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CaptainCabinets · 28/01/2019 22:21

Posted something for sale on Facebook earlier and had several replies within an hour or so, quickly arranged for a lady to collect the item tomorrow morning for the advertised price. Someone else messaged me offering half the asking price and when I politely declined and told them it was sold pending collection, sent a delightful reply:

“Lol whatever Must b nice to be able to sit on ur arse at home selling things and not having to work if ur able to arrange collection on a Tuesday morning”

I have a job, I just don’t work Tuesdays Grin

Just thought I’d share this CFery Wink

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alltoomuchrightnow · 31/01/2019 16:02

I've just googled 'tax disc collector'.
Apparently they are known as velologists.
So know you know! Hmm

Roussette · 31/01/2019 16:10

CFery is happening to me at this moment.

I'm selling a Tefal vitamin plus electric steamer, barely used, £39.99 new.

I have it on FB for £10. Someone has just messaged... "£5 pls"

I replied as briefly as her "no, it's £10"

She's just come back saying "OK if you deliver to blah blah"

That's a 25 mile round trip that would cost me £5 in petrol probably meaning that will be £5 profit for over an hour of my time. As if !!

ScreamingValenta · 31/01/2019 16:20

alltoomuchrightnow

I would have been so tempted to lie and say, well actually, we binned the other twenty we had before we realised they were worth anything! Grin

alltoomuchrightnow · 31/01/2019 16:42

Screaming... actually my dad did confess he had thrown away a huge bundle years before! Probably worth thousands Shock
I should have sent the guy a photo of us with a bonfire...

MyFootHurts · 31/01/2019 17:40

@alltoomuchrightnow if anyone insulted the tax disc collectors community, it was the guy who ripped you off by only offering £100 in the first place.Grin

AlanThePig · 31/01/2019 18:04

The reason tax disc collecting is a thing is because people want age accurate discs for their classic cars. If they can get the same area/make etc they go a bit nuts.

Housemum · 31/01/2019 23:01

Seeing a few posts about the “I’ve been in hospital” excuse reminded me of when I helped at a local charity sale - people dropped off their labelled items and returned at a set time to collect the unsold stuff. After a few pisstakers we set a £5 fee for late collection without warning. One sale we had a no-show so called them and they turned up together with their child and what looked like a boot full of shopping bags. Cue daily mail sad face, “we’ve been up at (local hospital unit) with little jimmy all afternoon”. I had actually been at work that day and was only there to help tidy up - I said how was the child doing, shall I say hello, remind me who it is as I was there until 4. They went red and said it didn’t matter and they would pay the £5...

expat101 · 01/02/2019 05:45

Report the poster. Mind you I have reported a few things and FB says it doesn't go against their community standards....

snitzelvoncrumb · 01/02/2019 06:07

A friend was giving toys away and copped a lot of abuse for not holding things. The worst comment was "my child now isn't getting a Christmas present because of you". It all just gets thrown out now.

MsHopey · 01/02/2019 06:36

I sold about 200 photography magazines for £15. Originally £5 each but also really heavy so collection only.
Someone messaged me several times offering me a fiver because "the tenner should be knocked off for petrol money because he lives so far away".
People are bloody mad. Someone else brought them a few days later for the £15.

Sipperskipper · 01/02/2019 06:54

This thread is great.

Put a good quality small next sofa on fb for free (just needed it gone).

Buyer: I can come and view this next Tuesday
Me: View it? I just want it gone ASAP
Buyer: I can do Monday, I want to view it first
Me: sorry someone has just messaged and can collect this afternoon
Buyer: Thanks For nothing. I had messaged first, I had made plans to come and see it!

View it? It’s a free sofa, not a 2 bed semi. Never putting anything on DH again - so many messages from complete chumps.

Sipperskipper · 01/02/2019 06:56

DH should read FB. He can be silly, but isn’t a chump.

MsHopey · 01/02/2019 07:26

I've had a few things I've won on eBay go for too cheap and all of a sudden some serious fault is found with the item and they won't sent it.
Always see it back for sale a few weeks later.
Won a leather motorcycle jacket for DH, we bid a bit but won it for 99p.
Seller messages us to say there is a rip so they're not sending it. I reply that it's fine, I studied textiles and my nan is a retired seamstress, still send it.
They've now put it in the bin as they didnt think I'd want it.
I said grab it out the bed and wipe it down, it's leather, it'll be fine.
It was bin day this morning.
Back up for sale a few weeks later 🤨

I also won a river island coat for 99p and they messaged me saying send me £20 or I'm not sending it because that's what I wanted for it.
There's plenty of options, reserves, starting bid, buy it now. Idiot.

pootleposeyperkin · 01/02/2019 07:27

Got a barrage of abuse once because I wouldn't deliver a FREE sofa 20 miles away - I drive a fiesta !

Roussette · 01/02/2019 07:38

pootle I'm going through this at the moment! I'm giving away two matching armchairs, they are very nice, unmarked upholstered in cream and I just can't give them to a charity because there are no fire labels. In my ad, I say collection only.

I can't tell you the number of people who contat me who are interested but want me to deliver.

So that means... something I am giving away for free means I should hire a van for £50 (that's how much it was last time I hired) and drive round the countryside with two archairs delivering them to a CF ?

Errrr think not.

ellesworth · 01/02/2019 09:34

My job, many moons ago, was selling things on eBay. So many CF messages asking to put a buy it now price on something. The manager was more focused on how much we could make today rather than how much more we could make in a few weeks. The first few times he told me to sell it at the price offered, even though I knew for a fact the person messaging was a CF and we would get way more for it in two days time.
I ended up just replying to the obvious CF messages myself saying "thanks but no".
I'm glad I'm out of that now.

ellesworth · 01/02/2019 09:38

I actually detest buy and sell pages. Everyone wants something for nothing and there are far more sellers than there are buyers. Plus a lot of my local ones go through phases where you only see ads for MLM "weight loss" products, Avon, Poonique etc, or ones where someone has set up a page for people to buy stuff that is straight from AliExpress but they've doubled the price.

RelaisBlu · 01/02/2019 10:10

Rousette your chairs sound lovely - where do you live?? Grin

evaperonspoodle · 01/02/2019 10:30

I've got so sick of buy and sell groups that I just prefer to stick the stuff in the local charity shops. A few years ago we were selling stuff (before xmas) that was worth at least £30 for £5 as we just wanted rid of it. Every.single.person who came (at least 5) grabbed the items and then explained that either they or the person they were buying it for had cancer and as this was going to be their last xmas therefore they should have 2 items for free Hmm

Roussette · 01/02/2019 10:45

Hi Relais don't want to say where I am (am neurotic about online info!) but you're welcome to say the sort of area where you are and if it's not far I'll PM you !

The chairs are lovely! The only reason I'm getting rid of them is a big change in a room where they were. I know it's law for fire labels but I think it's a great shame that you can't even donate really solid good looking furniture anywhere because of a lack of fire labels.

SheSellSeaShells · 01/02/2019 12:39

loving this thread! I sold a lovely next ceiling lampshade on fb once, only had it up for a tenner I'd paid much more and it was lovely condition, I was just changing the colour of my bedroom. She wanted it for a fiver, I said sorry no I won't consider dropping price, it's only been up a day, she messaged back saying she would pay a tenner then and arranged time to collect. Time came and went - no show. Dropped her a message on messenger asking if she was still coming. I could see she had read the message no response. Two days later: "sorry I could not make, I can come now if you are home, my husband will pay you £5". Told her to jog on. Sold it a couple of days later for the tenner to a very happy lady. Also had loads asking for delivery on items I've listed, this seems to be worse when you are offering stuff for free too!

IamFrauBlucher · 01/02/2019 13:47

Our local selling pages are pretty good because it's an expat community with a lot of turnover of people clearing their apartments when they move on. But the buyers still exhibit the usual CFery.

I was selling a few items in very good condition for around 1/3 of the retail price. I got absolutely sick of the abrupt PM - "Best Price?"

So I just started replying - "The best price for me would be around 1 million, does that suit?"

Obviously the best price is the one I'm asking for. Grin

My colleague was selling some lovely wooden wall hangings and had a woman barter them down to 50% of her asking price. She was a bit weak after divorce and desperate to house clear and move on, so she agreed. She arranged for the woman to come to reception to collect them.

When she showed me the conversation I was a bit Hmm at the CF buyer. So I went to reception with her when she was called to say the buyer had arrived. We carried the huge wall hangings down in the escalator. Buyer was umming and ahhhing for ages at two items she had the dimensions and perfectly good pictures of previously.

She then hugged and said "Ok I'll take them for the 25 francs I agreed but I only have a 200 franc note, do you have change?

I could see my colleagues face crumbling in defeat, as she was about to tell the buyer to just take them. So I said "wow C, I thought you wanted 50 for these, I'll take them for 40 if you can't make change to sell to this lady"

Magically she produced her purse and pulled out a 20 franc note.

You see CF's you never know when you might meet another! GrinGrinGrin

IamFrauBlucher · 01/02/2019 13:49

Huffed, not hugged obviously. Because when she left she looked like she wanted to punch me. Grin

KaliforniaDreamz · 01/02/2019 17:00

IamFrauBlucher brilliant!

ScreamingValenta · 01/02/2019 17:11

MsHopey The "damaged"/"lost" 99p eBay bargain! That's happened to me a few times - it's so annoying. Especially as I've usually put on a much higher bid, say £30 in the expectation it will go for what it's worth. If the seller had messaged me honestly and said they'd made a mistake, I would happily have paid a fair price if they'd relisted as a BIN.

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