Oh I feel this in my soul. Recently my company was going to buy some very important welded structures, and instead of working with the American company that we promised the business to, one executive went over everyone’s heads to buy these from the offshore team, despite protests from literally everyone.
They came in today each one is $100k worth of scrap metal. Absolutely unsalvageable pieces of shit. Truly a colossal level of fuckup.
Will the execs learn? Probably not.
It’s called Haggis, thank you.
Selling anything online via Craigslist or FB marketplace, or any similar thing is just an awful experience all around.
I sold a car a couple years ago on FB marketplace and it was the same deal. Everyone thinks that somehow, low balling will work. As if I’m going to sell a $3000 car for $100. Like, bruh.
I ended up just replying “lol” to any low ballers and blocking them.
A fun alternative though is to agree to their low ball price, give them address to the local clown school, and then ghost em when they ask where you are. If they are gonna slide into your DMs to tell jokes, they should at least learn how to do it properly.
Oh no I assure you, this was an executive decision. The VP of manufacturing, specifically.
We don’t let Interns make purchase orders at all, let alone call shots like that. Especially not for big ticket items like these weldments.