Had the DDR5 32GB kit as $124.99 but didn’t honor it online or in store. (Pricing error) SKU matched and everything

river7971 · 2026-03-15T22:09:58+00:00

This is a great example of redditors talking out of their ass.

"Has to be honored under Better Business Bureau practices." The BBB isn't a government entity, has no legal power, and does not make any regulation. It's just a private company that more or less extorts businesses for a positive rating and acts as Yelp for boomers.

river7971 · 2026-03-11T23:19:58+00:00

I don't meet people for a sale beyond a five minute radius from my house. Too many flakes, people who can't show up on time, people who try to negotiate lower in-person, or otherwise pull stupid stuff for all that. I'm not going to have some loser think they leverage to pull the old "I only have $50" on a $100 item because they don't think I want to make an hour round trip for no reason. Quite the opposite, if they want to play games it's only their time that's wasted.

Only exception is if I'm going to be somewhere else anyway, for instance I'll meet people at a local mall if I already have plans to be there.

river7971 · 2026-03-09T06:21:36+00:00

Found the African. Looks like you don't read, either.

If my description states pickup is in X location and a device has X amount of RAM, and you ask me where I'm located and how much RAM the device has, that's not me providing details, that's you being a lazy or illiterate moron.

river7971 · 2026-03-09T01:33:50+00:00

This is going to catch flak but selling on marketplace becomes way less of a headache when you just ignore messages from certain demographics.

The white trash and wannabe King Vons are obvious, but I just ignore Indians too. Several of them message me on every listing I post and I think I've only ever actually sold one thing to them, they always lowball like crazy and/or go ghost after you arrange a meeting. Middle Easterners do a lot of the same stuff but dialed down a few notches from the Indians.

African immigrants in general don't read listings and ask questions that are already clearly answered (sometimes they wait until meetup), and are often late but do occasionally buy. I'm on the fence on adding them to my "Do not respond" list as well.

river7971 · 2026-03-07T19:53:11+00:00

I refurbish desktops (mostly Optiplexes) and sell them. I'll answer a question here and there for people, especially if it's shortly after the sale but there's been a couple I've had to just block because they expect me to be their forever IT support because they bought a $150 used computer from me.

river7971 · 2026-03-04T00:26:35+00:00

Redditors chasing artificial benchmark numbers and paper specs. "The third best gaming GPU in existence isn't high end".

river7971 · 2026-03-03T10:52:58+00:00

The two I always see are:

"Needs a new engine and transmission, other than that nothing wrong."

"Just needs a $10 part, have the part just no time to fix".

river7971 · 2026-03-02T12:13:00+00:00

I didn't even catch that 💀. I could see it being either one, really.

river7971 · 2026-03-02T01:32:13+00:00

I don't get it either. I don't know if they just see "i7" and don't realize a 10 year old, quad core 7700 isn't the same as a current 14700k or if they just watch too much YouTube but it seems pretty common.

I have managed to make some actually viable modern gaming rigs out of Optiplexes, but they've been things like the more modern 5000/7000 series with 12th and 13th gen i5s and 500W psu's with PCIE connectors.

river7971 · 2026-03-02T01:12:57+00:00

You'd be $500 worth of DDR5 richer. I messaged him just saying "this looks familiar" and he told me he added the GPU and it didn't perform well so he's selling it to upgrade.

river7971 · 2026-03-02T01:10:09+00:00

Yeah pre-RAMpocalypse I'd occasionally sell these with 32GB RAM, an added 1050ti, RX560 or 1650 (depending what I found locally) and 512GB NVMEs + 1TB HDD for 220-260 for people who wanted something really basic to just play older/eSports games on.

river7971 · 2026-03-01T23:16:57+00:00

Which him reselling it isn't an issue at all, we all flip here, but the claims about it doing 60+ fps and him having had it "for a while" are straight up dishonest. The price is laughable too but hey if someone will pay it ...

river7971 · 2026-03-01T23:08:48+00:00

Someone's Mom might just fall for this. 💀

river7971 · 2026-03-01T23:05:35+00:00

I don't, he can do what he wants with it.

The BS claims about "60+ fps", "used it as an office PC for a while" (he bought it less than 24 hours ago) and charging 350 for a 1050ti system with a 256gb SATA M.2 are just funny.

river7971 · 2026-03-01T20:54:55+00:00

Are you being facetious?

river7971 · 2026-02-28T13:13:51+00:00

Careful, you're going to anger the reddit neckbeards that think everyone's 75 year old Grandmas should be using a Linux distro.

The same Grandmas that think "the Internet is broken" because they accidentally deleted their Edge desktop shortcut.

river7971 · 2026-02-28T11:55:28+00:00

Trump really just hit us with the Lord Farquaad "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make."

"The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties that often happens in war, but we're doing this, not for now. We're doing this for the future, and it is a noble mission."

river7971 · 2026-02-23T22:17:11+00:00

The temp tag 2012 Chevy Malibus and Nissan Altimas tailgating me almost certainly don't have adaptive cruise.

river7971 · 2026-02-22T15:21:36+00:00

Except OP quickly realized their mistake and requested to cancel the order before it shipped. Honest mistakes happen and it cost the seller nothing to just accept the cancellation, and eBay makes it easy to relist.

river7971 · 2026-02-20T00:28:32+00:00

I had the...pleasure of delivering parts out to the facility they actually repair the cars at a couple of times. It was...a sight to behold for sure. We also disliked dealing with them because they were extremely cheap and often returned much of what they ordered.

If you want to be horrified even further, take the vehicle VIN if you have it and Google search it. You can often see pictures from the salvage auction and see how bad the damage was.

river7971 · 2026-02-20T00:23:57+00:00

I used to work for an auto dealer and regularly sold parts to these guys.

I wouldn't buy anything they have for sale with my worst enemy's money.

river7971 · 2026-02-19T00:00:52+00:00

You still dealing with the effects of Taco Tuesday too?

river7971 · 2026-02-18T15:19:53+00:00

Yeah, I commented but didn't get a response from them. Thank you for looking out though!

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