RC Pet Peeve

[magdelan]

When someone is selling equiptment and someone asks for pictures. I understand that there can be variables to an item, however, an apple is an apple and an orange is an orange no matter how you slice it. IE: For sale, Maxi Jet 600. Some goofball will inevitably post to your thread with one word... "pics?". You don't always need a picture!

Thanks for letting me get that out.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

 

[EllieSuz]

Okay, so while we're on the subject, my related pet peeve is when Sellers don't list a location in their title. Why do they make me open the thread to find out they are selling that sump in Jakarta?

 

[tmz]

Folks who tell others what to do even when no one ask them. This is worse when opinions are presented as facts and sometimes the argument is drenched in nonsense posing as science. For example: "Don't waste your money on that ;do it my way and your tank will do great with improved stoichemical balance and warmer water, it will improve homeostasis too.".

 

[cardiffgiant]

haha, I don't think that the people that have asked for pics of equip that I was selling have ever bought it. The point about thread locations is a good one. I always put the location in my sale threads.

 

[dfjr1981]

"I'll take it, oh by the way, can you deliver??"

"I'll take it, oh by the way, can you deliver??"

My pet peave would be when someone responds to a sale thread and asks the seller to deliver to a different city. Gas is $4 a gallon, "Sure, I'll load up the tank I'm selling in Buffalo and bring it to Syracuse".

 

[albano]

You don't always need a picture!

Maybe not...but a pic. of a 'nice, CLEAN' piece of equipment will certainly help!

 

[magdelan]

Someone told me that they were form New Jersey and then asked me to meet them half way. It was around 315 miles to the guys house. I get about 320 miles per tank of gas. It costs me $70 to fill'er up. So that would be a $70 round trip for me PLUS my time, when I can ship it for $25. I definately lol'ed for a couple minutes before politely responding.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

what the heck!

what the heck!

my pet peeve happens when family members visiting for Easter tell me to log off RC :furious:



j/k of course

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Folks who tell others what to do even when no one ask them. This is worse when opinions are presented as facts and sometimes the argument is drenched in nonsense posing as science. For example: "Don't waste your money on that ;do it my way and your tank will do great with improved stoichemical balance and warmer water, it will improve homeostasis too.".

that sounds a lot like me

that's why it's good to have you around, Tom

 

[cardiffgiant]

My pet peave would be when someone responds to a sale thread and asks the seller to deliver to a different city. Gas is $4 a gallon, "Sure, I'll load up the tank I'm selling in Buffalo and bring it to Syracuse".

Awesome. I've had the following happen to me;
-A guy offered me $5 to cover shipping for $10 worth of corals. I said thhat we might be able to work something out if he bought a bit more "no thanks"
-Someone tried to buy a pump that I had on the main forum, also saw my local frag list, and asked me to throw in 4 corals. He then acted like I was trying to rip him off when I agreed to throw them in if he covered shipping.
-A guy spent a week and 20 PM's trying to talk me down on a huge package of corals, then sent a PM on the morning that he's supposed to come over literally saying "fyi i changed my mind". At least he let me know.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

how 'bout dredging up a 'for sale' thread that's 5 years old?

worse yet- folks battling for equipment that was sold 5 years ago!

:uzi: :wildone:



let it all out folks... we wouldn't want Mike to feel alone!

 

[diverdick]

Folks who tell others what to do even when no one ask them. This is worse when opinions are presented as facts and sometimes the argument is drenched in nonsense posing as science. For example: "Don't waste your money on that ;do it my way and your tank will do great with improved stoichemical balance and warmer water, it will improve homeostasis too.".

Awesome Tom!

 

[Jacwil]

Bumping f/s threads every 20 mins, when it hasn't even made it halfway down the page.

Asking questions that a 3 sec. search would find the answer to.

 

[Capt_Cully]

Gotta love the "can you hold it until....." only to say "sure", only to get burned or never hear from the person again. "Can you deliver?", depending on circumstance, is pretty ballsy too.

Seen it all, been through it all. Bottom line, SHOW UP and BRING CASH!

p.s. Tom, I understood about every other word of that, but it's clear it was about Gary.

 

[cardiffgiant]

...yea I went there

LOL, I didn't go there because I didn't want to get the thread locked too early

 

[Jacwil]

Good call..removed! Lol

 

[tmz]

p.s. Tom, I understood about every other word of that, but it's clear it was about Gary

Troublemaker. If you keep that up the Easter bunny will take back your basket and give me all of your "Peeps"

 

[reefboarder]

I may be the only one but if it's something I want, I will go get it!
Asking someone to meet half way on something they are already selling for way cheaper than the LFS is wasting the sellers time IMO. Selling something for 20$ and then using 15$ in gas isn't worth the time.
Meeting halfway on trades; totally acceptable.


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[Gary Majchrzak]

a couple more things

a couple more things

dontcha just hate it when people beat around the bush about something?

what about people that actually believe they know the inflection of a person's reply just by reading a post on the computer?

how about the boobs that post HUGE AZZ pictures that take the whole day for your PC to download?! (I'd rather have NO PICTURE!)

BTW- we got Easter Eggs over here