One guy even emailed this: “let me know when you drop the price 400.00. no offence.”
I had a good LOL session with that one. Steve’s asking about $700 for nearly-new off-road tires that are worth $800.

He’s had countless people email and try to talk him down, saying they just want the tires and not the wheels. Not only are the wheels not worth much by themselves, but it would be a pain in the butt, from what I understand, to separate the two and these people are trying to talk him down to half price by saying they don’t want the wheels.

Then there was the guy who was apparently surfing craigslist on his phone and emailed via text message on his phone. All he said was something like if you still have the tires call xxx-xxx-xxxx. Steve didn’t have a chance to call so the guy sent it again after two or three days. After about another week I emailed the guy’s phone telling him to go ahead and call Steve at his convenience to which he replied with the same canned message to call him. It’s like, what the heck? Steve finally got a chance to call him the next day and the guy actually wanted to trade an old truck that could never be street-legal for the tires. I mean, dude, if you want to trade that, just say so the first time and we’ll tell you straight up: NO WAY.

And speaking of trading, we’ve listed the tires for sale not for trade yet he keeps getting all sorts of off-the-wall trade requests. One guy wanted to trade a dune buggy for them.

Oh, but yes, I got a response about my SLR that’s still for sale. It’s the same old, “if you still have it, please call me,” response. We all know how much I hate those. The beauty of the internet is that we have a little thing called E-MAIL. There’s a reason I don’t put my phone number on the ads and that we’re trying to use craigslist and not the newspaper classifieds. What could he possibly want to say to me that he can’t say in email? I think I’m just going to reply that I’m sorry but I’m sick right now, can’t we just talk over email? It sounds lame but it’s completely true. I feel like crap, I woke up this morning with another sinus infection and I’ve been throwing up, etc. I most certainly don’t want to talk to anyone. Right now I don’t even feel like dealing with Christmas stuff this week. Bah.

I guess I just get tired of people who can’t seem to read things or be bothered to have common courtesy. I guess they think “there’s no harm in asking” but sheesh, THINK before you ask and at least try to offer something the seller might actually consider, heh.

And here’s another unrelated gripe. ATT/Yahoo keeps emailing me telling me to change my email program to use SSL for downloading and sending mail or I won’t be able to continue to use POP3. They said, “Since multiple email notifications have already been sent out about this, we request that you please make the necessary changes immediately. Remember, you need to make these changes if you want to continue to send/receive email using a mail client.” So I go into my email settings and I’ve already done these changes they want. So why the constant threats!?

And then, I go to email them and say I’ve already done this, so what’s the deal and I get the message that the “email us” support method is no longer available for DSL customers, that I HAVE to chat with them or call them. What the heck!? WHY ever not!???

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. :)

Should I tell him that he’s probably going to be used for parts? Nahhhh…

But it’s true, I actually sold something on E-Bay. Me, wow. All the other feedback on my E-Bay account regarding sold items were things actually sold by my brother or my sister-in-law, using my account. So, wow. I sold something on E-Bay. For more than I thought I’d get for it, too, for twice what E-Bay said the average selling price is for these.

So, good-bye, old friend, you’re packaged and ready to go. I think I’m going to trade you in for a palmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager. You know, because it says it has software to be able to use Microsoft programs like Word and Excel and it has Bluetooth and a 4Gig harddrive. And, and, and. And I can’t afford what I really want. ;-)

Hmmmm, what you think?

Update – I dunno! I still can’t make up my mind what to do!!!! :P