Reply to Am I in the wrong? Bad craigslist experience...

So I recently sold my QSC K12s along with all my traktor DJ stuff so I could buy a pair of CDJ900's I found a craigslist listing for a pair of them with cases, and we decided on the price of 1900 for them, which is less than what was asked and he was giving me a "deal". I had just barely scraped up enough money to buy these. I thought he was sort of giving me a deal cause he could tell I was eager and excited to get them, y'know just some good 'ol DJ endearing stuff.

At school right now my only means of transportation is the city bus, and it would have been a 2 hour bus ride to meet up with this guy, as well as having to go 1 hour in the opposite direction to reach my bank to withdraw the money needed. This is because I am going to school in Canada and am from the U.S., there appeared according to google only one Chase Bank in all of vancouver. He also encouraged me to find a ride as he didn't want me to get robbed on the city bus carrying two large coffin case (unlikely, but I saw his concern).

My mom called and asked if I wanted to have lunch sometime soon cause my grandma was in town, so we planned to have lunch today as well as pick up the CDJs, win-win situation.

I had arranged to arrive at this guys house at little after 1pm today, and that I would be paying in cash.

My mother picked me up from my dorm at about 11:30 and we drove to where the only Chase Bank was, supposedly. Got to the address downtown, and to my surprise, no chase bank. Actually turned out, there isn't a single one in all of vancouver.

I texted the CDJ guy explaining the situation, and I knew that we had agreed on cash, but asked if he would accept a check (from my mom, as I would understand his reluctancy to accept such a large check from some "foreign" college kid). He said he wanted cash, he has had bad experienced with checks, and would have it no other way. I told him I would figure it out and get back to him.

We went to a bank, explained the situation, and they told us they couldn't really help us other than that we should get money out of an ATM. I had 300$ on hand. My ATM limit was 1000$, I withdrew this. My grandma's ATM limit was 400$ (different country, large amount out of ATM would be a red flag most likely). My mother did not bring an ATM card, only a credit card that can't withdraw money from an ATM.

So with 1700$ in hand, I asked him if he would accept a 200$ check for the rest. Once again, he said he needed all cash.

We sat in the card and thought of everything we could try to get money somehow. Long story short, it just was not happening.

We were at a grocery store, waiting for my dad to call back so we could ask him to western union some money (we had come this far, didn't want to quit now). And then I received a series of angry texts from this guy.

It was about 3ish o'clock now.

"That's it. No deal. I've wasted my entire saturday waiting for you to show up. No deal"



to which I replied that I was very sorry (he knew the whole storyline up to this point as I was updating him on the situation constantly as he was asking), and that this was sort of out of my hands and I didn't expect all this. I asked if we could meet up on a different day, once again apologizing for "wasting his entire saturday". Which in reality was less than 2 hours of his time. And I had also gone through a bunch of crap, having my family come up to help me with all this.

He then replied "I hear ya! shit happens but I've got things to do, I've got a life a too. So no, no more deals no nothing."

Somewhat chocked at his reaction, I decided it wasn't worth it to try to talk to this guy any further. So in defeat, we drove back, got lunch and that was that. There are a couple other listings on CL for the same thing and I'm picking up a different listing on monday.

I know this long-winded and whatnot, but I just need to vent it somehow

So, did I fuck up? Or is he as I'm inclined to believe just being a fucking unreasonable asshole for no reason? I know I promised him cash, and a deals to deal, but I wasted a bunch of my time too (don't really mind) to make this work, wasn't just him "suffering" from all this.

Thoughts...?