Why don't people read ads before responding?!?! Rant!

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So I made a post on my local CL for mixed free range chicken/duck/call duck eggs. I list price, the fact that they are mixed, and the breeds that I have running around. Several times a day I get questions such as "How much for the eggs?" or that they want a dozen of my BCM, or other breeds. Do they just not read or do they not get what Mixed with a possibility of pure chicks mean? One person even asked how do you hatch eggs...really? Maybe I am just country and thought it was common knowledge how to hatch eggs, we learned about it in 3rd grade when we hatched eggs. I am getting so frustrated answering stupid questions and especially if they would read the whole post the answer is there!!
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That's the problem now-a-days....Any Moron can use a computer.
Back in the days of DOS a person was a super geek if you even knew what a BBS was.
I feel your pain....just have to weed out the D/A's and wait for a real reply.
 
Because it's Craig's List........I've had plenty of good experiences, but you gotta wade through a mass of morons to get them.
 
The funny thing is the best duck hatching egg customers I have right now came from the 2 most incoherent, rambling emails with the most spelling mistakes I have ever seen in my life!
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Oh I know I really have to decipher some of the spellings? I mean there is a thing as spell check. I have been so nice in responding back saying the price is $2 a doz, etc and then they just never write back. I do have some lady coming tomorrow to buy 15 doz chicken eggs.
 
what people read the whole add ... are you crazy that would take up tooo.. much time...
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Yeah I have put animals on craigs list an described them perfectally ... and people would email me back ... what color...
I refuse to respond to that ... they didnt even read the whole add... morons...
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here is one more .. I posted an antique chair described it color type .. and people call me what color... same as the horses...
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how to some of these people even function now a days:lau
 
" Do they just not read or do they not get what Mixed with a possibility of pure chicks mean? "

While I do understand your frustration, I do not understand how you can possibly get "pure chicks" from "mixed" eggs. Unless I am not getting what you mean by "mixed". I understand it to mean "mixed" as in "Mixed/cross bred eggs". Or is that a "mix" of eggs from different breeds which are cross bred? Or a mix of eggs, some from crossbred chickens and some purebred chickens?

Further CL gives you the warning against scams because that is a real possibilty. When ever I receive a response that is not "worded" correctly I assume it is a scam and just delete it. You should too. Responding to them only gives them your e-mail address. They are Phishing.

Another way to sift these scams is look at the return "e-mail host". I had one the was [email protected]. I've never heard of "zoom". Maybe you have?
A couple of mine said "hey, how are you, do you still want to sell this ? These frauds assume to know our vocabulary and culture, so they respond the way they believe we do. I do not begin return e-mails or any corrospondence w/ Hey or How are you today, or Whats' going on, when addressing a stranger about business. In responding to an ad for chickens I would not respond with "do you still have this?" Scammers never ask the right poultry questions. They don't seem to know the right terminology.

Look for tip offs and you won't get frustrated, because you'll be able to pick out the serious buyers. Please understand that my intent is to help you just as you would want to help me. We're friends that's what friends do, right?

All the best

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Yeah I get what your saying. I have listed that I have black and Blue copper marans hens and rooster with Blue Orps hens and rooster with turken hens and rooster, So therefore some of the eggs can hatch pure chickens.
 
I feel your pain. Just yesterday I listed an ad for 2 free EE chicks and an EE roo. First question the woman asks, is, "How many chicks can we get? "
Really? It was a short ad, and you couldn't decipher the salient information??
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