So annoyed

[second-chance-sa1es]

In one of my stores I have an item for sale thats just more or less a small widget its something insignificant but new, so I figured I would pass the savings on to someone who will use it. In any event this item is cheap $5 total cheap but more or less a quality product.

Ive had watchers sitting on the item for weeks and weeks. So today I was going through and auditing prices and suddenly I get a message on that specific item that I just revised (removing best offer from the listing AGAIN)

Message asks if I will sell it for $4..........Forreal guys?

So I message the buyer back and I let him know that im sorry but I just cant.

$5 - fees - shipping = $0.34 net

Ebay has officially become a garage sale... Feb not off to a great start.

[city*satins]

LOL.  I just now asked my husband (yellowdognoel) if he remembers the shoe seller.   He answered:

I don't remember her name, but I remember the legs!

All these years later!  Too funny what sticks in the mind!

[penguins_dont_fly]

The suit guy was NYCsomething, if I remember correctly.

That was also about the time when a whole bunch of people got all expenses paid vacations  ... And mentioning that someone "went to Disney" would get you slapped.

Oh yeah, fun days indeed ...

I just looked at my PM's from during that laugh riot ... I was definitely not immune LOL

(And I'm waiting for the 1st rule of Fight Club to kick in here any minute now)

[city*satins]

You're right. There's probably no statute of limitations - even after 18  years or thereabouts!

See you all tomorrow (I hope)

[castlemagicmemories]

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@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:

I believe many  offers could be responded to with, Seriously?

As a mostly buyer now and an expert in my category I feel the same way about some seller prices. I shake my head and move on. 

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So true, so true.  I've seen things sit for years at prices no one in their right mind would pay.

[castlemagicmemories]

Community Boards don't always bring out the best in all people.  

@city*satins 

How well do I know that!  YKWIM

[castlemagicmemories]

I really miss those weekly chats run by Jeff and Griff.  

[castlemagicmemories]

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@city*satins wrote:

I'm trying to remember who the suit seller was.  I can remember a shoe seller with the most gorgeous legs I ever saw. But the suit seller...that one has slipped into my unreachable files.   I remember a lot whose departure was a real loss. 

I met Griff in 2002 when eBay ran a seminar in Vancouver BC.   I was really shocked when one of his instructor team gave a presentation suggesting that if you wanted to do well as a seller, you should buy a lot of things first and build up your feedback, and then try selling recipes for the cost of postage. That all that feedback for cheap stuff would make you look trustworth.  HUH!  We had just the week before had a HUGE thread on the board talking about the dishonesty of selling recipes to build up your feedback so you could move on to pricier stuff and so to see an eBay seminar suggesting this as a great strategy was really a shocker.   

I gave up on the weekly chats.  They always put me in a bad temper.  Jeff and Griff seemed to be always at cross-purposes to one another and despite saying that you could write to him directly with an issue, it seemed to me that Griff almost always took the buyer's side.  He was also a big fan of leaving feedback first and offered the opinion that there was nothing wrong with a buyer leaving bad feedback for a seller because they didn't leave feedback for them.  UGH and double UGH.

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Jeff was kind of blunt.  I remember Griff saying there was no problem that wasn't the seller's fault?

[coolections]

It's had watchers for weeks and weeks an no bites for $5 and you are annoyed you got an offer for $4. OK

[castlemagicmemories]

This reminds me of the famous Thor/Odin exchange.

Here it is:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/1133174/now-thats-customer-service-amazon-worker-engages-in-h...

[second-chance-sa1es]

Those are actually some pretty cool stories! They will live on in my only slightly younger mind 😃

My first time around eBay was probably somewhere between 04-06 but back then I was just selling extra motorcycle parts and I wasnt involved in the boards. I probably missed out on a lot of fun.

[castlemagicmemories]

City could definitely write a book!  Maybe she will and it will be a best seller.

[second-chance-sa1es]

Ive only mailed Griff once, he had someone else write back to me for him, and the message I got back had about 3-4 huge paragraphs that more or less offered me 0 useful, informative, helpful information.

Its actually time I wish I could have back. I dont have any other experience with him so those who are fond of him will have to pardon me for my limited experience.

[second-chance-sa1es]

One of my favorite things about posts of this nature is that my emotions dont necessarily need to be 100% genuine for me to see and experience exactly what the content of a persons character is.

[castlemagicmemories]

My message referred me to someone else, with many other options.

[second-chance-sa1es]

Something went over my head here.... Ive been working with a lot of chemicals today tho.

whatchu talkin bout Castle?