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Sellers Obligation To Respond

For the second time in a week, I have had sellers not respond to my offers. Listing items for sale is a right that comes with obligations. By the very nature of this forum, and others, there will be more lookers than buyers. That's how it is in the real world as well. At a minimum sellers need to respond to e-mail inquiries. They don't need to answerer at length. But common courtesy dictates that, at a minimum, an acknowledgement of some kind be provided; a "yes", "no", "sold”,” if after I answer all your questions, are you prepared to buy". This is an e-mail based forum, so responding in e-mail is the correct method. If people are not prepared to respond to e-mails (buyers too) don't use this forum. Harsh but frustrating.
luc
jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
I agree, and equally frustrating is taking the time to answer questions then never hearing from the buyer again. A "decided on another piece of gear", or "I'm going to take my time sorting through my options", "found what I wanted for a great price" never hurt anyone either. Works both ways. The tire-kickers are a huge waste of time, never understood why someone would contact you regarding someething you're selling, but not really know enough about the product to make an informed decision, or not have the funds available to buy. I buy stuff I know I want, at a fair price, VERY quickly.
sugarbrie
3,854 posts
 
I agree also. But, I also have a habit of not responding to low-ball offers that are so low, they are laughable at best and insulting at worst. I've had offers of 10% to 20% of list price, for mint/as new items, that sell in a day at 60% to 75% of list.
tubegroover
2,320 posts
 
I feel your frustration Luc but it seems that some Mom and Dad's didn't spend enough time on something so simple as common courtesy with their offspring.
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
No way can we teach everybody common courtesy. Just isn't going to happen. I responded to someone's 'wanted' ad. He had the price he was willing to pay. / I had the product. Next to brand new w/box and manual,offered to throw in a freebe cable and pay the shipping in my response.In his responce to me, I get 5 dumb questions on how it works and with what etc. like he wanted a review.Turns out he read a review I hadn't. Go figure??? Part of doing buisness I guess.
jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
Avguygeorge, happens way too often. I'm selling a Seismic Sink right now, some guy wrote me asking how it compared to Vibraplane. How the hell would I know? Bizarre
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