See, I've had items for sale on CL and in a local classified advertising paper and aside from the Nigerian scammers on CL, I've had maybe 1-3 real bites for my items. In my opinion, it's whoever puts cash in my hand first with the least amount of hassle that gets my items. I have no contract that says I have to 'hold' onto items for xyz person because they showed interest.
If you were running a yard sale, for example, and someone comes up and says "I wanna buy that (item name) that you have, but I don't have the (amount) on me, could you hold it while I go home and grab more $$$?", would you? Now, imagine if someone else comes up no more than 10 mins after the first person leaves to get more $$$ and offers you cash straight up for it for the amount you want.
There is always a 50/50 chance that the first person will NOT come back for the item and if someone else showed interest and you were 'holding it' for the first person, you may end up stuck with it till your NEXT yard sale.
See what I mean? The seller could've thought 'ok, they have some interest, but I have a cash offer right NOW to buy it, what if the first person doesn't come back and grab it, then I'm out of luck for both'.
That's how I look at it anyway. I mean, yeah, the person could've put it in a different way, like 'my wife sold it' or something, to let you know that they were intending to get you the info, but it got sold in the meantime.
I don't know, I've had too many dickheads who feign interest to even be cordial to people wanting my stuff anymore. If you've got the cash and don't wanna tell me 'i could get it from xyz place for cheaper', then hand me the cash and I'll hand you the item. But, if you're gonna be a dick n say "ill come up to check it out', then never show, that ruins it for everyone else, because then I'll just say 'you want it or not?'.
It's not that I don't have the time to play games with morons who end up not showing, it's that I've lost my patience for the idiots.