looked like they were taken in an old abandoned building.
Somebody should make a movie or TV show where the plot centers on a vigilante who finds criminals through Craigslist "set ups"...
Sold an item and the Corporate thugs came along and stated I was taking their profits away so I received a mc999. Poof the item disappears. Received a email stating eBay had dealt with all fees which I believed they had refund the buyer since they removed my ability to do it through eBay. Now remember this was after I sold the item.
Fast forward today which is about a week later, I wake up with a case opened against me for the item not received. Now I am given a option to refund, which I do right away. Phone call to eBay directed to someone this has no understanding of the English language and just keeps telling me the the defect will go away after a week.
Fuck my life.
Originally posted by: elitewombat
Here is a new one to top.
Sold an item and the Corporate thugs came along and stated I was taking their profits away so I received a mc999. Poof the item disappears. Received a email stating eBay had dealt with all fees which I believed they had refund the buyer since they removed my ability to do it through eBay. Now remember this was after I sold the item.
Fast forward today which is about a week later, I wake up with a case opened against me for the item not received. Now I am given a option to refund, which I do right away. Phone call to eBay directed to someone this has no understanding of the English language and just keeps telling me the the defect will go away after a week.
Fuck my life.
nightmare
Originally posted by: NESticles
So I'm on craigslist right now and the guy has an ad with a picture of Super Metroid, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario Kart, and DK Country and the list price is $20, but then you click on it and they are all individually priced (Metroid: $60, Yoshi's Island: $35, SMK: $40, DK Country: $25)... Why the hell do people put a list price that doesn't apply to any of the games????
THIS. I have resorted to only checking listings that are priced at 50 or so for a lot.
The other thing I dislike about craigslist now is that (at least in my area) any single game postings are above Ebay prices. I see a NES with a zapper, 1 controller, hookups and super mario/duck hunt for 130 dollars... seriously? It must be all of the retro game stores in my area (we have 5-6 places that sell in my city alone).
Originally posted by: JNovo79
What did you sell?
A new Norton 360 Everywhere software. MC999 was bogas I "violated their software licensing rights."
Reported by the BSA (Business Software Alliance). Googling, it appears it is a common problem to be pushed around by these thugs.
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
I had a similar situation happen before. I was selling a 20 inch LCD TV and agreed to meet the guy halfway. I drove about 40 minutes to meet up with the guy at a McDonalds. I plugged it into my power converter to show him that it worked and began to wait. I got texts from the guy that he was running late for about 20 minutes, no big deal I'll just eat some lunch. After around 45 minutes had passed the guy called me and asked if I would take 35 dollars after we had already agreed on 50. I said we had a deal and I have been waiting, if you want to look at it and decide you want it we may be able to work something out. Needless to say I waited another 20 minutes with no response. I drove home and ended up selling it the same night.
Sometimes that stuff happens on craigslist, that is why I only do meetings near my home now to avoid wasting half a day away over $50. Personally I think it would be funny if you gave him the run around but then again, is it really worth your time?
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
Originally posted by: theirontoupee
Originally posted by: dj5kjlara
Ok, so this guy posts up his video game collection on Craigslist, and I'm just interested in his Atari 7800, Lynx, and a few games. We agree on a price of $45 on Thursday but I tell him I can't meet until Saturday due to his location. He's fine with that. Saturday morning I text to make sure he stil has it. He says yes and asks what price I had in mind (should have been my first clue this deal was gonna go south). Anyway I tell him we already agreed on $45 so he says OK. And I tell him I'm on my way to his area (he still doesn't give me a specific location to meet at). Once I'm at the mall in the general area, he says OK (I just kept getting a bunch of one-word answers). Finally, when I stop at a thrift store to kill some time and wait for a specific location to meet, he replies and says he just got an offer of $70 just for the Lynx. So I say we had a deal and I just drove an hour to come get it. No reply. I ask if he'll take a little more, and no reply. He just completely stops responding to me. I'm thiking of texting him from a different number and giving him the runaround. He wasted more than an hour of my time and gas, so why not waste some of his?
This happens to me alllllllll the time. Sellers just don't respond to me. Then hours later they tell me it already was sold to someone who didn't ask questions (like a list of games or pictures). This is specifically on CL. On eBay I've had a couple of cases I've had to open because sellers won't respond to complex questions like, "Any update on shipping? It's been a week since I paid and you haven't marked it as shipped yet." I'm dealing with that situation on eBay right now in fact. It seems like I always get sellers who have little integrity and NEVER check their freaking messages!!!!
Completely agree with you on this one too... I believe it's the problem with turning to places like Craig's and Ebay now though. Since the people never really have to be face to face with you they will treat you however they want. Personally I prefer going through swap meets and garage sales looking for items mainly for this reason alone.
Yeah. It makes me not want to buy stuff online because sellers seem to think their items are made of gold and want me to grovel in order to get them. I think you're right about not having P2P contact much anymore which results in terrible customer service and general inconsideration.
Yeah. It makes me not want to buy stuff online because sellers seem to think their items are made of gold and want me to grovel in order to get them. I think you're right about not having P2P contact much anymore which results in terrible customer service and general inconsideration.
In my area there are 4-5 stores that sell retro games, so anything posted on Craigslist here is either bought up by one of the stores, one of the resellers or the price of the item(s) is well over what it is actually worth. I'm sorry but a standard NES with a controller and mario/duck hunt is not worth $145. It's probably not even the posters fault though, they just look at the prices at one of the game stores and believe they have gold.
On a side note, I have noticed that on these forums I have not seen anyone selling things who nobody trusts. It gives me peace of mind to know I can trade or buy from someone here and be treated in a positive way by a fellow collector.
More recently there was an ad for a Saturn that had been up for 4 days. Contacted this seller, said it sold the same day it was listed. Are people really this dumb?
Originally posted by: Rival
Yeah. It makes me not want to buy stuff online because sellers seem to think their items are made of gold and want me to grovel in order to get them. I think you're right about not having P2P contact much anymore which results in terrible customer service and general inconsideration.
In my area there are 4-5 stores that sell retro games, so anything posted on Craigslist here is either bought up by one of the stores, one of the resellers or the price of the item(s) is well over what it is actually worth. I'm sorry but a standard NES with a controller and mario/duck hunt is not worth $145. It's probably not even the posters fault though, they just look at the prices at one of the game stores and believe they have gold.
On a side note, I have noticed that on these forums I have not seen anyone selling things who nobody trusts. It gives me peace of mind to know I can trade or buy from someone here and be treated in a positive way by a fellow collector.
Same situation in Phoenix. I've never had an issue for the most part with NA members so I know there's always them to fall back on!
Originally posted by: andrew244
I'm getting sick and tired of people on Craigslist leaving ads up for days/weeks after they've sold what was listed. Even worse are the idiots who renew listings they've already sold. A few weeks ago, I found an ad for a bunch Laser 128s for $20 each. Listing says it was originally posted 2 weeks before, but it had recently been renewed. Contacted the seller; she said she sold them all over a week ago.
More recently there was an ad for a Saturn that had been up for 4 days. Contacted this seller, said it sold the same day it was listed. Are people really this dumb?
Yup. OR you have the people who repost ads with pictures of tons of games but the description with the list of the games has SOLD next to every single one except for one or two titles...
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/bad-will-goodwill-industries-sues-wera-race-for-millions-over-logos-it-left-on-sold-truck/#.U_jKH6GVQrg.facebook
Fuck Goodwill with a pineapple
http://www.roadracingworld.com/ne...
Hang on. I thought goodwill was all about the community and doing 99.99% more good than bad?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NITENDO-DSi-XL-Blue-Night-Color-/281419837715?pt=Video_Games&hash=item4185edf113
Originally posted by: stinkerhubbin
Hard making up my mind whether to post this here or in Seller Silliness.. but I hate seeing shit like this on eBay. I'm either missing something here, or this douchenozzle is inflating his price and somehow hoping to snag a sucker, and not being very sneaky about it. Same seller has the exact same thing in the sold listings, and had been bid up astronomically the same as this one by what appears to be one of his other accounts. Guess he didn't feel like paying for his own shit.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NITENDO-D...
Obvious shill bidder.