Bought a 65" television about five weeks ago. Like it but want a 75". So I went and bought a 75" one. Put the 65" on Facebook marketplace for $400. A basically new 65" television still with the packing tape on it for $400 had a million messages of interest within a few hours.
The first guy said he definitely wanted it. He asked if he could pick it up the following day. He assured me he was going to buy it. Later that night, he asked if I could meet him for the exchange since he couldn't get out of work and drive 40 minutes each way to me. I agreed to meet him before 5 pm the following day (since I had to go somewhere that evening), and we'd each drive 20 minutes. It was a pain in the ass for me to have to drive when others who offered me $400 for it would drive to me, but I thought I was doing the guy a favor. We agreed on an exact meeting spot.
The next day, he messaged me to confirm the meeting spot and that the deal was still on. Since he wasn't going to see the television hooked up, he asked me to take a video of it showing everything works. I took a three minute video showing how loud it gets, the picture, the wifi capabilities, that Netflix works, etc. He was good with that. He said he would message me in a couple of hours to tell me the exact time he would be able to meet me. As it was getting close to 5 pm, I messaged him. Facebook Messenger showed that he had been on there. I asked him what time. He didn't respond. He didn't respond the following day even when I told him that I held the television for him even though many others had offered to come to me and get it. He still didn't respond even though it showed him as active throughout the day on messenger. Finally, I told him what an unethical piece of shit he was for not even having the courtesy to tell me that he had changed his mind so that I didn't waste my time waiting for him and could have sold it to any of the others. He wrote back "LOL all because I didn't buy your television." I explained that I didn't care if he bought it or not. The principle that he gave me his word, I did him a favor by holding it, everything was confirmed, yet he didn't have the basic tact to even tell me he was cancelling. He didn't care; didn't apologize, didn't message back.
So, me being the King of Petty and always holding people accountable when they wrong others, has a problem. I thought pretending that I still had the television, telling him that I needed to hurry up and sell it for a move I was going to make, and telling him I would give it to him for $200 (then waste his time and not show up at the meeting spot). But I would feel awful if he drove there and got in a crash. He is a project manager at a national home builder. Do I email his corporate executives and tell him what a piece of shit, unethical person he is? Letting it go isn't an option. The King of Petty holds people accountable.
The first guy said he definitely wanted it. He asked if he could pick it up the following day. He assured me he was going to buy it. Later that night, he asked if I could meet him for the exchange since he couldn't get out of work and drive 40 minutes each way to me. I agreed to meet him before 5 pm the following day (since I had to go somewhere that evening), and we'd each drive 20 minutes. It was a pain in the ass for me to have to drive when others who offered me $400 for it would drive to me, but I thought I was doing the guy a favor. We agreed on an exact meeting spot.
The next day, he messaged me to confirm the meeting spot and that the deal was still on. Since he wasn't going to see the television hooked up, he asked me to take a video of it showing everything works. I took a three minute video showing how loud it gets, the picture, the wifi capabilities, that Netflix works, etc. He was good with that. He said he would message me in a couple of hours to tell me the exact time he would be able to meet me. As it was getting close to 5 pm, I messaged him. Facebook Messenger showed that he had been on there. I asked him what time. He didn't respond. He didn't respond the following day even when I told him that I held the television for him even though many others had offered to come to me and get it. He still didn't respond even though it showed him as active throughout the day on messenger. Finally, I told him what an unethical piece of shit he was for not even having the courtesy to tell me that he had changed his mind so that I didn't waste my time waiting for him and could have sold it to any of the others. He wrote back "LOL all because I didn't buy your television." I explained that I didn't care if he bought it or not. The principle that he gave me his word, I did him a favor by holding it, everything was confirmed, yet he didn't have the basic tact to even tell me he was cancelling. He didn't care; didn't apologize, didn't message back.
So, me being the King of Petty and always holding people accountable when they wrong others, has a problem. I thought pretending that I still had the television, telling him that I needed to hurry up and sell it for a move I was going to make, and telling him I would give it to him for $200 (then waste his time and not show up at the meeting spot). But I would feel awful if he drove there and got in a crash. He is a project manager at a national home builder. Do I email his corporate executives and tell him what a piece of shit, unethical person he is? Letting it go isn't an option. The King of Petty holds people accountable.
