Craigslist

Craigslist has me baffled.  I will post something and get a few calls/texts/emails about it, and it usually goes something like this:

Person:  Is your {table] still for sale? I really NEED it, LOVE it, WANT it,  gush, gush, gush, etc.

Me: Yes, it's still for sale.  

Person:  When can I pick it up?

Me:  Any time. I will be home most of the day today.  Just let me know when you're on your way.  My address is.....

Person:  Great. Thanks!  I will be there at such and such time

Me:  Thanks.  See you then.

So I when it gets close to the time they come, I wait in the house so I can hear when they knock on the door.  I can't hear it when I'm redoing furniture--besides, I usually have my headphones in.

The time comes and goes when they say they will be there.  Hm. They must be lost or something.  I'll wait a little longer. I do a load of laundry and clean the bathroom.  A half hour has gone by, still no person.  I clean out the fridge and unload the dishwasher.  1 hour past the appointed time.  They must be really lost (I'm so optimistic).

After about an hour and a half, I get the hint.  They're not coming.

I can understand this happening once in a while, but it seems to happen to me 50% of the time.  Is it just me? What am I doing wrong?

But, the other 50% of the time I meet some wonderful folks.  I've had buyers drive all the way from Tolleson (half way to California in my book) just to pick up a $40 table.  I've had a pregnant lady who was about to pop come by herself to pick up a heavy dresser.  Of course I loaded into the SUV for her.  I just hope her husband unloaded it when she got home.  She looked like the kind who would do it herself if you let her.  I've met a guy who just got divorced and was doing his new house HIS way.  What kind of man doesn't like the way his wife decorates, huh?  Maybe that was the reason for the divorce.  Hee. Hee.  Just kidding.

All in all, despite the waiting game, this has been so much fun!  I enjoy this process of taking stray pieces of furniture, grooming and pampering them, fall in love with them, then watch them get adopted into a new loving home.  Sniff.  Sniff.