Buy/Sell/Trade Rant

[FishyFishy!]

Yup. It's simply everywhere.

"Buyer beware" has been around for centuries for a reason. lol.

Either way, sorry for your luck. Some people are just plain stupid.

[The Grizz]

I have had tons of buy/sell experience here on the forum over the several yrs I have been a member and have only had 3 deals go bad getting ripped off completely. I do tend to go out of my way to be very accommodating to the buyer or seller depending on the deal. I don't live in an area with many reefers and have traveled lots to get something I want and also have to travel to ship items at my expense. My wife says I am to nice when it come to this but thats just me. A happy buyer/seller is a new contact IMO.

To many people just take others for granted and that just ****es me off so I totally do get where your coming from.

Don't see enough people giving rep points for positive transactions.

[Etaloche]

Originally Posted by toytech

Try and buy/sell on kijiji if you want to get ..cked around , people who want to buy your car but don't have any money , like at all , and cant get any but can you hold the car for them they really want it . Or you ask if a car for sale has any rust and they say it dosent have any rust so you dive 45 min to see it and there`s a fist sized hole in the rear quarters and you say hey that's rust and they say but ya you could fix it easy so I didn't say any thing , and I say really have you replaced a rear quarter before and repainted an entire car because that's not (some words) easy (some words) hat, you (some words ) fix it and I will come back and buy it for the same price that you have it at now if its so (lots of words ) easy . Glad im not bitter about it any more though .

God I can totally relate, had to sell off my car in Toronto and buy a new one when I arrived in Vancouver very recently. Pretty much had the same experience. I think you're on the right track, I should stop being bitter about it and move on.

Originally Posted by The Grizz

I have had tons of buy/sell experience here on the forum over the several yrs I have been a member and have only had 3 deals go bad getting ripped off completely. I do tend to go out of my way to be very accommodating to the buyer or seller depending on the deal. I don't live in an area with many reefers and have traveled lots to get something I want and also have to travel to ship items at my expense. My wife says I am to nice when it come to this but thats just me. A happy buyer/seller is a new contact IMO.

To many people just take others for granted and that just ****es me off so I totally do get where your coming from.

Don't see enough people giving rep points for positive transactions.

Right? I love it when a transaction goes great and one more acquaintance is made that I can share and enjoy the hobby with. This is why I try to be accommodating. After the extra work I had to put in, it's so rewarding to have made a new connection. Some people just try to take advantage of such situation for their own gain and that's what I can't take.

[Etaloche]

Originally Posted by kien

While I feel your pain, this is by no means specific to this hobby or this community. In fact, you can even get the same sort of run around with a commercial business! Been there, done that

Originally Posted by FishyFishy!

Yup. It's simply everywhere.

"Buyer beware" has been around for centuries for a reason. lol.

Either way, sorry for your luck. Some people are just plain stupid.

Ugh, I don't even want to think about how much more frustrating a situation like this could be if my career or financial income was on the line. I just had a stressful morning with having to write an exam and power going out an hour before I had to write the exam, along with this happening I just needed to vent somewhere. Had another situation where I was sold an equipment with the promise that everything worked and that he was willing to reimburse the costs if it happened to be faulty. It did happen to be faulty and the member has been unresponsive to my messages for a while but I still see him post on the forums time to time. I still have hope that he will keep his words and waiting on a response before I take action.

I really appreciate that some of the members took the time to read and respond to my rant. I think I've gotten it out of my system and ready to move on.

[mrhasan]

Rant is good. It helps to take off the steam. We all have experiences (well, almost all) that can be related to yours. And I am from a country where meeting a stranger to make a buy/sell transaction always carries a life threatening component to it

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Sorry you had such a negative experience dude. I've also had literally hundreds of transactions over the years and I'd say only about 5 percent or less have led to negative experiences.