The weekend's failed boat "deal."

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67Dart273

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You tell me if I was the alpha hotel here. I'm the one in "blue"
Friday night I see this ad for an old boat. Concern for me, other than condition, is I don't want something too big and too heavy. After I clicked on the ad, and went to the guy's fakephlantbook page, I realized he is who I bought the 77 35hp Johnson (and an old 18hp) from........and ran this summer on the little 12 ft Crestliner

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And here is the Fake-phuc "messenger" exchange that took place. I'm the guy "in blue." I left nothing out, these are the messages exactly as sent and received.

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By comparison, I could buy this one, which is claimed to have a running engine and parts motor, for about 900. I believe this is exactly the same model!!

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What an idiot. How could he POSSIBLY be that stupid. My price is firm at $400, but it isn't gonna happen at $400???????
 
Don’t you just love what social media and texting has done to people’s communication skills? I feel sorry for businesses that have to hire people that will verbally communicate with their customers.
 
That is one of the many, many reasons why I don't use social media. I'm probably missing out on a few deals here & there, but if I can't have a phone conversation with the seller I don't want to deal with them. Unfortunately, social media is where everyone wants to deal now days but it's not my cup of tea.
 
Too much can get lost in translation when texting and emailing. A phone call goes a long way for a serious buyer and seller.

the other boat for $900 looks way better anyway. Go get it.
 
Hemioutlaw said:
Appearance wise, The boat for a K looks so much better that it's essentially a No-Brainer is it not?
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"Depends." The interior of the running boat may or may not be all that great condition, don't know without looking. I don't really need yet another 35-40 "ish" engine, either. But I'm damn sure not gonna kiss this here guy's *** to get him to figure out what he's trying to say LOL
 
I disagree on texting/emailing.

As long as you don't say tings that require a facial expression or gesture to complete, I find it MUCH better to have a documented record of what was discussed.

Plus, both parties can converse at their respective leisure, greatly reducing the "time wasting" BS excuse lots of people like to use.
 
YY1 said:
I disagree on texting/emailing.

As long as you don't say tings that require a facial expression or gesture to complete, I find it MUCH better to have a documented record of what was discussed.

Plus, both parties can converse at their respective leisure, greatly reducing the "time wasting" BS excuse lots of people like to use.
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.............And I get pretty tired of this from sellers. If something is more than 20-40 miles away, that is a fair amount of time to waste if something is misrepresented, or you don't have "enough" of the story. I've gotten the "don't play 20 questions" thing a few times from people. Well, YOU want ME to give YOU MY money, but you don't want to spend a few minutes to get it? Well then...............NOT LOL
 
Slowswinger said:
Don’t you just love what social media and texting has done to people’s communication skills? I feel sorry for businesses that have to hire people that will verbally communicate with their customers.
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Exactly! I am a retired USAF officer and then for about 20 years, before I retired in 2015, I was an Auditor and then a Market Risk Analyst at the Federal Home Loan Bank here in Topeka. In both of those careers, there was zero tolerance for errors in verbal or written communications. My communications might have been a bit longer than the reader would have liked, but there was never any question what I meant. In the last 10 years at the Bank, I watched the younger people get hired, and their communication skills were atrocious. There was this one guy who gave a quarterly disaster prep briefing, and he BUTCHERED the English language. His speaking grammar was so bad, I almost felt sorry for him. Instead of listening to what he was saying, I would keep track of his mistakes. And I would get Emails from several of them with little punctuation and no capital letters. They felt that intra company Emails were closed information only and grammar and punctuation did not count. Unfortunately, I was continually having to contact the and ask them to clarify details They thought it was clear, and got easily irritated. You are right. Businesses are having a lot of trouble finding young people with a decent skill level in communications.
 
harrisonm said:
Exactly! I am a retired USAF officer and then for about 20 years, before I retired in 2015, I was an Auditor and then a Market Risk Analyst at the Federal Home Loan Bank here in Topeka. In both of those careers, there was zero tolerance for errors in verbal or written communications. My communications might have been a bit longer than the reader would have liked, but there was never any question what I meant. In the last 10 years at the Bank, I watched the younger people get hired, and their communication skills were atrocious. There was this one guy who gave a quarterly disaster prep briefing, and he BUTCHERED the English language. His speaking grammar was so bad, I almost felt sorry for him. Instead of listening to what he was saying, I would keep track of his mistakes. And I would get Emails from several of them with little punctuation and no capital letters. They felt that intra company Emails were closed information only and grammar and punctuation did not count. Unfortunately, I was continually having to contact the and ask them to clarify details They thought it was clear, and got easily irritated. You are right. Businesses are having a lot of trouble finding young people with a decent skill level in communications.
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:rolleyes:
 
Don't feel too bad about the mix up.
I had an exchange with a Pontiac guy, older than me (I'm 58) and at first he wouldn't communicate any way other than the Pontiac private message board.
Long story short, he was asking $1,500 for an intake that he messaged ME about because it was for a 440 Mopar and I mention my Roadrunner from time to time. I messaged him that I had looked at buying the same thing before and mentioned the price range discussed, and he offered a generous discount buying price. Then I said that maybe we could discuss the mechanical, accelerator pump equipped 3x2 bbl carbs he had listed, and HE WENT OFF about how I expected to get the intake AND carbs at the intake price! I was crystal clear in my words.
Anyway, we finally spoke and I wound up sending the 1st of 2 of the same model intakes back, because it had been hacked up in being modified, a really bad job, and it was different than the one pictured.
I got the other one, same model, and it turned out to be very nice.
 
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