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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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PatchworkGirl · 29/01/2019 00:09

And I work from home so I'd have been very tempted to have some fun with the CF in the OP !

Yearofthemum · 29/01/2019 00:14

I tried to give away some chairs last year on eBay, without success. They went in a jiffy once I put a price on them. Competition too.

NotTheQueen · 29/01/2019 00:18

midlifecrisis and Queenofallisee
There’s always a few who manage to take CF to a whole new level Often they’re the ones who forget their responsibilities but are very familiar with their entitlements

FortunesFave · 29/01/2019 00:41

Catton that's hysterical!

TheKrakening3 · 29/01/2019 00:42

I gave away a nursing chair FOR FREE which was structurally fine but the vinyl covering was worn away. Had photos and everything. Lady came and collected it then messaged me later demanding $20 to cover the cost of buying material to make a slip cover.

RavenLG · 29/01/2019 00:54

I’m on a pretty good free Facebook group. A woman was giving away a wii with hundreds of games and all the controller adapters etc. Hundreds of people were interested obviously but chose someone who (can’t remember exactly) but was skint / wanted to treat the kids. It ended up ok Facebook marketplace with the same photo a few hrs later for about £50. The members of the group and admins made his life hell to the point where he actually gave it back. Glad to see on that occasion justice prevailed!

I must say I’ve only ever had good experiences. We gifted a piano (moving house no room) and the chap gave us some mince pies (Christmas) and a tv unit we gave away we got some Ferraro Rocher for.

AGHHHH · 29/01/2019 01:17

Seems like selling sites attract all the bellends of society.

M3lon · 29/01/2019 01:23

oh man...I was just about to test the waters of exchanging junk with strangers and now I'm all terrified!

I'd like to get rid of a load of duplo and baby books (thinking my local dentist might want it?) and I want to obtain a lego elves figure my DD is missing. Will I get through this with all my limbs intact?

StoppinBy · 29/01/2019 01:35

Before I knew about buy/swap/sell pages I had an incident where some knob head had advertised free kittens and was giving people our address when they said they wanted one

I had a lady come to get one for her child (the first of the day so I just assumed they had the wrong details),

a lady who had lost her cat 12 months prior and the kitten looked just like hers so she had finally decided to get another one (by this stage I knew someone was being a jerk and felt so sad for her)

and the best by far, a lady who spotted our own cat's run and accused me of lying as why would I have a cat run if I didn't have kittens. Once I got it in to her skull that I had already had about 6 or 7 people arrive and that I had a 10 week old baby so had no time to play stupid jokes on people she finally calmed down, gave me the full details of the ad and left.

Lots of cruddy people use the sites as well as good ones.

I bet that CF who took the boots and left half the money has done that to other people and just assumed they wouldn't chase it up, glad you made her bring the back.

PyongyangKipperbang · 29/01/2019 01:48

AIBU to want to know the size of the hunters as I want to buy them and will happily pay Blush ?

Chickenwings85 · 29/01/2019 02:47

Wow I can't believe the amount of CFs I've read on here. Honestly, some people really have no shame!

WatchingFromTheSidelines · 29/01/2019 02:49

A friend was selling her car and the buyer was trying to negotiate a lower price via text message, fair enough.
When my friend declined the lower price, the buyer sent through a photo of his elderly mother crying!

Just trying to work out how that took place... "yeah hang on a second Ma, I need to angle this just right. More tears, more tears! Look sadder." Crop. Filter. Send.

People are strange.

They eventually, after a great deal of 'bank issues'. bought the car for the advertised price.

Rockmysocks · 29/01/2019 06:25

I gave away a cheap table from lidl on jumble town. The man who came to collect it had to be careful he didn't scratch the leather upholstery in his newish Mercedes.

I've given away some pretty good stuff over the last few years. No real cfs but nobody poor. One told me he made money on the side selling free stuff. Fair dos, I couldn't be bothered.

One guy did give me a couple of scratchcards and I won 15 euro!

PyongyangKipperbang · 29/01/2019 06:31

rockmysocks that reminds me of an expensive maternity occassion dress that sold very cheaply on ebay about 15 years ago. The buyer sent me a Coutts cheque to pay for the £6 dress (cost me over £200)......that why the rich stay rich I guess!

Patroclus · 29/01/2019 06:32

Tell her its still going free, send her an address miles away and never answer the phone again.

LadyGAgain · 29/01/2019 06:36

I would have replied "well if you'd have offered the asking price before the other person you could have come and collected it from my castle. I might even have offered you a glass of champagne".

SD1978 · 29/01/2019 06:41

I do love FB/gumtree selling. I had one lady tell me why the item wasn't worth what I wanted, and the details of what she'd have to do to make it suitable for use (25 minutes talking about varnish and sanding and how many layers would be needed) . So she said she'd give me x amount instead. Said that's nice and good luck- price is firm, hope you find what you want. 2 days later she agrees to my price (difference was only £5) because her time was worth so much more than £5 so she'd agree to the price juts to stop wasting her time looking.............so yep/ told her it was already sold and held on to it for a further few weeks and sold to someone else 😂😂

sparklefarts · 29/01/2019 06:50

I'm going to balance this with a nice story...

I gave away our uppa baby pram (with all the bits) that was in decent condition except badly needed new wheels. A young lady came round to collect it for her brother, don't know how far she had come but her and a friend came on the bus. She was so so grateful and couldn't say thank you enough. A few days later she turned up to say thank you again and gave me a box of nice tea bags apologising that it wasn't a lot. Smile

I don't sell much any more (got rid of most of my junk) but I try to remember that and hope that it goes to someone who genuinely wants the stuff

Hedwigsradio · 29/01/2019 06:50

I sold a phone on fb which a woman from my children's school bought. Two weeks later I get a message saying she wants her money back as it doesn't work since her daughter put some playdoh in the charging socket. I said I would not be giving a refund as it wasn't my fault her dd broke it. She then decided to threaten me as she was a single mum on benefits and I was a bitch for taking money away from her. We live on the same estate so she knew where I live and even sent her son round to threaten me. In the end my now ex went round to talk to her and came back saying he had fixed it. Turned out he gave her half the money back I was fuming. To make it worse the cheeky cow was then using it in the playground (it was a very distinctive bright phone).

ArtisanPopcorn · 29/01/2019 07:07

I'd be so tempted to screenshot it and post it. I'm awful.

Skittlesandbeer · 29/01/2019 07:10

I think I’d have to respond with ‘Actually, my household staff are home to hand over the item, I’m at my other home in Barbados. This Tuesday.’

Reminds me of when I won a big raffle prize in my youth (22?). Not something a young person would use, but quite valuable (think £20,000). I decided to sell it immediately. The number of CFs who answered my advert with ‘Can I just have it for free? I mean you got it for free, so that’s fair innit?’. YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW MANY.

KirstyAllsoppsFatterTwin · 29/01/2019 07:33

I get sick of people just saying ‘how much’ when the price is in the ad. Just read it, you lazy git.

Also the amount of people who just type things like

Available?

Interested

Following

I don’t care. What do you expect me to do? Chase you for more info of exactly how interested you are? Hmm If you really are interested then make me an offer and fix a time to come and look. If not, fuck off. Time wasting twat.

Also the ones who give sob stories by PM and ask for the thing for half what I’ve advertised it for. I sell things cheaply anyway just to get them out of the house. I’m at the point now where everything goes to the charity shop or for furniture the British Heart Foundation will collect it.

I also hate it when I advertise something for say £75 no offers and some twat types

£25.

Hmm yeah, in your dreams matey. I’d rather drag it into the garden and set fire to it than give it to you for 25 quid, you parasite.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 29/01/2019 07:37

My dil was selling her iPhone 6 on FB. Perfect condition, all the bits and bobs. So, so many people asking if it was a 7, why wasn't it a 9 or ten. And if course, can you deliver (to a town twenty miles away)
I love the abrupt "where can I get ..... today?" Someone on our site always puts Argos.

3luckystars · 29/01/2019 07:59

yeah, in your dreams matey. I’d rather drag it into the garden and set fire to it than give it to you for 25 quid, you parasite.

Smile that is so funny, imagine you really said that!

Itsagamerchanger · 29/01/2019 08:01

I have always go my rid of stuff on gumtree etc and not had any real problems. The first time I listed something for free was an eye opener...I was flooded with requests to put it to the side. I’ve learnt my lesson, nowadays I write on the ad “Will Get rid to the first person who arrives at my house” to stop the requests.

My biggest pet hates are the rude people who just message a very blunt “Is this still available”. Does it hurt to greet someone first? Honestly I tend to skip over those replies now. Just say hello!