God would approve.
Always check before you leave. “First come, first served” is the assumption for all Craigslist transactions, as stated above.
As for the OP, my only reaction is “well, then make it yourself, asshole!”
My main problem with Craigslist, though, is that I find most sellers overvalue what they have, like the $800 laptop example given above. It’s useful for large items like furniture, free shit, and things I need right away (like last minute concert or sports tickets) but, otherwise, I find almost everything on eBay for cheaper, with less hassle, and at least some semblance of consumer protection.
Always check before you leave. “First come, first served” is the assumption for all Craigslist transactions, as stated above.
As for the OP, my only reaction is “well, then make it yourself, asshole!”
My main problem with Craigslist, though, is that I find most sellers overvalue what they have, like the $800 laptop example given above. (I mean, if they do happen to sell it for that, then great! I’m determining market prices based on what items have sold for on eBay and things like that.) It’s useful for large items like furniture, free shit, and things I need right away (like last minute concert or sports tickets) but, otherwise, I find almost everything on eBay for cheaper, with less hassle, and at least some semblance of consumer protection.
You get people like this in all walks of online commerce, when I was selling some rare video games on eBay many years ago my favorite were the "marching Orders’ guys who would email with what amounted to officer commands:
“You will stop this auction! You will sell the item to me. I will mail you $xxx. You will ship it by the stated method with no added expense for shipping. You will ship no later than…”
Others were slightly less bossy but you get tired of ‘Sell it to me now for $20!’ (It sold for $60).
The e-mail is too old for me to have it stored, unfortunately, so I’m going from memory. But I think there was an explicit agreement to hold it. I told the guy - I really want that item, I’m willing to come out and get it right now, but I’ll be in that area tomorrow afternoon so can you hold it until then or do you need me to come out for it now?
I don’t remember my exact phrasing, but I clearly conveyed that message.
He could’ve easily said “come here now if you really want it, first come first serve” or anything like that, but instead he said sure, no problem, come pick it up tomorrow.
Without the actual words of the e-mails I can’t really prove it, but it was pretty clear there was an agreement to hold it, and if he would’ve simply told me he wouldn’t I would’ve gone that night.
Yeah, I just tell them I’ll wait while they go to the ATM. One of these days they’re going to catch me at a time that I’m frustrated, and I’ll just say no for wasting my time. I have thought about specifically requesting that people bring enough money to buy the thing with them, but I can’t figure out a way to do it that wouldn’t turn off reasonable people as being too passive aggressive.
I am sometimes amused at how bad people are at haggling. I guess it’s not a common skill. Women, particularly, seem to be strongly socialized against it.
Well, that is different, and that guy’s a jerk. I will generally hold something for less than a day if they seem earnest.