Pick up item

[michellebartley]

I wanted to buy an item and it is a pick up locally. The item was listed on Gumtree a while back and I was thinking of buying it then but had a slight discrepancy with seller so forgot about it.
If I buy item she will figure out its me and could dig her heels in and possibly cancel the sale(I'm not sure if she can do this)
I do have to go and pick up and am a bit apprehensive about it. She seems very fussy and demanding i. e. argued I couldn't take item on bus as it was too large which was rubbish. You can also make offer on item.

[4channel]

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@michellebartley wrote:
Well the item has been relisted and I sent a 3rd offer through but no response. If I really do want it I would have to get someone else I know to buy it as a favour. But that's getting to a ridiculous level and VERY troublesome.
And who's to say she would respond to someone else who wanted to buy it?????????. 😒

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Well, some sellers are just too difficult and it may possibly now be time to wonder if you should give up on it. In saying that Michelle, I really can understand your frustration. I'm concerned for you that if the seller is that difficult to approach here, just imagine if there's a fault with the item and how bad it will be to get the seller to do right by you.

One day I'll do a thread on some of the horrid experiences I have had on ebay. A couple have been almost surreal. I'll also include a couple about an associate of mine and how he had been on the recieving end of some very very nasty dishonesty. No names or clues to the identites of the parties will be mentioned. But it may help some folks be aware of what to look out for.

Michelle, I hope that you can get a friend to possibly get the item for you if you really want it. I hope that you can at least get some satisfaction here.

[4channel]

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@brerrabbit585 wrote:
So why did you mess them around when it was on gumtree? Why didn't you just buy it and be done with it? Why do you always have to complicate everything?

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It could be rabbit that Michelle tried to bargain with the seller and the seller could be touchy.

One I had a man wanting to fight me in the flea market because I made a low offer on a pair of speaker cabinets. He followed me in a threatening way. The cabinets were crud and the particle board was crumbling away due to them standing on a concrete floor for years.

I have also had sellers clam up when I ask nicely to change the shipping mode. Sometimes it's about ego. Maybe this is the case here.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@michellebartley wrote:
Well the item has been relisted and I sent a 3rd offer through but no response. If I really do want it I would have to get someone else I know to buy it as a favour. But that's getting to a ridiculous level and VERY troublesome.
And who's to say she would respond to someone else who wanted to buy it?????????. 😒

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for goodness sakes michelle STOP MAKING OFFERS and just hit the BUY NOW button if it is that important to you.

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Sorry for breaking my silence

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@4channel wrote:

One day I'll do a thread on some of the horrid experiences I have had on ebay. A couple have been almost surreal. I'll also include a couple about an associate of mine and how he had been on the recieving end of some very very nasty dishonesty.

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please don't! 

I'll save you some time . . .

. . . . rare, once in a lifetime, never played, never opened VHS tapes arrived damaged . . . . seller sent another set of the rare once in a lifetime tapes

. . . . . an associate won a turntable (?) from a UK seller for a good price . . . seller messages saying "I threw it out with the rubbish" . . . . you phone the garbage collection service IN THE UK and discover the seller lied about garbage collection day . . . . associate didn't get the turntable (?)

[digital*ghost]

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@4channel wrote:

I really can understand your frustration. I'm concerned for you that if the seller is that difficult to approach here, just imagine if there's a fault with the item and how bad it will be to get the seller to do right by you.

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How do you figure the seller is being "difficult"? 

All we know is that some attempt at negotiations took place but fell through over on gumtree, that the seller advised the item is too large to take on a bus (which OP thinks is "rubbish", but who knows...), and that the seller hasn't responded to any of the OPs offers (which they have no obligation to do).

OP, on the other hand, is talking about showing up to a stranger's house to confront them about not responding to offers, misusing police resources out of pettiness, and throwing around "defamation" with (seemingly) absolutely no sound basis.

And the take-away from this is that the seller is the difficult one? 

[enigmabear]

Of course it is

It is always the seller's fault

End of story

[countessalmirena]

digital*ghost, just think about the potential danger for the OP if she shows up at the seller's house. Who knows whether or not the refusal to respond to offers is but an oft-used tactic to lure buyers to the house, from which they are never seen again...?

I find the refusal to negotiate on the part of the seller most disturbing; it's simply not normal behavioiur. In fact, it's so suspicious that the OP may want to consider contacting the police - not for a welfare check, but to report a possible serial killer or terrorist.

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(I'm sure I don't need to say this, but just in case... No, this is not serious. I'm just wandering into The Land Where Thought Goes Dalí.)

[digital*ghost]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

digital*ghost, just think about the potential danger for the OP if she shows up at the seller's house. Who knows whether or not the refusal to respond to offers is but an oft-used tactic to lure buyers to the house, from which they are never seen again...?

I find the refusal to negotiate on the part of the seller most disturbing; it's simply not normal behavioiur. In fact, it's so suspicious that the OP may want to consider contacting the police - not for a welfare check, but to report a possible serial killer or terrorist.

Spoiler

(I'm sure I don't need to say this, but just in case... No, this is not serious. I'm just wandering into The Land Where Thought Goes Dalí.)

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You might be on to something there - it's always the quiet ones who seem like they just want to be left alone.  

[enigmabear]

And those evil looking garden gnomes outside the seller's house

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They           are           alive 

[countessalmirena]

Amélie...