Recently I listed a bunch of stuff including re-listing Steve’s expensive tires for sale. I tell you what, I know that craigslist is basically like a classified ads but, dang, people just don’t have any manners. I can’t tell you how many people have tried to get his expensive tires for next to nothing.

One guy even emailed this: “let me know when you drop the price 400.00. no offence.”
I had a good LOL session with that one. Steve’s asking about $700 for nearly-new off-road tires that are worth $800.

He’s had countless people email and try to talk him down, saying they just want the tires and not the wheels. Not only are the wheels not worth much by themselves, but it would be a pain in the butt, from what I understand, to separate the two and these people are trying to talk him down to half price by saying they don’t want the wheels.

Then there was the guy who was apparently surfing craigslist on his phone and emailed via text message on his phone. All he said was something like if you still have the tires call xxx-xxx-xxxx. Steve didn’t have a chance to call so the guy sent it again after two or three days. After about another week I emailed the guy’s phone telling him to go ahead and call Steve at his convenience to which he replied with the same canned message to call him. It’s like, what the heck? Steve finally got a chance to call him the next day and the guy actually wanted to trade an old truck that could never be street-legal for the tires. I mean, dude, if you want to trade that, just say so the first time and we’ll tell you straight up: NO WAY.

And speaking of trading, we’ve listed the tires for sale not for trade yet he keeps getting all sorts of off-the-wall trade requests. One guy wanted to trade a dune buggy for them.

Oh, but yes, I got a response about my SLR that’s still for sale. It’s the same old, “if you still have it, please call me,” response. We all know how much I hate those. The beauty of the internet is that we have a little thing called E-MAIL. There’s a reason I don’t put my phone number on the ads and that we’re trying to use craigslist and not the newspaper classifieds. What could he possibly want to say to me that he can’t say in email? I think I’m just going to reply that I’m sorry but I’m sick right now, can’t we just talk over email? It sounds lame but it’s completely true. I feel like crap, I woke up this morning with another sinus infection and I’ve been throwing up, etc. I most certainly don’t want to talk to anyone. Right now I don’t even feel like dealing with Christmas stuff this week. Bah.

I guess I just get tired of people who can’t seem to read things or be bothered to have common courtesy. I guess they think “there’s no harm in asking” but sheesh, THINK before you ask and at least try to offer something the seller might actually consider, heh.

And here’s another unrelated gripe. ATT/Yahoo keeps emailing me telling me to change my email program to use SSL for downloading and sending mail or I won’t be able to continue to use POP3. They said, “Since multiple email notifications have already been sent out about this, we request that you please make the necessary changes immediately. Remember, you need to make these changes if you want to continue to send/receive email using a mail client.” So I go into my email settings and I’ve already done these changes they want. So why the constant threats!?

And then, I go to email them and say I’ve already done this, so what’s the deal and I get the message that the “email us” support method is no longer available for DSL customers, that I HAVE to chat with them or call them. What the heck!? WHY ever not!???