Gotta love people on craigslist who just "want to come by and take a look"

[Xonetacular]

I'm not sure why people think this is acceptable, my home is not Guitar Center where you can just come and play with gear before you decide if you want to buy something. I've never once asked to come by and take a look at something someone was selling before I buy, if I want something I negotiate beforehand, bring cash, and buy it.

It's really a security thing, I'm not going to just let anyone into my apartment to come look at all my gear and where I live. I used to be a dick about it when people would ask me this but I think I handle it better now. A guy asked this a little while ago and my response was:

Alright cool, well if you're interested in buying them let me know and we can make arrangement but for security purposes I can't have people over just to look around.

If you need to see any more pictures or anything let me know.

-j

Which is better than how I used to respond where I would go on long passive aggressive rants or straight up tell them to go fuck themselves.

Anyway, just felt like getting that out

[Zaniac]

Your still a C**T

[JesC]

sure you can come over, let me see the money 1st,

[oliosky]

Thats what your mum said

[djlotus]

I have been guilty of being prepared to buy off CL but, when I inspected the items, told the seller to f^$@ off.

[Xonetacular]

I have been guilty of being prepared to buy off CL but, when I inspected the items, told the seller to f^$@ off.

Yeah well that's a little different than trying to go over there with no money just to look at the items and decide if you want to buy...

[Cybertrash]

When I've bought second hand stuff, I'd always almost say "I'd come take a look", in most of the cases, I ended up buying the item, but I think the wording is to make clear that you might not buy it even if you meet up with the seller (for example if someone is trying to sell a broken product).

[LoveBass]

Might just be my inner customer service industry coming out, but I would have lied to them and told them someone else was coming before whenever they wanted to come over. They would then if seriously considering buying from you come earlier and came with money, knowing that there was another buyer they were competing with or they would have buggered off due to your house not being guitar center

[Patch]

I would have lied to them and told them someone else was coming before whenever they wanted to come over. They would then if seriously considering buying from you come earlier and came with money, knowing that there was another buyer they were competing with

That would work. Depends how comfortable you are with lying to stangers.

[synthet1c]

when I saw the title of this I instantly thought inviting strangers to your man cave = home invasion... people have to earn that ability to enter and play with my gear, strangers can eef off