Sorry in advance, but I need to vent about something that happened today.
So I've been casually checking Craigslist's video games section for several months now and have seen nothing but overpriced 360's & PS3's. Until last night. Someone listed an original Xbox, 4 controllers, DVD playback kit, all cables & 25 games (a good selection too, only 1 sports title) for $40. I email the guy immediately, an hour after he lists it. It was 11:00 so I figured he had gone to bed. This morning before I leave for work he emails me back asking where I can meet, etc. We send a few emails back & forth whittling down the where's & when's - in the last one I told him I work until 5:30 M-Th and get off at 11:30 on Friday. I suggest we can meet Friday afternoon if he's free then. He replies back "OK, if someone else hasn't bought it by then."
I'm thinking "umm, that's not the way things work - I told the guy verbatim "I definitely want it." Anyway, I write the guy back (on my phone now, because I've just made it to work) that I can meet him this afternoon if that works better for him, as soon as I get off, and I suggest a place & a time that's 15 mins after my quitting time. After sending that, I see that he had sent me a second email asking if we could meet today after work so I figure we're back on the same page.
Then I hear nothing. I wait, because I don't know who this guy is or what his daily schedule is like, but when I finally get to my office at about 1:30 and still haven't seen a reply, I send him another email asking if he's still going to be able to meet today. A few mins later he sends me this reply: "Sorry man, somebody else beat you to it."
What. The. Hell?
Is this the way people ususally conduct "business" on Craigslist? Because if so, thanks but no thanks, I'm done. Seriously, this is a really assy thing to do - no one else "beat me to it" because I told him this morning that I wanted it. He just decided to be a douche and sell it to someone else. Who knows, maybe he needed his fix and had to have that $40 ASAP. REALLY pissed me off tho.
So yeah, has anyone else's Craigslist experiences been similar to that, or are people in my neck of the world just extra "special"?