Selling my LG Keybo
At work we have an ‘intranet’ site where people can put up stuff to sell. So since I got the iPhone, I figured I might as well sell my Keybo since I wasn’t using it.
I put up my ad and picture and said that I’d sell my $300 phone for $50. For that $50 I’d also throw in the leather case, the car phone holder (to hold it on hands free), the charger and the car charger. I figured it was a pretty good deal considering the stupid car charger cost me $30 with tax. I even offered for people to take over my Telus account with its per-second billing if they got in fast enough since my iPhone had a new phone number that was good and I might keep.
Well another billing period for Telus came and I’d forgotten to take my credit card off there, so I figured that before I got billed for another month, the account was off. Then I was just selling the stuff above without the account for $50.
Someone at work contacted me and asked if I’d be willing to let the phone go for $40. I said no and then she contacted me and asked to meet up with me to buy the phone.
She showed up to meet me and gave me $34. She said she had spent too much money that day on something else and she’d make up the difference the next day. However, she told me she was giving me $35 and so when I saw it was $34, I emailed her back and said that it was only $34, and she should bring the other $16 the next day.
She emailed back and said she didn’t realize that I hadn’t agreed to the $40. And she didn’t realize it was a Telus phone and not a Koodo phone, so she’d meet me the next day to return it.
I met up with her the next day, she returned my bag and I said, “not a good reader, eh?” and she just looked at me.
All I could think was ‘WTF was that!’. First off this fucking moron wants to screw me for another $10 like it wasn’t a good enough price, but then saying she didn’t realize it was Telus when it was all over my ad. What an asshole. Maybe I won’t try to sell things with people I work with any more. Perhaps it’s better to keep it with strangers (and reiterate price and provider).
My snookey is now saying he might be interested because he thinks his own phone is too small.
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Did you get rid of the phone yet? I am interested in paying the full $50 for the phone if you still have it and would like to sell it. I live near toronto so I can definitely pick it up.
Please let me know. Thanks!