Man Proves Pettiness Can Be Wholesome By Teaching Rude Buyer A Lesson At A Yard Sale
One important lesson everyone needs to learn is that being kind doesn’t cost a thing. A couple of days ago, a guy that goes by the nickname gjrunner5 shared a story about a day he and his mother went to a yard sale.
What started as an ordinary day turned into a beautiful encounter between neighbors that can teach everyone a valuable lesson, being friendly to others will always come back and help you. After reading his story many people were inspired to tell their similar stories.
Scroll down to read this beautiful story yourself, and don’t forget to tell us what you think in the comments! (Facebook cover image: JimmyJazz)
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A couple of days ago one guy shared a heartwarming story of what happened to him and his mom at a neighborhood yard sale
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Many people were touched by his story and also shared their similar experiences
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Share on FacebookI gave away my guitars. I have rheumatoid arthritis in my right thumb, and it hurt to play, so I decided to sell them. They're excellent instruments - a Stratocaster and a custom Cort acoustic. ...///... I took them to a local shop, which made an insulting offer (200 bucks for both - and in mint condition...no). I then tried to donate them to a music school... who told me they would never let a kid use those expensive guitars. ...///... Finally I overheard someone talking to my art instructor and it turns out that he and his wife are both musicians. So I asked if he'd like them and that was the end of it. The only condition I put on them was that they needed to be played, and if they didn't need them, they should give them to someone who would. ...///... Smartest move I ever made. Both instruments are spending time on stage.
I'm sorry about your arthritis and that you couldn't play anymore, but it was way awesome of you to give your guitars away to people who would really appreciate them. I feel the same way about my stuff--I'd rather give it to someone who can really use/appreciate it than sell it to someone with no sense of value.
Load More Replies...Beautiful people show upon unexpected places! Thanks for sharing this heartwarming example of humanity
If you just "dont get around" to returning a $600 dryer...you MUST have a c**p-ton of $$!!! Just sayin! Again...is it me????
I had made a deal on Craigslist to buy a barely used generator for $250, but our transportation kept falling through. When I explained our troubles to the guy, and that I really needed it for my mom who is on oxygen, he brought it over that day, no extra charge. When I almost started crying he gave me a hug and said he was glad to be able to make taking care of my mother a little easier. God bless that man!
I had a neighbor that lived across the hall from me. She decided to move home to San Francisco to help family. She only had a standard size van for moving and a queen size captains bed that wasn't going to come with her. She invited me over to see what was for sale..and I fell in love with the captains bed. She said "$100 and it's yours." I told her I'd just lost my job and couldn't afford $100. I was heart broken. On the last day of her sale, she knocks on my door. "The only person offering $100 on that bed is my ex-boyfriend and I'll be damned if I'll let that jerk have it. $40 and it's yours." SOLD!!
Once I was waiting for my flight at an airport gate when an announcement came on that the airport was shutting down due to an approaching storm and all flights were cancelled. Withing minutes the airline had set up tables and agents were busily rebooking flights, giving hotel vouchers, etc. Most of the passengers were acting like real jerks, blaming the agents for the bad weather and the inconvenience. When my turn came the young agent was looking quite frazzled. I smiled and said, "Ok, I'm still happy. What can you do to keep me that way?" She visibly relaxed, explained what would happen, and provided me with all the documents I needed. I thanked her and went to the hotel. When I got to my room I looked at my new ticket - which she had upgraded to First Class.
I have a feeling the jerk who was trying to intimidate the owner into selling for a low price was going to resell it. I see people buying stuff at yard sales and then selling it at a table in a flea market
That you'll never know. Who knows, he was maybe going to give it to his penniless mother. ;)
Load More Replies...Wonderful story. Recently I convinced my church to set up at a town wide yard sale. The congregation brought in their used stuff and we gave it away free. The next day I was in a store and a woman I did not know commented on how thrilled she was to get a tie-dyed shirt from the church. It was one that I had tie-dyed.
In these times where we are bombarded with bad news it is a comfort to hear stories like this which is about real life with real people.
When we bought our house, the only cmpetitor we had was a guy who criticized everything the owner has made on the house...the garden...the roof...the cave..... And he told the owner all he would change after he bought the house. My wife and I had fallen in love with the house and as we told the owner that we wouldn't change even the swing fixed on the apple tree because of our children, three and one year old at the time, the deal was made :-)
You would be surprised how cheap ppl at yard sales are. I've had numerous ones, and ppl show up and start pawing thru your belongings before you even have a chance to set up. Rude, pushy, wanting you to just flat out give stuff to them. It takes a lot of work to set the good yard sales up too. Some stuff I'd just keep and drag back into my place rather than let the rude ppl have it.
Once at a garage sale organized by my parents I put a stethoscope up for sale, and some cheapskate offered me a ridiculous price for it, and since I needed cash I accepted it grudgingly, but I still regret having sold it then. Now I don't participate in ANY garage sales anymore. I'd rather give the stuff away to organizations that help poor people than sell it to cheap people who are only out to get bargains at other people''s expense.
Oh my gosh....this just made my day. This is such a beautiful story...one that goes to show that humility, meekness and manners do matter. This just makes me so happy.
Proof there are still wonderful people in this world, and also greedy jerks who get what they deserve.
I am not so sure just being polite would have gotten him the dryer. Your neighbor saw your Mom's facial expression just the same as you did. He could tell that that new dryer really meant something to your Mom! Seeing that probably moved him as much as it did you. Matter a fact I think you have a pretty good chunk of proof in your parents laundry area!
We kind of had the same experience. About 10 years ago, we put in an offer for a house in SF Bay Area. This was our 4th attempt in buying a home and we had been outbid considerably the last 3 times. This seller had such a bad experience with high bidder and their realtor that she offered us the house for $1 less than the asking price. Simply because she didn't care for how the buyer and realtor were treating her. I have to wonder what these people did to p**s off the seller so much that she would rather forego that extra money that she could have made on the house.
It's nice when you're not working for a company and can teach a******s a lesson rather than reward them because "the customer is always right"
Standing around shouting rude things to people isn't how you get things handled being calm and polite will get things taken care of faster and make you look like a decent human being. In all the time that I have been a delivery driver, I have learned that the customers who don't tip but are nice are better than the people who are jerks but tip. I would rather go to a customer who is nice to me than one who is rude.
First, that picture is of a coin operated dryer. WTF? Second, while inspiring nice stories are great, the internet's ability to turn every story into those really diminish when ACTUAL REAL PEOPLE are nice. This is just fake.
Bored Panda frequently uses stock photos or other photos found from other free-to-use sources in order to illustrate stories, and are not necessarily from the original poster of the story. If you look on the bottom left of each of the pictures you will find a link to the original source.
Load More Replies...That's how the story's pitched with the title, but the tone of the telling is about the kindness of the man who gave it to his mother.
Load More Replies...The price for a $150 was really to see what they could get for it, but they didn't care that much. The person "negotiating" for a cheaper price loudly was being an a*****e from the start. There's also a big difference between negotiating and bullying a price.
Load More Replies...So loudly bullshitting how worthless the item is and trying to bully the price to a measly €25 is negotiating? Interesting.
Load More Replies...Yes, a moment of silence for the a*****e in the story.
Load More Replies...I gave away my guitars. I have rheumatoid arthritis in my right thumb, and it hurt to play, so I decided to sell them. They're excellent instruments - a Stratocaster and a custom Cort acoustic. ...///... I took them to a local shop, which made an insulting offer (200 bucks for both - and in mint condition...no). I then tried to donate them to a music school... who told me they would never let a kid use those expensive guitars. ...///... Finally I overheard someone talking to my art instructor and it turns out that he and his wife are both musicians. So I asked if he'd like them and that was the end of it. The only condition I put on them was that they needed to be played, and if they didn't need them, they should give them to someone who would. ...///... Smartest move I ever made. Both instruments are spending time on stage.
I'm sorry about your arthritis and that you couldn't play anymore, but it was way awesome of you to give your guitars away to people who would really appreciate them. I feel the same way about my stuff--I'd rather give it to someone who can really use/appreciate it than sell it to someone with no sense of value.
Load More Replies...Beautiful people show upon unexpected places! Thanks for sharing this heartwarming example of humanity
If you just "dont get around" to returning a $600 dryer...you MUST have a c**p-ton of $$!!! Just sayin! Again...is it me????
I had made a deal on Craigslist to buy a barely used generator for $250, but our transportation kept falling through. When I explained our troubles to the guy, and that I really needed it for my mom who is on oxygen, he brought it over that day, no extra charge. When I almost started crying he gave me a hug and said he was glad to be able to make taking care of my mother a little easier. God bless that man!
I had a neighbor that lived across the hall from me. She decided to move home to San Francisco to help family. She only had a standard size van for moving and a queen size captains bed that wasn't going to come with her. She invited me over to see what was for sale..and I fell in love with the captains bed. She said "$100 and it's yours." I told her I'd just lost my job and couldn't afford $100. I was heart broken. On the last day of her sale, she knocks on my door. "The only person offering $100 on that bed is my ex-boyfriend and I'll be damned if I'll let that jerk have it. $40 and it's yours." SOLD!!
Once I was waiting for my flight at an airport gate when an announcement came on that the airport was shutting down due to an approaching storm and all flights were cancelled. Withing minutes the airline had set up tables and agents were busily rebooking flights, giving hotel vouchers, etc. Most of the passengers were acting like real jerks, blaming the agents for the bad weather and the inconvenience. When my turn came the young agent was looking quite frazzled. I smiled and said, "Ok, I'm still happy. What can you do to keep me that way?" She visibly relaxed, explained what would happen, and provided me with all the documents I needed. I thanked her and went to the hotel. When I got to my room I looked at my new ticket - which she had upgraded to First Class.
I have a feeling the jerk who was trying to intimidate the owner into selling for a low price was going to resell it. I see people buying stuff at yard sales and then selling it at a table in a flea market
That you'll never know. Who knows, he was maybe going to give it to his penniless mother. ;)
Load More Replies...Wonderful story. Recently I convinced my church to set up at a town wide yard sale. The congregation brought in their used stuff and we gave it away free. The next day I was in a store and a woman I did not know commented on how thrilled she was to get a tie-dyed shirt from the church. It was one that I had tie-dyed.
In these times where we are bombarded with bad news it is a comfort to hear stories like this which is about real life with real people.
When we bought our house, the only cmpetitor we had was a guy who criticized everything the owner has made on the house...the garden...the roof...the cave..... And he told the owner all he would change after he bought the house. My wife and I had fallen in love with the house and as we told the owner that we wouldn't change even the swing fixed on the apple tree because of our children, three and one year old at the time, the deal was made :-)
You would be surprised how cheap ppl at yard sales are. I've had numerous ones, and ppl show up and start pawing thru your belongings before you even have a chance to set up. Rude, pushy, wanting you to just flat out give stuff to them. It takes a lot of work to set the good yard sales up too. Some stuff I'd just keep and drag back into my place rather than let the rude ppl have it.
Once at a garage sale organized by my parents I put a stethoscope up for sale, and some cheapskate offered me a ridiculous price for it, and since I needed cash I accepted it grudgingly, but I still regret having sold it then. Now I don't participate in ANY garage sales anymore. I'd rather give the stuff away to organizations that help poor people than sell it to cheap people who are only out to get bargains at other people''s expense.
Oh my gosh....this just made my day. This is such a beautiful story...one that goes to show that humility, meekness and manners do matter. This just makes me so happy.
Proof there are still wonderful people in this world, and also greedy jerks who get what they deserve.
I am not so sure just being polite would have gotten him the dryer. Your neighbor saw your Mom's facial expression just the same as you did. He could tell that that new dryer really meant something to your Mom! Seeing that probably moved him as much as it did you. Matter a fact I think you have a pretty good chunk of proof in your parents laundry area!
We kind of had the same experience. About 10 years ago, we put in an offer for a house in SF Bay Area. This was our 4th attempt in buying a home and we had been outbid considerably the last 3 times. This seller had such a bad experience with high bidder and their realtor that she offered us the house for $1 less than the asking price. Simply because she didn't care for how the buyer and realtor were treating her. I have to wonder what these people did to p**s off the seller so much that she would rather forego that extra money that she could have made on the house.
It's nice when you're not working for a company and can teach a******s a lesson rather than reward them because "the customer is always right"
Standing around shouting rude things to people isn't how you get things handled being calm and polite will get things taken care of faster and make you look like a decent human being. In all the time that I have been a delivery driver, I have learned that the customers who don't tip but are nice are better than the people who are jerks but tip. I would rather go to a customer who is nice to me than one who is rude.
First, that picture is of a coin operated dryer. WTF? Second, while inspiring nice stories are great, the internet's ability to turn every story into those really diminish when ACTUAL REAL PEOPLE are nice. This is just fake.
Bored Panda frequently uses stock photos or other photos found from other free-to-use sources in order to illustrate stories, and are not necessarily from the original poster of the story. If you look on the bottom left of each of the pictures you will find a link to the original source.
Load More Replies...That's how the story's pitched with the title, but the tone of the telling is about the kindness of the man who gave it to his mother.
Load More Replies...The price for a $150 was really to see what they could get for it, but they didn't care that much. The person "negotiating" for a cheaper price loudly was being an a*****e from the start. There's also a big difference between negotiating and bullying a price.
Load More Replies...So loudly bullshitting how worthless the item is and trying to bully the price to a measly €25 is negotiating? Interesting.
Load More Replies...Yes, a moment of silence for the a*****e in the story.
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