To think gumtree is now as bad as freecycle for loons

[AGrandUsername]

Advertising a very fairly priced double buggy at 75 quid should have gone higher to be knocked down

No issue with those that say 'Can I offer xxx' but I keep getting reasons for why I must give it for less:

'I only plan to use in the park so I will pay 50'
'It's only for a holiday so I can collect and pay 30'
'My toddler walks a lot so I might not need it long so I think 40 is fair'
'I'm just up the road so will pay 40 and be there soon'
'I plan to spend 20'

um, I don't give a shit if you're planning to use as a sacrifice to appease the tantrum gods frankly!
Get one of the shitty cheap dirty ones also listed!

[NotGonnaAnswerThePhone]

Speaking of freecycle I once advertised a sofabed on there and someone asked if I could drive 18 miles to deliver it

[yankeecandle4]

Larry that reminds me that I sold a brand new, still-in-the-box tent. Lots of questions/answers back and forth to someone who was desperate for it. Said they wanted it, would pick it up at X time etc. No problem.

She arrived, I showed her the unopened box. She asked for it to be opened, which I did. She then wanted me to open the plastic packaging (which was sealed) but I didn't want to as if she then didn't want it I could not sell it as "new, unopened in the box". She then went on to say she would take it, but that she was a great believer in karmic law and that bad things would happen to me if the tent wasn't complete

[torthecatlady]

So many people ask if an item is still available and then never get back to me?! Also, when someone says that they are on their way and then never turn up!
Got a free footstool on gumtree on wednesday and the bloke I got it off and I moaned about unreliable gumtree-ers!

[notarehearsal]

Few weeks ago put on my local Fb selling page some items that I was going away. One was a new box of breast pads. Clearly stated to be collected as in process of moving. One woman said she wanted them, then proceeded to ask me to deliver the box to her Mum at work in her shop at a specific day and time. And.....I did, fool that I am! Drove to the shop, mother of the woman had day off! I just left this box of breast pads with a young man who looked totally flummoxed

[notarehearsal]

giving away

[MrsLogicFromViz]

I love this thread! I sold DS' old Maclaren Techno on eBay for a low starting price, a fullsome description and included numerous detailed piccies. The 'winner' (from a bit of a shite area) turned up in an old car full of kids, placed a tubby four-year-old dressed in a straining Superman costume in it, wheeled it around my drive and refused to buy it. Nice!

As for Freegle etc: bunch of grasping twats.

(And relax ....)

[chelseabuns2013]

When my children were young I advertised a couple of black bin liners full of kids clothes and one bag of size 12-14 clothes. I got a phone call from a total weirdo interested in the women's clothes (a man) all I heard in my head when he was questioning me was "I'm going to come round to your house when you are alone and kidnap cut you up and use your skin as a body suit" needless to say I refused to give my address and have donated all my old clothes to charity shops. 💀🙀

[Seeyounearertime]

I got a phone call from a total weirdo interested in the women's clothes (a man)

what questions was he asking to be classified as a "Total Weirdo"?

[chelseabuns2013]

Or the oh so supportive husband who came round to buy/look at my old Phil and Teds (that probably dates me now 😿) and told his wife she was daft for wanting it and told me my husband had made a mess of our newly installed kitchen and tiling work and we should pay him to fix it. Embarrassed his fragile wife and made me see all the bad DIY rather than just be happy with my much improved kitchen. We were very poor and it had taken three years to cobble together.

[chelseabuns2013]

I cannot really remember now but they were strange questions from someone interested in buying a couple of bags of clothes.

[hefzi]

niceguy you weren't the moderator in my area, were you?!

I've given up on all of this now: I either a) leave it in the ginnel where we put the rubbish - even if you put something out at midnight, it's gone within an hour or b) call the British Heart Foundation to come and take it away. I'm not at all averse to helping people out and freecycling, but I am bloody averse to someone wasting my time by not showing up when they say they will.

And as for hagglers - that's why I stopped doing car boot sales: it's a point of principle with some people, no matter how reasonable the original price, not to pay what you've asked. You've already got a good deal - buy it or don't buy it, but get out of my face

[hefzi]

chelsea he wasn't asking for pictures of you wearing the clothes, so he could "see what they look line on" was he ?

[expatinscotland]

'And as for hagglers - that's why I stopped doing car boot sales: it's a point of principle with some people, no matter how reasonable the original price, not to pay what you've asked. You've already got a good deal - buy it or don't buy it, but get out of my face grin'

Same here. Some people think everything should be 10p.

[hefzi]

expat and then the buggers want a free carrier bag with it as well

[expatinscotland]

Oh, yeah, that, too.

[tiktok]

I can recommend StreetLife for giving away stuff, rather than freecycle/freegle. Because StreetLife is very local you don't get dozens of emails. We have got rid of loads, all very nice people who came to collect when they said they would, and no rubbish about 'will you deliver?' (NO! It's FREE you daft idiot....).

[chelseabuns2013]

Hefzi

It was more something along the lines of "Have you lost weight" , "How much" "Where exactly do you live" and stuff to do with the size of my body, hence the silence of the lambs. All wrong and aggressive. I just remember the feeling now and it was all wrong.

[Seeyounearertime]

chelsea

"It rubs the lotion on it's skin or else it gets the hose again"

[chelseabuns2013]

Seeyounearertime

"Cold shiver"

[TollgateDebs]

I was selling scarves for £5 each, which was well under RRP, at a gift fair recently, in a very affluent area. The woman, who had a designer handbag on her arm which I know is in the very very expensive range, asked if she could have a discount for two. I answered no and she stormed off! Happens everywhere and not just with loons!

[Loubey6868]

I had arranged to buy something off a woman on Facebook, got her address arranged a day and time , when I turned up at said time she wasn't in. I messaged her to say I had turned up to find her out to which she replied "if you think I'm going to stay in waiting for you you have another thing coming" safe to say I didn't bother going back. 😨

[Toomuchtea]

I think things have got worse - I've sold stuff on eBay etc for years, but have now sworn never again. One chap didn't pay for the stuff he won, reported him, got my fees back. He then emailed me apologising and asking if he could still have the stuff (no, I'd sold it once eBay had closed the case) and he carried on emailing me even though I told him the stuff had gone, asking for it. Blocked him in the end.

[BastardGoDarkly]

I once watched, enthralled by these two 'huns' going hell for leather over a £3 handbag on fb selling site I did wonder if it was full of crack or something. Very odd, but massively entertaining

[springscoming]

Loubey I hope you told her 'It's THINK... another THINK coming!'

[fortifiedwithtea]

This story was recently told on our local guinea pig rescue face book page.

Family answered an ad on Gumtree for a free rabbit hutch which was dropped off to their house, complete with 5 guinea pigs inside

The family re-homed the poor guineas to the rescue where I hope they find a lovely forever home.