This shameless guy has been wanting freebies from me for weeks without any purchase, but he kept delaying the payment although I kept reminding him of the deadline and have been publicly posting our schedules. Unlike some people like Venatorious he never had the courtesy to ask for a time extension.
Today at 9:16 AM
You have just been sent a personal message by E3E on geekhack.
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The message they sent you was:
Okay!
I'm just waiting for something to clear first. Would you be alright waiting a little before I send you the payment to make sure all is well? Thanks you again.
My answer is posted publicly, I am not replying to him anymore:
I’m pretty sure I don’t have the PCB and casing anymore. We either threw it out yesterday, or wife packed it as filler in the box of some genuinely paying customer. Either way I don’t care. It was going to be thrown or given, never kept in the house.
Some idiots think the world rotates around them. And what is this nonsense ‘to make sure all is well’? Are you implying we don’t ship things as promised, so you are delaying indefinitely? Why would we ship things if we weren’t paid?
For just a few dollars actual shipping on a free item, people will give me so much trouble with back and forth messages. That’s why I can never update my thread properly. People are perpetually changing their minds, delaying payment, deciding not to pay but not telling me, not staying in communication with their intentions, or else making me wade through an essay discussing in vague terms what they might want or what might be good for them or what possibly their cousin needed.
The record holder for essay writing is a guy who wrote 1,886 words about what might fit his entire collection, and asked me for what I had that might fit his collection and which didn't cost more than (multiple varying factors here so x varies depending on whether I have hall effect keyboards or monterey blues) $x to ship.
You idiots must think I’m making a pile of cash from this, so that I have all incentive to spend all that time packing. I just didn’t want to throw stuff that others could make good use of, because I know that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Lots of stuff got thrown yesterday. Gone. Two freaking cubic meters. Had to sneak up on several construction site dumpsters to get that all done. I’ve been saying for a month that they will be disposed of. Why are there still morons who message me after the fact saying that ok, I’m considering picking up your stuff, maybe if this sale proves legit I’ll condescend to paying for shipping on something that is free?
(Note the plural – several such morons messaged me yesterday, long after I’d locked all threads and deleted all items. I am only publicly singling out E3E because of the insulting tone of his message.)
Frankly this moving sale has been a pain and I don’t wish to talk to 99% of geekhackers ever again. Since wife bore the brunt of packing (95% of the work was done by her) I’m lucky that she is even talking to me, especially with my notes in such a mess with the constant mind changing of the geek/deskthor population. I know some mistakes have been made (whiteplate just notified me of his incomplete set), but by this point I don’t care. Everyone’s name has a tick next to it, which means you got sent something, and hopefully it is what you wanted. And unlike MOST members of the forums (MANY of whom treated me like google/yahoo/search engines), yes, wife can tell a Razer from a Model M and Cherry MX keycaps from buckling spring keycaps.
Anyway even if someone didn’t get what he ordered, odds are about 50-50 he can’t tell the difference. So many people were treating me as google that I might have said by mistake that green alps are heavy tactile and green MX are linears.
