I sent an email to a seller about a notebook that I wanted to buy. I asked him what comes with it, ie cables, manuals, recovery CDs, battery, etc. Here's the answer I got: "The notebook runs Windows XP." I mean WTF? Sellers these days can't even comprehend basic email questions? Where do these people come from? And why did he even bother to respond? Here are some other ways he could have responded: "Hello. The purpose of this email is to tell you that there is no purpose to this email. Thanks." "I could have deleted your email, but instead I chose to take the time and effort to respond in a way that gives you none of the information you requested." "It has a keyboard." I just don't get it....
i know exactly what you mean, the amount of times ive turned people down for items due to their lack of knowlage or communication. not only on ebay or auction sites.. for example, i went to a carboot sale at the weekend (no surprise there for me!) saw what looked like a decent spec pc, with 17" crt, epson printer and scanner etc. and when i asked the stall holder what the spec was, they simply replied 'no idea, but its fast' so i simply walked away, for all i know it could have been a p4 duel core with 2gb ram, 300gbhdd etc, or it could have been a old k6-450 with 128mb ram, but due to their complete lack of a responce and knowlage they lost out on a sale
Sorry if hadn't realized this before. The world is comprised mostly of complete dipshits. Now thanks to Blogs & Ebay, we have to hear them and deal with them in business.
I did. I asked him the same question again: What comes with the PC? Cables, software, battery, box, manuals, etc? His second answer: [FONT="]1600 MHZ PENTIUM M PROCESSOR WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL OPERATING SYSTEM 40.0G HARD DRIVE 14" BRIGHT UNDAMAGED DISPLAY 512MB MEMORY CD-RW/DVD COMBO DRIVE POWER ADAPTER BATTERY WIFI WIRELESS CARD INSTALLED AND READY TO GO ------ Scam or no scam, this person isn't able to comprehend a basic question. [/FONT]
At least if you bought one you could go kick his/her ass when you went home if there was something wrong. A lot of sellers suck with the communication. I like having to ask a question multiple times and never getting a single response.
I think his reponse could have read: "Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for having taken the time out to read through my listing on eBay. As you clearly are interested in my item I shall ensure I cover all of the points you have raised, thus ensuring you are confident in placing a bid with the knowledge that what you are viewing is indeed a quality bit of gear. It most definately comes with things that do stuff, it has in the past performed tasks that we enjoyed very much. As for whether it is likely to continue to do so without much effort, we are confident that many repeated things will occur over a prolonged length of time. It has power directly or indirectly included. Thus we are instructed by the booklet thingy that we are going along the right routes and operating this system effectively. My mate Keith booted it. That's it, he gave it a tap with his Doc Martins, like DUNT! Right up the back garden. Straight through one of the neighbours Windows, so yeah, it boots into Windows! Even better, my neighbour is at Number 105, so stuff your Windows 98, this is up there with the big guns! To ensure that you get the best from the product we have also included many bits that were in the whatsit that the doodah was bundled in. As for RAM. You got in in one, we Ram raided PC World. It has words on it, but I have been unable to comprehend much of it, being completely computer illiterate. My wife has assured me that a disc of stuff is in the whatsit, so I trust we have covered all basis. As you can see, I am probably the best source for this product and if you hand over your well earned mullah, we'll deliver bugger all for your efforts! Yours truly, Seller" Would that do, d'ya fink?
