to be angry/ wanting to vent my PMT at seller

[whatsleep]

Ok so Local selling group within Facebook, someone advertising some childrens DVDs for sale at a good price, I message her to say I would like them and post the same on the advert, chuffed with myself that I have been the first one to see the add. Then this morning another lady posts that she would like them too, I post underneath that as she can see I have already asked for them hands of hunny they are mineThen the add disappears and the seller tells me they are sold....is it actually reasonable to only sell your goods to people who respond to your adds with smiley faces and refer to you as Hun? I know I ABU but im not happy!

On our local selling page the protocol is first come first served...people get very annoyed if the rule is broken.

I also want to know WHY they all "Hun" each other!!! I think a lot of them know one another.

Ive seen ads like this

"Baby Annabel and clothes for GEMMA" and then they're gone.

Bit silly really.

YANBU

I don't get it? Did you write 'hands of hunny they are mine' (sic) or did the other requester?

YANBU. That's really irritating. My local selling page are really strict about that sort of thing and people who piss about are very often kicked out.

Random, that was ment to show up as a 'strike through'but I must have done it wrong!! It was what I wanted to say to the other poster but was too polite to do so....but kind of wish I had now .

its annoying yes, but honestly I think its up to the seller who they want to sell their goods to. I do love a good bun fight on fb though (its mine, I posted first. Naw, mine, I sent msg first. get lost you old hag.. and so on and so forth...)

YANBU, I deleted myself from my local selling group because it was doing my head in with similar issues. It covered quite a wide area and the rule was that first person to comment and say they will actually buy the item gets it, not someone who enquires on it. I had commented on a couple of items asking where the seller was based as some of the further out areas just wouldn't be worth the petrol money it would cost to get there and someone had jumped right in before the seller had answered and said they would buy said items, which was within the rules of the group but I would have thought it was polite if someone has enquired to let them get their answer and first refusal of the item before jumping in. My friend commented on the group's page to say she disagreed with the rules and got blocked by the admin who obviously can't handle a bit of constructive criticism.

Is it possible that she sold them to the other person because of the second message you left? Could she have thought it rude do you think?

and yes, I realise you only said that you'd already asked for them and not 'hands off' but she could still have found that rude. Some people might?

Yes Hecate, you could be right, I'd not thought of it that way! Hopefully my mood will be better tomorrow as the PMT fades, and I can once again refer to all posters as Hun and chick ...... And how exactly DO I strike through as -- doesn't work?!!?

get that a lot where I live but I find it enjoyable using facebook to buy and sell. Better than ebay most of the time.

whatsleep, your strikethrough didn't work because there was no space between the second -- and the word immediately following it.

This works.

Thisdoesn't work.

Oh.

Bugger.

Zombie apologises. She thought that was the problem.

Ignore Zombie.

Zombie is clearly just as computer literate as me but thanks!

This works

this doesn't

no space after line thingy's

Do you actually know they went to this other person, or is it possible that someone had already messaged her before you and not put anything on the actual facebook status?

To answer your other question if someone called me Hunny, I would be tempted to shove the DVD up their bum, but that is just me.

Not 100% sure they went to her just assumed and got mad! Let me try, does this work? Yeeeees!

But interestingly I won the right to purchase another item by referring to the seller as Hun and adding a kiss at e end of my message! If you can't bet em join em

Recently a woman put a corner sofa on one of our local sites, I commented and after a conversation with her about it , I had said I definitely wanted the sofa and would message her the next day to arrange collection as the person I was asking to collect it works shifts so didnt know for sure a time . Next day I inboxed her and she replied that lots of people were interested so it was first come to her house to buy it . She didnt even reply with her address and even though I gave her a definite time she wouldn't keep it !!
I was fuming seeing as most people seem to offer it to the first person before selling it on to someone else !
Someone on there now has been offered £20 more for something that a lady is selling but coz someone else commented first, she is selling it for less than what she wanted originally ! I have commented on her decency :)

Our local one asks that you post the price and your general location (so people don't say I want it, then say but you are too far away) and go with the first person to say that they are interested in buying, if they fall though you move to the second person etc. It doesn't take long to ask the first in line if they are still interested.
They don't allow anyone to offer more than the asking price and people have been thrown off for trying to jump the queue by says I'll give you more. They tell them it isn't eBay if you want a bidding site to go there.
I'd make a comment or complaint f people are bidding over the price or jumping the queue. Saying first one there with money is silly, people may have to arrange for a vehicle or childcare.

Getmeoutofthismadhouse, small world!!! (leicester?) my neighbour was also looking at that same sofa! The seller was very rude, some people just have no manners