Over the last few weeks I have been trying to sell my old Blackberry as I now have an iPhone 4.
It has now dawned upon me that people want something for nothing. I asked my wife to post the phone on
Facebook across the local buy/sell groups. I had some interest, mostly from a girl who was eager to take the phone from me for £130 (my asking price).
She said that she does not drive and asked if I could deliver it locally. Being the nice guy I am, I obliged and took the phone to the address I was sent by text message. When I got there, nobody was home so I text the number back and enquired to what was going on. It then dawned upon me that the person I was
texting was in fact the girl’s partner and he was at work all day. I informed him that I will try again later that day and hopefully she will be home. A few hours later, on my way to a friend’s house, I went again and there was still no one in. At this point I was getting annoyed and sent the gentleman a text message to say I will try again later and if there is still no one in, they will have to collect it from me.
A few more hours passed and I went to the address once again and no one home again. At this point I was getting annoyed to the point that I would snap an alligators head off. So, once again I text him and said that if you want the phone, you will have to pick it up.
This was his reply:
"Sorry I'm still at work. We will have to leave it as she can't afford. Sorry for the inconvenience"
I chose not to reply because I am the bigger man and didn't want to give them an onslaught of abuse. After calming down a bit, I then replied to inform them how annoyed I was at the fact that they asked me to deliver, which I did three times, then they decided not to have it. I can't help but think what would have happened if she was at home, was she expecting me to leave the phone and take an I.O.U?
Since this, I have placed my phone on Gumtree, where people have been emailing me from Nigeria asking me to send it to them by post, "Just give me your bank account details and I will send you the money" it said. Yeah right, I'm not that stupid.
I have decided to sell my phone to a third party website Money For Your Phone who will give me £113 for it hassle free.
To be honest, I should have done this in the first place.
