SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
UPDATE* Please stop telling me to use the B/S/T thread I have been posting this there for several weeks with no success.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=158438044&postcount=4092
So I've been hurting financially since my IT job ended at the end of January. I've barely been scraping by because I have been getting so few hours at my ski/snowboard teching job due to the resorts being so slow. I have medical bills to pay and I have been trying to sell whatever I can to stay afloat. Sold my gaming PC and my limited edition Destiny headphones already. So right now I am trying to sell my PS Vita and Xbox One on Craigslist. Would sell my PS4 but my girlfriend has it.
Long story short, a guy emailed me about my PS Vita CL ad and said he was really interested and wanted to buy it. I was pretty excited seeing as more bills are piling up and this is gonna help. He can't drive to me so I told him my financial situation and asked nicely if he could throw in an extra $20 because I would have to drive an hour and half to his place. He agrees and says he will pay $200 plus the extra $20 in cash for my Vita with 64gb memory card and a nyko grip. So I confirm an early delivery this morning with him and head down. I finally get to his place and it is a kid probably in late teens or early 20s. I let him check out the handheld for a good 20 minutes and let him set it all up to prove it works flawlessly. From talking to him already I had guessed he was autistic but that doesn't really matter to me.
So I finally ask him, "so what do you think?" He replies, "I like it! Give me your bank account information and I will have my parents transfer the money into your account tonight" EXCUSE ME?!? I say, "you told me you had cash on hand for this and I will not give you my bank account information. We agreed on cash and I wouldn't have driven here if I had known otherwise." He goes on to tell me how I can trust him yada yada. I tell him, "hand me the Vita and you call your parents and tell them what is going on right now. You tell them I just drove and hour and a half to sell this to you because you told me you had the cash on hand."
So he goes inside for about 10 minutes and comes out saying, "if you come back around 5 my dad will be home and he can give you cash." I can't believe what I am hearing at this point. I say, "call your dad and tell him what is happening." So he calls his dad on speaker phone so I am hearing everything (this wasn't my request) his dad is like, "YOU DID WHAT?!" The son tells him, "The guy who is selling the Vita is here right now" The dad has no clue what he is talking about for a minute or two then retorts, "Wait, you invited someone to the house?" The son takes him off speaker phone and then a few minutes later hands me the phone saying his dad would like to speak with me.
He goes on to explain that his son is autistic and he shouldn't have done this. I explain that I had no clue any of this was going to happen because we were corresponding through email. I ask politely if his son at least had a little money for gas he can give me. He then gets short with me like it is my fault and says, "My son has no money, don't ask for any and leave my property now." I hand the phone back to the son, get it my car and drive off.
I can't fucking believe it. Great fun driving all that way to only get fucked in the end and made to feel like I did something wrong. What if that kid does this to someone ill tempered? I am pretty level headed and I was pissed. Last time I ever do this shit. FUCK.
TL/DR. Found buyer on CL for my PS Vita. Needed me to drive the hour and a half to him and agreed to pay extra and cash because of my time. Get there and he is autistic and has no cash for me and his dad tells me to leave the property wasting my money and time.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=158438044&postcount=4092
So I've been hurting financially since my IT job ended at the end of January. I've barely been scraping by because I have been getting so few hours at my ski/snowboard teching job due to the resorts being so slow. I have medical bills to pay and I have been trying to sell whatever I can to stay afloat. Sold my gaming PC and my limited edition Destiny headphones already. So right now I am trying to sell my PS Vita and Xbox One on Craigslist. Would sell my PS4 but my girlfriend has it.
Long story short, a guy emailed me about my PS Vita CL ad and said he was really interested and wanted to buy it. I was pretty excited seeing as more bills are piling up and this is gonna help. He can't drive to me so I told him my financial situation and asked nicely if he could throw in an extra $20 because I would have to drive an hour and half to his place. He agrees and says he will pay $200 plus the extra $20 in cash for my Vita with 64gb memory card and a nyko grip. So I confirm an early delivery this morning with him and head down. I finally get to his place and it is a kid probably in late teens or early 20s. I let him check out the handheld for a good 20 minutes and let him set it all up to prove it works flawlessly. From talking to him already I had guessed he was autistic but that doesn't really matter to me.
So I finally ask him, "so what do you think?" He replies, "I like it! Give me your bank account information and I will have my parents transfer the money into your account tonight" EXCUSE ME?!? I say, "you told me you had cash on hand for this and I will not give you my bank account information. We agreed on cash and I wouldn't have driven here if I had known otherwise." He goes on to tell me how I can trust him yada yada. I tell him, "hand me the Vita and you call your parents and tell them what is going on right now. You tell them I just drove and hour and a half to sell this to you because you told me you had the cash on hand."
So he goes inside for about 10 minutes and comes out saying, "if you come back around 5 my dad will be home and he can give you cash." I can't believe what I am hearing at this point. I say, "call your dad and tell him what is happening." So he calls his dad on speaker phone so I am hearing everything (this wasn't my request) his dad is like, "YOU DID WHAT?!" The son tells him, "The guy who is selling the Vita is here right now" The dad has no clue what he is talking about for a minute or two then retorts, "Wait, you invited someone to the house?" The son takes him off speaker phone and then a few minutes later hands me the phone saying his dad would like to speak with me.
He goes on to explain that his son is autistic and he shouldn't have done this. I explain that I had no clue any of this was going to happen because we were corresponding through email. I ask politely if his son at least had a little money for gas he can give me. He then gets short with me like it is my fault and says, "My son has no money, don't ask for any and leave my property now." I hand the phone back to the son, get it my car and drive off.
I can't fucking believe it. Great fun driving all that way to only get fucked in the end and made to feel like I did something wrong. What if that kid does this to someone ill tempered? I am pretty level headed and I was pissed. Last time I ever do this shit. FUCK.
TL/DR. Found buyer on CL for my PS Vita. Needed me to drive the hour and a half to him and agreed to pay extra and cash because of my time. Get there and he is autistic and has no cash for me and his dad tells me to leave the property wasting my money and time.
