{"id":13529,"date":"2026-02-09T18:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=13529"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:43:32","slug":"golf-driver-bad-sales-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/golf-driver-bad-sales-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Driver- Bad Sales Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was searching on Facebook Marketplace for a new golf driver about two years ago, when I really got into golf. I was looking for a new Calloway Epic Flash Driver. I liked the driver, and it was fairly new, being released in 2019. The reviews online for it were good, so I started my search and found an Epic Flash driver on Facebook Marketplace. It wasn&#8217;t far from me, only about an hour away, so that was reasonable enough for me to travel. The person selling it was asking for $225. This was a great deal for this driver, and when we were talking about it over text, he said it was in great shape and was only used for a little while, so it was promising that it was. When I went down to meet the person for the driver, I got there and instantly asked to see the driver to practice swing and check it out to make sure everything was up to good, like they said. I started my practice swings, and it felt good initially, until I took a couple of hits with these foam practice golf balls that I brought with me, and I found out that there was a crack in the shaft. This driver would break the first time I would take it out on the course if I were to buy it, so I was not happy I drove an hour for a driver that was in great shape, to have a crack in the shaft of it. This person straight-up lied to me and tried to sell me this driver for a lot of money when it was literally cracked. I learned a lot from this bad sales experience, and it is not to trust many people on Facebook Marketplace. Since then, I have always made sure to get videos or more detailed pictures of the items I am looking at so I don&#8217;t deal with this issue ever again. Although it was a bad experience, I did learn a lot of valuable sales lessons from a buyer&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ENTR-302-A-Blog-Post-3-Picture-Golf-Driver.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13531 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ENTR-302-A-Blog-Post-3-Picture-Golf-Driver.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ENTR-302-A-Blog-Post-3-Picture-Golf-Driver.webp 300w, https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ENTR-302-A-Blog-Post-3-Picture-Golf-Driver-150x150.webp 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Link to Golf Driver Picture Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.callawaygolfpreowned.com\/drivers\/yhf5785854.html\">Callaway Epic Flash Drivers | Callaway Golf Pre-Owned<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was searching on Facebook Marketplace for a new golf driver about two years ago, when I really got into golf. I was looking for a new Calloway Epic Flash Driver. I liked the driver, and it was fairly new, being released in 2019. The reviews online for it were good, so I started my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383,473,498,238,166,496,2,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attention-to-detail","category-bad-sales-techniques","category-buyer","category-general","category-sales-experience","category-sales-storytime","category-sales-tips","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13532,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529\/revisions\/13532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}