This year, I went to look at a collection from an 89-year-old woman who attended a library presentation I gave about selling your numismatic items. At the time, she seemed like a typical elderly woman.
After paying her over $5K for her stuff (it was a VERY fair price), she calls me up the next day and tells me that I ripped her off and she wanted her stuff back. However, she deposited the check and I flipped the deal, so I said "ma'am, that is not possible." That's when I realized that she did not have a full deck.
It got to a point where I could not talk to her, and she refused to have me speak to any of her kids or friends because she did not want them to think that she could not handle her own affairs - which she couldn't.
However, it got worse when I found out she was badmouthing me when she went to church the following Sunday. The pastor of the church called me and told me to come to the church (we had done business about a month prior). He was with her, and she apologized to me. The next day, her children were informed of the incident and nothing else was said.
I had a Bass Ale that afternoon while watching the Yankee game, and I rarely drink.
I have had people sell stuff at the store and then, some time later, talk to some blowhard who would, knowing that the stuff was gone and he would not have to put his money where his mouth was, tell the seller "Why, I would have paid you xxxxx as much!" The seller then complained to us that we ripped him off.
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
This gal calls up and says she's interested in car, and when can she can come over and test drive it, So I tell her it's not running it needs a rear oil seal, and she says OK and how firm am I on the price, I say I'm willing to negotiate, take a look at it and give me your best offer, so she says ok then can I test drive it, so I tell her again that its not driveable until the rear oil seal is replaced and I'm selling it as a fixer upper and it is not running, so she asks if sunday would be a good day to look at it, and I say sure, I'll be around all day, and she says great then I can test drive it, so I says do you have the ad handy, and she says yes, it's right in front of me, so I ask if she would read it to me, that it might be a different ad, so she reads it back to me, "1969 VW BUG, NEEDS REAR SEAL, NOT RUNNING $700 DOLLARS OR BEST OFFER and my phone#, So I says when can you come over and test drive it? So she gets all snippy and says how can I do that, IT DOES'NT EVEN RUN CLICK!
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After paying her over $5K for her stuff (it was a VERY fair price), she calls me up the next day and tells me that I ripped her off and she wanted her stuff back. However, she deposited the check and I flipped the deal, so I said "ma'am, that is not possible." That's when I realized that she did not have a full deck.
It got to a point where I could not talk to her, and she refused to have me speak to any of her kids or friends because she did not want them to think that she could not handle her own affairs - which she couldn't.
However, it got worse when I found out she was badmouthing me when she went to church the following Sunday. The pastor of the church called me and told me to come to the church (we had done business about a month prior). He was with her, and she apologized to me. The next day, her children were informed of the incident and nothing else was said.
I had a Bass Ale that afternoon while watching the Yankee game, and I rarely drink.
I placed an ad for a 1969 VW Bug (heres the Ad)
1969 VW Bug, nds rear seal, NOT RUNNING
$700.00 OBO (xxx) xxx-xxxx
This gal calls up and says she's interested in car, and when can she can come over and test drive it,
So I tell her it's not running it needs a rear oil seal, and she says OK and how firm am I on the price,
I say I'm willing to negotiate, take a look at it and give me your best offer, so she says ok then can I
test drive it, so I tell her again that its not driveable until the rear oil seal is replaced and I'm selling
it as a fixer upper and it is not running, so she asks if sunday would be a good day to look at it, and
I say sure, I'll be around all day, and she says great then I can test drive it, so I says do you have the
ad handy, and she says yes, it's right in front of me, so I ask if she would read it to me, that it might
be a different ad, so she reads it back to me, "1969 VW BUG, NEEDS REAR SEAL, NOT RUNNING $700
DOLLARS OR BEST OFFER and my phone#, So I says when can you come over and test drive it? So she
gets all snippy and says how can I do that, IT DOES'NT EVEN RUN CLICK!
Steve
<< <i>I had a Bass Ale that afternoon while watching the Yankee game, and I rarely drink. >>
Ummmmm beer....