posted on May 5, 2001 09:07:07 AM new
A friend of mine asked me to list an item for him. I asked him to to write the description and give it a opening bid price.
I received an email "ask the seller". The person wants to know why I have the nerve to ask for such a high price for the item. He says he can find it for less.
posted on May 5, 2001 10:20:15 AM new
Ignore it! There are folks out there who seem to get their "jollies" by doing things like that.
I once got an e-mail from someone telling me that they could get my item at the Dollar Store for $1.00. I made a mistake and wrote back, suggesting that he should go to the Dollar Store, buy all they had in stock, and I would buy them from him for $1.50 each. For MONTHS.... he e-mailed about every auction I had with some sort of critical remark.
If you respond, it just gives them the attention they are looking for and they will keep doing it.
Sounds like another village has lost track of its idiot!
posted on May 5, 2001 05:52:14 PM new
Tell him that your ESP told you that he would be bidding on this item. You had intended to start the bidding at a dollar amount equal to his IQ. But your ESP was a little off and your starting bid was too high.
posted on May 5, 2001 11:51:13 PM new
My favourite was from a lady who bought and paid for an item from me. Then emailed me to say she went to the store to price check and could have bought it there for about the same when the S&H was included.
Why she chose to price check after the fact and not before I'm not sure. Why she chose to advertise this brilliance, I'm also not sure.
If she was looking for money back, she must be still waiting beside her mailbox.
