I assume the people acting like this are doing it because I didn't give them a tip before they did their job.
Either way, it's just wasting their time; if they ring the front gate of the building and then just wait there for me to walk down, that's worse than if they save themselves time by meeting me halfway.
It just takes a single measurement to avoid this...
Measure/estimate width of the cabinet, look at the TV width, look at pictures of the TV. Then, if the TV is wider than the platform and has wide legs, don't buy something that probably won't fit.
I agree with the others, OP rushed to buy this on black friday without enough thought and now regrets that decision.
But then you haven't travelled 7 inches. If you want to measure how far someone has travelled, you measure the distance from a body part in one position to the same body part in the second position. If you measure from the back of the foot in one position why would you measure to the front of the foot in the other position?
Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. It is a type of apophenia.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, seeing faces in inanimate objects, or lunar pareidolia like the Man in the Moon or the Moon rabbit.
50k should be enough to get a mortgage and buy a house. Enough to buy a house outright would obviously be better.