don't say you are going to sell it if you aren't going to sell it!

DH and I decided we wanted to buy an above ground pool for our 2 young boys. Of course we look to kijiji. We found a great pool. 15' wide, 4' deep, comes with everything we would need, even the solar panels and they will deliver it because they live out of town. We come to an agreed upon price and have an "email" contract...then... today I get an email... "as we were cleaning the pool we were remembering all the good times we had...blah blah... the kids had a meltdown...blah blah...we decided not to sell it. sorry.
oh don't worry, we didn't spend 12 hours this weekend digging up our entire yard of grass, laying down gravel and sand and levelling it all off. Don't worry we didn't spend money already to prepare for the pool...oh and don't worry, we didn't tell our 4 year old you can't play in the backyard all week because we are preparing to get a pool...
Maybe you should have asked your kids first if they wanted to keep the pool... or not posted it on kijiji...or not agreed to sell it!
I am so furious right now.
ok, thanks for listening, rant over.

yikes, i know how much work preping for a pool is. thats such a bummer!! but, on the plus side.. summer's comming and i'm sure there will be lots more pools for sale on kijiji.

It happens:( I hate selling on Kijiji....people always say they r coming to buy then never show!!! So I guess u are lucky in a way ...at least they emailed you!

oh that sucks sooo bad :(

That is terrible, I have some bad things happen with Kijiji but nothing like that, I hope you find something even better for your family

Oh wow, that's bad. So sorry you went to all that trouble just to be let down! :(

thanks... I wouldn't care if it was just the money. We are already out $200 for preparing the backyard and now have no grass either. DH is super frustrated and just wants to give up...as far as finding another pool, yes you can, but this was a permanent one, which is what we want and those are very hard to find at a good price...sigh....

Sorry to hear about the deal not going well. :( I hope you find another pool at a decent price. I hate it when people do that though. If I sell anything I make 100% sure I don't want it or no one else in my family does.

That's just awful! I'm sorry you had to go through that. I hope you find a better deal and a seller that's true to their word.
And I hope you told that family all the prep work you did.

I feel for you found a really really nice bedroom set for my daughter dresser with mirror, desk ect(minus the bed)emailed the man because said he will deleiver for 20.00 thought perfect set a time day ect told my daughter moved furnture(worked out well since I havn`t had a dresser for 14 years so was taking hers) noticed onother ad on Kijiji at a higher price the next day the day he was supppose to deleiver emailed him to ak him what was going on. Two hours no reply, phoned him then he tells me he decided against it. I was so mad my daughter was 14 at the time but very disapointed and upset. I hate when people have no respect like that.

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That's just awful! I'm sorry you had to go through that. I hope you find a better deal and a seller that's true to their word.
And I hope you told that family all the prep work you did.

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I actually sent them a picture of my current backyard. I thought that was appropriate since they put me in this mess to begin with

what do you want to bet they had a lot of interest in the pool, decided they were selling it too cheap and in the next week they relist at a higher price... I totally wouldn't doubt that happening at all

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what do you want to bet they had a lot of interest in the pool, decided they were selling it too cheap and in the next week they relist at a higher price... I totally wouldn't doubt that happening at all

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I will seriously freak out big time if this happens!

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what do you want to bet they had a lot of interest in the pool, decided they were selling it too cheap and in the next week they relist at a higher price... I totally wouldn't doubt that happening at all

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I have had several people boost a price beyond the advertised price at yard sales and on Kijiji.

I think the same thing- they either got an offer for a higher price or got so much interest, that they are bouncing offers off of each seller to raise the price!!!

Man oh man, I have horror stories about buying/selling stuff on Kijiji. I don't think I can even begin to type them all out. :rant:

ohhh so sorry-yep there can be some idiots on kijiji -trust me i dealt with a few last summer when i was out of work for 3 month
-but then there are really nice people too

wow... Have they emailed you back to the picture you sent them? What are you planning to do now?

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wow... Have they emailed you back to the picture you sent them? What are you planning to do now?

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I have not heard anything back at all... I think that says it all. I am not sure what we are going to do now... I feel like we are basically just screwed and that is all :(

wow - sounds like something that happened to us. We had emailed someone about a pool at the beginning of April. They said it had to be gone by a certain date. DH went to look at it, said we'd take it and get it that weekend. They said sure. DH called the friday night and asked what time was good and they said they decided to take it with them when they moved. Lucky for us we hadn't dug up the backyard.

I feel your pain though. We had to tell the kids that we weren't getting a pool afterall. The little guy was in tears :( :(
We were able to find one thru a guy DH knows thru work. We picked that one up this week.

I'm sorry those people put you thru the ringer :(

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wow - sounds like something that happened to us. We had emailed someone about a pool at the beginning of April. They said it had to be gone by a certain date. DH went to look at it, said we'd take it and get it that weekend. They said sure. DH called the friday night and asked what time was good and they said they decided to take it with them when they moved. Lucky for us we hadn't dug up the backyard.

I feel your pain though. We had to tell the kids that we weren't getting a pool afterall. The little guy was in tears :( :(
We were able to find one thru a guy DH knows thru work. We picked that one up this week.

I'm sorry those people put you thru the ringer :(

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interesting...we also emailed another family about a pool in april too! sounds like the kijiji pool business in Wpg isn't that great. lol