Do buyers have no shame anymore?
I've had this older boombox with a bad tape player for sale on marketplace for a long time, I had it up for $50 a guy said all he had was $40 for it. I didn't really wanna sell it for $40 since I bought stuff to convert these to bluetooth, but I just told him I would do $40 if he could come today. We agreed to meet at 7 earlier, I messaged him at 6:55 that I'm headed down to the police station and I would see him there in a few minutes. "Oh I did not realize you are 1 hour, you wait for me I'm on my way." I ask where he's coming from and he's only coming from a town like slightly over a half hour away from me, direct shot down the interstate and not at all an hour away.
At this point I'm already annoyed, I was gonna go out to eat with my family and instead we opted to stay home so I could sell this boombox to him. An hour comes and goes, I eat dinner, I take a quick catnap for like a half hour, I shoot him a message and ask if he is still coming since I woke up and didn't see a message, it is 8:30 now mind you, nice and almost dark out, I hate selling stuff when it's dark out since the buyers cannot properly inspect their items.
"Oh I'm on my way lots of traffic GPS says 27 minutes." I tell him to message me when he is 10 minutes away and I'll be there. Now it is 9:10, supposedly 10 minutes away, he doesn't pull into the parking lot until 9:30. I get out of my car to greet him, he says "so is everything working good?" "Everything except the tape drive." I replied. "I want to test this before I buy it." "Unless you have an outlet in your truck that's not gonna be possible, you're gonna just have to trust me on this one my man."
"Oh ok." He opens his wallet at this point, "I only have $38 is ok I will buy it." Beyond annoyed I went told him, "Come on man, you already got a $10 discount, I put my night on hold and wasted 2 and a half hours waiting for you, there is a Wawa (pointing) 2 minutes down the street from here with a free ATM. If you do not have $40 and cannot get $40 I will put this back in my car and go home, we agreed on $40 already and you said all you had was $40." Might I add this guy pulled up in a High Country pickup truck with big wheels on it, he wasn't broke.
I shit you not he literally went into the other compartment of his wallet and magically found a $2 bill to make $40, "oh I really don't want to spend this." "Then you should have brought 2 more dollars, you made an offer and agreed to bring me a certain amount of money that was lower than I was asking, wasted my time, and then acted like you came up short, that's so disrespectful towards me." Never blocked a buyer so fast in my life after leaving, the nerve of some people is insane. Idk why I even attempt to deal with these people making offers like this, I don't think $40 was an unfair offer at all, but the nerve to make an offer, dilly dally all evening till it's pitch black and spitting rain, then act like you don't have as much as we agreed upon is nutso. I can't believe people like this actually exist, like you read all the posts here about people being rude inconsiderate dickheads and showing up with less than what's agreed upon, I've sold hundreds of items and never had it happen until tonight. Like yeah it's only $2, but it's about the principal