I had the reverse happen to me last October. I corresponded by email with a fellow about a boat and made arrangements to meet him to look at it on Saturday. My younger son and I drove 150 miles to meet him and he did not show up. Repeated calls to a cell # he had given me did not elicit a response.
Got back home and on Monday, found he had sent me an email late on Friday advising he had sold it to someone who agreed to pay his price without seeing the boat. My own fault I guess as I had not given him a phone #. The only means of contacting me was the email and he did send me a message. However, it was my office email and not my home email and as such I did not get it in a timely manner. Randy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Walt Zarnoch Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:55 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] craigslist Ernest, I've been in that situation as well. When I bought my truck, I fired off an email, we fired email back and forth, got the guys number, called, we talked, I agreed to make the ~ hour drive to see the truck, got there, he said someone local offered to buy it and he told em to wait since I was coming up. He also said I was the only one who actually followed up after he fired an email back. Walt On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:55 AM, ernest breakfield <[email protected]> wrote: > there are *so* many possibilities,... first of all, keep in mind that we're > talking about a service that's free, and then think about those people you > see standing in line on Sale Days that you never see anywhere else. ;-* > > firstly, it may already have been sold, or they think they already have it > sold. (can't expect people to pull down an ad they know will expire > automatically, even if we think they should.) i know i've been first in line > to items off of CL, and when i got there the seller already had a stack of > e-mails from other people he hadn't responded to because he knew i was on > the way,... > > or, they may have had enough response they decided they weren't asking > enough for it, and/or decided to keep it. ;-) > > > cheers! > e > > > On 28/Jun/10 19:29, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: >> >> well you have a car listed, you send email wanting to look at it this >> weekend, never get a response. Stupid people. >> >> Walt Zarnoch wrote: >>> >>> Because they think you'll say "I'll give you twice your asking price for >>> your POS, what's your address to send the check to?" When you don't, they >>> don't respond :p >>> >>> Walt >>> >>> On Jun 28, 2010 10:20 PM, "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> why do people run ads on craigslist then never respond to emails? >>> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
