wanted to start a discussion for the people that are the noshows defending their name.... 

MI NO NOSHOW!!!lol im always there n on time 

i have been a no show before, but I overslept and hubby took the car! and i emailed after and apologized 

I too have been a no show...not intentionally though. Things come up...life happens. I deal with no shows on a weekly bases. I don't know why everyone gets so bent out of shape. I've learned to not revolve my life around SYS but to plan around my life instead and it won't be an inconvenience. 

You know I went to purchase something from someone. I worked it out with her. We set the time and the place. The day before we were supposed to meet. I showed up early and I waited almost 30 minutes for her to show up. I called her cell phone. No answer. I got home she hadn't sent me an email or nothing. I wrote her and asked for the item's price to be lowered. She wouldn't do it, and told me that she forgot and her family came first. She didn't say she was sorry or nothing. She still has the item that I wanted to purchase. I was going to buy it and I still would have but she was RUDE!!! I'm not sure if I'm being a baby about it. My hubby told me to grow up. But still I took the time to meet her all she should have done was atleast have courtesy to send me an email first to let me know what all was going on. Right? 

Miranda, I totally agree with you! I have dealt with several ppl who are rude. I ALWAYS ask for a number or give them mine. I do understand that if you are waiting for a person to pick up at your house that , yea if they dont show up "life can go on". But if you are from out of town and the other person doesn't show up. I completely understand why they rant and rave about it. Not only did the do a nice offer by driving to meet you and waste their GAS. There the ones that actually spent money instead of making extra cash. But some things on the SYS website were getting out of control. I'm glad ppl have a website they can now do the ranting and raving on instead of there LOL 

i drove to the eastside to have a certain person not be home then still emailed her back and gave her another chance mind you she was selling. then she put a time and place to meet the following saturday. i was there 15 min before and waited for 30 min. and she didnt show she had my number and email and didnt have the courtesy to use either then has the nerve to go home and put sold on the item. Shes a real jerk in my book!!! wont say no names but i def wont be buying from that certain person on the EASTSIDE!!!! :O) thank you to all of you who have been home and who are soo NICE . Ive met lots of great people on here 

I am the out of town person(one of them) that does get stood up. I posted a ad about common courtesy and keep reposting it, as it has been a while I will admit there are a lot of no show ads on there since I originally posted mine. It has become a problem as I can see having been on there for about a year. As for the eastside person, they tend to keep making new accounts when their premeire expires and I have watched them closely, they list the same stuff form one account to the other. This person has even replied to my stuff only to reply again and say I cant meet. I know I am def not the only one that they do this to. They have also bought stuff from my friend on here and then turn around and sell it only to leave them wondering why since they "NEEDED" it soo bad... 

Now I have been on both sides of this. I had someone coming out to my house to pick up some things. But they were supposed to be here at 5:30. We waited at home until 6:40 and they didn't show up. We left and I didn't check my email before we left and they came while we were on post. Nothing I could do about it. They had my number to call and let me know that they weren't coming at the original time. Back to the original comment I made about the lady who was selling things and didn't show up. I was kinda pushy on the email I sent to her. I just told her that since she didn't show up that I should get the item for the price I quoted to her. She replied and told me that she wasn't going to let me dictate the sale. She will let me have it for her price. But that her family comes first. And she completely forgot that she was meeting me. I'm sorry but it's completely different for a seller not to show up verses a buyer. It's usual for the buyer to skip out. But the seller is there to make money and most people won't miss out on that. I know that I don't. 

i havent had a no show seller yet, i hope i dont. I always make sure im home at agreed times, so i appreciate when sellers do the same for me. I also get frustrated when a buyer doesnt show up at the right time. I generally schedule people at 4 only if its the only time they can come, and we ussually leave within 30minutes of the agreed time to go out. I think that 30 minutes is well enough of a grace period after the time the buyer is suppossed to show. 

Yeah, depending on what all I have going on that day. I will either give them 15 mins or 30 mins. And if they don't show up I will not be the first one to send the email. They better do it first and explain what happened. Not just that they forgot. 

yeah i used to email and ask if they were still interested, and 90% of the time i get no response and 5% theyd tell me no and the other 5% would say they were sorry and reschedule. just isnt worth my time to track people down with those kind of stats 

I kinda wish that there was a way to warn other people about the no shows just like ebay does for no payment. 

yeah i would totally support a feedback system. i wonder if an external one can be created? 

That is the only downfall to this site. No feedback system. A fellow yard saler wanted to do that or even share no shows through private email and they got threatened, their kids were threatened and so on. She even contacted site owners who said no feedback.. A danf yard sale site and people get soo mad they threaten people and their kids? Ridiculous... 

i think the system they were trying to set up was a little ridiculous. but a simple feedback system would be easy. if you bought the item, you list what you bought and your expereince. if you had a bad experience selling or buying from a certain person, you simply leave that feedback. but none of this noshow sillyness. the feedback would be full of it 

I really dislike no shows also. I get them on a daily basis. Its really shocking when someone will beg and say how they need something so bad maybe for this person or that reason. Then they say how they can only meet at a certain time because they have this or that other wise. And then they just dont show up. Thats so crazy. I just dont get it. 

I've bought an item from the Eastside person and it was a positive experience. Not sure what happened with her other dealings? 

I've bought an item from the Eastside person and it was a positive experience. Not sure what happened with her other dealings? 

I've bought an item from the Eastside person and it was a positive experience. Not sure what happened with her other dealings? 

JUST TO CLEAR THE AIR!!!! i just said the area im not saying names.. just want to clear that up there are lots of sellers on the east side... and very nice people... i think ppl are automatically assuming on which one i was talking about. lol .:O)