What do you think about this ?


Do you think this member deserves a negative feedback ?

I've an add running to sell some speaker cable and this one member emailed me the first day I put the ad saying, I'll but right now if you accept my offer, I accept and emailed back to him and did not get any reply.
I got a new email from him today after 15 days saying , I'll but the cables if you accept this price, I accept and email back to him and I don't get a reply at all.

How do I stop this nonsense ? Should I leave a negative feedback ? Appreciate your opinion.
rkmca

Showing 2 responses by trelja

It's an ugly situation to be sure. There are hard feelings. I don't deny any of this.

Yet, it still does not fall into what warrants feedback being left. Viridian is 100% right. I realize that you are sore, but you need to get past this at some point.

As Viridian also points out, this is some of the BS that we face here on the internet. If you are sensitive to the point where it drives you to this level of distraction, maybe you should evaluate whether you really have inside of you what it takes to play in this arena.

We have all been in bad situations as either buyers or sellers. I could tell more than a few stories myself. Let's face facts, this isn't a perfect world.

Let's also realize what would happen if you threw a neutral or negative his way. Don't you think he would reciprocate in kind? Do you really want that? How would you feel after all of what you went through to have negative feedback on top of it all? After all, you are the victim in this situation.

If you feel so strongly about it, may I suggest you out the guy right here in this thread.
According to your post, he never said he would "buy" your cable, he only said he would "but" it. And, he said it twice.

Reminds me of Woody Allen in "Take The Money And Run" where he tries to hold up the bank...

Hey, for all we know, he may just have butted it.

Seriously though, when you sell gear, you are going to see all kinds. ALL KINDS!

I agree that feedback is only applicable to a deal which has more or less gone through. In this case, I don't believe it is within your rights to leave feedback. Instead, doing what you have done, starting a thread, is more appropriate.

My advice is to vent here and move on. Move on from this pseudo buyer. While it has been suggested that he may not be getting your e-mails, the means in which it happened twice makes him look like a clown. I believe if the fault did not lie in his lap, and he did not receive your reply, he would have sent additional correspondence asking you why you didn't respond or what was going on with the deal. Instead, he shows up again just like the first time, as if nothing happened.

Keep repeating the saying, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."