Yesterday I tried to buy a game for my Nintendo Switch off craigslist. In my city the custom is for the buyer to meet at the seller's house.
Well, I got profiled. She got one look at me and refused to open her door. I pleaded with her over the intercom system, and she opened it a crack, just enough to slip the game through and no more. I tried to hand her the money instead of sliding it through the crack in her door, and she freaked out and shut me out. I went back to my car and called the phone number from the ad. She told me I look like a criminal, accused me of sabotaging her security camera, said I was scaring her kids, and threatened to call the police.
I can never fathom the life choices people have had to make to wind up so fucking stupid and emotionally immature (a nicer way of saying 'racist', I guess lmao) like that. You're already selling a goddamn Nintendo Switch game on Craigslist of all places, so why have a goddamn breakdown over some S T R A N G E R showing up at your house in response to the listing?? Not knocking CL but it is definitely the sketchiest way to buy/sell shit - hell, I picked up a microwave back in June from a local listing and point blank refused to meet the seller at their house & wound up offering them an extra $5 to meet me at the Walgreens nearby, because fuck exactly what you went through. Wish I could figure out why the Karen even bothered with CL instead of one of the many alternatives that is seen as 'safer' like ebay or FB marketplacce lmao.
When I lived in Vancouver, it was expected that you meet in a public place like a train station to make the sale. Around here though, everyone wants you to come to their home. And they won't tell you their address more than an hour in advance because they're scared you'll burglarize them. It's not a great system.
Yesterday I tried to buy a game for my Nintendo Switch off craigslist. In my city the custom is for the buyer to meet at the seller's house.
Well, I got profiled. She got one look at me and refused to open her door. I pleaded with her over the intercom system, and she opened it a crack, just enough to slip the game through and no more. I tried to hand her the money instead of sliding it through the crack in her door, and she freaked out and shut me out. I went back to my car and called the phone number from the ad. She told me I look like a criminal, accused me of sabotaging her security camera, said I was scaring her kids, and threatened to call the police.
I just wanted to play Luigi's Mansion 3.
I can never fathom the life choices people have had to make to wind up so fucking stupid and emotionally immature (a nicer way of saying 'racist', I guess lmao) like that. You're already selling a goddamn Nintendo Switch game on Craigslist of all places, so why have a goddamn breakdown over some S T R A N G E R showing up at your house in response to the listing?? Not knocking CL but it is definitely the sketchiest way to buy/sell shit - hell, I picked up a microwave back in June from a local listing and point blank refused to meet the seller at their house & wound up offering them an extra $5 to meet me at the Walgreens nearby, because fuck exactly what you went through. Wish I could figure out why the Karen even bothered with CL instead of one of the many alternatives that is seen as 'safer' like ebay or FB marketplacce lmao.
When I lived in Vancouver, it was expected that you meet in a public place like a train station to make the sale. Around here though, everyone wants you to come to their home. And they won't tell you their address more than an hour in advance because they're scared you'll burglarize them. It's not a great system.
I remember buying a used switch for 20 dollars at Main Street - Science World (fuck Telus) station once.
Sorry to hear that bud. People can be fucking trash. :angery:
Man that shit sucks but hey free game, right?
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Nah, she didn't pass me the game. She was just setting up to do the exchange through a firmly held 1cm gap in the door.
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god damn dude, that sucks so much
What a lousy person.
call in for PD to do a wellness check on her kids. If she is that crazy odds are she is fucking up.
if not it is hilarious for a poc to call the cops on her for being suspicious.
Don't do this. It is rare for kids to be better off in a foster system.
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