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THIS. PERSON.
May. 20th, 2019 07:35 pmIn reference to this, ARGH. I am ready to refuse to sell this item at this point!
If I wanted to sell at a loss, I'd just give the bloody thing away.
I hope she knows it's going to be at least $30 in shipping costs; maybe that will make her finally back off instead of trying to chip away every dollar of profit involved with endless requests that I grant her extras 'because she's paying all the fees' and has health problems.
I'm not unsympathetic to poor health, but at the bottom line I'm neither Amazon nor a charity shop. I'm a single person who lives alone, works full time, and wants to make a reasonable profit on an item I put my own money and time into. I don't have a shipping department where I can whip up a prepaid label for the box you want me to lend you but don't want to pay to return; I'm already driving to the post office twice for this transaction, once to get the shipping estimate and the second time to mail the item! Do you expect me to unbox it, make a trip to weigh the empty box and pay for its shipping label, come home and rebox the item to take back for a shipping estimate, and then make a third trip to mail it? Are you paying me for a day off work so I can do all this?
There's a rather vituperative reply typed up right now that I will not send, but I'm this close to sending the politer version tomorrow, which will boil down to 'I'm sorry if the timing/expense is inconvenient for you due to health; you can always wait to see if the item is still available later.'
If I wanted to sell at a loss, I'd just give the bloody thing away.
I hope she knows it's going to be at least $30 in shipping costs; maybe that will make her finally back off instead of trying to chip away every dollar of profit involved with endless requests that I grant her extras 'because she's paying all the fees' and has health problems.
I'm not unsympathetic to poor health, but at the bottom line I'm neither Amazon nor a charity shop. I'm a single person who lives alone, works full time, and wants to make a reasonable profit on an item I put my own money and time into. I don't have a shipping department where I can whip up a prepaid label for the box you want me to lend you but don't want to pay to return; I'm already driving to the post office twice for this transaction, once to get the shipping estimate and the second time to mail the item! Do you expect me to unbox it, make a trip to weigh the empty box and pay for its shipping label, come home and rebox the item to take back for a shipping estimate, and then make a third trip to mail it? Are you paying me for a day off work so I can do all this?
There's a rather vituperative reply typed up right now that I will not send, but I'm this close to sending the politer version tomorrow, which will boil down to 'I'm sorry if the timing/expense is inconvenient for you due to health; you can always wait to see if the item is still available later.'
