AIBU - Facebook selling "need gone today" does this boil your piss!

[Dizzybintess]

Every time I see someone has written "need gone today" a little bit of me dies inside! AIBU or is this something that irritates others!

Irritates the fuck out of me.

I tell myself it's because I'm old, this is how the young speak, get over yourself Sang, don't be a grammar snob.

Then my piss boils all over again when I next see it.

I'm not even a pedant!

it took me a minute or two to figure out what it meant.

YANBU!

It's the implication that we have been remiss by not buying it. The fact you 'need' to sell it really isn't my problem. You aren't doing me a favour. Plus the awful grammar leads me to think they are likely an idiot. And idiots don't look after anything worth selling.
No sale.

Me too! Same with Needs To Go ASAP!!!

I won't buy it just because. Loathe the "need" and the urgency bullshit, I always think "entitled arse".

I've not seen that but surely 'must go today' does a better job with fewer letters?!

I would assume that someone who is advertising their urgency to get rid of something is probably open to a cheeky offer, so it's not a bad thing really!

Or "£15 if gone today or going to the tip"
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How about 'Need gorn today'? I've seen that a few times.

Caution that's it!

It's like a small accusation.

It's also the 'wanted - cash waiting' along with a photo of money that annoy me. Damn I was hoping they'd pay in magic beans.

The "£15 today before it goes to the tip tomorrow" really pisses me off for some reason. If it's worth selling for £15 then it's worth taking to charity shop or giving away on free cycle. I see it mostly on my baby buy and sell groups. So annoying.

The one I hate is "offers" , - give us a ballpark figure for what the items worth. What it really means is worth a tenner but some gullible fool might give me £50

Yabu. Just advertised something saying that or going to charity shop tomorrow. Its heavy. If i offer it free i get lots of people saying them coming and dont. A small amount they come and collect. If not i need the space so ill walk it to the charity shop as im going into town tomorrow.

I usually say it's pick up ASAP because if I no longer want it, then I have a reason for wanting it out of my house as soon as possible. I don't want it hanging around for a week. I will usually give priority to someone who is willing to pick up that same day.

I hate it too!

Well OF COURSE you'd prefer it was gone today, but the urgency with which you "need it gone" from your house is nobody else's bloody problem!

Also, the amount of people trying to sell stuff with next to no information. One I saw recently was "several Build A Bears". No photo, no information about condition, what characters, whether there was any clothes, no info about condition.

They couldn't even be arsed to give a price, just "sensible offers only". Clearly hoping to be offered more than the tenner they're worth

I need to limit my involvement on FB groups because I get so ragey. I joined a local parents FB site and lasted 24 hours before leaving, because it was full of huns posting videos of their toddlers coughing ("anything I can give?" A) not really, B) why the video?)

YANBU - but "boils my piss" has the same effect .

It reminds me of boiling urine in a test tube over a Bunsen burner to test it for something or other (it was a long time ago, can't remember what exactly we were looking for).

Oh, and I totally agree with "cash waiting". Well, if you're looking to buy something I'd generally assume you have cash to pay for it .

YANBU. I notice some posters are completely missing the point.

'Boils my piss' is more irritating, to be honest.

I've posted stuff up with that description because people tend to realise if I'm desperate for it to be out of my way I'm willing to take silly offers and the offers pile in. Poof, gone within an hour.

Especially useful for when you're moving house and have things you can't take.

Oh do you mean because it's bad grammar? I see it so often I forget it even is bad grammar

I hate 'needs gone' and 'cash waitin hun'.

I can understand why people want things sold quickly, they need the cash or don't want things hanging around the house. When I sold DS's old bedroom furniture on FB I said it needed to be collected by X because his new furniture was arriving and we had nowhere to store it.

londonrach I find anything for free goes straight away. I had a decent but old pushchair up for a tenner for weeks with no interest then I changed it to free and was inundated with messages.

"Need it gone today" = "This item is junk but just trying it on to see if someone will pay us to take it away rather than have the hassle of going to the dump ourselves"

the saddest thing of all is when it is a dog.... usually a Staffie.

What's with all the piss boiling lately? It's getting rather boring.