Rant: Don't get it...
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:43 pm
No skin off my back but I don't get it...
You put out a post for a want item, I get a message from K5xxx (whose call I won't bother listing) offering something. I ask how much and any pics in a reply as it may be something I can use as an alternate, and I never hear from him again. Nada.
Out of courtesy, I send him another email just to follow up in case something did actually occur in cyberspace, again, no response. I don't care one way or the other but why do folks do that? I have never understood that, and that applies to for sale, swaps, etc. items on the boards; are people that flighty or what?
If I am interested in something for sale, I may pose a question to the seller, payment type accepted, any pics, etc. but generally, I don't contact them if I am not serious about purchasing or swapping something.
A related peeve I have is with individuals that post an item for sale, it gets sold and they never address the original posting (i.e. delete it, update it, etc.) so when you run a search you hit on it and have no idea the status. I emailed a chap about something recently, "yeah, I need to update that posting". Well, 2 months later, still there. It frustrates me in the regard that I am contacting a dead end and don't need to, and possibly in the future, may end up doing it again by accident....
Update your posts folks, delete, or edit them. It is helpful to clean up some of the classified forums out here.
You put out a post for a want item, I get a message from K5xxx (whose call I won't bother listing) offering something. I ask how much and any pics in a reply as it may be something I can use as an alternate, and I never hear from him again. Nada.
Out of courtesy, I send him another email just to follow up in case something did actually occur in cyberspace, again, no response. I don't care one way or the other but why do folks do that? I have never understood that, and that applies to for sale, swaps, etc. items on the boards; are people that flighty or what?
If I am interested in something for sale, I may pose a question to the seller, payment type accepted, any pics, etc. but generally, I don't contact them if I am not serious about purchasing or swapping something.
A related peeve I have is with individuals that post an item for sale, it gets sold and they never address the original posting (i.e. delete it, update it, etc.) so when you run a search you hit on it and have no idea the status. I emailed a chap about something recently, "yeah, I need to update that posting". Well, 2 months later, still there. It frustrates me in the regard that I am contacting a dead end and don't need to, and possibly in the future, may end up doing it again by accident....
Update your posts folks, delete, or edit them. It is helpful to clean up some of the classified forums out here.