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Minor rant ... I do a fair amount of buying/selling/trading behind the scenes, both here and on Kijiji. Kijiji is mostly annoying, but the experience on the forum is by far very very pleasant and constructive, literally at least 100 times better than Kijiji. So when I see a behaviour on the forum that is rampant to contributing to the shitty Kijiji experience, I feel compelled to comment. Thanks for indulging me. So ... just had this:
I am not butt-hurt or anything, it's just some random gear, it doesn't mean anything. But I just want us to remain the bastion of civility that we normally are. Notwithstanding the Political forum, of course. Rant off ...
Update: I just discovered a couple of posts by the specific member complaining about being mistreated by a few forum buyers/sellers in an older thread. LOL. The hypocrisy definitely undermines those claims.
- member here, a few trades on their profile, but not a lot (correction: no trading stats! should have been a flag); not a lot of posts, but some
- has an item for sale
- I contact them, offer exactly asking price under their exact conditions; done deal, right?
- no response day 1, no response day 2, a reminder in PM and then on a post, no response day 3
- checking profile, the member has been on the forum regularly throughout all of those 3 days
- this evening I check and the FS post is gone (it was there earlier today, so was removed sometime today)
- ok, fine, item sold ... but here is the rant ...
- ... the member didn't have the courtesy of responding at all, either before or after taking down the post ...
I am not butt-hurt or anything, it's just some random gear, it doesn't mean anything. But I just want us to remain the bastion of civility that we normally are. Notwithstanding the Political forum, of course. Rant off ...
Update: I just discovered a couple of posts by the specific member complaining about being mistreated by a few forum buyers/sellers in an older thread. LOL. The hypocrisy definitely undermines those claims.