More GWoB Auction
Mar. 13th, 2004 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusOh, yeah, I been having all sorts of fun with the GWoB auction. But the whole thing is taking up a lot more time than I'd hoped for. Oh, well, at least now I've got some good templates and spreadsheets and things should go easier next time.
A few new items have been listed. One of which I was a little hesitant to have associated with GWoB, however tenuously. It's a computer game in packaging that was recalled immediately after 9/11 for obvious reasons.
Lots of questions from people, most of which have been reasonable and polite.
Then there was the guy who emailed from New Jersey, asking if I could send the item through the post office instead of UPS, cuz it was cheaper (perfectly reasonable request. I don't generally like to do it because there's no way of tracking, and I have no proof I sent it if it gets lost in the mail or the buyer decides to claim he never got it.). OK, so I looked up the mailing price and gave him that ($5.50 as opposed to $8.00). But that wasn't good enough. He then decided to call me (the numbers in the .sig of every email I send out), and try to bargain me down from there. He thought I should be able to send it for $4.00, instead of the $5.50 the post office quoted me, if I put it in a different box. After explaining to him that this is just a tiny non-profit organization, and we don't have the resources to expend on researching every aspect of all shipping costs, he then accused me of trying to bump up the profit on the item by charging extra for shipping (since I do charge for packaging, which I have to pay for too).
Finally I explained to him that neither of us would be hurt if he simply didn't bid on the item, so that would probably be a good idea.
Gah! What is it with people! Oh, yeah, I gotta save a dollar by low-balling a non-profit organization! Do these people go into Salvation Army and try to bargain with the clerk there? And it isn't as if he's alone. I still remember the guy trying to convince us to sell him a button for half price at Eugene Celebration (we sell them for a dollar, he wanted to pay 50c, cuz he thought that's what they're worth.) Dude, the button doesn't cost anything. It's free to you after a donation. (Especially ironic given how many buttons we gave away at no charge to people who really liked the org, but didn't have a dollar on them.)
A few new items have been listed. One of which I was a little hesitant to have associated with GWoB, however tenuously. It's a computer game in packaging that was recalled immediately after 9/11 for obvious reasons.
Lots of questions from people, most of which have been reasonable and polite.
Then there was the guy who emailed from New Jersey, asking if I could send the item through the post office instead of UPS, cuz it was cheaper (perfectly reasonable request. I don't generally like to do it because there's no way of tracking, and I have no proof I sent it if it gets lost in the mail or the buyer decides to claim he never got it.). OK, so I looked up the mailing price and gave him that ($5.50 as opposed to $8.00). But that wasn't good enough. He then decided to call me (the numbers in the .sig of every email I send out), and try to bargain me down from there. He thought I should be able to send it for $4.00, instead of the $5.50 the post office quoted me, if I put it in a different box. After explaining to him that this is just a tiny non-profit organization, and we don't have the resources to expend on researching every aspect of all shipping costs, he then accused me of trying to bump up the profit on the item by charging extra for shipping (since I do charge for packaging, which I have to pay for too).
Finally I explained to him that neither of us would be hurt if he simply didn't bid on the item, so that would probably be a good idea.
Gah! What is it with people! Oh, yeah, I gotta save a dollar by low-balling a non-profit organization! Do these people go into Salvation Army and try to bargain with the clerk there? And it isn't as if he's alone. I still remember the guy trying to convince us to sell him a button for half price at Eugene Celebration (we sell them for a dollar, he wanted to pay 50c, cuz he thought that's what they're worth.) Dude, the button doesn't cost anything. It's free to you after a donation. (Especially ironic given how many buttons we gave away at no charge to people who really liked the org, but didn't have a dollar on them.)
