Last year I sold a car on eBay.
The buyer came from a long way away, on the train, and I met him at the local station with the car.
I assumed he’d bring cash, but when he got there he said he would pay by bank transfer. So he transferred the money, which took a while to show in my account. Obviously I wasn’t happy to let him take the car until I could see it had cleared in my account, so we spent 20 mins or so chatting.
He was a nice bloke, a good laugh, and in the conversation I mentioned my bf, as he lives not far from where this bloke had come from, he mentioned his wife, so it was just a friendly fellow ebayers chat rather than at all flirty. Finally the money went through and I bid him farewell.
Fast forward nearly a year, and I get a friend request on Facebook from this same guy. I wouldn’t have recognised the name but he had my old car as his profile pic and I put two and two together.
I did wonder why he’d tracked me down and added me, and it crossed my mind that he was maybe doing it in a romantically interested way, but my one and only interaction with him was some friendly jovial banter and so gave him the benefit of the doubt there.
About a month later, he sends me a messenger message saying “how are you? Xx”. I thought uh oh, maybe I was right that he was adding me with the intention of chatting me up, so I didn’t reply for a couple of days. I was also genuinely really busy and had been working flat out or asleep! So I messaged him back saying “ok thanks, working too hard, bit knackered! How’s the car going?” With NO kisses as I didn’t want to give him the wrong idea.
A few hours later he replies with one word ‘oloshi’. I thought maybe he’d sat on his phone or something as I didn’t think that was a word, but looked it up and it’s an African word for ‘stupid person’. 🤣🤣 Bit harsh, I thought, and then also realised that he’d blocked/deleted me on Facebook 🤷♀️
The whole thing is bizarre. The only conclusion I can come to is that I was not prompt/fawning enough in my reply and I bruised his ego. But who knows? Why on earth would anyone track down someone they had an eBay transaction a year ago with, then call them an idiot and block them? 🤣🤣
People are weird.