Rant against private buyers

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OK se we have a deal.

I have agreed to buy your knife. I should have already asked about the condition and looked at Photographs. After all its my JOB to know what it is I am buying and to have made a adult choice.

I should have the money. If I can not afford the knife why did I engage you in a conversatiion about it in the first place?

Next you should expect a business like E-mail from me. It will go like this:

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Dear Seller,

After looking at your pictures and researching the information about the history and manufacture of your knife I have determined that the price we talked about $xxx.xx dollars is acceptable.

Therefore I will buy your knife. Let me recap the terms of the purchase as I understand them:


The price of the knife includes priority mail shipping, I would like to upgrade to Express mail and will include another 20 dollars makeing the total payment $xxx.xx dollars.

The money will arrive in the form of a postal money order and is going out
with this mail carrier xxxxxxxxxxx using 2nd day air. Expect arrival of the check on xx/xx/2005. Please make sure someone is at your address to accept the package. ( Insert tracking number here if possible)


My shipping address is:


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If there is any problem please contact me right away. I will notify you when the knife arrives.

Thank you

Mr Buyer.
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Now I need to follow through and do EXACTLY as I said I would. If something happens I OWE IT TO THE SELLER to let them know RIGHT AWAY.

None of this is difficult and I should have all this worked out PRIOR to making a offer to buy.

I pleadge to always adhere to this standard going forward.
 
Yes I did...... Been on the Internet a VERY long time and there was a period of time that did not value the "community" a great deal.

I have learned a lot since then.
 
I have this old record, a fairly fairyish musical it is. The Music Man!


anyways, it's scratched and keeps skipping. The darn thing keeps repeating the same thing over and over.

"you know you got TROUBLE, right here in......screech, you know you got TROUBLE, right here in...screech...you know you got TROUBLE..."

well, you get the idea.

hey bigjim, seeing as how this thread is just a tangent off of another thread of yours and seems to indicate that you have serious problems with private sellers and buyers both.... I have a suggestion:

BUY RETAIL!
 
I think we should all feel bigjim's pain. Ouch. There. I'm over it now let's move along. Nothing to see here, Oh, wait! I do have a word or two to say about RETAILERS!! Just the other day I was trying to purchase a Fitch bowie at Stal-Mart and I got this 16 year-old sporting-goods kid and he gave me this glassy-eyed look........nevermind. I don't want to bore anyone with MY PROBLEMS!! :yawn:
 
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