|
|
Veteran
Posts: 209
Location: The Republic of Texas | I posted a want add here well over a year ago searching for the same trim that I'm still hunting for my 58.
I get a message here from a member asking for my email address so they can send me pictures. I reply and I get pictures of perfect trim. Exactly what I'm looking for. I reply and reply and reply and not a thing.
Unless the guy dropped dead the minute after he sent the pictures, I'm still mad. A picture of said trim can be found in my photo album. I'm not calling any names yet, unless anybody wants to know.
That's my 2 cents.
One of the actual pictures is in my album. Just look for the 58 with a flat tire.
Edited by GSP392 2015-03-31 7:41 PM
|
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 1497
 
Location: Fairfax, Minnesota | Wild guess; someone told him that the trim is ultra rare and he can get ten times the original agreed-upon price. Bad buisness just the same.
Edited by Ray 2015-03-31 7:52 PM
|
|
| |
|
Veteran
Posts: 209
Location: The Republic of Texas | We never got to a price. He just dangled the carrot in front of my face and vanished. Maybe it's his way of saying "look what I have". |
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 2312
Location: Arizona | Sounds frustrating. Still, you really don't know what happened, maybe he DID have a heart attack. I once lost contact with a casual acquaintance and felt he was being rude by not replying to emails. But it was just a casual acquaintance and didn't bother me much. Many months later I heard from him and he actually had had a stroke the day after my last contact with him. So it does happen. Rather than assume the worst (that he's being rude and purposely not replying) perhaps just ask if ANYONE has heard from him lately and if they could pass on a message. |
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 3480
Location: Montreal, Canada | Something similar happened to me on this site too, very recently. It is very frustrating.
See my post of December 31st here:
http://forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=55658&post...
Here is what I wrote then:
Notice to members: when you take the initiative to respond to a wanted ad to OFFER something, it is VERY frustrating, after a couple of weeks of back and forth emails, including a very fair cash offer sight unseen on my part, to tell the other member that you prefer selling on eBay in the end.... So please, offer stuff that you really want to sell and don't respond to wanted ads unless you are serious.
Edited by soiouz 2015-03-31 8:54 PM
|
|
| |
|
Veteran
Posts: 209
Location: The Republic of Texas | I did some research and to my knowledge 62dodge is an active member. It's not like he's going to sell it to me anyway, so who's reputation am I protecting. |
|
| |
|
Expert 5K+
Posts: 6500
 
Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | Same thing happened to me a while back. I was looking for some 58 Belvedere door panels/trim. I got pics then he back out. Marc. |
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 3575
Location: Netherlands | I've had a number of people suddenly turn 'autistic' when a sale or buy came up to the step to actually wrap-up and send the package or come up with the cash.
Plenty of people will turn to a 'pile' waiting to be stepped on if they have the mentality and opportunity to pull it off, especially on the semi-anonymous internet.
Sometimes, with some (community) leverage, such a person can be flushed back into the open again and allow him to excuse himself, or make up excuses to blow off the blame to something/someone else.
It's only on very rare occassions that something really happens that prevents a person from being able to respond.
#KnowledgeByExperience
|
|
| |
|
Expert 5K+
Posts: 8443
Location: Perth Australia | As this is a bit of a "what cheeses me off" post, I have one
On ebay they have auctions that are "no reserve" auctions, which is fine except, how can they be no reserve if they have a price to start bidding at?
The seller has already set the reserve by putting a starting price up havnt they?
Now if the auction was started at $0.00 with no reserve or even if they put a price up, but you could bid backwards to where you (as the first bidder) could set your starting price (eg If the price set by the seller was $12000 and you wanted to start the bidding at $6000, then, as the first bidder, you enter $6000 and that would be the starting price) and it was still no reserve, then that would be a no reserve auction
If you go to a live no reserve auction, the price the auctioneer starts with is a suggestion, not a mandatory starting price
A no reserve auction is an auction that items sell for whatever they are bid up to
A reserved auction has a price that the seller wants before the item can change hands and having a non reversible starting price is a reserve in my book
|
|
| |
would this piss you off too?
