If you sell many things on an auction site, you will find out after about your third day of doing it, that if your item is of any intrest at all, you get flooded with questions. Most of them were answered in the description, had the questioner taken less than a minute to read it.
before I started selling some things, I would wonder the same things as you do in your question in this post. Now I understand why that is the tone of the answers I still get to this day. For every real potential buyer, there are probably 20 tire kickers who will question you to death and never bid a penny over 20% of the fair market value.
Then you get the people that email you saying, "Hey I saw you are selling XXX. I have YYY and it is s laot better/not as good/like yours, except it is purple, and other equally valuable uses of bandwidth. Whay they think an anonymous selelr would want to talk to them is beyond me, but soem people feel the need to email total starngers just to chit-chat.
This is not to dissuade you from asking questions, only to help you understand what is usually going on. The odds of it being for some nefarious reason such as covering up or blurring the truth are usually low. Let your BS meter be your guide, not the tone of their response.
I am speaking from far much experience on both ends of the auctioning game. If you stick your nose in the air and say you won't buy something just because some one did not treat you like a king, you will be eliminatng a lot of very good buys. On second thought, I think that is EXACTLY what you should do. THat will leave more good buys for me!!!
Last edited by Marc Stokeld; 06/01/07 01:52 PM.
