Bought a moses basket and stand on ebay for less than £2 and sent a message trying to arrange collection. No reply for 3 days, so I assumed the seller might be ignoring me due to having sold it so cheap. Sent another email today and got a nice friendly text in return saying they'd been away for the weekend and inviting me to come and collect this afternoon - hurray!
Drove to the address at the time agreed using trusty sat nav, rang the doorbell, no answer.
Rang the doorbell again, knocked on the door, called hello round the back of the house, peered in the side window, clearly no one home. Phoned the seller's mobile, no answer, so left slightly snotty message saying 'I'm outside your house, there's no reply, call me asap'
Got stuck in hideous rush hour traffic on the way home and the 25-minute round trip ended up taking me over an hour. Really quite with seller and already planning how to word my negative feedback.
Seller phoned me on my drive home feigning surprise and saying she'd been in the whole time. I said I couldn't talk as was in the car, would phone back. But something she said about a green front door puzzled me so I looked up the address on Multimap when I get home....
I was standing outside the right number house... on the wrong street.
Have apologised to the very lovely and sweet seller and am going back tomorrow.
Blimming sat nav.
Think maybe I should give her a bit extra on top of the £1.41 to make amends