Originally Posted By: bubbatime
Oh Craigslist. You have given me so much fun experiences over the years.
Sold a large cabinet to a guy in a busted up, old as heck, compact car. Guy shows up with his entire family in the car, wife, 4 kids, grandma, cat, etc.
Guy doesn't argue the price. Looks it over for 1.3 seconds, says, "I'll take it." Hands me the money on the spot. Asks me for help loading the cabinet onto the roof of his car. Guy wants to load a very large, several hundred pound cabinet, on the roof of a 76 Corolla. Not going to happen. I scratched my head in bewilderment.
I never let anyone load anything until I have the cash in my pocket.
I asked the guy where he lived and he said just up the street, so I offered to deliver it to his house with my truck. When I delivered it, guy thanked me, shook my hand, asked me to stay for dinner, and tried to give me another $10 for delivering it for him. I declined.
This guy was FLAT broke. I'm talking, probably makes $100/week flat broke. And has all the mouths to feed and rent to pay. And he was the nicest guy and floored me when he offered full asking price and even offered more money for delivering it to him.
Now lets compare to that the usual Craigslist idiot.
Sold a push mower to a guy. Price was $110. Guy in a BMW shows up. Looks at the mower for 45 minutes, tries it out, mows my entire front lawn as a "test-drive". Complains non-stop about this and that. Asks me for help loading the mower into his trunk. Loads the mower. Then says, "It's used. It has a lot of problems and will probably break at any time. Here is $50 dollars."
I about blew a gasket. "The time to negotiate a deal is BEFORE the darn thing is loaded in your car. You either pay me the full $110 I am asking for it or we will be unloading it from your trunk and you can leave." Guy gave me $120 and asked for change. I told him I don't have any change. He looked at me flabbergasted. He told me to keep the change and he left. So the guy paid me $120 for something that was priced at $110. Idiot.