Members who just want arms list, should I be bothered? Classifieds gripe…

[Camo]

I do first come myself but if I have agreed to a deal ( Money and time frame)I uphold that. If I accept an offer for a week out I tell them that's fine, reach out when they are ready and we can proceed if i still have the item.

 

[feral]

Moral of the story:
People can be flaky and weird, and I'm finding the stories about most not having any internal monologue to be true.
NPC ****. Gotta keep moving.

 

[Buck98]

I've done a couple deals with a long time member and received no feedback even though I left some. Kinda pisses me off, but I guess it is what it is. Maybe next time I won't throw in any extra stuff for free.

I like free stuff!!!

 

[XYZ]

For those who struggle with the literacy of feedback here is a simple option.

 

[John Doe]

In this thread, I learned feedback existed. And just left it for a purchase I made months ago.

 

[GorillaG]

I just forget. If I had a transaction with you, send me a PM and I'll add the feedback..... I don't know what else to say......

you had 200 transactions with me....all positive...thanks

 

[Buck98]

I did a deal with a fellow member who joined in January of ‘21. He has a 100% rating. I bought a pistol from him in November of last year. He’s from Midwest city and I’m SE of Ada, we met in Shawnee. All went well and I left feedback. Then in the first half of this year he had some .357 ammo listed and we PM’d. I told him I would take it and he agreed. When I started trying to setup a day and time he must have gone undercover for some kind of secret operative work because he didn’t respond. A few weeks later he had some 9mm for sale and I inquired about the.357 he recently had listed and he told me it was all sold. I just left it at that and decided not to do business with him again. I kind of felt a little ticked off but it’s not worth the hassle and I have better things to do than deal with people like that.

 

[dlbleak]

I did a deal with a fellow member who joined in January of ‘21. He has a 100% rating. I bought a pistol from him in November of last year. He’s from Midwest city and I’m SE of Ada, we met in Shawnee. All went well and I left feedback. Then in the first half of this year he had some .357 ammo listed and we PM’d. I told him I would take it and he agreed. When I started trying to setup a day and time he must have gone undercover for some kind of secret operative work because he didn’t respond. A few weeks later he had some 9mm for sale and I inquired about the.357 he recently had listed and he told me it was all sold. I just left it at that and decided not to do business with him again. I kind of felt a little ticked off but it’s not worth the hassle and I have better things to do than deal with people like that.

Many cross-post on arrmslist and other forums. If it sells on another platform, it’s easier to go silent than explain. I wish people, especially those on osa, would run one forum at a time. If it doesn’t sell, pull the ad and try elsewhere.

 

[Frank Pope]

So recently I’ve had couple mildly irritating things happen in the classifieds. First being a cheap .38 I saw right after it posted, pm’ed, guy responded and I told him I’d buy it. We were communicating about a meet up. He even told me he ran home on break to grab the pistol and he’d have it ready for us to meet etc… so at this point, I’m planning my afternoon around it. Then the guy just ghosts me. Wouldn’t respond to any of my text, wouldn’t respond to my PMs, after a while he marked it as sold… never said a word to me

So then the other day I buy a different revolver from a new-ish member. The communication was a bit spotty but we got a deal and a meet up arranged. The gun came with 6 boxes of defensive ammo. During our meet up, he seemed like a fine fellow, I told him about feedback, told him I would leave him some feedback and asked if he would leave some for me also. He never did… then when I got home and began inspecting the ammo, I’m suspicious that a lot of it is actually reloads. He said he bought the gun and ammo from an elderly neighbor a few years ago. So I pm’ed him politely reminding about the feedback, and I asked him about the ammo if it was possible it was reloads if he knew anything about it. Zero response…

Last summer I bought a boat from a member. I asked him about the feedback in person as well and his response was pretty much “I don’t give a chit about anything on OSA” …. Hmmmm.. I’d say well over half of the deals I’ve done on here I never received feedback. I leave feedback each time. It takes 1 minute.

I guess I just wanted to gripe because I’m starting to get annoyed with these people on here who think this is just Armslist. The people who never post anything or get involved in any discussion. Only classifieds. And they seem to think it’s perfectly acceptable just to ghost people on here.

I’m not easily offended. Even if you sell something out from under me because somebody closer offered a little more or whatever I don’t care. Even if you withheld information about ammo being reloads, i’m not even mad about it, I just want to know what I’m dealing with. Just have the decency to let me know what the hell is going on! I guess communication just isn’t important to lots of people

Gripe over…

In my experience, Arms List has more flakes on it than in a box of Post Toasties.

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

Many cross-post on arrmslist and other forums. If it sells on another platform, it’s easier to go silent than explain. I wish people, especially those on osa, would run one forum at a time. If it doesn’t sell, pull the ad and try elsewhere.

I don’t know though man… “easier to go silent than explain” hmmmm not really. It only takes a few minutes to check texts/pms and respond to someone. Especially if contact has already been made

It’s one thing to just totally not reply at all to a single thing from an individual. That’s more acceptable. It’s worse when they go ahead and reply to a few interactions, lead them on, then ghost them. At that point I feel they need to provide an explanation. It could literally just be one sentence.

To me ghosting people represents either selfishness/carelessness or ignorance/incapability. Neither option is flattering