It Makes Me MAD!!!

[Deleted User]

Just wanted to get off my chest how cross it makes me when I receive question messages from buyers with no please or thank you. Eg 'What's the diameter of it?'

I take great delight in sending back an answer saying 'Thank you for your interest in my item, however please be advised that I choose not to respond to people who don't use the basic common courtesy of either a please or thank you. Regards - my name'. I then add them to my blocked bidders list.

I would simply rather not deal with people who are so rude. Does anybody else feel the same?

dollydoodah

cmathews wrote: »

Just wanted to get off my chest how cross it makes me when I receive question messages from buyers with no please or thank you. Eg 'What's the diameter of it?'

I take great delight in sending back an answer saying 'Thank you for your interest in my item, however please be advised that I choose not to respond to people who don't use the basic common courtesy of either a please or thank you. Regards - my name'. I then add them to my blocked bidders list.

I would simply rather not deal with people who are so rude. Does anybody else feel the same?

Yes, very much so.

I reckon it takes my 3yr old about 20 seconds at the very maximum to type 'please' or 'thanks' with me telling her the letters, so in my opinion there is no excuse for lack of manners.

novagirl

I'd sooner reply and have their cash

durham_girl

novagirl wrote: »

I'd sooner reply and have their cash

Me too!!!!

antilles

Remind me not to ask you any questions!

Seriously though, I don't think people are particularly being rude, just lazy perhaps. Easier to type something quick in the question box, so that's just what they do...

[Deleted User]

Perhaps I'm just old fashioned, but there's enough rudeness in the world IMO, and I enjoy the ability a) not to have to put up with it by refusing to respond to people and b) to point out to them (politely) how rude they have been.

I'm lucky, I suppose, that I don't need the money badly enough to have to put up with complete lack of manners and courtesy.:D

Ephemera

Manners cost nothing....and mean everything!!

It's up to you how you deal with these ignorant people.

Reminds me of one day's shopping in a well known supermarket. The cashier managed to complete the whole transaction without saying 'please' or 'thankyou' once. I was so amazed she was so completely without manners!
Having worked in a supermarket before and having been brought up properly it would have been almost impossible for me to have done that without supreme effort...and I was being polite to her. ...Until the end of the transaction, at which point I very loudly said 'Thankyou...is the word you're looking for...!' The look on her face was a picture, I must have made her feel about three years old!

:rotfl:

TKPeters

Maybe because eBay does it for you in the emails

[FONT=arial,sans-serif]Dear Seller User ID,

XXXXXXX

[FONT=arial,sans-serif]- Buyer [FONT=arial,sans-serif]User ID[/FONT][/FONT]
[/FONT]

Jakejakejake

Yes, i like it when they say please or thanks or cheers or many thanks!! I don't take it personally if they don't, but thats the way some people are in this country! Well, world

I always respond with a cheers or thanks. Say hi at the beginning and address by their first name if they have told me.

[Deleted User]

TKPeters wrote: »

Maybe because eBay does it for you in the emails

Don't understand - where is the please or thank you in that?

frivolous_fay

I say please and thank you when I am served in a shop.

I doubt everyone does. It's reality. It's not very pretty, but I understand it, even if I don't approve.

On ebay you provide a service: you're not a 'person'.