I have had, until recently, three refrigerators at one time. It’s a simple story, let’s see if you can follow. When I lived in Boise I had a rental in the northern part of the state that I had furnished with a new fridge (that makes two). I moved to north Idaho and into my rental and brought the fridge from Boise with me. The fridge that was already there I put in the garage and just used it to cool soda.
I have since moved to Arizona and the house that is being built for me comes with all of the appliances that I will need and … and a new fridge. Tada, simple right?
Well not so simple when choosing to sell the fridge that you don’t need.
It’s new, or at least newer, clean and has been used a total of 7 months. It’s a $500 fridge that I wanted gone for $150 so I thought the simplest way was to place an ad on Craigslist.
Buyer #1 calls me at 6am to ask if I am up yet. I am now I say and they tell me they will call back after 9. I say thank you for the warning and the lost sleep as I can’t go back to sleep once I am up.
Buyer #2 emails me from her blackberry to ask these very important questions.
A. What color is it.
I tell her same as I stated in the ad, white. Not off white. Not egg shell white, just very very white.
B. Do you take checks?
No!
C. Any way you can run a master card?
If you want me to run it down the street yes but otherwise no.
D. So just cash right.
I will accept confederate bills and wampum but seeing as you have neither, just cash.
E. Does it have a freezer?
Have you ever seen a fridge that doesn’t? Even the mini’s do.
F. Has it seen much action?
Are you asking if my fridge is a war veteran or a prostitute? Other that the fact that I wrote in the ad that was used for 7 months and runs perfectly I really can’t tell you more.
G. How are we gonna work this out?
I have no idea what you mean, all the times that I have purchased things there was the exchange of remuneration and then some heavy lifting followed by a brief period of leaving.
H. Well I just don’t know.
Well mam I don’t know either! I wish I could know enough for the both of us but I would have to charge you for that service and I don’t have the patience nor do you have the critical thinking skills for that to happen so I bid you good day.
I said good day!
A few day later a lady called and asked if I still had it I said yes and I wanted to mention that it had a dime sized ding on it. I told her it was on the side on wouldn’t show unless she placed in the middle of her living room. She said maybe she wants to place it in the middle of her living room and that I should take $20 of the price because of that. I told her that I’m not charging her for electrical cord or the plug. I told her the plug has three prongs which makes it 50% better than most plugs that only have two prongs.
She laughed and agreed that that was a pretty good deal. She came over 10 minutes later, paid cash and her sons loaded up her new fridge on a truck.
What a sucker!
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This is how it goes…people!? They amaze me…like yesterday when we tried to GIVE AWAY a bathtub on Craigslist…Ridiculous…Did anyone go to Grade School?
LMAO (and continous guffawing while spitting toast crumbs on my keyboard. “I said Good Day!” classic line I use often myself. Thanks for morning laughs.
My fridge has seen lots of action. I have sex in it. Who doesn’t?
I have lived in Arizona the past 18 years. Apparently, you need a little friendly advice being that you are new to the state. Always keep an extra car battery and an extra refrigerator on hand at all times. It’s the heat I tell ya, the heat!
I grew up here, you are correct about the battery but I have never needed a second fridge. Maybe you are a serial killer and keep bodies in the 2nd fridge. Please leave Count Chocula alone! You can kill the rest.
I am consistently, without fail, amazed at the stupidity of people who contact me via Craigs List when I’m selling something.
My favorite is the “will you ship to (insert wherever)?” when the ad clearly states in bold, italic, caps and underline LOCAL BUYERS ONLY, PICK-UP ONLY, I WILL NOT SHIP.
bTW – this is my first time here and I just had to say, I love your blog design.
@Creative, ty for the kinds words!
What the hell is with people?
p.s. I changed my name as you and I have the same name and I thought it would just be awkward if I started calling myself by my name on your site.
Some people are just retarded,and I’m not talking about the ones that get to ride in the really cool bus!
See now had you stayed in Idaho, you would have had at least 20 rednecks contact you in 20 minutes, and all would pay full cash with no questions. You would want to question what it was going to be actually used for however, seeing how one never knows what rednecks do. They could turn it into a couch, a recycling bin, anything!
Actually that was in Idaho, before I moved. Take that!
“Can you run a MasterCard?”
OMG! Stupid just comes so naturally to some people. They don’t even have to try.
But without stupid there would be no material:) Love your website, sarcasm and wit, all wrapped up in an intelligent manner.
TY for the kind words! And yes you can be my girlfriend, I read between the lines.
That’s why I love FreeCycle, so I don’t have to deal with the crazies. The more money involved, the few the brain cells required. Though I don’t blame you for not wanting to just give away that fridge. Consider the $150 payment for wading through the shallow end of the gene pool.
I’ve got a fridge at work that doesn’t have a freezer. They’re not common, but they do exist.
Burn the witch!