All the dumb people on eBay buy my stuff
As I have mentioned before I have some credit card debt that I am trying to give the smackdown to and I have recently found myself unemployed. When you put those two things together, what do you get? Me getting rid of junk around my apartment by selling it on eBay.
Okay, so it is not exactly junk but more stuff that I do not need. And it is mostly stuff that I charged on those credit cards.
Anyways, IÂ really hate selling things on eBay. I tend to go through an eBay cycle that goes a little something like this…
- I put a bunch of stuff on eBay
- People email me with stupid questions about my listings
- I grumble about people’s stupidity as I answer their questions
- People buy my stuff
- I am then bombarded with even more stupid questions
- I grumble
- I ship people their stuff
- They get their stuff and send me more stupid questions because apparently they never looked at the photos on the auction or read the info on the auction
- People want their money back because they couldn’t read
- I get angry and vow to never use eBay again
- Months pass and I forget why I stopped selling stuff on eBay
- grumble and repeat above steps
So, I put a couple of things up on eBay last week. Amazingly there were no stupid questions during the auction period. The auctions ended over the weekend. That is when the real fun began.
One of the auctions was won by someone in Norway that doesn’t realize that it is not cheap to ship something that weighs a little over a pound from the US to Norway. No, this person wants to pay around $5 instead of the $20-ish it will cost.
The other auction was paid for almost immediately by the winning bidder - at 6pm on Saturday. Yesterday I get an angry ALL CAPS email from this person wanting to know why I have not sent them their tracking number. They suggest that I am scamming them and so on. This is humorous for two reasons.
- My feedback is 98.7% positive with a rating of almost 500.
- Clearly the post office was closed when he paid. It was closed yesterday and it is closed today.
When I get emails like this from winning bidders it takes a lot of restraint to not write back an email that begins “Dear idiot…” Then my other half reminds me that there is no reasoning with stupid people. And I suddenly remember why I stopped selling things on eBay.
Only the stupid people find my auctions on eBay!
October 8th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s why I stopped Ebaying too. I couldn’t handle the BS from people - and when I did local pickups, they wouldn’t show, or some BS like that and get me really peeved because I wasted my time waiting for them to give them their item that they had already paid for.
If only you could write back with a word that means “Idiot” but make it sound lovely like:
Dear Pumpkin(head)…..
October 9th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Yes, I think you’re right. If can associate pumpkinhead with idiot and send out all of my response to people on eBay with “Dear pumpkin head.
Ah, that’s too funny. And I just might start doing that.
October 15th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
You just summed up some of my frustrations with eBay. Back when computers were expensive you could be guaranteed that most likely the person on the other end of the Internet had some sort of basic literacy skills…no longer.
I get messages from people asking me about stuff that is clearly IN THE LISTING all the time — either they can’t read or they can’t be bothered to read. (Then again, it could be the poor design of eBay listings that is at fault…they’re really hard to read, generally.)
And the shipping issue. Someone once asked me to knock $100 of an item I was selling (!) because to ship it to the UK would cost too much AND he’d have to pay customs duties and VAT. Um, pumpkinhead, that’s not my fault, and what’s the incentive to me to lower my price?
silly wabbits.
October 15th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
AJ - I am so with you! I am always getting questions on things that are in the listings. So frustrating. Too many pumpkinheads on eBay.