OK, so here's the story. A day after posting this here, I decided to send an email reply in French on Kijiji to the seller to tell him that I was interested, figuring that it would already be sold and that I'd never hear back, and knowing even if I did hear back I wasn't in any position to go and get it. A few days later, I get a reply in my email from the seller saying there are a bunch of people interested in it, but he left me his phone number and wanted me to call him. Rather than do that, I replied to his email and apologized, saying that circumstances prevented me from buying the dishwasher... email sent, the end.
But the seller sends me another email, and says if it's not too personal to ask, why aren't you still interested? So I got back to him and told him that I was very interested, but I had no way of getting it to my place, so there was no point in trying to buy it. And in telling him how interested I was, I mentioned that his dishwasher was considered by many to be the best Kitchenaid out there, which I guess is why he raised the price in Kijiji. Again after sending this email, I'm thinking end of story.
But he mails me again: "listen, give me a shout when you can come get it... it still could be here," and mentions that he has a Subaru station wagon that it fits inside. Now I'm getting a bit anxious, like maybe there is a chance I can buy this. So I ask him if he'd be willing to drive it to me, or meet me part way, but he said he is an older gentleman and wouldn't be able to bring it out of the top floor of the duplex himself nor load it into the back of his wagon. Drat.
Well, as it turns out, I know some people with pickups, but then I thought that without making sure all of the water was drained out of it, or plumber's antifreeze was added to it, that the dishwasher would not survive the two hour drive back home in the back of a pickup at the current temperatures we are experiencing in the area (the night I went to pick it up it was between -15C and -20C, where -18C is around 0F for you Fahrenheit people). Then a stroke of luck... one of my family members has a Dodge Caliber crossover that they offered to loan me to make the drive in, so I emailed the seller and made the arrangements to go and pick it up.
This past Thursday late afternoon after my work I started to drive in, and made it after spending almost an hour delay on the Champlain bridge because of a stalled bus in the right hand lane. I get there, and I find out that the seller speaks perfect English, and shows me the dishwasher. So I asked him why it appeared to me like he was set on selling to me, even after I said I was no longer interested, and he told me that he just had a good feeling about me when I first contacted him, and that I wasn't somebody that was just going to buy it and then try to resell it for a profit. He also told me that he had got other calls from people offering more money, but refused them (and if that was people from this list, again I apologize).
So we take our time bringing it down two flights of stairs and around some tight corners (it's heavy, even when loaded on a fridge dolly!) and finally get it loaded up in the crossover. Then I pay him, and he insists on only taking the original $100 price! Wow-really nice guy.
So after we talked a bit longer in the cold outside, I was on my way home. Had an uneventful drive (traffic was cleared out by now), got home, unloaded the dishwasher and brought it into the house myself, returned the dolly, refueled the crossover and dropped it off, then drove my car home and picked up supper, arriving back home near 11:30pm.
Enough for now... more later, including some questions and a few pics.
