I literally had this happen multiple times working as a vendor at sci-fi cons in the 1990s. Our prices would literally be right there and people would point to each one and ask how much it was. And my boss wouldn’t let me tell them that the prices are right there and point to where the prices were because my boss was a dumbass. In so many ways.
The thing is, for about 50% of those people you could talk to them like they were three years old and they’d be glad someone was communicating on their level for a change. The other 50% would think you’re the idiot. But they still would read the sign.
Even if I want to get rid of something for nothing, I’ll put it up for a fiver.
The number of fucking idiots that come out of the woodwork rises exponentially when you list it for free, proper unreasonable or a ludicrous false sense of entitlement.
I’ll wait until someone wants it, offers to pay, and tell them to keep it and put it in a charity box on their way home or some shit. Saves a lot of hassle.
Yeah for a week my sister had so many people grilling her about the condition of or asking her to deliver the couch she offered free. She relisted at 20 bucks, someone “talked her down” to a fiver and grabbed it that day
I gave a load of my stuff away for free just before emigrating about four years ago, and you wouldn’t believe how much palaver people will go through to organise picking up a couch. I’d be making time come hell or high water if I wanted something like that for free.
I just donate things to thrift stores. I can’t be bothered to sell anything. I did enough customer service jobs when I was younger to know that I have zero patience for customers.
I just put stuff at the end of the driveway with a $20 sign on it.
Someone will come ‘steal’ it in under an hour.
Keep it
Bro I bought it
You misunderstand.
Keep the payment, take the goods.
What color is it
I used to do this, too, until local charities started complaining about all the lamps being posted into their donation boxes.
Ah the ol Lemmy-roo
😂 I should have known…!
It was all in the post in front of you.
I still don’t know how tall it is
the sign sucks.
why is the price off to one side, and in a different color from the rest of the information?
the reason I ask questions is because the people who disseminate information are often idiots and can’t be concise.
Also it’s possible some of that information has changed and the lister forgot to update the sign. It’s $6.00 now and you’ll have to go to the ATM.
Always ask. Don’t be embarrassed by these waspy self-obsessed losers (the people who spread the kinds of messages in the artwork). Their behavior is what’s wrong here, not yours.
Don’t be a self-absorbed asshole on the internet. Not everything is about you. The seller put effort in the description, and if you’re too lazy or too cool to read it, you’re the asshole. Especially static information, like in this case the height or color, won’t change, so your argument is moot here.
The price listed on the listing is the price the seller intended to list. If it changed, the seller will update the listing. Of course you can ask for a discount, but please don’t bother people with stupid questions that are already explained in great detail just because you feel entitled. Thank you.
the price the seller intended to list. If it changed, the seller will update the listing
My point was that the seller often forgets to update the listing, or makes mistakes, or has life happen to them, and so it’s always ok to ask about stuff that’s written down. You seem to be arguing that the seller will always update the listing, which is measurably false, and indefensible in debate. I’m not sure why you brought it up at all.
I didn’t mention discounts and neither did the artist. You’re grasping wildly at topics not covered here to support a flimsy position and frankly, it’s not worth my time to discuss it with you.
If you want more information you’ll have to look it up yourself or pay my billable rate. I assure you it’s out of your price range.
My time is valuable and you’ve wasted enough of it.
If you respond to me again I’ll block you without reading.
If you are going to go down that route at least acknowledge, as part of your question, that you’ve read the posted info and are confirming rather than asking blind. The seller’s time is valuable too and they are potentially dealing with this same conversation 20 times over.
You have completely missed the point of my comment. Not sure if it’s critical thinking or reading ability but I couldn’t have been more clear so I’m not sure how to help you. Best of luck.
When everyone else is wrong/the asshole/misunderstanding, it’s time for self assessment.
Why are you saying everyone else is wrong?
Full disclosure, I looked at the first like five or 6 posts your profile to verify if you were a troll or not, and I came across something alarming.
You have multiple posts asking about how to run your own instance and basic things of how it functions. I really hope your instance is private because the ideology that you put in this post is so hostile that I would feel bad for your instance users.
Disregarding the fact that the chances that someone would forget to update their post versus that being the price listed is fairly low, your entire statement on wasting time is so hypocritical that it made me do a double take.
If the seller wasn’t going to give accurate information they wouldn’t have added the information in the first place.
But honestly that’s a moot point, the more alarming thing is if you have this type of ideology for a simple disagreement on the internet, then you’re going to be super aggressive towards anyone who’s going to reach out to you for help. And the fact that you own a community that’s literally called ask Lemmy that’s meant to be a carryover for when the other community doesn’t work this doesn’t look good.
I’m not looking to have a response from you so don’t worry about it, and I’m not saying this as an insult to you. I’m just saying how it looks to a random person who looked into it.
You’re projecting; I’m not the one getting into a disagreement on the internet. I posted a top-level comment and people (including you) disagreed with me. You are guilty of the thing you are accusing other people of. That’s projecting.
Using the term “hypocritical” to describe my content when I’ve kept true to my original statement is false. You didn’t follow it up with any support so I’ll dismiss it as brain clutter, which it is.
If you’re digging through my post history and trying to prove that I’m a troll, it’s not because you care about my users, it’s because you’re personally offended. You haven’t mentioned a single user except me. You’re falsely claiming to care about other people when what you’re really doing is picking a fight and losing. Take it back to the schoolyard, kiddo. This isn’t for you.
Same treatment as the others; I’ll be blocking you without reading your next comment to verify that you’ve read and understood my response.
it’s not worth my time to discuss it with you.
If you want more information you’ll have to […] pay my billable rate. I assure you it’s out of your price range.
My time is valuable and you’ve wasted enough of it.
Well, thanks for proving my point. You clearly are the asshole in this story.
If you respond to me again I’ll block you without reading.
Don’t waste your precious time, I’ll block you right after this 👍
Well said, thank you.
Here’s where you were wrong:
I’m getting offended by something you said to someone else, thus making it about myself, then accusing you of being self-absorbed
Does that make sense?
Other people are allowed to have contempt; that’s how we got the image in the first place. My experience isn’t wrong just because it offends you. That’s you making it about yourself, hypocrite.
There’s truth in both your response and the post you’re replying to. The seller did take the time to list the relevant information right there on the sign, but he didn’t have to adopt this “OK idiot” attitude when the potential buyer started asking questions; because, while the buyer may be an idiot, there are a lot of idiots in the world, and we should err on the side of empathy instead of judgment. In this scenario, the buyer is basically doing the “like I said…” thing that everyone p. much everyone unanimously hates. So, when the buyer asked his dumb questions, the seller should have simply answered them—after all, what is the buyer trying to do, ultimately? He’s trying to sell the product; he should not be trying to correct someone’s mental handicap (however minor or severe), because, if he made that his goal, he’d need the patience of a literal saint and all the time in the universe.
Lemmy nerds, man
Is it still available?
tbf, people often don’t take down their ads after a sale
It nice to hear from you.well am pretty okay with your asking price but i just need some re assurance on the condition,am buying it as a gift for my son in United Kingdom so can you accept paypal as a mode of payment and i will add $90 for shipping,i will have do it local transaction but i am out of town presently…so you can get me back with your paypal email account so i can pay now.hope to hear from you soon.kindly text back ASAP
Me: yes, it’s still available Them: never to be heard from again
Me: no, sorry I just sold it to someone else.
Them: I’ll come pick it up in half an hour.I add this to my listings
“If the post is still up, the item is still available. I will remove the post as soon as it is no longer available. If you message me and ask me if it’s available, I will block you.”
And then I block them.
“Is this item still available” is usually the default text when you go to respond to a listing.
Not on Craigslist it’s not! I don’t use Facebook
marketplaceanything.
To be fair, this one is common on Facebook because it’s the stupid top auto reply thing that is way too easy to fat finger when browsing listings
That doesn’t explain why people have done it on Craigslist since before Facebook existed, where they have to open an email client, type it out, and send it.
Because they assume that the seller is not The Perfect Human and remembers removing the ad once they’ve sold the thing?
Maybe if he had like a price tag on the lamp, that guy wouldn’t have had to ask!
Maybe if he had like a price tag on the lamp
There’s a yellow $5 price tag hanging from the lamp.
But how much is it?
/s just in case
For you? $42.
Yes, isn’t that the joke in the cartoon though? The shit’s there, nobody is reading it
You must be the idiot from the cartoon. Cuz there’s a tag hanging from it.
Thats, the joke. Not only in my comment, but the cartoon…
I don’t know why people think you are being serious, especially about a comic lol.
All the information is on the task
I wish…
If you don’t get the reference go watch Taskmaster on YouTube (or your preferred front-end)! If you do get the reference, I didn’t get yours. My partner and I just started watching Junior and it is hilarious. These kids hate being told “all the information is on the task”
A fair few of the adults hate being told “All the information is on the task”.
Oh absolutely! I haven’t been able to watch for months and decided to jump into Junior, so it is fresh on the mind
First thing that came mind.
I’m glad it wasn’t just me.
price firm
I will give you $2, cash
What a big fat stupid idiot
It was really cruel of the sales person to not help out this person who may be illiterate, or just not be good at reading, or might he foreign, or struggle with numbers or symbols for inches.
You know, not everyone is operating on the same level. You have to meet people where they are (it will be obvious as in this example).
Kudos to the customer for sticking with the requests, despite the sales person’s refusal to aid them with their needs… He must have had a real genuine interest in buying the lamp to have worked through his feelings and persisted in that environment.
I only know 2 people who are illiterate, my father is one of them. He will take pictures of stuff and send them to my mother. And usually goes off the pictures for most stuff.
This is a joke about Craigslist and Facebook marketplace listings. That’s why the sales person keeps saying to look at the “post” and not the sign. If you ever sell something online you will get hundreds of people like this. They clearly have the literacy to log on to the site and to ask questions in written form but still don’t read the post.
You can lead a horse to fresh water, but you can’t make them drink.
What makes you say it’s a comic specifically about those websites?
Looks like it’s depicting like a garage sale.
Because no one posts a sign like that at a garage sale. It’s very clearly meant to represent a common experience, and that would be selling online.
Cartoonist don’t necessarily draw things based on what’s commonly happened to people. Often they’re just drawing things that are funny regardless if whether they’re realistic. There’s just nothing I can see in the images that shows either way.
And ask the color when there is a picture right there.
This must be a shit troll attempt or your first day on the internet to not have encountered any form of marketplace.
No one who acts like the dumbo in the cartoon have ANY intention to buy and just there to grief people.
Cartoon character can’t be from Chicago. I only visit Chicago but noticed that if you ask a question and a sign with the answer is nearby they don’t suffer you gladly.
Welcome to retail!
why is he not answering questions when he is sitting selling stuff at a table? Honestly I did craigs list and if someone asked me a question where the information is in the post I just would not respond. I figure they would be more trouble than their worth.
- Does this work with a UK plug socket?
- Do you offer shipping?
- When could I go and pick it up?
- Do you have any other matching lamps/etc?
- What types of light bulbs does it use?
- Does it still have manufacturer’s warranty?
I know this is only a comic… but he’s answering questions, just not the ones in the post!!
I get what your saying but if your sitting at a place it takes longer to say ready the sign than five dollars
- “$10”
- “But the sign said $5”
- “Then why did you ask?”
“You didn’t believe it before, why do you now?”
Lol
I had an old time country friend of mine … he lived out in the country in a farming area surrounded by farms. The kind of guy that just loved to talk and talk and talk for hours on end if you allowed him.
He said for fun when he ran out of people to talk to he’d go see some farmer he’d never met before who was selling something … anything (including a $5 lamp) … and ask them if they had an old time horse drawn manure spreader. He said most farmers like to talk because they’re always bored or just want to delay having to go to work. Asking about horse drawn manure spreaders gets then to talk about the old times, good old days, memories of working with their fathers, what they have, what they built, where they’re from and on and on and on.
My friends name was Jack and he was a pain in the ass because he could occupy your entire day talking about everything under the sun. He was fun for about an hour but beyond that, he probably wouldn’t notice if the dried husk of your remains started to blow away.
Are you sure your friends name wasn’t Colin Robinson?
