venturing into buggy land....

[JThiessen]

This turned into an interesting story about a young feller not understanding some of the basics of buying and selling. He had told me (via email) to come by prior to 6:30pm the first evening. I responded and asked for his address and if he could please call me back. At about 6:15 he finally sent an email back with his address. He lived about an hour away (in traffic), thus, I couldnt make it. He then told me to come by tomorrow (which would have been Saturday), and he'd let me know when. Well, Sunday morning I finally got another email from him, and I responded that I'd like to come by in about an hour, but I had some things to line up first - so could he please give me a call. I didnt hear anything back from him, so by the time I got over there, I was about a half hour later than "in an hour or so". He wasnt there, but his mother answered the door (didn't know anything about it). She called him, and in a few minutes, brought out this old backpack and said it was in there. It took a few minutes to extract it from the back pack, as it was all tangled up in this clothsline cord, and was covered from front to back with nitro grim, dirt and leaves. Basically a completely unmaintained pile of who knows what. I told his mom that I really couldnt justify spending the money on something in that condition and left.
Later that night I get this email from him, he was all indignant over why I didn't buy it. I tried to explain to him (somewhat patiently) how if he wanted to sell something, he needed to actually put a little effort into it (clean up the car, phone calls, actually take the time to meet me, etc). Hopefully he learned something.

So I'm back in the market.....patiently!