When you have a physical store, all day people will come in, look around, ask you detailed questions about your product, tell you how much they love what you sell, and then leave without buying anything.
I think this is just the experience of selling, not just selling online.
“Yes and I’m asking 95% retail value and it’s only two years old!”
Facebook market place is a silly place.
I’m looking at a new camera. The new ones are on sale for $2100. The used ones listed on Facebook are usually $2200+. The used places that sell cameras are also at or above the new price.
I recognize the sale won’t go on forever, but it ended over Christmas, then a new one started a few days later, so I’m sure it’ll be back on sale again before long.
Read the room, sellers. I know you paid more for it, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth that now. The lower new price reduces the value of the used ones.
They know what they got
Also, if it’s a piece of furniture they’re absolutely not going to tell you what the measurements are.
Me: giving away some stuff
Craigslist 1: I’m on my way right now!
Craigslist 2: I’ll be over after work.
Craigslist 3: headed that way.
Craigslist 4: hold it for me I’ll be there in an hour!
Me: still has item
That’s why anything I’m giving away I just put it outside and say first person to show up gets to keep it. It either gets sent off to someone who saw it or it gets ‘stolen’, either way not my problem anymore
Yeah, same problem on the other side.
Ad, I have this thing, it’s available, don’t ask, if it’s listed, it’s available
Hey, I want this, I’ll pay cash, when are you available.
crickets
2 days later: still interested
crickets
Probably just laziness or cluelessness on the side of the seller - item sold or they changed their mind but they’re unable to remove the ad or even mark it as sold.
Judging by how many empty emails I get where the subject line is the name of one of my apps, I’m pretty sure people just absently click contact links, panic/don’t care, and then click send instead of discard/cancel.
I stopped selling on Craigslist after being ghosted at meetups multiple times.
I always write something in the line of “thanks, I’ll get back to you when I make up my mind”
Well, you’re a well-adjusted person.
Misses the hundreds of other booths where when asked gets ignored, or the booth then just disappears. Edit: autocorrect ate an o
I can kind of see ignoring it if all they send is “Is this item still available?” since it’s the default opening line and it very well could’ve been an accident. Not saying it’s necessarily a good idea, but if someone had the comic situation happen to them frequently, I could see ignoring people who send that and nothing else.
I think you might be having a stroke
lol. I think autocorrect might have eaten some of it, but like everyone off pointing out…. Both selling and buying in these spaces suck
Haha, just happened to me a couple minutes ago!
