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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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CynthiaRothrock · 29/01/2019 13:55

I had a bad experience as a buyer, i was looking for a new coffee machine and was willing to buy new but stupidly thought i would try fb/ebay first. A guy advertised a coffee machine,but had just put up a picture of it saying for sale, no price etc, the picture clearly showed it had been used and had a scratch on the front but i wasnt that bothered, so i (with hello/please/thank you etc) asked how much he wanted and did it have the parts/working etc . He came back with £140 no offers sold as seen. I replied thank you but a bit out of my price range. (It was an older model and the new version was £100 brand new and had seen the same one advertised at £50 in a few other places).

He came at me with a rant about he was sick of time wasters, he had been trying to sell this for over a month and he needed the money, stupid women keep letting him down and he was only going to deal with men from now on, and i was stupid not to realise it was a bargain as it was top of the range and brand new and he would give me one last chance to buy it! Hmm
I politely declined again and gor more abuse so i shared the link to a brand new one for £40 less. He called me all names under the sun. But it did get a lot of likes from other people on the page Wink
About an hour later i got a message from a lovely guy who was moving abroad offering me his pretty much brand new and alot better machine for £20, he was going to sell it for 50 but he had seen the previous post and felt like doing a good deed! I offered him more but he wouldnt accept it and even offered to deliver (i didn't ask and offered to collect). My bargain coffee machine is still going strong 4 years later. Grin

Witchofzog · 29/01/2019 14:20

I have a nice one too. I was selling a big bundle of baby clothes and person who asked for them was selling a food processor. I suggested we do a straight swap so we did and the processor is still going strong 7 years later 😊

Highonthehill · 29/01/2019 14:28

I do get fed up with blokes (sexist I know but true) that turn up calling me love and dear trying to convince me that we agreed a lower price. Bloody chancers.. i don't mind negotiation but don't treat me like a little woman who you think is below you it's not the 1950s anymore

Soubriquet · 29/01/2019 14:29

Oh I’ll never forget a woman buying a huge bundle of PJ masks stuff.

It was a very good bargain and she claimed her child would be over the moon with it.

I found her selling them on at stupid prices. She really struggled to sell them too. Serves her right

Mmmhmmm · 29/01/2019 14:54

Thanks for the link to the reddit page. Comedy gold right there. 😂

fibonaccisequins · 29/01/2019 17:33

Choosing beggars on reddit Grin
Haven't Rtft!

fibonaccisequins · 29/01/2019 17:33

Great minds reflect

blueangel1 · 29/01/2019 17:42

I found this with Freecycle when I used it to pass stuff on a few years ago. Loads of CFs and people looking for free stuff to sell on. There was one woman who used to want Every. Single. Item. - no matter what it was.

Hoppinggreen · 29/01/2019 17:46

There’s one round her who’s notorious
She often posts about needing free kids stuff as she’s desperately broke and her kids are nak d etc etc
but then IN THE SAME POST asks if anyone has a brand new very specific pair of genuine designer trainers she she’s after that she will pay “up,to £100 for “
Use the money to buy your kids some clothes you scratter!!

QueenArseClangers · 29/01/2019 18:20

I’ve just sold a solid wood bookcase for £20. The couple turned up and couldn’t fit it in their car (very polite) so we dropped it off to their local address the next day.
The lovely lady has been sending me pics of her makeover on it Smile I feel ripped off, why can’t I have a bonkers/nasty FB CF to report about? Grin

NotTheQueen · 29/01/2019 21:47

Forgot one...

We brought a new sofa so advertised the old one for 350, collection only It was only 18mths old, but just didn’t go with DHs ‘vision’ of our front room Wink

Lady messaged and offered us 50 quid less, accepted it as new one was being delivered in a week. Then she came back and wanted to reduce the price another 70 as she’d been quoted 70 for collection and delivery. I explained that collecting was her responsibility.

Next lady offered 260, said ok, didn’t hear anything for 2 days, messaged her again and she said she was still organising a van.

First Lady came back and offered 265, agreed it then she gave me the spiel hard luck story - husband had died, redecorating for Christmas to shake the memories etc I googled her name (nosy cynical cow that I am) and sure enough, found a newspaper report online, husband had been killed by a distracted driver when helping a broken down driver The van man arrived with her money, I asked if she was coming, he said no that she trusted me. I felt so bad I raided my cupboards and sent her wine, cake and chocolates. She sent me a photo of her redecorated living room and a thank you card.

Second lady contacted me two weeks later, then abused me when she discovered I’d sold her sofa

Andromeida59 · 29/01/2019 22:03

One of my favourites was when we were giving a fridge away for free. Bloke messaged me and asked for the price. Sent him details despite it saying so in the description.
He later turned up and asked about the light. Told him there was no light. He argued with me over this. I repeated myself. Partner then came to the kitchen and said that there was no light. CF's accepted his response and left.

toomuchtooold · 30/01/2019 09:00

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Soubriquet · 30/01/2019 09:11

Way to ruin a fun thread

Got to shoehorn brexit in to everything? Hmm

toomuchtooold · 30/01/2019 09:20

Just ignore it then.

PyongyangKipperbang · 30/01/2019 09:21

Oh FFS there's always one........Hmm

goingtotown · 30/01/2019 10:31

I can’t be doing with CF wasting my time.
I’ve donated furniture to my local Keech Hospice Care charity shop. Just a phone call to arrange collection. Job done.

Roussette · 30/01/2019 10:36

Selling a convector heater for £8. Works perfectly, same model in Argos £27

Man contacts me on FB and asks where I am (the ad shows it but hey ho). I tell him. He says 'I'm in blah blah' which is probably an hour (bad traffic to get there) from me. I tell him that and say up to you.

He then asks me if I'd deliver and would I take a fiver! So that's me doing a possible 1.5 to 2 hour round trip for £5, petrol would cost me £10!

I don't even reply to messages like this anymore!

I'm giving away two really nice armchairs. Fab condition. I had them on for £20, now free. The ad says 'I can't deliver' and 'free'. The number of people who've contacted me asking how much and will I deliver. Arghhhhhh

Roussette · 30/01/2019 10:37

goingtotown I want to do that with my armchairs but they don't have fire labels.

I have given a huge leather L shaped sofa to a charity and it's gone to a youth club, but sadly my armchairs can't.

AGHHHH · 30/01/2019 11:31

Hard to ignore it took up half the page!

goingtotown · 30/01/2019 11:39

toomuchtooold
Thanks for spoiling this thread.

Buddyelf · 30/01/2019 11:52

Oooh I have one. It wasn't over selling anything but it was definitely an amusing and baffling outburst. I posted a review on trip advisor about a place I won't name. It was a bad review, we'd had an awful time and the place was exceptionally bad so I left a review. A week or so later I had a private message off a random person I have never met/seen saying

'What a miserable review, sounds like you want centre parks love!'

I was totally Hmm who sends a stranger a message like that. I replied along the lines of 'I'm not sure why you have taken the time to message me ....and I don't much appreciate the patronising 'love'.
But you are probably right - I would rather try centre parks then go to back to this place. Thanks for the advice!'

I got back 'cheers LOVE' Grin and never heard from them again. It was totally baffling. A troll on trip advisor private messaging.

Skittlesandbeer · 30/01/2019 12:34

Just sold a ream of butcher’s paper this week (left over from a house move), still scratching my head about it. About 12 messages from a guy to confirm everything about it, even though there were several clear pics and, you know, butchers paper.

Finally the dude (& his wife) say they’ll drive 40 mins to me to ‘view it’. Ok. They proceed to examine it forensically, a fair amount of head shaking and tutting. They go back to their car to ‘discuss it’. Ring the doorbell again, reluctantly decided to buy it. Try to haggle. End up paying full odds. £2.75.

I kid you not. Usually I’m far too impatient for shenanigans like this, but I was weirdly enthralled!

Mmmhmmm · 30/01/2019 13:10

@Skittlesandbeer

Some people are just so weird and cheap.

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