Odd happenings of the day
So...
Last night I posted on Craig's List my broken iPod...the one that has been broken since like February. Someone responded in like two 2 hours saying they wanted to buy it for $50--awesome. Within 24 hours I had 2 more people email me about it wanting to buy it, but I had already agreed to sell it to the one guy. Well--that one guy turned out to be a creep. He contacted me via AIM about purchasing it and getting me the money via Paypal (which I ended up losing $2 for, but whatever). When I asked him when he wanted to pick it up he goes "well I was thinking 12 pm, but maybe I could come by around 4:30 that way we could hang out." WTF?! So I said no, that I was leaving this afternoon to see my bf in NY. He laughed and said "Fair enough." He said he was from out of town but that he had to come to Target anyway so it wasn't out of the way. In the meantime though, he kept trying to talk to me about DC and how he used to "hang out there all the time." He also made wild claims that University of Toledo BRIBED him to come there for law school blah blah blah. Whatever, I'm not interested leave me the fuck alone and transfer my fucking money.
Today he tells me he's going to come pick it up in 20 minutes (which turned out to be about an hour later). In the meantime I went over to pick up the iPod and IT WAS WORKING! So I couldn't call him because I didn't have his phone number so I sent him an email. A few minutes later he called me and said first thing "How's the weather up there in Holland?" Clearly he was not in or anywhere near Holland if he was asking this question. I told him that apparently he hadn't received my email, but that it mysteriously started working and that I'm not selling a working iPod for $50. He started getting all weird trying to tell me what the problem is and I just said I'm not willing to buy it as a working iPod or I can refund his money or whatever he would like. He wanted me to give him $10 for his trouble blah blah and I'm like here's the deal--if it stops working I'll get it to you myself--you wouldn't have lost anything and I get to see if it works. If it doesn't I'll refund you $55, $5 more than you paid for your trouble. He was all huffing and puffing talking about how getting through all the rain was so mentally distressing for him--give me a fucking break. I told him: you're not even here in the first place, and you said originally that you were going to try and sell it NOT use it to go to Chicago like you're claiming so I'm not gonna lose sleep over it.
About 2 hours after I get off the phone with him it breaks again. But really, I'm not all that upset. Frankly, I'd rather pay the $2.50 to ship it parcel post than to actually have to meet this creep. Why are people freaks?
Last night I posted on Craig's List my broken iPod...the one that has been broken since like February. Someone responded in like two 2 hours saying they wanted to buy it for $50--awesome. Within 24 hours I had 2 more people email me about it wanting to buy it, but I had already agreed to sell it to the one guy. Well--that one guy turned out to be a creep. He contacted me via AIM about purchasing it and getting me the money via Paypal (which I ended up losing $2 for, but whatever). When I asked him when he wanted to pick it up he goes "well I was thinking 12 pm, but maybe I could come by around 4:30 that way we could hang out." WTF?! So I said no, that I was leaving this afternoon to see my bf in NY. He laughed and said "Fair enough." He said he was from out of town but that he had to come to Target anyway so it wasn't out of the way. In the meantime though, he kept trying to talk to me about DC and how he used to "hang out there all the time." He also made wild claims that University of Toledo BRIBED him to come there for law school blah blah blah. Whatever, I'm not interested leave me the fuck alone and transfer my fucking money.
Today he tells me he's going to come pick it up in 20 minutes (which turned out to be about an hour later). In the meantime I went over to pick up the iPod and IT WAS WORKING! So I couldn't call him because I didn't have his phone number so I sent him an email. A few minutes later he called me and said first thing "How's the weather up there in Holland?" Clearly he was not in or anywhere near Holland if he was asking this question. I told him that apparently he hadn't received my email, but that it mysteriously started working and that I'm not selling a working iPod for $50. He started getting all weird trying to tell me what the problem is and I just said I'm not willing to buy it as a working iPod or I can refund his money or whatever he would like. He wanted me to give him $10 for his trouble blah blah and I'm like here's the deal--if it stops working I'll get it to you myself--you wouldn't have lost anything and I get to see if it works. If it doesn't I'll refund you $55, $5 more than you paid for your trouble. He was all huffing and puffing talking about how getting through all the rain was so mentally distressing for him--give me a fucking break. I told him: you're not even here in the first place, and you said originally that you were going to try and sell it NOT use it to go to Chicago like you're claiming so I'm not gonna lose sleep over it.
About 2 hours after I get off the phone with him it breaks again. But really, I'm not all that upset. Frankly, I'd rather pay the $2.50 to ship it parcel post than to actually have to meet this creep. Why are people freaks?