Caveat Venditor

It’s nice to know that selling stuff online doesn’t have to be detached and impersonal. On June 29, a Conifer cyber-entrepreneur called JCSO dispatch with details of a fairly warm exchange he’d shared after listing an automobile on Craig’s List. When a certain interested party saw the posting and phoned for details, the would-be salesman explained that he’d purchased the car a mere two weeks earlier for the specific purpose of driving it to SoCal and back and, its mission accomplished, he’d put the item back on the block. Rather than praise the seller for his industry and candor, the caller angrily accused him of illegal trade practices and negotiations broke down abruptly. Shortly after, a man who sounded an awful lot like the dissatisfied prospect left him a voice mail saying “you must be the little (bad person) that’s selling the car,” and promising to drop by one day soon to test-drive his kiester with a hob-nailed boot. When pressed by deputies for more information, the complainant allowed that he might have used caller-ID to make a counter-offer including strong misgivings about the fellow’s manhood and possibly describing him as a “piece of (biological waste).” Either way, he wanted the transaction documented in case the man tries to close the deal.

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