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Blocking me is an overreaction?

89 replies

Sachii · 04/01/2026 13:39

Someone is selling an accent chair on Facebook, that I’d seen on the website and wanted. They’d listed it as having for a month and it not being used. Original cost was £200 and they wanted £120.

I messaged to ask if they would take £50, they sent me a laughing emoji and I said “fair, but that’s what I’m prepared to offer”

I’ve now checked back and they’ve blocked me.

OP posts:
5128gap · 04/01/2026 14:05

Yes I'd have blocked you as I'd have thought you might be a weirdo. Firstly with a ridiculous offer, then by trying to continue to try to engage with me.

PrawnAgain · 04/01/2026 14:05

I'd say that taking the time to post about this on a forum is more of an overreaction than blocking you.

I occasionally sell online and immediately block entitled piss takers because they tend to elicit long drawn out conversations, rarely buy, and if they do buy cause trouble by complaining about their highly discounted item.

TittyGajillions · 04/01/2026 14:01

Cheeky fucker troll?

SameShitDifferentDate · 04/01/2026 14:00

You can block anyone for any reason. Nobody owes a stranger on facebook a lengthy exchange where agreement is unlikely to be reached.

RunningJo · 04/01/2026 13:59

I don’t see what you’d care, unless you intended on increasing your low offer.
As a seller I’d have blocked you too because I would have thought you were taking the piss offering £50 for something I was selling for £120

HoskinsChoice · 04/01/2026 13:59

🎣 3/10

This is ridiculous enough to catch some but if you're really going to make this kind of troll post, you need to try harder. You could have added that you expected them to drop it off for example, probably at the other end of the country at a really inconvenient time, and £50 is a bit high, I'd probably have gone for £20. Try harder.

Mikart · 04/01/2026 13:58

I'd block you too.
And judge you.

BeforeSigourneyWeaverTheyWoveTheirOwnSigourneys · 04/01/2026 13:57

"That's what I'm prepared to offer" sounds arsey as fuck. I would block you too.

CalmTheFuckDownMargaret · 04/01/2026 13:56

I’d block you too. What a ridiculous offer.

Oldandgreyer · 04/01/2026 13:56

Get a friend to offer £20.

EdgeOfThirtySeven · 04/01/2026 13:53

I would have blocked you too, because you seem like the type of person who would keep messaging, trying to tell me how unreasonable I was for refusing your derisory offer, and I just cba.

ColdAsAWitches · 04/01/2026 13:52

You were taking the piss. They didn't want you wasting any more of their time.

MouseCheese87 · 04/01/2026 13:51

I wouldn't block you at that point but as an online seller I do sometimes get irritated by stupid offers so I do understand why they did it.

Tiddlywinkly · 04/01/2026 13:50

If that was all you were willing to pay and they didn't want to sell it to you at a low ball offer, then that's ok. I probably wouldn't block, but I can see why it happened tbh.

TwattyMcFuckFace · 04/01/2026 13:50

Why do you even care, or are you just bored today? 🤣🤣

Topseyt123 · 04/01/2026 13:49

Why did you give a ridiculous offer? Surely you could see that it was already heavily discounted and they are in fact willingly taking an £80 hit on it which you just tried to increase to a £150 hit.

I suppose they could just have come back and pointed this out to you, saying £120 was their final offer, take it or leave it. That's probably what I would have done, but in all fairness £50 is a bit of a time waster type offer. Their choice to block you. Nothing you can do about it now. You should have either offered the asking price or given a much more reasonable offer. Say £100.

TeaBiscuitsNaptime · 04/01/2026 13:48

I wouldn't worry about it. They're probably just set on getting a higher price for it. Yes, it was a bit of over reaction and in your case it looks like it wasn't needed. They might sell a few things online and have had others messaging them trying to buy for less. It sounds like it was getting a bit annoying for them. It was no harm asking though if you didn't have it. It's often a hi light of buy and sell sites. That you might be able to get it for less

Jellybunny56 · 04/01/2026 13:48

Fair enough, easier to just block time wasters

X123x321X · 04/01/2026 13:48

They don't want you annoying them obviously.

Livelovelaughfuckoff · 04/01/2026 13:47

Seems fair enough to me if they don’t want to negotiate with low ball offers. Selling on Facebook can be tedious so easier to block and filter out the annoying chancers!

wannanamechange · 04/01/2026 13:45

Yep. Time waster and CF. I’d block.

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 04/01/2026 13:45

I’d have thought you were taking the piss and blocked you too.

Nevernonono · 04/01/2026 13:45

Don’t blame them, who wants to spend time on a time waster!

stealthninjamum · 04/01/2026 13:45

I probably wouldn’t go so far as to block you but if you made a low offer I’d see you as a time waster and ignore any other messages from you

Nopersbro · 04/01/2026 13:44

I'd have expected that. I probably wouldn't have blocked you under the circumstances, but plenty of people will if (1) they know they don't want to continue THIS unproductive conversation, and don't want to spend time justifying/explaining that and/or (2) they don't know you so won't remember you or your username, but don't want to deal with you again in the future (for example, if they sell frequently). Anyway, totally up to them who they block.