Okay, can someone shed some light on a little thing I've just experienced right now, because I sure can't get my mind around it.
So I'm going around craigslist looking for a particular item for sale. I find one for a good price, a minor defect, but nothing I'd mind. So I reply to the posting ... which was put on yesterday. I get a reply from the guy an hour ago, saying he already sold the item. Thinking it was at a pretty good price because of the small defect ... he might have been right.
And then ... half an hour later, I go to craigslist again to look for some other ad of said item to see if I can find another one. The posting wasn't taken down. Maybe the guy's sloppy, sure... Then I go to Kijiji, and guess what I find: an ad for the item ... same price, same defect ... and same picture of defect. It was posted half an hour after sending me the email. So the guy replies that he already sold it ... then posts another ad to sell it on another website.
This makes absolutely no sense to me. I offered the full price for it, there was no "OBO" on the ad, so he's not looking for more money for it. I didn't try to negotiate at all ... and then he does this ...
So, in this case, does the seller want to sell the item or pretend to want to sell the item? This just drove me nuts for the past half hour ... who posts a classified ad for selling stuff that they don't really intend to sell? Makes no sense to me.