Yeah, it's hard to cover all the variables on both sides. For instance, I've bought and sold here many times, but I've never been left feedback. I've asked for it. Even after leaving it once first. Then I just stopped leaving until I got...and that meant I stopped leaving it period. Now I just mention key posters I've done biz with as references. Doesn't mean I'm not solid. I'm as solid as they come..
Then there's people you PM on either side that don't respond back. Hey, you're not interested in buying or you're selling to someone else, fine. I'm a big boy. How about you be one, too, and say so? Especially when you see they've had activity since your last contact with them, but they don't mark their item sold or don't get back to you about your sell offer.
To BD's first post, I don't say, in the few FS ads I post, OBO. In this day I figure that's assumed by everyone when "firm" isn't written. As is we can all sell or not sell to whomever we like. I think that everyone WANTS a screaming deal, but most of us expect a fair deal, no? Many of us are trying to get out what we've put into something we've purchased used ourselves, so that's where pricing, value, and deals get a bit gray I think. As in what's a good price for someone looking expressly for something may seem out of line to someone else that is looking for maybe that AG, but in a different config.
I've had the same thing Bigragu has had happen to me. Try not to text or call late at night only to lose out as the seller doesn't honor 1st contact because they don't check for 1st contact. That really stinks when you've been hawking for an item, it comes up, you think you must be 1st, but no dice.
Eh, really just a microcosm of the world at large. I just wish it was always guys I know that stick to the system that had the stuff I want when I want it. But then I can wish in my one hand, and....
...all day long, now can't I
