RANT! WTF is with people selling vehicles????

[ChampTrucking]

So can anyone offer a reasonable excuse why,if someone is selling a vehicle,can't they be available if you are interested? WTF!? I call the number listed on this one truck in Indy. 1 call and no answer. Call an hour later and get no answer again so I leave my phone number since I get his voice mail again. No return call all day. So I call in the evening and the guy sounds like he is in the bar with his buddies. I explain I am interested but up North and there is no way I am heading to Indy till after the Super Bowl. I get some general info on the truck but it is real hard to talk over all the background noise. I did get the fact he needs to sell the truck because he is in a "bad spot" and he claims to have all receipts for the work stated in the ad was done. So yesterday I call twice more and finally get thru to the seller. It is still for sale so I ask him to PLEASE send me some better pictures to my email addy."It will take me a couple hours." It has been 24 hours and I still don't have them. It is a 3 hour drive 1 way from here so I want to see more before I invest the gas money to go see it.

Another truck I am interested in is 3.5 hours away in Muncie. This guys ad says" text or call", Again I would like more detail before I make the trip. I texted @ 8:30 this AM.No answer. I have called every hour on the hour since then with NO LUCK. The call phone message says 'the voicemail box has not been set up,good bye" and hangs up!
So seriously WTF???? Am I just having a bad run here???? Am I expecting too much of the seller? If you are smart enough to post pictures with your Craigslist ad could it be so hard to send some pictures? If I call the guy in Indy again wonder if I will appear to be too eager and he won't want to deal. Can't anything be easy anymore? End Rant!

[6PakBee]

You're just having a bad run of luck.

[Monk]

It's the Craigslist adv that get me.........'email me for photos'??
WTF!!

[Scott Liggett]

He really isn't interested in selling it. If he was, he wouldn't be screwing around.

[Barry Donovan]

He really isn't interested in selling it. If he was, he wouldn't be screwing around.

there really is no lessons for the net.

craigslist could do anything, like not teaching value of free photos. they just exist. we use it.
ebay has one photo for free , and some people don't want another fee.I just bought a carb with one photo.. the sell? a glimpse of the oem electric choke on a monojet, and a part number telling me it is a 1978.

newspapers and some ad books still have no photos. At least the ad is there...just have to try from there.

[pdub]

People are people, Champ. People have their own agenda. I found that out here in Tennsessee as soon as we moved here, different from what I was familiar with. Let's say, "relaxed." Folks have their own sense of urgency and time. But it's not state-specific at all...

Yesterday we took Red to the NC mountains, and by the time we got to the motel in Banner Elk, we'd been in the car for 6 hours. We were hungry. After lots of can't-decide stuff, including checking out the fancy restaurant at the motel which didn't open until 5 p.m., we elected to just have a pizza delivered. We were tired, AND hungry.

So the pizza delivery firm referenced in the motel book of services was strictly local. Let's say it was called "Joe's Pizza." I called at 3:30 p.m. and (I guess it was Joe who said) "We don't start delivery until 4:30."

I called at 4:30 and there was (I reckon) Joe on an answering machine, saying, "It's Friday afternoon, I'm gonna take a break and go to the bank, I'll be back about 4:30."

Finally about a quarter after 5 we got through and the pizza was delivered quick (just up the street).

But, yeah, people have their own agenda, even in business it seems. What gets me is anybody who says, "I'll be there," and they don't and never show up at the time and the place. Same person, over and over. "I'll be there." Why do people say that when they don't mean it? That one I really don't get. Unless they're just saying what they think you want to hear, what they think will make you feel good so they can get away from you at that moment, or something...

[antmnte]

People are nuts. You call a guy to do some work at your home,they dont call back or they dont show then its the same
guy crying buisness is bad.Sure it is if you dont return phone calls or do the job. Frig em ! Find another truck

[pdub]

People are nuts. You call a guy to do some work at your home,they dont call back or they dont show then its the same
guy crying buisness is bad.Sure it is if you dont return phone calls or do the job. Frig em ! Find another truck

Yeah, that would be good.

We had lived here in TN in our bought house for about a year when we hired a guy to put up a stairway bannister. I could have done it, but I was afraid if I did it, it would have looked like I did it (crooked, etc). I didn't want to mess up our new-to-us new house.

So on Saturday we were sitting around on our thumbs waiting. Dude didn't show up or call or anything. Oh well. Welcome to Tennessee.

Dude called on Tuesday, apologizing for not showing up. I asked him why he at least didn't call us to let us know he wouldn't be able to do the job.

He said, "They wouldn't let me."

I said, "WHO wouldn't let you?"

He said, "The cops. I was in jail."

He went to try to collect the money for a roof job he'd done, and the customer didn't like the job he'd done and our contractor ended up punching the home owner in the face and getting locked up for assault.

Next? The Yellow Pages are getting smaller over here....

[DanStokes]

As far as trucks for sale - I have the Dakota up on the auction block and I'll send you pics at the drop of a hat. Absolutely rust free and a great little truck, but a bit thirsty. But I WILL be a responsive seller!

We're good on home repair. Anything I can't do, our next door neighbor who is a finish carpenter by trade and does all sorts of home repairs - well, he handles it. Great guy and I KNOW where he is! He's looking for a couple of days to do a few little jobs for us but he's good so he's pretty busy.

Dan

[Schtauffer]

Not everyone is glued to the net and their cell phone 24/7. Lighten up.

[68 Valiant]

Not everyone is glued to the net and their cell phone 24/7. Lighten up.

I usually get pissed off with people wasting MY time when I have something advertised. I guess its a 2 way street.

[yellomalibu]

Not everyone is glued to the net and their cell phone 24/7. Lighten up.

I agree ... BUT ... it's hard when you really want what they are selling. Then add the game of trying to not look too interested so you can barter the price lower, and it gets complicated.

I was really interested in this 84 C10 I saw on C/L, but the guy didn't answer his phone, and didn't call back for a day and a half... I figured it must have sold quickly and he didn't feel like calling people back to tell them.
Nope, he called me a day and a half after I was planning on going to check it out - wondering when I was going to come see it.

It turns out he WAS desperate to sell it, just not tied to his cell phone like most of us.

I got a really good deal.

The pics on C/L rarely portray the condition of a car very accurately.

[pdub]

SLOW. You have to cook chicken slow. Real slow. If you cook it too fast it'll burn on the outside and be raw on the inside. Nothing's nastier than raw chicken.

[STINEY]

I have an observation that is on a different angle, yet somewhat related.

I see LOTS of people who will flat out refuse to answer their cell phone if it is not someone they already know calling them. Some of these people I know for a fact have stuff listed for sale on the internet.

How in the world do they expect to sell something to a stranger if they will not answer stranger phone calls?

Just proves onwership of gadgets does not make a person intelligent.

[ChampTrucking]

Not everyone is glued to the net and their cell phone 24/7. Lighten up.

Just an update,the one truck in Indy was reposted yesterday afternoon so it is back at the top of the postings on CL,but he still has not sent me pictures,and the one in Muncie still hangs up on callers. Lighten up Hell,I am ready to give up LOL.