Quote Originally Posted by DDT951 View Post
It is bad enough being ghosted on dating apps.... but this person took it to a new low...... being ghosted buying a firearm....
If you spend any time on Armslist or national forums you will quickly learn that the ghosting, flaking, dumbasses, and just straight up sketchballs is just the way it is. I probably only reply to 1 in 4 pm's/emails I receive, because you learn to filter out the riffraff and Nigerian royalty right quick, otherwise you are just wasting your time. In this case I started the thread about, it actually started very promising, because the guy could write in unbroken English and even used rare punctuation like periods and commas. I thought I was dealing with an actual buyer! But you learn to not take any of it personally, because you will just stress yourself out. In the end I couldn't care less about the guy ghosting me, it lets me move on with my life and not have to suffer through a 15 message back-and-forth filled with asinine requests that ultimately ends in flaking anyway. I was just genuinely interested in the guy's endgame if he was legit, because it was a request I've never come across before and immediately struck me as odd.

The only place I never have to deal with constant flaking and douchebags is right here on good 'ol COAR. But the market audience and traffic here is extremely limited compared to other sites.