I'm with you on this one Laurie. I would never even dream of buying something and then asking the person if they would deliver it. If you want it, come get it! I don't care how many bridge tolls you have to pay or how much petrol your vehicle uses.

had it happen.

Is it bad etiquette to just simply ask to meet half way?

My big pet peeve along the same lines (I've had a little rant on this in the past)
Is the person that posts something up.
You think to yourself " Hey just what I need ! "
You send them a message, you can see that they have been online since sending them a PM.
And......................nothing.............
No communication, no idea if they still have it for sale. Nothing
Drives me nuts.

Whoa... You guys been meeting different people than I have haha! Everyone I've finalized a sale with has been really civil and pleasant :D

Edit: I should clarify -- everyone who wasn't obviously a tire kicker...

Yup! had it happen too, So my new rule regarding texting:" no name no reply". :heh:

I've become very bitter about selling to people from the internet - because that is the biggest reason for the lack of ethics.

50% are price shopping on impulse and make stupid disrespectful offers because they want to see what they can get for 15 seconds of time invested. Rather than arranging a time to meet, view and negotiate.

45% are so flaky or impulsive again they decided that 5 days after making you hold something, and the day before or of, they changed their mind......

5% of the people are good to deal with and now have to suffer the reality of first come first serve.

I pick and choose who I give the benefit of the doubt to. I've met some people from here who I suspected would be wasting my time (opinionated of course). These people plagued the for sale boards trying to buy the lowest end stuff, started randomly calling and texting me - sure enough when I was shutting down my tank, they were there and decided to take he $5 fish where there was enough comments they liked other things......I'm not surprised

Just build good relationships with the few are good to deal with.

P.S. I still vouche that Canreef should look into a classified rating system.

but perhaps I'm all for that, because every "i trader" I've been set up with, I've followed through with my end of the bargain.

it costs less for me to have something shipped from Quebec to B.C. than it is to drive some place 15 minutes away - it would do a lot of favors for those people in remote areas that don't have salt water stores or the budget at the moment.

Can't, too much work and no way to validate anything.

Like that wrasse you shipped me, dead in the bag, probably dead when you packed it. You ripped me off and nobody should ever deal with you again.

Sure, maybe I made that up. Maybe I didn't. See where that would go really fast?? :razz:

Negative reputation points will fix him up REAL quick like. There's no recovering from an attack on your canreef reputation.