What the **** is wrong with some people?

[tyred]

I was selling something, I would definitely sell on the first person to turn up with a wad of cash principle. There are many "buyers" who like to mess you around in my experience. But if someone else was coming to view, I would at least have the decency to let them know it was gone.

I consider many sellers time wasters as well. I have often went to view cars that did not match their description at all.

 

[papercorn2000]

Know what? I think that might be a teensy bit overboard. Plus, I like cats.

Matthew

That may well be but we have to make sacrifices.
And I didn't mean that you had to doing enjoy this.


Wierdo.

 

[colly]

Yep, just a case of following him home and waiting for the cover of night. You then torch his car and when he runs out to see what is happening you grap him and wrap him in duct tape. You then bar all the exits to his house and set the house on fire and force him to watch while his family are slowly immolated. You pour petrol on his cat and light it (just to hear it go 'WOOF!'), you then fetch his new bike from the shed and, with a very blunt hacksaw, shred it before his eyes.
You then kill his neighbours, his friends and his workmates.
You kill his parents and his siblings and the postman.
You saw off his hands and feet and tear out his tongue. Only then will he realise that he should not have done such a nasty inconsiderate thing to a man who could have been his lifelong friend.

Something vexes thee......I can tell.

 

[MajorMantra]

I was selling something, I would definitely sell on the first person to turn up with a wad of cash principle. There are many "buyers" who like to mess you around in my experience.

As I've said already, I arranged to meet him as soon as suited him. He couldn't do Tuesday so we said Wednesday afternoon at his work. Early that afternoon he said he'd been called to a meeting and could I make it at 5.30. I said fine and the next I heard was that he had left work and sold the bike.

In total we exchanged quite a few texts and words and given that we'd discussed payment (and I'd been asking about ATMs at his work to avoid carrying the full amount with me) and fitting my own pedals, I think my level of interest was pretty clear.

It's not as though he was the one going out of his way. I was the one being flexible about time and he chose to be an a**hole and let me waste 3 hours of my life going to the middle of nowhere and back.

Matthew

 

[MajorMantra]

That may well be but we have to make sacrifices.
And I didn't mean that you had to doing enjoy this.


Wierdo.

Cyclepath.

 

[bonj2]

What did you expect him to say to what the other guy offered him, - "oh, sorry - no, I'd love to sell it to you but there's another guy who might have had to catch two buses, so I'm afraid you're just going to go away even though you got here first and you're making me an offer that he might not."

moral of the story: buses are shite - they are rarely, if ever, the fastest way of getting somewhere.

 

[MajorMantra]

What did you expect him to say to what the other guy offered him, - "oh, sorry - no, I'd love to sell it to you but there's another guy who might have had to catch two buses, so I'm afraid you're just going to go away even though you got here first and you're making me an offer that he might not."

moral of the story: buses are shite - they are rarely, if ever, the fastest way of getting somewhere.

I'll quote you his penultimate text from earlier in the afternoon:

"[...]Will finish 5.30pm. Sorry nothing I can do, can you come then and I'll defo come out even if the meeting has not finished. Bike is here waiting.[...]"

He effectively promised to be there. I don't see what I could have done differently to produce a different outcome.

Thanks for the moral, that's very helpful. I don't have a car and if I'd cycled to meet him then I'd have had no way of getting the bike home. Maybe you can ride two bikes at the same time but it's beyond me.

I am frankly amazed that you seem to think that the way he behaved was acceptable.

Matthew

 

[bonj2]

I'll quote you his penultimate text from earlier in the afternoon:

"[...]Will finish 5.30pm. Sorry nothing I can do, can you come then and I'll defo come out even if the meeting has not finished. Bike is here waiting.[...]"

He effectively promised to be there. I don't see what I could have done differently to produce a different outcome.

Thanks for the moral, that's very helpful. I don't have a car and if I'd cycled to meet him then I'd have had no way of getting the bike home. Maybe you can ride two bikes at the same time but it's beyond me.

I am frankly amazed that you seem to think that the way he behaved was acceptable.

Matthew

he could have been there, but it would have been pointless since he'd already sold it.
I agree saying 'defo' was a bit like a promise, so i think he was a bit out of order.
but, if everyone had to wait around for people who went on buses the world'd grind to a halt.
YOu could have cycled to meet him, done the deal, paid, etc., then asked him to keep it in his work till you could pick it up?

 

[MajorMantra]

he could have been there, but it would have been pointless since he'd already sold it.
I agree saying 'defo' was a bit like a promise, so i think he was a bit out of order.
but, if everyone had to wait around for people who went on buses the world'd grind to a halt.
YOu could have cycled to meet him, done the deal, paid, etc., then asked him to keep it in his work till you could pick it up?

You still seem to be implying that my choice of transport somehow justifies his behaviour, which is frankly ridiculous. Why is that in any way relevant? The fact is (and I'm having déja vu, saying this) we had an arrangement and he broke it without the slightest consideration for me. End of story.

Matthew

 

[Mr Pig]

He effectively promised to be there. I don't see what I could have done differently to produce a different outcome.

I agree that you've been messed around a bit, the guy could've told you that someone else was looking at it maybe, but these things happen. Get over it.

Maybe someone at his work said they would buy it. Maybe he decided not to sell it and didn't want to tell you that after putting you out. I don't know. But when buying and selling stuff these things happen, some you win and some you loose.

Say you'd got there first and the seller said 'Well, there is a guy supposed to be coming to see the bike later'. Would you have said 'Ok, I'll leave it 'till after that then'. Doubt it. You'd have said 'Well I'm here now and I have the money in my hand'.

It's first come first served. It's a race, it's a competition and you lost. Maybe next time you'll be the one who nicks in and bags the bargain, but this time you lost. That's it.

 

[MajorMantra]

I agree that you've been messed around a bit, the guy could've told you that someone else was looking at it maybe, but these things happen. Get over it.

Getting there. In a day or two I'll be completely over it but he'll still be an a**hole.

I am just a bit surprised at some of the attitudes expressed here. I can only speak for myself but personally I wouldn't dream of treating potential buyers that way. And that's all I have to say.

Matthew

 

[Noodley]

I wouldn't dream of treating potential buyers that way. And that's all I have to say.

Matthew

I agree.

But as I said earlier you have his work address and his mobile number

 

[bonj2]

...It's a race, it's a competition and you lost.

It's a race, it's a competition and you lost because you went by bus.

 

[bonj2]

Getting there. In a day or two I'll be completely over it but he'll still be an a**hole.

I am just a bit surprised at some of the attitudes expressed here. I can only speak for myself but personally I wouldn't dream of treating potential buyers that way. And that's all I have to say.

Matthew

Ok well tell us what YOU would have done then.
You've got a bike to sell, you've got some guy who may or not be coming, on a bus (but you don't know that), and you've got some guy offering the asking price. What do you do?

 

[Mr Pig]

It's a race, it's a competition and you lost because you went by bus.

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