Rude buyers get blocked.

[chameleon54]

I have a large 1.5 kg. antique book for sale. The book is reasonably worn with a few loose pages, but rare subject matter that is highly sought after by specialist collectors. The following is a message I recieved.

How many pages ?

Are they legible ?

My wife recently worked at our local Post Office for years and was wondering why the postage charge is so high ? If it was more reasonable I would seriously condsider buying this book. ( with taking into account your answers to my first two questions ).

 regards .....

At 1.5 kg. the cheapest option for mailing this book is a 3 kg. satchel. I use express post and charge $14.60 at which cost I actually lose money when ebays commission on postage is taken into account. ...........If the potential buyers wife really did work in a post office she would know all of this, so I call bo!!ocks to that story.

Result, the buyer did not even get an answer to the question ( although I did feel like writing one, explaining that a bit of courtesy in questions gets a much better response ). Result .... the buyer went straight to my blocked buyer list on 3 accounts and will never purchase anything from me or even send me another message. Maybe I have just got my grumpy pants on, but I just dont want to deal with people like that. They are more trouble than they are worth.

[domino-710]

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@chameleon54 wrote:

How many pages ?

Are they legible ?

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They are - but - only if you can read.

[gec2002]

Perhaps his wife was working in the "Free" post section, very reasonable prices there.

I had an email yesterday rudely complaining about a buyer's item not having arrived yet.  I sucked it up and wrote my usual apology for the postal delay, although I felt like write something all the more appropriate.  Today I received a very apologetic email for his "hasty and impatient tirade" explaining that the postie had placed the parcel in a neighbor's post box instead of his, although it had been addressed correctly & clearly.   I guess we can all have our grumpy days, and sometimes it's far better to cool off before pressing the send button.

[bright.ton42]

Nothing positive to add except that I'm loving the replies here.....I too often find the messages particularly on Gumtree like Newspeak from Orwell's "1984" novel ...

i'n "The Principles of Newspeak", the appendix to the 1949 novel, Orwell explains that Newspeak usage follows most of the English grammar, yet is a language characterised by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

Except that I doubt many of my respondents can read. 

Now when I get a one word query in lower case I answer exactly the same......  no,   or yes.or perhaps.  .

[domino-710]

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@glenbankloel wrote:

Perhaps his wife can suggest how to post it seeing that she knows all the information about postage?

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[ridyruki]

dog poo box 

Spoiler

[kopenhagen5]

Oh dear, where has the dog poo been put then ?

[*tippy*toes*]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Oh dear, where has the dog poo been put then ?

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In the letter box, dummy. Sheesh! 😨

[brerrabbit585]

Around here they just leave it lying on the footpath or wherever the dog happens to do it!  

[sna-4293]

Blcok him. Also, if the customer has a Discogs account and you post this on Discog's website, Discogs will permanently ban them from their site for harassment.

[davewil1964]

This is relevant to over THREE years ago, how?

I, and undoubtedly many other eBay members, don't know what Discogs is. It sounds like a music site. I doubt chamo does music. At least from his posts, he doesn't.