Ebay comments i have to deal with... (updated regularly lol)

[DKnight]

honestly i get some odd ones, this one is the best so far

"Dear XXXXXXXX,

Hi - could you tell me the size of the item in english please (ie
inches)

- bark_at_fish"


so i mean what kind of question is that? is he some kind of angry retro measurement guy?

my reply

"howdy strange question? the size is on the auction in mm, we went metric years ago, i could google mm to inches, but i will let you do that yourself cheers"

and his reply

"Dear XXXXXXX,

No problem - you've just lost a customer.

- bark_at_fish"

i mean seriously? he needs to get the fuck out more, why would you say any of this???

[hayesey]

haha, sounds like it's a customer you are best off without if they are such a pain in the arse even before buying!

Doesn't everyone know that you just divide by 25.4 to convert to inches from mm anyway?

[DKnight]

ah he replied
"Sorry - wasn't designed to sound rude, lots of firms do not
pretend their customers are 'all metric'- and I just wanted to get
a 'mind's eye' of the size of it (was looking at others too all
around the web) and since I'm armchair surfing I didn't want to
get a ruler - I hate to surprise you but like it or not most of us
still refer to sizes in 'old method' (ask someone their height,
weight, or even if you hold your fingers 15 'cm' apart and get
people to guess see how many say 6 inches or 'half a foot'
compared to metric). There's a bunch of us want emblems etc
for some supercharged classic minis - we just wanted to
compare yours with several others. I'm sorry I asked. Again - it
wasn't meant to be rude just simply a customer asking for info -
maybe the customer *is* wrong if it goes against the EU way ;-)
;-)"

not arsed, covering his tracks now, like you said, id rather not have the custom

[scotsjohn]

Lol. Bet you I can tell how old he is to a year either way. In truth, I know exactly what this guy's about; I tend to do the exact same thing(six feet of 40mm square timber sort of thing). This guy's so fucking lazy though. He can't be bothered to think metric which isn't very clever, but he can't be arsed to go and get a ruler and wants you to do a conversion for him. I know where I'd have told him to insert his ruler... in inches of course( double figure).

[Tommo]

I would have told him that i didnt have any imperial measuring equipment.

An ridiculous reply to an equally rediculous question.

[vwmk3jon]

Shouldve told him to get his ruler and then turn it the other way round!

[G-spot]

What size are the wheels on your cars lads.............

Just a thought... 

Tend to agree though, even an armchair surfer should have clicked a google converter really!

[DKnight]

yeah i totally agree inches and shit are still used, but to be so lazy to ask me to give it in inches, he is just being a nob really

[scotsjohn]

When you're giving it do you give it in inches or millimetres dan? lol.

[breadman]

I've heard he prefers to take inches!

[DKnight]

right im going to post all the comedy emails i have to deal with, todays comedy one, but seriously, as a seller, how do you reply to this? i mean that seriously too...

"i recieved sticker in post on saturday. stuck it onto my van and then realized that its the grey/silver 1 and not the black 1 in the picture. i thought the default colour was black unless i request otherwise. and i definately wanted black. but the grey 1 is on my van now !"

[lance]

oh well.

[hayesey]

maybe he didn't want to ruin the surprise of how good it was going to look and unpacked it and stuck it to his van with his eyes closed?  Seems a reasonable thing to do to me....

[Jezza-7]

That is funny. But really how would you respond to that?

[DKnight]

i genuinely dont know how to without sounding like im patronizing him, im pritty much just going to tell him we can do exchanges as it was our error in sending the wrong one, but as he has stuck it on and used it, there is not much we can do!