Less intelligent eBay buyers
I originally titled this “Stupid eBay buyers” but that seems too harsh. I’m sure this lady isn’t stupid, just less intelligent than a lot of people. By the way, there’s no point to this story really, other than to vent.
I put up my old broken laptop on eBay, and it sold on Friday evening. The lady had asked me some questions before the auction ended, which I happily responded to in a timely fashion. When the auction ended, I was enjoying my Friday evening at the Hard Rock Hotel with some friends. When I came home at 5am, I went straight to bed. There’s where my happiness ended.
Prior to falling asleep, my buyer had sent me payment for the laptop, and apparently decided that since I didn’t respond within minutes with a tracking number, that I was pulling a scam to steal her $56. Forget that my eBay account has a 776 feedback rating meaning that I have made at least that many buyers or sellers happy. Over the course of my slumber, she emailed me first, and then proceeded to request my cell phone number from eBay and call me once and text me three times. Each time my phone vibrated and woke me up.
When I finally woke up for the day, I was none too pleased and told her she was way out of line. She wrote back and even agreed! I just don’t get it. Where’s the judgment? It’s not like I’m running an eBay store and have a staff that answers emails 24/7. It’s very clear that I just sell odds and ends. Yet this lady decided that on a Saturday morning, she should have already received a tracking number from me.
The really weird thing is when I got woken up over and over, I somehow knew it was this lady who bought my laptop. How could I possibly know this before waking up and looking at my missed texts? That completely baffles me, but I swear I woke up and knew who was to blame for a shitty night’s sleep.
wheeny said,
August 3, 2009 at 5:21 am
“When I came home at 5am, I went straight to bed.” – see, that’s where your trouble started! What the lady was expecting was that, like any goood christian, you would go to bed when it gets dark, wake up at 4am to feed the chickens, and after that – respond to emails and calls like any normal person does at 5am.
Shame on you.
veerob said,
August 3, 2009 at 5:28 am
See I used to have that schedule, but then I realized hey, I live on a farm, what’s the point of checking emails when I have no Internet access?
But come on… living in Vegas and getting home at 5am? There’s a group of people at Drai’s that were scoffing at how early I called it a night!