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!

That is so sad. Especially with animals.

Apologies for the "boils my piss" duly noted xx

YANBU - especially when the "thing" they are selling is a dog or cat they can't be @rsed with anymore!

Another one is looking for a cheep (instead of cheap) pram from newborn must be in excellent condition. No silly prices.

Well in my book cheap and excellent condition don't exist together

Has anyone ever answered a "£15 or going to the tip tomorrow" ad with "I give you £1 and save you the trip to the tip"?

Sorry Constance I didn't realise you'd already made a similar comment.

(This "boils my p*ss so much I couldn't even hold back to read the full thread!)

(Apologies to all "boils my p*ss" haters. But only a little apology because sometimes it it the appropriate comment. As here. )

And the people asking for really obscure stuff. One last week was "six round 40cm mirrors". Oh yes, I have six of those down the back of my sofa!

Opps! Corss-posted with you as well Dizzy ()

I dislike the cheeky decker a who are requesting an item .

'Need a 2 seater sofa ASAP , must be cream leather in excellent condition , can't pay anything and will have to be delivered '

Ones that piss me off " I'm having a baby next April and basically need everything, what you got?" Well yeah you probably need things but you have plenty of time. They then get a huge list of things.

*Cheeky feckers

Yes I agree with the "boils my piss" phrase. It makes me clench and I imagine someone with a UTI trying to piss. I hate the word "piss" too. You are so unreasonable!

What annoys me is that when nobody is buying your crap because it's simply not worth the asking money seller keeps ''bumping'' the post all the bloody time.

Cash waiting annoys me more but loathe "looking for cheap plumber/electrician/gas engineer " What you're looking for then is a cowboy masquerading as a tradesman

Pinky someone on mine has been trying to sell an IKEA wardrobe for nearly a year for 90% of the new price. They give the reason for the price as 'got a scratch on the front'. So otherwise you would have charged 100% of the new price? For a chipboard wardrobe that is now impossible to move as it won't fit through doors? They have been bumping it several times a week since January No reduction in price obviously

Also hate buyers "Would you take a tenner less and deliver"

Also hate people who post asking a question about what you are selling and then PM you to tell you they've asked a question and to remind you they were the first to comment so please offer them first refusal (regardless of how long it takes them to say yes or no)

OR people who offer you a tenner less and then get pissy when you sell it to the person that offers you full price ten seconds later. It's not ebay folks

I hate it too!
What makes it weird is that it is used at the end of a perfectly normal post.
'Lovely kitchen table. Seats 6. Good condition, smoke free home
Need Gone Today.

Apart from being an irritating phrase its odd to use it when you are trying to sell something.
You are not doing someone a favour by offering up your old gear so why talk to them as if you are?

I saw a woman selling toys 'need gone or will be binned'. A poster offers to take them for a children's charity if they don't sell, but the woman would rather bin them.

Pax they make me laugh

the seller is basically telling the world that their item is worthless and then asking them for money!

I'm always confused by need gone today. Did they just wake up that morning and realise? Why the urgency?

The only time I put that something needs to go ASAP is when I'm offering something for free as it eliminates the time wasters.

The one that is hacking me off at the moment is something put up for free accompanied by "may not go to the first person, i will decide". So you'll deign to bestow your shit stuff on whomever you deem is most worthy? Fuck that for a game of soldiers, i imagine a king standing on the balcony of his palace and distributing largesse to whoever is most willing to beg.

Also people who put selling second hand for £XX currently on sale for £xx in john lewis

I think I just hate people actually

We have an excellent local selling page. It is full of lovely bargains and well moderated.
But people do have a false sense of what certain items are worth.
'Boden girl's sandals. Well loved but plenty of life left in them. £20
Next to a photo of a pair of trashed shoes.
Its the same for anything 'outdoorsey'

Never mind that, what about Chester Draws??

It is a practical piece of information to put on an advert though, because it's saying that you probably shouldn't bother replying if you can't come and collect it until next week. And as a PP said, it gives you the chance to make a cheeky offer if you CAN come round with a van in the next hour or so.

I am a grammar pedant, and the phrasing doesn't even annoy me! It's just text speak. We have to live with that now, don't we!

Well then they should write something like 'I need this collecting today please'