Why do people think it's okay to call/text late?

[dieselcrawler]

I agree with you!
Everyone makes good points, but I liked the old school. I like manners and respect.

Agreed...

Too many junk calls/texts, I don't answer the house phone for the same reason... cell goes on silent when the wife is home (she works nights) on vibrate when she's working, so as to not wake the baby (2yo) who is often asleep next to me, but I can still tell if she's sent me a message. (wife, not baby, i can smell the messages from the latter *grin*)

Anybody else? Not often bothered, make it clear to anybody that knows me, after 9pm, before 7am, leave me alone.

 

[NoTrespassing]

Cut nose off to spite face?.....but you sure showed them!

I don't think so, we live in a very secluded place and I'd rather not have strangers coming to my place to check out stuff for sale. If one of those strangers decided they like my other stuff they could help themselves to whatever they like when I'm gone and no one would see them. I think having CL shoppers on my property would greatly increase my chances of being robbed or worse. My wife and four year old are home alone everyday back here in the woods too.

Kevin

 

[dieselcrawler]

I don't think so, we live in a very secluded place and I'd rather not have strangers coming to my place to check out stuff for sale. If one of those strangers decided they like my other stuff they could help themselves to whatever they like when I'm gone and no one would see them. I think having CL shoppers on my property would greatly increase my chances of being robbed or worse. My wife and four year old are home alone everyday back here in the woods too.

Kevin

I completely understand where you are coming from... protecting your seclusion and family privacy, and willing to pay for that by getting a reduced amount of cash from the old vehicles or other items. I grew up in a simular situation, last house up a holler, nobody had any reason to be there unless coming to our farm. Better have a d@mn good reason for pulling in the driveway...

 

[JRobyn]

^^ That's why I love, love, love my two Dakota Alerts on our long driveway. No way anyone is coming in here any time, day or night, without us knowing about it long before they get to the house.

 

[MossRoad]

I just don't understand some people.

I advertise my bushhogging by a few different means, including Craigslist....which by far brings me the most business, but also brings me the most inconsiderate people.

I got a text at 11:59 PM reference my c-list ad (that I keep updated every week) asking if I'm still doing that.

I simply replied yes, but do you realize what time it is:mur:

They replied back with an attitude that yes they knew the time, and did t want to forget by morning, and that I didn't have to respond that I could ha e waited til morning.

This kinda stuff irritates me. This is not the first time. I bet once a week I get a call or text between 10 and midnight.

Seriously people....this isn't Facebook messages or e-mails. Yes, texts actually cause my phone to make noise. Luckily, I work night shift.

When it comes to anything like this, my rule is I don't call anyone before 8 in the morning or after 9 in the evening.

It's clear this guy must me staying up late on a Friday night. Maybe I should have waited til morning and replied at 6am

You know there's an old curmudgeon thread going on here on TBN, right? :laughing:

You put an ad out there, with hopes of getting business. As a convenience to your potential/current customers, you let them leave you a voicemail or text message 24/7 (when its convenient for them) so that you can call them back during business hours (when its convenient for you). Its no different than any company with an office and an answering machine. How's someone to know that this is your personal phone and not a business phone?

You can resolve it several ways...
- Learn to use the built in features of your phone to limit who you get notifications from during certain hours (this works great).
- Get a different line/phone for business.

 

[LD1]

Some of you guys make some valid points, but if one thought this was a business phone, they wouldn't text. And assuming it would be a business cell....I still think it is inconsiderate to text a business phone well after hours.

It's not like this is some big national corporation with a 1-800 number that switches off after 5pm. It's a freakin Craigslist ad with a local cell number. People are too stupid to use the brain God gave them. Is A little courtesy too much to ask for this day in age?

On a side note, the guy text me today to get a price. He wouldn't give me an address after asking about 4 different times. Only the town it's near. After getting all the other info, acres, condition, etc.....I said it would be $250-300 ballpark, but I needed the address to view the satellite to confirm acreage....and my drive time before I could give a firm quote. (This was about the 4th time I asked for the address:mur

He replied.....my friend said he would do it for $200 but he's out of town for the next two weeks. Could you do it for $200?

Freaking seriously???? The nerve of some people. If I was your "friend" and lived closer than 1 hour away as I am sure his friend does.....then yea...I'd give you the friend discount. I have no idea where he lives, cannot confirm drive time and job to be done via satellite.

So, I simple replied that I cannot give any more pricing info without address, but if your buddy is willing to do it for you at the buddy rate of $200, it's likely that I cannot compete.

Haven't heard back

 

[LD1]

Oh, and I notice that the tone of the thread is kinda shifting the blame back on me. IE: not having a business #, not using my phone to its fullest potential, not having Google voice, etc etc. Kinda the same attitude this guy had last night.....when he text me at 11:59 and I was upset, and his "you could have waited til morning to reply" comment.

Well, that's fine. I'm thick skinned and can take the heat. I realize I am ranting on here, and as expected....there would be two different sides one could take.

And no doubt that setting up stuff on my phone, or having a business line would eliminate the once-in-a-blue-moon late night annoyances.

But since when did it become the acceptable norm to bother people at midnight? And then when they get upset....it's suddenly their fault because they didn't turn their phone off or change the settings to block late calls?

I just find it amazing how many people think that being this inconsiderate, is acceptable. And that I'm the one to blame because I have an ad to try to make a little money outside of my day-job to make a better life for my family, that I should either be willing to get calls 24/7, of set up a bunch of crap on my phone to block them. Would be a whole lot simple if people just had an ounce of courtesy.

 

[two_bit_score]

I don't think so, we live in a very secluded place and I'd rather not have strangers coming to my place to check out stuff for sale. If one of those strangers decided they like my other stuff they could help themselves to whatever they like when I'm gone and no one would see them. I think having CL shoppers on my property would greatly increase my chances of being robbed or worse. My wife and four year old are home alone everyday back here in the woods too.

Kevin

Most home burglaries are done by people who have previously been invited into the home.


TBS

 

[two_bit_score]

Oh, and I notice that the tone of the thread is kinda shifting the blame back on me. IE: not having a business #, not using my phone to its fullest potential, not having Google voice, etc etc. Kinda the same attitude this guy had last night.....when he text me at 11:59 and I was upset, and his "you could have waited til morning to reply" comment.

Well, that's fine. I'm thick skinned and can take the heat. I realize I am ranting on here, and as expected....there would be two different sides one could take.

And no doubt that setting up stuff on my phone, or having a business line would eliminate the once-in-a-blue-moon late night annoyances.

But since when did it become the acceptable norm to bother people at midnight? And then when they get upset....it's suddenly their fault because they didn't turn their phone off or change the settings to block late calls?

I just find it amazing how many people think that being this inconsiderate, is acceptable. And that I'm the one to blame because I have an ad to try to make a little money outside of my day-job to make a better life for my family, that I should either be willing to get calls 24/7, of set up a bunch of crap on my phone to block them. Would be a whole lot simple if people just had an ounce of courtesy.

People are inconsiderate. They expect that you will protect your privacy from them.


TBS

 

[MossRoad]

Oh, and I notice that the tone of the thread is kinda shifting the blame back on me. IE: not having a business #, not using my phone to its fullest potential, not having Google voice, etc etc. Kinda the same attitude this guy had last night.....when he text me at 11:59 and I was upset, and his "you could have waited til morning to reply" comment.

Well, that's fine. I'm thick skinned and can take the heat. I realize I am ranting on here, and as expected....there would be two different sides one could take.

And no doubt that setting up stuff on my phone, or having a business line would eliminate the once-in-a-blue-moon late night annoyances.

But since when did it become the acceptable norm to bother people at midnight? And then when they get upset....it's suddenly their fault because they didn't turn their phone off or change the settings to block late calls?

I just find it amazing how many people think that being this inconsiderate, is acceptable. And that I'm the one to blame because I have an ad to try to make a little money outside of my day-job to make a better life for my family, that I should either be willing to get calls 24/7, of set up a bunch of crap on my phone to block them. Would be a whole lot simple if people just had an ounce of courtesy.

On the one hand you're thick skinned, and a couple paragraphs later, you are upset.

Its not about putting blame on you. Its about getting you to use the tools available to you to lessen the likelihood of some doofus disturbing you when you don't want to be disturbed.

There's really not a bunch of crap you have to do to block them. For example, you can turn off notifications from anyone NOT in your contacts list when you set your phone to DO NOT DISTURB. Its one button you push when you go to bed, or at 9:00pm, or whenever you decide you don't want Craigs List calls.