Bailout
Don’t you hate it when people bail on you without having the decency to at least inform you? This is, apparently, far more often when dealing with people through ads.
I’ve been trying to sell my old Powerbook that way. Four people write, clamoring for a meeting, wanting to buy. Each makes the original email, then a reply to my answer. Slowly, each one drops out, indicating this by reverting to silence, refusing to answer emails, after having insisted on scheduling dates and times and locations. By the time the date for meetings arises, only one person is still in contact, confirming the meeting the night before.
And she never shows up. Fortunately, I have her cell number. I call it. She never left home. Instead, she emailed me just a few hours before the meeting, knowing that I could easily be out already and can’t access email. How sweet.
Time to place another ad….
I think some folks put out too many emails and drop one lead when they get a better one, and are rude when it comes to respecting people’s (e.g. yours) time. Very rude.
My motto of life, Luis – “You can’t trust ANYONE these days”. Trust me on that one.
I’ve come across this again and again. People just DON’T CARE about doing the ‘right thing’ any more. How did this come about? Is it a side effect of the ‘chase the bottom dollar, all else is irrelevant’ work ethic that we experience every day whenever we do business with the big companies? I dunno.