More annoyances on the classifieds

[Bluejen]

My favourite ads are..

Title Snake for sale

Ad: Snake for sale, Pm for details and pics

Or

Open to offers = no less than a tenner off asking price

[jaysonc3]

I have had 3 let downs on the classified recently where I have been asked to keep something back for some one and mailed them on the arranged date and have been ignored when I know they have been online since, That is so annoying if someone changes their mind on something why not have the decency to let you know?

[amyloveys]

i know this is off topic but those cays are gorgeous!

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by darwengray

5 i`m going to repeat this one again and again ,do you deliver i don`t drive !!!

does owning reps preclude people from passing the driving test? perhaps if they spent less on snakes they could afford some driving lessons.Am i harsh ...probably ,i don`t care ,get yourself some wheels and stop relying on loser cruisers as the yanks say( thats buses )

Hey, I've got a perfectly good driver's licence and I passed my test on the first go, both theory and practical. OK, it expired in 2006 AND it's for a different country (incidentally, I never heard buses being called "loser cruisers" in New Mexico, it must be a dialect thing). Oh yeah, and I never learned to drive a stick shift. Why bother when there are perfectly good automatic transmissions?

What I don't have is a metric asston of money to spend on:
A car
Insurance
Road tax
MOTs
Servicing
Petrol

It's a lot more money to spend per year than the £700 per year I spend on a Metro bus pass. Heck, even if you consider BOTH of our bus passes - £1400 a year - we'd still spend more than that on a car... and then only ONE of us could drive to work anyhow seeing as we work quite a long way apart. We'd still have to buy one yearly bus pass.

Oh yeah, and I'd rather spend the petrol money on snakes.

Nope, sorry, I still need people who are either willing to collect/deliver to Huddersfield (for petrol money, of course!) OR people who are willing to meet me partway (again, for petrol money!)

My personal classifieds irritations are:

1. Titles lacking in vital descriptive details. Don't just say "LOOK: Albino!" What is it? Where is it? Are you selling it or buying it? What's wrong with FOR SALE: Albino Boa in Lancashire or WANTED: Albino Leopard Gecko in London ? Gives everyone the information they need, people who are interested will click on your thread. I quite simply don't click on classifieds that don't give that information unless I'm bored out of my skull.

2. People asking for "offers" without giving some sort of guideline price. I like "£X or near offer". I might know what *I* value a given thing at; I might know what it would cost to buy one in a shop; I might even know what they cost if you're buying one at a show... but I don't know what magic number you've got in your head that will secure me a snake I really want. Tell me that number on an animal I want and I'll send you the money - but if I have to ask the price, I tend to figure either I can't afford the animal or the seller doesn't REALLY want to sell to me.

3. People making offers as though their offer is "doing you a favour" because you won't get a better offer. Well, if I HAVE to sell right now, fair enough... but if I've stated in my ad that I'm in no rush to sell, I obviously have the space to keep them until someone who isn't slightly offensive contacts me about 'em - even if they wind up offering me less!

[Graylord]

Originally Posted by Ssthisto

Hey, I've got a perfectly good driver's licence and I passed my test on the first go, both theory and practical. OK, it expired in 2006 AND it's for a different country (incidentally, I never heard buses being called "loser cruisers" in New Mexico, it must be a dialect thing). Oh yeah, and I never learned to drive a stick shift. Why bother when there are perfectly good automatic transmissions?

What I don't have is a metric asston of money to spend on:
A car
Insurance
Road tax
MOTs
Servicing
Petrol

It's a lot more money to spend per year than the £700 per year I spend on a Metro bus pass. Heck, even if you consider BOTH of our bus passes - £1400 a year - we'd still spend more than that on a car... and then only ONE of us could drive to work anyhow seeing as we work quite a long way apart. We'd still have to buy one yearly bus pass.

Oh yeah, and I'd rather spend the petrol money on snakes.

Nope, sorry, I still need people who are either willing to collect/deliver to Huddersfield (for petrol money, of course!) OR people who are willing to meet me partway (again, for petrol money!)

My personal classifieds irritations are:

1. Titles lacking in vital descriptive details. Don't just say "LOOK: Albino!" What is it? Where is it? Are you selling it or buying it? What's wrong with FOR SALE: Albino Boa in Lancashire or WANTED: Albino Leopard Gecko in London ? Gives everyone the information they need, people who are interested will click on your thread. I quite simply don't click on classifieds that don't give that information unless I'm bored out of my skull.

2. People asking for "offers" without giving some sort of guideline price. I like "£X or near offer". I might know what *I* value a given thing at; I might know what it would cost to buy one in a shop; I might even know what they cost if you're buying one at a show... but I don't know what magic number you've got in your head that will secure me a snake I really want. Tell me that number on an animal I want and I'll send you the money - but if I have to ask the price, I tend to figure either I can't afford the animal or the seller doesn't REALLY want to sell to me.

3. People making offers as though their offer is "doing you a favour" because you won't get a better offer. Well, if I HAVE to sell right now, fair enough... but if I've stated in my ad that I'm in no rush to sell, I obviously have the space to keep them until someone who isn't slightly offensive contacts me about 'em - even if they wind up offering me less!

You make some good points but it`s not all about economics it`s about freedom of movement just think what more opportunities you would have on the snake buying front if you were properly mobile.

[miss_rawr]

when someone outs

snake now sold

and the next post reads
Pm'd you so want this snake!!!!!!!
or
is this still available i can pick up tomorrow!!!

[Mrs dirtydozen]

another forum iam on is strictly against adds without a price, if you put offers it gets deleted and for those selling things that they really dont have a clue what to sell it for their is a sticky thread where you can put up a pic and description of what it is your selling and people will tell you what it is worth so then you put up a thread with a price
would that work on here

[Zoexxx]

The ones I hate are where the seller keeps bumping their ad up with

"Someone must want this little guy"

Errr - why ? - you obviously don't want it so why MUST someone else ??

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by darwengray

You make some good points but it`s not all about economics it`s about freedom of movement just think what more opportunities you would have on the snake buying front if you were properly mobile.

I've never found a snake that I REALLY wanted that couldn't get to me in one way or another. If it's something I can't go collect and they can't bring it to me, but it's that one absolute perfect animal, there are couriers who carry animals and although it adds onto the price of the animal, if it's THE right animal it's worth spending the money. It also acts as "censorship" for a purchase - do I REALLY want to spend £100 on train fare to go get a £20 snake? No? Then I obviously didn't want that snake THAT much.

Not owning a car really IS all about economics. If you can tell me how we can buy and run two cars (since we'd need two cars just for getting to work, otherwise we are still buying one bus pass - oh yeah, my partner DOES need driving lessons and to pass his test; I probably need a refresher lesson or two, and ideally should learn to drive standard) on less than £1400 a year, then I'll look into having a car. Otherwise, I'll stick to being green and using public transport.