Sold something on Kijiji today and wanted to get your guys thoughts on it.... Scheduled a meet up at 2 PM today. Never responded back to me until an hour later and told me they’ll be on their way which was around 3 PM then. I said cool. Got to the meet up location and they told me they were at a different location after providing them the address/intersection and everything. I figure how can someone go to the wrong location if you have a GPS, right? Anyways, they eventually found their way to the location and I gave them the item. He told me he was $10 short because he had to fill his car. I would’ve just left after they went to the wrong location and didn’t meet as scheduled but I said that’s fine because I’m not going to argue over $10.
After I left he calls me the phone can’t connect to the public wifi at a restaurant or his hotspot because of activation error when just before I left my house I tested everything and it worked perfectly fine on my end. My thing is once I hand over the item it’s not my problem anymore and the customer has to deal with it. Told them to go home and try connecting to a laptop or computer and they told me they don’t have a computer. I understand not everyone can afford a laptop/computer but if you have the means to purchase a phone I would assume one would have a laptop/PC?
Im just ignoring their call now since they went to the wrong location, arrived late, and didn’t pay the full amount. Thoughts on this?
I've sold a few through Kijiji and this story about the GPS and location sounds like a pretty entertaining experience I had too. I usually tell them to ping me 30-60 min before arriving to the location and I live only 5-7 min away and always just wait it out so I don't drive out for nothing. I've stopped travelling too far to meet up due to weird people with excuses and blah.
The funniest one was someone...
- Established a location and intersection a few days out
- Confirmed the day before on the time and intersection again
- On the day of, they said they were on the way and had GPS. Said they weren't sure so send them the actual address (1 hour before scheduled time)
- Then they confirmed in GPS it was about 45 min drive since they lived in Brampton? Or Sauga or somewhere which seemed reasonable.
- 30-40 minutes later they said they think they are lost, don't know it was this far and ran out of gas. They will go get gas and turn back.....
Reminds me back in the day when I traveled and used those physical maps in the book format flipping through pages to figure out the route. Don't understand how people can't get GPS to work... Imagine people with physical maps, wonder how bad it would be.
I always confirm price and product before the meetup. If they don't have enough money then, i'm heading home.
Yes sketchy people... block him, never talk to him, don't feel bad. It is their fault if they are a legit buyer but all flags point to him trying to scam ya.
Last time I sold a phone, the buyer was so paranoid they met at a Bell store, wrote a legal contract and had me sign it. They asked the Bell employee to be witness and sign but they were like, "yo, I just work at Bell, I am not signing anything". Pretty funny but hey, as a seller I understand, do what you need to do to verify since its the buyer's responsibility. Once its handed over, the product is yours and I ain't a store. No refunds.
Quite entertaining sometimes.... luckily I am a patient person and my products are legit so nothing to hide.
Cheers