Entitlement

This week has shown me that if anything, entitlement has gotten more out of control than it was. I list a sewing machine. I have a start bid of about 1/4 of what they usually sell for and I get this:

Item advertises free shipping, but when bidding it says shipping is over $50.00.
??

I double check the listing. Nowhere does it say anything about free shipping. Not on the title. Not in the description. I do offer free local pickup and I say this to him.

Yeah no free shipping is advertised on either of my sewing machines in either title or description. They are 30 pounds each. At the price I have them listed, if I offered free shipping I would lose money. I do offer free local pick up.

The reply:

Vintage 1950's Singer Sewing Machine ...$25.001 bidFree shipping

My answer to this:

I don't do the programming for ebay. I cannot control what the page says before you click the auction link. I don't offer free shipping. Not going to happen at 30 pounds.

 This butt sucking moron just won't take no free shipping for an answer, so I finally block him.

This morning, I get this one about a very expensive antique clock.

hi
i was wondering if you would take any less for the clock as there are parts missing
thank you

 I have put $50 and 3 days of work into it. All someone has to do is buy about $20 in parts and spend 10 minutes putting them on (a hand, a bell, and a pendulum!) to make it perfect. if it doesn't sell for my start price, I will buy said parts and double the price. These kinds of clock normally get $400-$500. I am asking under $100. Do these people ever fucking think before they ask a stupid question? Do they realize that these things they want to bid on cost the seller money and time and the seller simply wants to recoup it and maybe a few dollars pittance on top? I have 13 watchers on it. I just say "No." I may look at his feedback and block him for good measure, because that is the type who bids and then "found something wrong it, so give me my discount" later on.

Cumin Atcha Live

Got me another live one. Asshole buys a mixer. Asshole pays with echeck. Echeck clears on Wednesday afternoon. I get notification from ebay that must ship by Friday. I print out shipping label. Thursday morning I contact FedEx to pick up on Friday.

Friday morning I am contacted by asshole buyer:

 Has this actually shipped? The tracking has not updated. Thank you.

I reply:

You paid with an e-check which did not clear until Wednesday afternoon. Since it is shipping via FedEx, I needed to schedule a pick up which is today. It should be picked up any minute now.

Maybe I was a little passive aggessive, but the stupid bitch made me wait almost a week for payment. Y'all cannot expect me to be shipping IMMEDIATELY after being jerked around for a week. Sorry.

She replies with this:

I understand the echeck processing. My concern was that it said it was shipping on Wednesday and hadn t updated since. I am well aware of how the shipping process works. Thank you.

No, bitch. You don't  understand how the shipping process works or you would have realized that I printed out the label on Wednesday and am now waiting for FedEx pick-up. The label simply hasn't been scanned yet because pick-up is a thing that takes time. 

She's going to be a live-wire asshole. I can smell it coming down the pike.

Honda Holiday

A Honda is a car that is great on gas mileage and you can beat the hell out of them with almost no adverse affects. One would think this would make one with fairly low mileage and very little to be done an easy sell. Nope.

I bought a Monte Carlo SS a few months back with money I got from $140 worth of dishes I sold. I love love love the car, but it needs some minor things done (new wires, 2 tires, and rear trailing arm) that total about $200.

Since it is the time of the summer sales slump, I have yet to get ahead $200. It doesn't help when the part time gig keeps taking hiatuses - we take an $80-$90 hit (depending on my tips) each time this happens. I had to sell one of my rare pony things to pay the water bill.

I think "Well, I've got the Honda" The bastard books for $1500, just needs an exhaust patch and a minor bushing thing in the transmission. It's kinda ugly, but it's fairly reliable and gets 35 miles to the gallon. I ask $1100 on craigslist. No dice. One bitch offers me $500. I don't even reply.

I get repeated offers of a bank check and pickup (well known scam). And one with actual interest lowballing me a bit. Looking back, I should have taken the $900 - lol. I get sick of this, and list it on Cars. Repeated inquiries but no response once I answer them.

Get pissed about that.

List it on ebay. Bitch who won lives 4 hours away and says she has no way to pick it up and how would she pay for it?  Uh, weren't you supposed to figure that out BEFORE YOU FUCKING BID? So now I am stuck with an inflated ebay bill ($60! for a car that is STILL HERE) and am going to have to fucking call them and get it taken off since I cancelled the sale and they've been painfully slow about crediting me for it.

I have been trying to get rid of this fucking car for almost a month now! I had two texts today, but I ain't holding my breath.

Update 3/7/2018: One of the two texts turned out to be a guy from 2 towns away who wanted a reliable beater and I got $800. The Monte Carlo is still kicking :)