I'd be turned off too if anyone came to pick up an item and hung around for 2 hours.

When my sister & I used to sell, she stored the goods but after a while said she was thinking we should stop pick up as she was having to commit to times/evenings and didn't really always know in advance if it was convenient. So had we gone on selling, that option may have been removed from our listings.

But I do think some of this could depend on what the item is that is being sold. I would not want to buy a car, for example, without seeing it.

And once I saw a wedding dress advertised on ebay. The asking price was about $2000-$3000 (said it had cost her about $4500). To me, $2000-$3000 is still fair bit of money, but the woman said in her listing people could view it prior but under no circumstances try it on.

I understand where she was coming from as it had been dry cleaned but I would have thought if someone was interested in spending that amount of money, they would at least want to try it on to see what the style looked like on them. The obvious answer is for the buyer to go to a proper shop, where there is a lot in that price range, but if a seller really expects top dollar on some items, they may have to think about exactly how & where they plan to sell them.