Tuesday morning crazy

[peach]

So I bought that cricut machine from a lady through a local Facebook swap/sell site. I asked her a bunch of questions over Facebook including "do you have cartridges" and she said yes.

When I picked up she was an older lady and lived in a trailer park. As I was like halfway out the door I said "oh the cartridge?" And she said that her daughter took them all. I said "oh. Well there should be the cartridge that comes with the machine when you buy it." And she acted dumb and said that she didn't know about it and her daughter had them, she didn't really know how to use the machine really and bla bla.

I felt bad squeezing an old lady for a cartridge so I just mumbled and left.. I was totally kicking myself and yelling at myself inside.

So as soon as I get home I Facebook her and say that I can see I our messages she did claim to have cartridges when I agreed to purchase so I would like her to get the starter one back from her daughter and give it to me.

She sees the message and ignores me. Two days later I send her another one. She responds back "thanks for being so impatient I work. I called customs today and they said it will be $20 to get the cartridge shipped back. Now since I have you a steal of a deal on the machine I will be charging you the cost of getting it sent back"

I had no idea the daughter disnt live here. So I just said whatever, I am not paying squat and I am done with you.

The group admin tried to contact her and she left the group. She sent me a message complaining that I "was making a big deal" out of it. I just ignored her.

I can use the machine by hooking it up to my computer and I can buy cartridges that way, and there is lots of free stuff. I have used it and I am happy with it and I learned a hard lesson about standing up for myself,

This morning at the crack of dawn I get a message. She said "the package came yesterday. I will be nice and split the cost with you and if you pay me $10 you can have the cartridge."

W. T. F.

[peach]

And today she is selling cricut cartridges on another local buy and sell site.

[mrsemilys]

Oooooo, I would be pissed. Sorry you're dealing with this.

[peach]

I am not sure whether to ignore or give her a piece of my mind

[emoflamingo]

I hate those buy and sell groups for the assholes. I tried it and people flaked, so I quit.

[adhdfashion]

I use one of those fb sites. I method for sorting out the good from the bad. I go to their profile and look through post pics. If the don't have a pic from the last 4 major events, I buy from someone else. Example, 4th of July, First day of school, and Pumpkin patch. It seems to work really well. For me it's proof. That they have their ducks in a row.

[peach]

That makes No sense to me. I don't post pictures on Facebook and I have bought and sold 100s of things. I am always on time, always ahow up when I say and I sell my stuff for cheap and in good condition. Whether I choose to share pictures on Facebook has nothing to do with what kind of a person I am.

[peach]

This is the first time I have been burned and I have bought tons of stuff so I guess I am doing good overall.

[adhdfashion]

My reasoning is... If they can't mange snap a pic on their cell phone, of their kids first day of school. What are the chances of them showing up at the Starbucks by Target on time? I'm going with slim.

[peach]

I take lots of photos but choose to keep my kids private aside from an occasional photo for far away family. Just because I don't share every precious family moment with the world doesn't mean I am too lazy to take pictures.

[Deleted]

That sucks. People are so weird. This is why I can't get into CL or the like. I just don't have the patience for people most of the time.

Hindsight is 20/20 and all that I know but I think I would've a) left it there and said, "Hey, when the cartridges come, let me know, I'll come back and get it all then as the ad promised." b) asked for a decent discount.

[susieq]

I would probably respond with the fact that the cartridges were supposed to be included with the machine and unless she is willing to honor that original agreement you are not interested in hearing from her again.

I also dont post a lot of pics of my kids / life online. I dont have a phone that connects to the internet and really dont want a lot of pics of my kids online. However if you look at my monthly photo folders on my desktop I take tons of pics of them.

[sierramist03]

I get so frustrated with those fb swap pages. People don't show or they are 30 minutes late and they always low ball me on prices. Now our local one has a no designer purses (which is about all sell) rule so I've kinda given up.

[heygrey]

Oct 8, 2013 12:06:18 GMT -5 adhdfashion said:

My reasoning is... If they can't mange snap a pic on their cell phone, of their kids first day of school. What are the chances of them showing up at the Starbucks by Target on time? I'm going with slim.

this is seriously the weirdest logic i have ever heard. 

i have my ducks in a row better than the vast majority of people i encounter, but i don't post them on facebook. and not being into facebook somehow makes me unreliable?