I get stood up when selling second-hand stuff online

My dating days are long behind me so I don’t get many opportunities to be stood up. Except in one area: Selling second-hand stuff online, writes Colm O’Regan

I get stood up when selling second-hand stuff online

I got stood up this week by anĀ adverts.ie buyer. I was gutted. I had practically been waiting for them in the hall with the sander. (That is not some sort of niche kink. All visitors don’t get a rub of the sander. I was selling a sander.)

And then the message came. ā€œSorry withdrawing my offerā€. How DARE he string me along? I wasĀ looking forward to that €15 and the one or two cubic feet of space that would be freed up. Well, for yourĀ information ā€œbaggytrousers15ā€ (not his real pseudonym) I was messaging someone else all along and theyĀ emptied the space in my heart.

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