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.

[padi*0409]

@sna-4293

You've toned down your responses thankfully - but still bumping old threads...............

[joz15au]

Sorry🙁

[chameleon54]

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@joz15au wrote:
Sorry🙁

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I,ve had worse ......

[countessalmirena]

But it was "A blank, my lord"... I hope it doesn't result in a worm i' the bud!

Spoiler

Viola: A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument, 1015
Smiling at grief.

[universumkarma8]

🤣the last 3 eBayers who tried to scam us were old men. Like Biden, when challenged, they plead "recollection" issues. Memory issues or decades of "questionable attitudes?" We've seen innumerable old men being aggressively rude and condescending to their frail lil wives at the supermarket. In fact, my mum challenged a big old brute one day when he was relentlessly yelling & swearing at his tiny frail wife at the checkout - and he took a swing at her. She is a seasoned Martial Arts expert so he got quite the surprise. I (and everyone at Woolies) LOVED IT. 

Life's too short - you were right to block em.

[daydreams_12]

Did you bother to check the date this thread last saw daylight?  I am guessing NO. 

[kh-jean]

Hi everyone,



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