Sellers should learn not to say NO.

[inhawaii]

I need six  1" glass marbles for a project.

I came across a listing for 2 pounds of 1" glass marbles for $23.99 with free shipping.

I'm not sure how many marbles are in 2 pounds but i'm sure t's way more than i need. 

I messaged the seller and explained how i only need 6 marbles. If he would be willing to sell me 6,  let me know how much.

The seller replied with "sorry such a small amount is not cost worthy for me to sell".  Why would he say that without knowing how much i'm willing to pay for 6 of them?  Why not make me an offer?  6 marbles for $5 or 6 marbles for $10 or 6 marbles for $20 ... whatever he thinks is worth his time and effort?   But to just say "NO" is very poor business sense in my opinion. 

[nc-daydreamer]

Just an updated note - been through one shed, marbles not there. will tackle the other shed weather permitting on Sat. 🙂

[jeannicho22]

Just now got a buyer inquiring if I would sell an image alone that was grouped with others.  Sure, I guess I could go in and extract it off the sheet, spend half an hour cleaning it to print alone.  Then spend another 10 minutes setting it up as its own individual item to print.  Then spend another 5 to 10 minutes listing it for sale..... Time spent is a total of about 50 minutes so that I could sell this one individual image for 1/3rd the price of the original listing.  

The answer of course was NO

[escuintla]

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@inhawaii wrote:

I meant it takes 7 seconds to reply with "I don't have any extras laying around and i don't really want to break up a lot but i'll do it for $XXX".  As a matter of fact, it wouldn't even take 7 seconds. It would have taken the same amount of time as it did to say " sorry such a small amount is not cost worthy for me to sell".

If you disagree, that's cool.  You're on the "winning" side.  I'm on the "losing" side of this argument. Let's just let this thread go away already!   LOL

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There's no winners or losers here. Just a different approach to make a buck. 

I agree and disagree on what you say. There are sellers that need a $0.50 profit on sales, many sales where they have everything set up. They just increase the #s on their listings and that's all they do, easy does it. But others won't budge to the idea of breaking a lot to satisfy a buyer who may not be willing to pay the effort. 

I have received soooooooooo many messages about buying specific CDs or items from a lot. I have set up the price to reflect a discount on shipping if you or anybody else bought them individually. And, I know, that if I put my price, there won't be any response from the wannabe buyer. 

So, why bother? 

[castlemagicmemories]

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@nc-daydreamer wrote:

Just an updated note - been through one shed, marbles not there. will tackle the other shed weather permitting on Sat. 🙂

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That's very nice of you, but oops, see post # 64.

[a_c_green]

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@sapphireseal wrote:

I've got to say "don't let pedestrian drunks wander through your drive-thru" seems really common-sense to me, even aside from insurance reasons (which is also a valid point).  

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At the risk of dragging us away from the topic of Monty Python... sorry, I meant the topic of marbles... sorry, I meant the topic of Carry On movies... sorry, I meant the topic of being sorry... okay, whatever our topic was, I promise we'll get right back to it, but I wanted to just observe here that in the case of more than one local drive-thru in our town, the business is on a pretty small lot where the drive-thru wraps tightly around the building on three sides. I can definitely see how someone going through in a car could easily go whooshing around what are basically a couple of blind corners, and flatten someone wandering through on foot.

I just texted a relative who works at McDonalds, and he told me that yes, they occasionally get people wandering up to the intercom on foot, and "As far as I know, we're not supposed to serve them."

[inhawaii]

Can we turn this into a drive-thru thread?

I've been wanting to tell this story.

So i was at a Jack In The Box drive through. I placed my order. I pulled up to the pay/pick up window. I was there waiting for about a minute.  Then the lady told me "could you please pull forward into the waiting area" and they will bring my order out to me.  I noticed there we no cars behind me. I was the only one there. So i told her "but there's nobody behind me". She sticks her head out the window, leans over, looks back to see no cars in line, then says "Yup, nobody's behind you, pull forward please".   I just gave her this confused look (because i was confused) and pulled forward.

[sodelight]

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@readabouthorses wrote:

I've been interested in some of the candies you sell but I don't want to buy a whole bag of something only to find out I don't like it. Would you sell me just 2 pieces of something so I can try it?

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