I’ve never been one to biatch about going ons in the classifieds except tor the scammers, like most of us do.
I’ve never sided on sellers price vs buyers idea of a fair price, cause typically the few things I’ve bought thru the classifieds I have given what the seller was asking. I’m not a tire kicker, nor do I waste a sellers time trying to low ball him, and I have never ever bullied a seller into selling me something (I personally know of folks that have done this)
So today I tried helping a fellow member score on NV equipment, and dealt with a seller on numerous PM’s which led to personal texts. I asked for pics, he provided them. Meanwhile, I’m passing all this onto another member just being me, and assisting with the sale. Eventually I had gotten the two communicating by giving the buyer the sellers name(even linked the sellers ad to him) and contacted the seller and told him about the buyer.
I originally was looking at this item for myself, but caught myself and decided I didn’t need it, so I passed it on to the other member who I thought may be interested. So with all that said, that means between me and the seller, there was a lot of communications going on, back n forth.
Today the seller informs me he sold it to a guy who was ahead of me in inquiring about it. No where in all our communications was I told that I “was in line” for the item. I was led to feel like I was the first and only person even inquiring about it, as it was originally a gun sale that the seller decided to part all the add ons to the gun.
Sure enough, I check the sellers post count and it’s low at 38. So, my advice to all the newbie’s joining this great forum for the main purpose of benefiting from the classifieds, please show some courtesy and tell folks up front that there are other buyers ahead of you, so as not to waste time.
What’s even more messed up is when I told the guy if I would’ve known I would’ve just bought it out right like right now, and he tells me he wouldn’t have sold it to me anyway because of the previous inquirer of the product.
I have no problem with the “first come first serve”, just let the buyer know up front there are others that you promised the item to, instead of leading a person on and wasting his time.
Not including the scammer rants, this is my first true complaint about the classifieds, to just show some etiquette