Sellers who don't want to...err, sell?

[Lord Sterling]

There seems to be very much odd behaviour with sellers and buyers these days. It's almost as if they are trying to ask the most attractive girl they've ever laid thier eyes on on a date. It's either shifty awkwardness or awkward talking at your face just to get it over and done with. I mean ffs, your buying/selling something it's not hard, just some general friendliness, a bit of small talk with a bit of bartering chucked, smiles all around when a deal is agreed, not agreed, then simply thank the seller for thier time and bid farewell, this should be as far as it goes.

 

The young chap who inspired me to take up possibly opening my own business buying and selling cars regaled a tale of how a chap from an arse-end of nowhere part of Wales phoned up his office one day, asked if the car he had for sale was still available, the after 3 days simply turned up on his doorstep with his little son wanting to buy the car he asked for 3 days earlier, the car was still for sale but 5 minutes later another chap turned up wanting to buy the car. Had Wales-chap turned up later the car he wanted would've gone. Said chap couldn't look make eye contact and found it rather awkward being in that situation.

 

It does seem that since the invention of the internet dealing with other human beings in a situation like buying/selling does seem to be slightly too big of a deal for some people to handle, I wouldn't be surprised if some people actually vomited and fell sick at the thought of selling something to someone they've never met. With that, it does seem some people will talk just as they write on the internet, i.e not very clearly or talking at you as if you are a "foreigner" who doesn't speak English and therefore needs people to SHOUT AT YOU.

 

Many years ago when I was pretty much the same as I am today, but with just more oney and less responsibility, I'd stuck a wanted advert on eBay for a Rover Sterling, eventually after some messages I phoned this old chap up who was selling a Rover 827Si (which I bought) when I first spoke to him he started talking at me reeling off a list of things that were great on the car like one of those boring "terms and conditions" some call centre drone has to read out. It wasn't very inviting.

 

People seem to have been taught to assume the worst, treat everyone with suspicion and talk at them so to put them in thier place and that you are not seen as being "weak minded".