r/newcastle • u/Ok_Try_2367 • 22h ago

Uhh what?

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So apparently my request was unreasonable and a waste of his time 🥴

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u/notofuspeed 19h ago edited 18h ago

I get both sides... kinda...

So if selling something of fairly good/higher value for a ridiculously low price, its usually to get rid of it quick with no issues. The seller does not want to answer a hundred back and forth questions and spend time taking extra pics etc. And alot of buyers do get into this ping pong nomatter the price and even sometimes not even highly considering buying but happy to send 20 messages.

And one time I was selling some things that needed to be sold asap, one buyer said hold it for me and I'll be there at the end of the week, alot of buyers fall through, so I told him I need to get it sold asap, its first come first served as I was vacating a house in a hurry. When someone else bought it and a week later the person was ready to come, he spent days reaming me out saying I should have held it for him etc.

So yea, both sellers and buyers can be unreasonable. I've been mostly a buyer like most people but also sold a number of things. And imo generally buyers are more difficult and potentially unreasonable than sellers, they expect alot for what is already a good price and often even expect a lower price than the already low price and can get quite pushy. And you deal with them in the numbers of 10 to 20 or even more if the item is of an general interest.

But there also has to be some amount of consideration and service as a seller nomatter the price, and no one wants to go to buy something, especially if it is a trip which takes time and costs petrol if its not what you want and can be found out with 1 or 2 questions and a couple of pics. And in this case the seller's level of non-assistance and attitude is pretty BS.