Annoying timewasters!!!!!!!!!!!

[bosc888]

Does anyone else find it annoying when someone says they're going to buy something & then no further contact, why waste peoples time??????????

[Pincers n Paws]

I think most are just dreamers mate, though this is still no excuse for wasting peoples time. Think its always better to advertise with a picture too, stops the pic hunters harrassing you.

[Tops]

yeah all the time.
Best thing is to ask for a deposit especially if your delivering.
Half the time you dont hear anything from them again and the ones who give you a deposit get the snakes.
Nice and easy

[pebbles]

Originally Posted by bosc888

Does anyone else find it annoying when someone says they're going to buy something & then no further contact, why waste peoples time??????????

totally agree with you

[Phaedra]

I think a lot of people get really excited and want to hurry and "claim" it before anyone else can. Then they calm down and realise that they don't actually have the money/space/whatever and get the old "buyer's remorse".

That's why if I reply to an ad I always say how likely it is that I'll actually be able to come through, and if there are potential issues I always tell the person to keep their ad open and let it go to someone else if they can act sooner. As an eBay seller I know how annoying it is when somebody buys something on impulse then rather than come clean, just stop replying to my messages. GRR!

[Torres13]

Glad somebody made a thread about this. I was thinking we should make a sticky or something in general herp and have a list of people who have wasted time or scammers or just generaly had a bad experience with!

[vikki_john]

A friend of mine who works in a shop part time was telling me about this he calls them T.T.W or typical time wasters lol.

[spider_mad]

Originally Posted by Torres13

Glad somebody made a thread about this. I was thinking we should make a sticky or something in general herp and have a list of people who have wasted time or scammers or just generaly had a bad experience with!

There is a sticky on the classifieds (well there was before it was all segregated as it is now) and there are rules to the classifieds for the buyers and even sellers. I never get why there are people that purley want pictures of the snakes what's the point. If i am going to buy something or something catches my eye im always honest and will say id like it but wont have X money for X amount of days/weeks and if its still available im interested but if its gone no hassle. There are a lot of impulses tbh.

[kennedykrew]

Originally Posted by Phaedra

I think a lot of people get really excited and want to hurry and "claim" it before anyone else can. Then they calm down and realise that they don't actually have the money/space/whatever and get the old "buyer's remorse".

That's why if I reply to an ad I always say how likely it is that I'll actually be able to come through, and if there are potential issues I always tell the person to keep their ad open and let it go to someone else if they can act sooner. As an eBay seller I know how annoying it is when somebody buys something on impulse then rather than come clean, just stop replying to my messages. GRR!

Got it in a nutshell!!!! i have been let down quite often ... you get used to it unfortunately.
TBH i have let someone down once and i felt like sh*t after.... only once but i let them know .... none of this not turning up lark.
Its a hard life selling when stuff like that happens though.

[Torres13]

I imagine if a thread was made which was open to anybody to post it would get quite heated so there is no good way of doing it really!
Some people just want everything, which is fair enough if your going to be everything but if your not why bother wasting peoples time and efforts?
Another thing which annoys me is when you make a thread selling something and somebody repiles saying, if i lived closer or if I had the money I would! I personally get excited when somebody repiles to my thread and when I see an answer like that it just dissapoints me!