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Originally Posted by Cody77
Peter,
Please explain what a reasonable time would be? 1 hour? 5 hours? 2 days? If he wanted the item so badly, why wouldn’t he message me to ask me about how to pay? He didn’t message me at all. He only commented and I had to reach out to him via messenger. He said he was out to dinner in his post on this forum. Why not message me and tell me he would get back to me soon that he was busy but was willing to confirm to me directly. He left a comment and didn’t make any response to me for 5 hours.
If I’m an interested buyer, I’m commenting to time stamp my interest to other interest buyers and then I’m immediately contacting the seller directly to ask about payment information and to confirm I was first to ask about it. If I’m going to be busy, then I also immediately contact the seller and let them know I’ll be busy but will respond in a given amount of time for payment info and such. He did none of that. So in that case I moved on to parties who were showing active interest and made the sell. First come, first served as I told him in the messages this morning.
It isn’t my fault that he was busy and couldn’t respond, it also isn’t my responsibility to know why he wasn’t responding. He should have taken initiative and let me know. I reached out to confirm his interest and got no response. And in that message I mentioned the level of interest and requested a prompt response. It shouldn’t be my responsibility to sit around and wait for a potential buyer to contact me back 5 hours later after leaving a comment. His level of effort, to me, was matching his level of interest, so I moved on with the sale.
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In my world, 5 hours is a perfectly timely response. If it were me, and you may just have a different orientation I acknowledge, I'm from a different generation (I am assuming)- if I had not heard back from Jonathan by say the next morning, I would have followed up and said please let me know today or I will sell elsewhere. There are lots of guys here I've dealt with who sometimes get back to you the next day, it's normal and fine as far as I am concerned.
What was the anxiety/rush?