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Stylish Dinosaur
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- Aug 15, 2008
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Holy ****. Facebook Marketplace people really ******* blow. "Okay let's meet at the Starbucks" and then never ******* show. Then I get a message, "Hey can you meet me at my house?"--on the other end of ******* town? I'm not a delivery service, you come to me.
I'm glad I'm a big dude who lives in a building with a public lobby (doorman, security camera, etc.)
I never feel any risk selling crap or having people know where I live or meeting people alone. Its not like I am asking you to come look at something in my garage while you secretly case the place. You call when you arrive, I come down with the item, you look at it, we transact.
I also take a pretty hardline "first person here gets it" approach most of the time. I won't hold it for you, and I will tell you straight up that if you want to come tomorrow but someone else can come tonight...they get it. Most I will do is say "text me when you are on your way" and I'll stop responding to messages until they've had time to arrive and look at it.
I've bought a few things from people who live in houses in the suburbs and its always this game of "lets meet at this mcdonalds"...I'm sure they live right around the corner, but I'd be too lazy for that ****...anything not high-dollar is just going to the thrift store.