‘I won't pay for this': Choosing beggar demands seller pay for item delivery because ‘they live too far away’

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Eleonora Bader
Oct 2, 2023 7:00 AM EDT

When selling items online, you are bound to encounter some choosing beggars. To be a little more concise, a choosing beggar is when one person has unreasonable expectations while attempting to haggle a price. I've sold a couple of items in my lifetime and am almost always met with some kind of resilience from the other side. Usually, when I am introduced to such a haggler, I make an effort to say as little as possible and just make it clear that the sale is not gonna work out. Because when these hagglers get their claws into you, trust they are not gonna take them out that easy.

OP met such a person when they were selling a couple of dining chairs. This person, or rather, choosing beggar, told OP that because they were not located close to him and would need to pay a lot of money for gas to come pick up the items, that OP should be the one paying for said gas. OP told the choosing beggar that they would just sell it to someone local, thanks, but the choosing beggar did not stop there.

Enjoy the hilarious story of this entitled person, and when you are done, check out this insurance client who found a clever way to apply for financial aid after their insurance company was making it unreasonably hard for them to do so.

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    Font - Hi, is this available? Thanks! Send a quick response Tap a response to send it to the buyer. Yes, it's available. No, it's not available. Hi there, yes they're available I'm located in the north cypress area if you're interested in taking a look That's about an hour away from me, di! 1 Okay I can pay you $45 (half) since it would take a lot of my time to drive there
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    Font - I'm pretty firm on the price, they were about $230 originally. You can find them on Wayfair currently for that price Create a plan to schedule your meetup. Create Plan Yeah I understand that, but I would end up spending about 20 in gas and 2 hours of my time to drive there and back so you'd need to compensate me 2 That means I'd be taking a loss because of where you are located. I have people in the area interested who don't need to drive far, so I will sell with them. Thanks.
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    Font - Okay but I am interested in buying this still and don't have any control over the area I live in, understand? It's business, if you had to ship this somewhere that took 2 hours you'd have to deduct that from the cost that you made. I have to drive that time and mileage and I shouldn't have to do that for free. 3 I have someone close to me who is interested in buying them so I'll be marking them as sold. Thanks They contacted you after me? I was in line first. Again it's business. Would yo
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    Font - 4 If you want to pay for one of those services to pick it up and deliver them to you I can do that. Otherwise I will be selling to this local person. Unread messages Why should I spend extra money to deliver them here when you're the person who is so far from me? I'm not selling them you are. They are coming from you to me so I shouldn't have to pay for shipping If you ship something from a post office the seller pays for the item at the origin city, not the buyer. Otherwise you can't shi
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    Font - This person is so entitled and insane. Never mind that the item they wanted delivered to them (at my cost) would be considered a freight item. It's a pair of dining chairs. It would be bad enough to ask for a delivery period, but especially a large item delivery. FFS.
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    Font - C ethrower 10 hr. ago . Has this person never paid for shipping on an online order before? €1.3k € Reply Share
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    Font - jujoking 8 hr. ago It really enraged me reading that. Like, yes the seller pays for shipping - after the BUYER pays that extra money, you du € 424 € s CB Reply Share
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    Font - Nice-Debt7680 10 hr. ago I engage these clowns because I find it so satisfying to tell them to f < off... € 373 € Reply Share
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    Rectangle - MarrkDaviid 10 hr. ago They are really comparing a personal sale to ordering from a business that has free shipping € 198 € Reply Share
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    Font - joeyo1423 9 hr. ago See, YOURE far from them. It's not that they're far from you. They're located where they're supposed to be at the exact center of the universe (Big Bang actually happened in their living room)
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    Font - So it's your fault because that's totally how distance works. Maybe if you were smart and lived closer to them you wouldn't have to deduct money from that sale. € 372 € Reply Share
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    Font - monkey_monkey_monkey 10 hr. ago . The seller is supposed to pay to ship it to me?? Amazon owes me an explanation € 120 € Reply Share
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    Font - Rock_Robster___. 10 hr. ago "I don't have any control over the area I live in". Huh? € 80 € Reply Share
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    Font - Pantaruxada 9 hr. ago The CB should be given time to check out real estate closer to the seller, he might find a place and be able to pick up the item € 29 € Reply Share
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    Font - 1554-0 tdubs702 10 hr. ago Businesses don't deduct the cost of shipping from the price. They charge the customer the shipping costs or add the cost of "free shipping" into the cost of the product. €153 153 € Reply Share
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    Font - llama_fresh 9 hr. ago They keep repeating "it's business", like business isn't selling for the highest available profit. €34€ Reply Share
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    Font - bogeymanbear - 10 hr. ago Now this is the content I signed up for € 15 € Reply Share
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