Steve and I each have a craigslist.com listing right now, we’ve both got something to sell. I’ve never sold anything on craigslist before so maybe this is common practice, but I find it highly annoying.

We’ve now received a total of five inquiries, two for me, three for him. Three of those emails have basically said, “Do you still have [item]? Then call me at [phone number].”

Ok, now maybe it’s me, but, I think that if I wanted to talk to these people on the phone, I’d have left a phone number where they could call us. But I didn’t, I purposely only left the craigslist protected email. For instance, the one in my inbox now, is for Steve. I actually Googled the phone number and was able to find out a decent amount out about the guy but, well, that doesn’t matter, that’s just interesting, haha. Anyway, he wants Steve to call him. Steve has no time. That email’s been there for about a day and a half to two days now with no response. Whereas, had the guy just asked me his questions, I could have maybe even already known the answer and emailed out a response right away.

Steve says something to the effect of this being a classified ad and if it were in the newspaper we’d have left a phone number. That’s true, but these are the online classifieds where I left an email address! So I’m finding it really rude that these people are immediately trying to put any type of phone responsibility on me. It’s especially rude because, the one woman I called last Saturday, I talked to her and she was really interested and wanted to talk to me more about getting the item come Monday or whatever. Wednesday finally rolled around and I called her again and left a voicemail and said that if I didn’t hear by Friday, I’d assume she didn’t want it anymore. She’s not called back and it’s Saturday. I find that incredibly rude, too, I mean, I don’t care if she doesn’t want it anymore, just tell me, you know?

I’m not saying that a phone conversation later on isn’t appropriate if you need to iron out details for the actual selling, but for them to just start out with having me to call them just doesn’t sit well with me. Of course, I feel obligated to make the calls because I do want to sell the stuff, so I guess there’s really nothing I can do about it.

Ok, just wanted to rant. :)