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
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.
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.
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.
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
I agree with all of the above. I will admit though, that I was taken by surprise, by the volume of email that an add can generate. I try to reply to all inquiries. Serious, lowball, screwball, repeat, you name it. But I'll admit that I'm not perfect and I may miss a few. As a buyer, I'll send a 2nd email if my first one isn't answered. If I don't get a reply, I just move on.