Buyer and Seller Feedback - Kim, on answering photo adds

Now I don't respond to a lot of adds, but when done the old way by direct e mail to the vendor, 99% of the time I'd get a responce, even if it was just to tell me your too late, already sold.

Since the change over to e mail via YT, I can't think of a single responce I've received on roughly 20 inquiries. I am beginning to wonder if indeed my inquiries go through the system? Am I doing something wrong?

Hugh

Not a problem - I just didn't think to check here. I check the Site Comments quite often though so next time be sure and post there for a faster direct response from me.

See my reply regarding your specific problem below, thanks.

Also, I'll need to know if you get any type of error message back. Perhaps you could try to email someone on an ad, then let me know you did it. I'll trace it and try it myself too. We'll see what the logs show from there and see what we can do.

Thanks
Kim

This however is not the case with having my e mail address exposed in discussions. I get responces on those quite regularly.

I guess there wouldn't be much point in advertising either if no one is going be able to respond.

My point here is depending on a number of factors, some computers don't access everything at YT. For example all those photos with a little red x in a box, I've never been able to open them.

Before the change in format and when you made a direct e mail to the vendor, I had excellent responce. Since the change to e mail through YT, I can't remember getting a single responce on about 20 inquiries. Now if inquiries are not getting through, this whole process is not very fair to sellers thinking they are reaching all potential customers.

I might add I have also helped several vendors, I expect folks selling an estate, not really knowing a lot about the tractor and thinking the tractor was much older than it actually was. I have also been quick to point out (privately) when someone misrepresented a tractor calling it much newer than it actually is. Some of these folks just don't know, and if I can help before they get into a dispute with a potential customer, I feel I have helped in some way. Now there are other vendors who do know they are making misleading advertizing. I will point that out to them privately. If they advertize it a month later and not corrected the item, I may then go public.

This is the first time I've ever looked at this feed back site. Much of what I see here is not a legitimate complaint, but rather someone not getting his or her own way, thus wanting to crap all over the person they have the dispute with. I think YT has a responcibility to monitor and correct this, failure to do so may be their own dawnfall.

Here's mine:

bigcoulee@hotmail.com

So now someone can contact me without using the goofy email system.

(Using a "disposable" email address means if I start to get a lot of spam, I can abandon it, and create a new one. Surprisingly, though, I have used this address for about 5 years in open forums, and have very little spam beyond what MSN's spam filters trap.)

You see folks wanted this added security of the YT generated e mail. My question is and still has not been answered, are the people who place these adds actually getting the e mail. Funny way to try and sell something, advertize and have someone else select you potential customers.

My comments were mainly directed at folks buying tractors 30+ years old, sight unseen, then craping all over the seller when everything on tractor did work as new. I only have one piece of advice for these folks, if you can't afford to loose money you shouldn't be buying tractors sight unseen. Both buyers and sellers will miss some items wrong.