Is anyone else sick of sellers who don't show pics?

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by jpdylon

I am shocked and pissed off about how many ebay and CL sellers have sets listed that SAY they work, but won't post a picture of a screenshot?

I get even more agrivated when I ask the seller politely if they can send me a pic of the set in operation and they get angry and say something like: "Blelieve me it works fine", or "everything is working."

If the seller gets angry when you ask a polite question or make a polite request for a picture of a TV being sold on ebay, Craigslist, etc. I wouldn't get so upset as you and several others here seem to (from what I've seen in this thread). We cannot control other people's behavior. If you get an angry response to a polite question or request, think nothing of it and go about your business; that is exactly how I would handle a situation such as you found yourself in. Some people just have bad tempers they never learned to control, or it is just their nature, for whatever reason, to fly off the handle when things don't go exactly their way. Those who do this when asked a simple question may have mental problems as well.

The last possibility is that the seller may be (at the time)/have been in a bad humor when he/she wrote the reply to your request or question. There is no excuse for that (when a person is in a bad mood is one of the worst times to fire off a response to a message on a public message board [or to send an email for that matter], as the person is likely to say things he/she cannot possibly mean when he/she is angry), but unfortunately there is no accounting for or changing other folks' behavior; we can only control our own, as I mentioned above.

BTW: I know nothing about psychology; I am only writing here from personal experience, having dealt with such people as you mention on other message boards I frequent and in real life as well. Getting angry yourself doesn't help matters one bit--it only gets the other person more upset than he/she was to begin with, and doesn't do you any good either.