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Even if I want to get rid of something for nothing, I'll put it up for a fiver.
The number of fucking idiots that come out of the woodwork rises exponentially when you list it for free, proper unreasonable or a ludicrous false sense of entitlement.
I'll wait until someone wants it, offers to pay, and tell them to keep it and put it in a charity box on their way home or some shit. Saves a lot of hassle.
I used to do this, too, until local charities started complaining about all the lamps being posted into their donation boxes.
😂 I should have known...!
It was all in the post in front of you.
I just put stuff at the end of the driveway with a $20 sign on it.
Someone will come 'steal' it in under an hour.
Yeah for a week my sister had so many people grilling her about the condition of or asking her to deliver the couch she offered free. She relisted at 20 bucks, someone "talked her down" to a fiver and grabbed it that day
I gave a load of my stuff away for free just before emigrating about four years ago, and you wouldn't believe how much palaver people will go through to organise picking up a couch. I'd be making time come hell or high water if I wanted something like that for free.
I just donate things to thrift stores. I can't be bothered to sell anything. I did enough customer service jobs when I was younger to know that I have zero patience for customers.
"You didn't believe it before, why do you now?"
Like every tech support forum, email, or phone call ever.
List a complete description of all information regarding the issue. List correct OS version, firmware, etc. List all attempts at correcting issue based on standard and deeper steps (i.e. power on/off, resets, reinstalls, checking connections, etc.)
Tech help proceeds to disregard everything you just relayed and asks for the same things you just did. Or just tells you to nuke it all and wipe everything you’re trying to save.
Sorry bud, you’re one of the good ones that needs to suffer because of the actions of many. Everybody on our service desk is taught “trust but verify”.
The approach isn’t meant to upset people like your good self, but you’re such an insignificant statistic that it’s worth pissing you off to catch the 90% who claim to have done all those things and haven’t.
I cannot count how many times I have asked a user if they'd reset their system to which they'd respond yes. Then I'd check uptime and find it was days or weeks.
I blame windows fast boot for this, personally. A lot of our users will shutdown and turn back on instead of hitting Restart
I don't do IT, I troubleshoot aviation electrical and avionics systems, and the practice still holds true. "Why are you checking what I already verified?" "Just trying to make sure I'm on the same page as you. It helps me in my own weird way" is a great way to defuse their agitation sometimes.
I can understand that the tech has to go through a script because they need to, but what I fucking hate is that there is never really a solution to a real problem, only "nuke it". Fuck you, find a solution
There probably is a solution, but nuking it is usually more cost-effective.
Is it still available?
Me: yes, it's still available Them: never to be heard from again
Me: no, sorry I just sold it to someone else.
Them: I'll come pick it up in half an hour.
To be fair, this one is common on Facebook because it's the stupid top auto reply thing that is way too easy to fat finger when browsing listings
That doesn't explain why people have done it on Craigslist since before Facebook existed, where they have to open an email client, type it out, and send it.
I add this to my listings
"If the post is still up, the item is still available. I will remove the post as soon as it is no longer available. If you message me and ask me if it's available, I will block you."
And then I block them.
It nice to hear from you.well am pretty okay with your asking price but i just need some re assurance on the condition,am buying it as a gift for my son in United Kingdom so can you accept paypal as a mode of payment and i will add $90 for shipping,i will have do it local transaction but i am out of town presently..so you can get me back with your paypal email account so i can pay now.hope to hear from you soon.kindly text back ASAP
They're functionally illiterate and are embarrassed to admit it or show it, very common
“All the information is on the task”
price firm
I will give you $2, cash
To put the shoe on the other foot:
First time I see someone use this symbol for its intended purpose lol
What is the intended purpose? At first I thought it was a number placeholder, but then we use x for that (OP even used an x).
Edit: Is it a currency placeholder?
From what I remember yes, it's a placeholder for currency
First time I ever heard what that symbol was for! Nice to know
Lol
I had an old time country friend of mine ... he lived out in the country in a farming area surrounded by farms. The kind of guy that just loved to talk and talk and talk for hours on end if you allowed him.
He said for fun when he ran out of people to talk to he'd go see some farmer he'd never met before who was selling something ... anything (including a $5 lamp) ... and ask them if they had an old time horse drawn manure spreader. He said most farmers like to talk because they're always bored or just want to delay having to go to work. Asking about horse drawn manure spreaders gets then to talk about the old times, good old days, memories of working with their fathers, what they have, what they built, where they're from and on and on and on.
My friends name was Jack and he was a pain in the ass because he could occupy your entire day talking about everything under the sun. He was fun for about an hour but beyond that, he probably wouldn't notice if the dried husk of your remains started to blow away.
Are you sure your friends name wasn't Colin Robinson?
$15
Is this still available?
I always start with that, but add my questions right away ("Is this still available? If so, bla bla bla")
Because there is a decent chunk of people forgetting to mark the listing as sold.
I still don't know how tall it is
I literally had this happen multiple times working as a vendor at sci-fi cons in the 1990s. Our prices would literally be right there and people would point to each one and ask how much it was. And my boss wouldn't let me tell them that the prices are right there and point to where the prices were because my boss was a dumbass. In so many ways.
And then when those same people sell their stuff…
Lamp 4 sel.
“What color is it?”
“It’s a fucking lamp. Do u want it r not?!?!?”