Not properties btw but vehicles and RV's .
L'm not a salesman but unfortunately part of my work involves selling after the job . l buy and sell RV's , campers and stuff , usually after doing different work or fit outs on them .
l've probably sold 100 or so over the years , more . Sometimes to because of my area ,we negotiate a delivery or to meet 1/2way as it often helps move something l may've been stuck with for much longer other wise.
But every now and then l get stumped or on the spot and to this day , although l handle most scenarios pretty well if l do say so myself , and there's been some doozies , there have been a few , and l just had another one of those again today.
We arrange to meet about an hour from my home where he's meant to pay for and take the vehicle.
And ok , this one was without the deposit down as we just did the deal last night, meeting today and all was good to go , should've been fine.
Except he was suss about some of the paperwork and nothing l could say would change his mind. It was all fine but he was stuck on one detail , doesn't really matter what but the point is he refused to go ahead.
l'd just spent an hr on and off with him last night and then two hours today getting stuff ready and driving.
l mean what do you do ?
You can't make someone take the thing or stick to their deal, drag the cash out of their pocket .
l spent10mins or so trying to work it out , he wasn't budging ,l was getting very peed of. In the end said fk this and took off.So that's how that one panned out.
Another one once ,same , did the deal the night before, meeting him at 8am , an hour away . Hooked up and got there on time . But he had a gripe about something and refused to go ahead with the deal. Again l'd wasted all that time , driven all that way, he offered to cover me for the fuel , big deal, great !
But again ,really nothing was going to budge him.
Now l hear you say deposit deposit but hey , sometimes , mostly ,yet here's the same again.
Guy rang from interstate , saw all the pics on the net. We'd spent about an hour all up texting and talking details and he wanted the van , put 2k on it that night and wanted to race down over night and meet me 2hrs from my place 9am.
Rocks up with 4 mates , not happy with the van. Now l have to be careful here , l was alone and had 4 very tired blokes in front of me , peed off because they'd driven all that way and didn't like the van.
l'd wasted by the time l take it home again , 4 or 5hrs and fuel, plus all the time on the deal itself , what do you do.
l couldn't give him he's deposit back because l'd transferred it into some other stuff that very night before . And are you gonna tell 4 tired peed of blokes your keeping their deposit ?
So , he was mainly peed about one particular thing in the kitchen so he wanted some money off.
He had the balance which was 10k , right there but refused and said he'd only give me 9 .
The 1/2 a day it was taking me was worth 4 or 500 anyway because l didn't charge him to run it over there considering how far he was coming.
So , in the end l agreed , he took he's van and l go home 1k out plus 1/2 a day.
But what else could l have done ?
You know , my stuffs advertised on the net so they're buying through pictures and whatever info you can both discuss . And it can get damn tricky.
l'd actually take the good old paper ads any day actually after 7yrs of dealing through the internet but no one buys them any more and my areas too small anyway. My customers come from all over with the net.
L'm not a salesman but unfortunately part of my work involves selling after the job . l buy and sell RV's , campers and stuff , usually after doing different work or fit outs on them .
l've probably sold 100 or so over the years , more . Sometimes to because of my area ,we negotiate a delivery or to meet 1/2way as it often helps move something l may've been stuck with for much longer other wise.
But every now and then l get stumped or on the spot and to this day , although l handle most scenarios pretty well if l do say so myself , and there's been some doozies , there have been a few , and l just had another one of those again today.
We arrange to meet about an hour from my home where he's meant to pay for and take the vehicle.
And ok , this one was without the deposit down as we just did the deal last night, meeting today and all was good to go , should've been fine.
Except he was suss about some of the paperwork and nothing l could say would change his mind. It was all fine but he was stuck on one detail , doesn't really matter what but the point is he refused to go ahead.
l'd just spent an hr on and off with him last night and then two hours today getting stuff ready and driving.
l mean what do you do ?
You can't make someone take the thing or stick to their deal, drag the cash out of their pocket .
l spent10mins or so trying to work it out , he wasn't budging ,l was getting very peed of. In the end said fk this and took off.So that's how that one panned out.
Another one once ,same , did the deal the night before, meeting him at 8am , an hour away . Hooked up and got there on time . But he had a gripe about something and refused to go ahead with the deal. Again l'd wasted all that time , driven all that way, he offered to cover me for the fuel , big deal, great !
But again ,really nothing was going to budge him.
Now l hear you say deposit deposit but hey , sometimes , mostly ,yet here's the same again.
Guy rang from interstate , saw all the pics on the net. We'd spent about an hour all up texting and talking details and he wanted the van , put 2k on it that night and wanted to race down over night and meet me 2hrs from my place 9am.
Rocks up with 4 mates , not happy with the van. Now l have to be careful here , l was alone and had 4 very tired blokes in front of me , peed off because they'd driven all that way and didn't like the van.
l'd wasted by the time l take it home again , 4 or 5hrs and fuel, plus all the time on the deal itself , what do you do.
l couldn't give him he's deposit back because l'd transferred it into some other stuff that very night before . And are you gonna tell 4 tired peed of blokes your keeping their deposit ?
So , he was mainly peed about one particular thing in the kitchen so he wanted some money off.
He had the balance which was 10k , right there but refused and said he'd only give me 9 .
The 1/2 a day it was taking me was worth 4 or 500 anyway because l didn't charge him to run it over there considering how far he was coming.
So , in the end l agreed , he took he's van and l go home 1k out plus 1/2 a day.
But what else could l have done ?
You know , my stuffs advertised on the net so they're buying through pictures and whatever info you can both discuss . And it can get damn tricky.
l'd actually take the good old paper ads any day actually after 7yrs of dealing through the internet but no one buys them any more and my areas too small anyway. My customers come from all over with the net.