17 October 2011

Excuse me while I rant for a minute

I don't know what it is with people who want to buy something online but they all suck. Or maybe it's just me, maybe I attract all the assholes?

I'm selling my treadmill on Kijiji. I posted it on Craigslist but noticed I was only getting scams so I moved over to Kijiji and I have gotten actual people wanting to buy it. Most have sent numerous questions and then go quiet, others offer an amount that frankly insults me. And then there are the few who set a date and time to come pick the treadmill up. I like those people. Except when they fuck me over!

The first woman set a date and time, then changed and said it would be 2 weeks before she could come out. Ok fine, I wasn't getting any other bites yet. Thing is she just wanted to come see it. Fine, she's spending a lot of money, she wants to make sure i'm not trying to screw her. BUT she never said what she was offering, she wanted to negotiate but never sent and offer and wanted me to hold on to it for two weeks. Well I asked around for selling things online etiquette and decided that no she does not have dibs. Someone else did come along, offered me something and I told her what the offer was. She never wrote back. Fine no treadmill for you! O, the other person never wrote back either :P

A few days later I get another bite. She really wants it, is paying the amount I listed it as and wants to come pick it up on a Sunday. I tell her that I have plans but will make time and meet her. So I leave a family dinner early, drive the hour back to Montreal and wait. She calls to say she's on her way. 2 hours later (she didn't live even an hour away) she is a no show. No email, no phone call. NOTHING. Umm excuse me?? Well up yours internet girl!

A week after that I get another bite. This woman really wants it. She will come on Sunday to pick it up, I am letting it go for a little less than I want. She calls around the time she is supposed to come get the treadmill and says she wont make it because she is in the middle of painting her house. Fine, things happen and she let me know. We move the meeting to the next day at 10am. Well 11:30am comes and we hear nothing. Marc calls her. She apparently forgot BUT she can't actually come pick it up even though she told us on Sunday she really wants it and is coming to get it. She has no fucking room for it, O and she is in the middle of some serious fucking renos on her new house. UMM excuse me woman, you knew about these renos, you knew if you had room or not for the damn treadmill. You just wasted my time. Once again I turned some other people away because you said your ass would be at my place to pick the treadmill up.I think she just wanted me to hold on to it until she figures out if she could even fit the thing in her new house. Sorry dear, doesn't work that way!

Needless to say I am pretty pissed. I am sick of dealing with inconsiderate people online. I guess because I'm not actually a person online they can be assholes. My time is not worth anything, I have no life!! So I don't know what I am going to do. It seems every other person who wants to buy the treadmill is just out to be a asshole.

I should mention that this treadmill is worth over 2000$, we paid about 1600$ or so in 2008. I am selling this monster of a treadmill (and it a monster of a treadmill) for 380$! 380$ people!!! You're getting a hell of deal! But there are still people who don't want to pay more than 100$. Some people are just so cheap it's insane. I don't want to sell this treadmill, I like it! But like i said it's huge! We wont be able to fit it in a new apartment next year because Montreal is too expensive :P.

Ok my rant is done...for now. I'm not sure if this post makes sense at all but I'm just pissed.




People suck!

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