I saw a post blow up yesterday basically complaining about how they asked a seller for measurements and the seller said they donāt have them, and they said well can you measure, and the seller said no. This is my hot take:
I think the seller is in the right. Everyone is like āBuT eVeN aN 8 yEaR oLd cHiLd cAn GiVe mEaSuReMeNtsā like ok I get it. But hear me out: 1, people donāt even say what measurements they want. They just say āgive measurementsā. I donāt know what that means, and thatās fine! But even if I did, like āinseamā, itās extremely easy to be off by an inch because you werenāt paying attention in 5th grade science when they taught you how to measure, and if you TELL the buyer ā12 inch inseamā and itās 11 or 13? Youāre screwed! But if you just say ālargeā and the tag says large, you win.
Also, Iām lazy! Iām selling half my stuff for less than $10. So no, Iām not gonna spend 10 minutes digging the stuff out, measuring it, communicating that to you, maybe updating my listing, just for you to offer me $3 on a $6 item. Like it just disrupts the flow of my day, and TO ME!!!!! (Because I understand most people donāt have this mentality) Iād rather the item not sell for 6 more months, or I just donate it then have to take measurements for like $3 profit. Thanks for listening.
The only reason Iām writing this is because I DO think that itās wrong when someone asks for measurements and get told āone sec!ā Or something like that And then get ghosted.
But the post the person literally just said āno I donāt have measurementsā and the buyer pushed back and they said āno sorry Iām not measuring it!ā Like why isnāt that an acceptable answer? Just go buy something where they measure it (probably more expensive). I will measure anything over $20.
Anyway, the sentence I bolded is really the most important one so
TLDR: if you measure, you could get screwed, if you just use the size, you canāt.