There is this guy offering reproduction rocker bases on my local Craigslist for $60 a pop. I wanted to switch up the bland base that was on my black Eames and the price seemed reasonable for a rocker with walnut runners.
We emailed, which turned into phone calls, which turned into an appointment to come by and check it out. When I showed up a few days later…well…it was a disaster. I called him on my way to his house. No answer. Called again. No answer. Got to his house (a good forty five minutes away from TBH) and knocked. Then waited for ten minutes. Called again and heard some shuffling and grumbling behind the closed door.
Slowly the door cracks open a few inches and this massive greasy swath of bedhead and two sleepy eyes peak out at me. I say, “Hi, I’m Morgan”. He says “Oh. OH. Yeah…those bases aren’t ready. I didn’t get around to putting them together. I had family over and just, uh, lost track of time.”
Seriously? What a dick.
“I can send it to you if you want. Uh, for free.”
What? Like in the mail? Like leave my cash with you and hope I get a base sent to me? No thanks, dude.
I left his door step in a disgruntled huff. He eventually emailed trying to make amends and offered to deliver it to me in Hemet. “Well, maybe not all the way. Maybe you could meet me by the freeway.” Again, seriously? Dick.
I told him I was just too busy to leave and meet him AGAIN. I had made time and driven to him once and now he needed to come all the way to me or not at all.
He came. He was disgruntled. I was disgruntled. Sounds like a perfectly appropriate Craigslist transaction.
Iggy loves that shit though. As soon as I screwed the rocker base on I wanted to take some pictures but Iggy refused to move his little seal pup butt. They match!
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He looks sooooo cute there. You’re right they are a match!
Beautiful photos !!! And I appreciate the story behind them
I am currently struggling with some idiot on ebay over an 8.50 eur vinatge planter. That dickwad is making me wait for more than 2 weeks with the delivery and then finally emails me saying he needs more money for the postage… the nerve ! I refuse, threatening bad review and ebay litigation, and now he’s all apologetic and sweet-talking me into being a “doll”… Well guess what he’s messing with the wrong “doll”
ohhh, I want one of those…the chair, not Iggy…although I am a dog lover…I used to have a rottweiler that weighed more than I did, super sweet dog…he would’ve been afraid of Iggy!
Gah!
What a stupid douche.
But they look great, so, in the end . . .
I didn’t know where the story was going at first. You never know with these craigslist people. Eep.
iggy and the rocker are a perfect black and tan pair!
seriously…we have a desk and tv stand listed on craig’s list right now and it will be the first time that ppl have to come to our house to see/pick stuff up, and i’m a nervous wreck about it!!! lol
drove 1/2 hour last week to get a great outdoor sectional. TOLD lady THREE times I was leaving and it would take me a 1/2 hour to get there. She said OK!
I pull up, they are having a yard sale (on a weekday). I tell the lady I am there for the outdoor sectional. Her teenage daugher loosk at me, looks at her mom, looks down….the lady says, “I sold that already”. I say…”I JUST SPOKE TO YOU AND YOU KNEW I WAS COMING”
The lady shurgged her shoulders and said, ‘Oh, sorry”
I stood there and before I could even stop myself…I started screaming at the top of my lunhgs..’YOU are RUDE. RUDE. RUDE. RUDE.”
Then as I get in my car I scream, “That is so FUCKING RUDE”.
Ya…it took me all day to calm down!
PS..Iggy is cute as hell!
sorry for the bad spelling in the last post…I typed too fast! OOPS!
completely appropriate craigslist transaction. and iggy. off topic – but does he need a new dog bowl?
whoa…just a chair, right? You should’ve asked him if he had a joint you could both smoke. Either that or just pay retail if you want the convenience of things going your way each and every time.
People with short term memories must be attracted to Craigslist. I had a similar thing happen when I went to pick up an outdoor chaise. Once the seller’s pot sampling son finally answered the door(he sat staring at us through the window) his dad looked at my husband and I and said who are these people!? To which pot boy proclaimed “I don’t know the weirdos from Craigslist”. Luckily Mom was in charge she was just taking the chaise out of storage. It ended fine but you do wonder everytime you make the journey to pick something up.
craigslist so evil, so useful.
love the contrast between the grim annoyingness of the story and the blissful peace of the photos.
kind of the whole brick house epic saga in a nutshell, no?
best wishes.
tracy, yeah Iggy needs a new bowl. His little melamine ones are pretty fugly.
I sell on craigslist a fair bit, and I’m always shocked at how completely unprepared people sometimes are. I always have my crap clean, accessible and ready to go. The Boy does get really weirded out by strangers coming over, while I always kind of like to meet people interested in the same crap I am.
sorry about the frustrating craigslist adventure but that’s what they are “adventures” you never know what your walking into but we kind of think it’s fun to see how other people live and maybe score a good deal. what we don’t like are flakes and other peeps version of “in excellent condition” because it never is “excellent”!
But the chair looks rad and the dog looks bad….ass ; )
Wow, the rocker looks fantastic! I’m also loving it on that rug.
hey, that’s my old chair!! it looks way better with the rocker base, nice job…
It sure is!
Ugh I hate Craigslist for that reason but your post made it all so hilarious. One time someone was supposed to pick up our old car, we called a bunch of times and the guy is said he was on his way driving to our house and never came after multiple conversations. What the hell? At least you finally got the thing, looks great!
love the rocker base.
love the story.
Looks great, even though the guy was a total dick about the whole thing. Sometimes its worth it to put up with crazy people.
So Jealous.
one day i will have my own eames rocker and my own iggy will sit upon it.
i dont know how you have the patience for craigslist. i get the mystique of buying something at a ridiculously good price, but my agoraphobia kicks in and i realize that indeed there is that party to deal with.
Sooo great, (and the bases aren’t too bad either!)
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