Love/Hate relationship
As I have posted about many times, baby Max is almost ready to be welcomed in to the world. Only 2 more weeks. There are still quite a few things we need. We need some of the necessities like bottles and diapers and such but we also need different sleeping arrangements for the lil ones. Well for everyone I guess.
We have 3 bedrooms and a den type room. It is a rather small room with a bathroom connected to it which is located off the dining room. We used to have our computer and my craft stuff in there but we have since moved all that stuff to our bedroom. It’s a little cramped but we make it work. I gave Nicki the option to either share a room with her sister or have the “den” be her room. I did that because I am going to have Lil Tony and Max share a room and then Isabel would need somewhere to go and I don’t feel comfortable with her in the “den” downstairs. Nicki currently has one of the bigger bedrooms upstairs. We live in an older house so there really isn’t a “master bedroom”. Well anyways she chose to have the “den” downstairs which I figured she would because the connected bathroom is the one she uses. It is a full bathroom so that is where she gets ready for school, showers, etc.
I feel a little bad because the room is really like a VERY small room. We will have to get her a twin bed and she won’t really have room for much more than that. I guess the upside is she won’t have to share. She is at that age that I am sure sharing is not ideal for her. So then that leaves Isabel staying in the room she is currently in with Lil Tony. It is the smallest of the 3 bedrooms upstairs. Then Lil Tony and Max will get Nicki’s room. Since they are sharing they will need a bigger room. Tony currently sleeps in the crib converted to a toddler bed and Isabel sleeps in the pack n’ play. I thought about getting another toddler bed for Lil Tony to sleep in and the Isabel will have the crib and Max would sleep in the pack n’ play that is like a bassinet. The problem with that is price. I then decided to just look online for crib prices. I thought of like Goodwill or something like that but they didn’t have anything. I then turned to Craigslist.
Here is where the love/hate relationship comes in. I have sold several things on there before and have had GREAT experiences. On the flip side as a buyer, not so good.
On Friday afternoon I found a crib/mattress for sale for $60. She said it was in good condition and from the pics it looked nice. In bold letters she said that she really needed to get rid of it ASAP and if someone wanted it but didn’t want to pay $60 she would take less. She also said that they would deliver if needed. Well I thought that was open invitation to offer a little less than asking. I am not cheap just on a budget. With a family of almost 6 I have to save where I can, that is why I went looking on Craigslist to begin with. So I send an email offering $40 and told her that I could come out on Saturday to get it. Tony had the day off so it was no problem picking it up. On a side note we live in Northern Virginia and the person was located in Romney WV which I though was just over the border and only about a 30 min drive.
Ok so it takes her forever to get back with me and she says she would not take less than $50 for the set, she said she only used it 3 months and paid almost $200 for it. I understood but then I asked if she would be able to meet halfway or bring it to me. We are still new to the area and not really sure where Romney was. Again it takes her forever to get back with me and says she was trying to figure out where we could meet and what places where near us. Still not knowing how far Romney was, we started naming streets and landmarks. I don’t hear back from her again until Saturday morning. We send about 8 emails back and forth and mostly it seems like her beating around the bush not wanting to meet up because we asked to only pay $50. At this point I am about to give up so I go looking on Craigslist again to see if there were any new listings and since we had started making arrangements to meet she posted her ad again.
I was a little upset about that because we still had no solid plans for exchange and it was getting later in the night. I decided to email her and confront her about it in a nice yet, you’re busted sort of way and she emailed me back and was sort of yelling at me. She was telling me not to freak out in big bold letters and she said it was her husband that re-posted it and he didn’t even know she had been talking to me. I called “bullshit” on the email and was deciding to just give up on her. I told my friend about it and she said she was going to email the girl, offer $50 and tell her she wanted to come in the morning and get it. The girl almost immediately emailed back and said perfect. Oh, I forgot to say that I had given the girl my number twice so she could just call me and she never did and she never gave me hers. By the second email to my friend she had already given her phone number. Now I was pretty pissed. I was going to bust her out again and go off but my friend reminded me that we still needed a crib and to just let it go. I never heard back from the Craigslist girl and so my friend and I just went out to Romney today to get the crib.
OMG she lived in the boonies. Seriously it was like over an hour drive, we had no cell reception, she was in the mountains. I got a little car sick because of all the mountains and all the driving. It was worth it though, the crib was in good shape and we got it for $50. The girl was really nice to me when we got there, not knowing I was the girl she blew off. LOL!
This is why I have a love/hate relationship though. I have never had a problem as a seller but as a buyer, not such good experiences. Oh well, I have the crib and that is all that matters. What a day!
