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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

I'm with stawks on this, c'mon,it doesn't take much to message intentions on ebay.

I don't know about others but I was brought up with not turning up unexpectedly especially to a strangers house without asking first. I find it a little disrespectful.

And possibly to a house with a woman alone, lack of thought for the other person on behalf of the seller.

Manners appear to be diminishing IMO. Maybe schools need to look at it as a subject in future.

 

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Me too. I wouldn't dream of just rocking up to a buyers house unannounced. Firstly, I don't want to invade their privacy and second, I don't know who they are. They could be axe murderers for all I know! When I have a local buyer, I give them 3 options. I can deliver to their house, I can meeting them in a neutral place at an agreed time, or I can post. Only one has said to deliver to their house, the rest have met me down the street somewhere. 

Last Friday morning, I was leaving for work and found someone plastic cards in my front yard. A Visa debit card, medicare card and a couple of others. I wasn't sure what to do with them, so that night I thought I'd try my luck and asked on one of the local buy swap and sell facebook sites if anyone knew this person. I said they would have to tell me all the names on the medicare card so I knew I had the right person.

5 minutes after posting the message, a lady replied saying she was a good friend of the man's wift. 10 minutes later she appeared on the site and I told her to send me a private message. As it turned out, she lives about 6 houses up the road from me. She said she would send me a message the next morning and come up and pick them up. 

At 7.30am my phone woke me up with a facebook notification for a private message. I didn't open it, so she wouldn't have seen I had read it, but I could see enough just sliding it down from the top. She was asking if I was home and if she could call up. Not 5 minutes later she knocked on the door. I was stoked that I was able to reunite the cards with their owner, it gave me that warm fuzzy feeling, but I was a bit miffed that she didn't even give me time to answer her message before she came up. I was still in my PJ's and didn't even have a chance to do my hair!