I'm interested in buying something. Person x else wants to sell thing.
Great.
We check and discover that we both have same weekend free. I can come and take a shufti at thing this weekend.
Arrange my life to have car, roofrack etc for this weekend. Message Person x to arrange time and day.
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They are 60 miles away. They have been trying to sell thing for 2 months. This is the only weekend for weeks when I will have car and time. FFS.
It's still a couple of days until the weekend ...
Depending on the tenor of the previous conversations, if I were the seller and the weekend had been agreed, I wouldn't necessarily be too bothered about narrowing down a time until Friday (or maybe even Saturday morning), at least as long as I was able to be flexible.
Sure, if I could only make a particular two hour slot on Saturday night and an hour at lunchtime on Sunday I'd have been keen to check that one of those worked for you, but if I knew I was going to be around all day I'd probably be happy with leaving you to give me a call before leaving, to see if I would be around in a couple of hours time.
I do realise some people might feel I'm a little lackadaisical ...
No phone number provided.
No address.
Only method of contact is via facebook, on the advert.
He finally responded, last thursday.
So, Sat I went to see, buy kayak.
Pristine condition, as described (amazing for its age). Incredibly light. Looked a bit narrower on the hull than I expected.
He said he was selling because he didn't race much and found it too hard to paddle (unstable).
I bought it.
Sunday took it for a paddle. Hmm, that's odd, I think, when I put it in the water. Jaguars are not noted for being that unstable. I'm looking at a boat so unstable it won't stay upright by itself. Capsizes just sitting in the water without a paddler sat in the cockpit.
Paddled the boat for about 11km. Handles nicely. No troubles in some powerboat wash. But it isn't a stable boat.
Have a close squint at hull details, some googling. Find a picture of a Jaguar (what I has supposedly bought) next to a Cleaver-x.
This isn't a Jaguar. It is a Cleaver-X. Stability 1, which makes it nearly as unstable a boat as they get. Caveat emptor.
I don't think the seller knew.