How on earth can anyone be arsed selling anything on FB

[PrincessSloth]

Listed an item

Replied to around 150 messages of "Is this still available"

No response.

"Does it have X?"

Yes, I said it did in the advert and it's also clearly in the picture so, yes.

"will you deliver?"

No, again I said in the advert, collection only.

"will you take a fiver?"

That is literally a 75% reduction, so no.

Somebody was meant to be coming to collect said item tonight after I spent an hour sending them pictures from every single angle in the planet and answering his 1000 questions about a very very simple uncomplicated item and he appears to have dropped off the face of the planet.

Arghhhh I would rather just take the item to the bloody tip it would be less hassle but as it is plastic I thought it would be better someone else got the use of it.

How can anyone ever be arsed?!?!

I remember actually I sold a TV a couple of years ago on there and the guy messaged me 18 months later asking if I had the manual for it!!

From the other side - I messaged someone to buy some study books recently, it was 4 different ones but on same subject.

He messaged back to say one had sold and asked what I wanted it for. I said DS was going to uni to study that subject and he gave me loads of info about online libraries and said we didn't need to buy them... Helpful chap

Great, thanks for this thread. I’m just about to sell my icandy travel system, these comments don’t fill me hope!🤔😂

Luckily I’ve not really had any trouble when I’ve sold things on Facebook. (Touch wood!) But I can imagine it being very frustrating when the time wasters come along.

I have given up too. Used to sell occasionally on eBay - just stuff that was surplus, never asking silly money (usually 99p start) but all the time wasters have made me resolve not to bother any more.

I recently tried selling a gaming pc, worth around £300, I needed the money so listed it as £100 no offers for a quick sale, Got offered £30, I replied saying sure, take it for free and I will also pay your monthly broadband bill as well. He asked me why I was being a dick.

I remember trying to get rid of a new sofa as we were moving and couldn't take it, could not get rid of it for free at all, we put it outside our house as we were going to take it to the dump and in the time it took us to make a cup of tea it had been stolen lol

I no longer sell online after a guy who bought off me from gumtree started emailing me every night saying he knew where I lived, did I want fun etc

I use to sell my stuff on there and give up for exactly these reasons but then.... one day I no longer needed one of my DC’s large baby items, my mother said sell it on Facebook, I explained why I had stopped selling stuff on there and she kindly offered for me to put it on her page and she would sell it for me, reply to messages, wait for people to pick items up etc, so I give it go I took the photos, uploaded them and filled in the description and posted it she dealt with it all sold it and give me the cash, she’s retired, has afew health problems and generally likes to still feel like she’s not just sitting around day after day bless her, so now this is what we do she sells all my stuff that I’m selling on her fb and it benefits us both and every now and again when I’m a cafe or something I’ll say ‘I’ll pay for that mum’ ‘ have that extra £80 because you sold that thing for me yesterday don’t I’ works well for both of us I tell her what I want to sell things for and what is the lowest I’m willing to go and leave her too it and I can see she actually enjoys it

I find this with Shpock too. When I have jumped through all of those hoops and parcelled an item up then when I’m standing in the post office queue for 20 mins for the sake of something that I’ve sold for less than a fiver I consider it my punishment for being so greedy and not donating it to my local charity shop!

You have to know where to sell. I have most success in special groups (brands of kids clothes, wooden toys etc)

I just had a surreal experience last night - put two pairs of boots on FB, sold for full price to two different buyers in ten minutes. Both paid by paypal immediately with no haggling. Marvellous

Can’t be doing with the ridiculous questions which are repeated constantly the insulting offers and the requests to deliver. Kept something all week for one buyer. She arranged a time to pick it up and didn’t come. I messaged her and said would it have hurt you just to let me know you’d changed your mind rather than have me waiting in. She told me to ‘get a life’. Won’t be repeating the mistake of trying to be helpful.

I sell a lot on Facebook selling sites.

I've not been messed about.

I also encourage my children to buy in the summer to sell around Christmas as it generates a small income.

I'm usually pretty clear about how long I will hold something before offering it to the next in line.

I'm also clear about how many others are waiting for this item.

If people make offers I say that I'm going to leave it on the selling site for the first week or x days at the full price. If I haven't sold it I will get in touch.

Usually I get the full price and collection within a few days.

I've met some really nice people on our local selling site. Good way to meet local people.

I don't sell much stuff, but I've never had the hassle so many have referred to.
What I like about it is you don't have to post stuff out. If someone doesn't turn up, nothing is lost. I won't wait in for someone - I arrange a time when I'm in anyway and if they don't come then they miss out.
If they offer a lower price, I just say no.

I am trying to sell furniture at the moment. I have had around 20 messages asking if still available, I reply yes and then I get nothing.

Why bloody ask??

Nope, I dont bother
Too hard, too time consuming, to many idiots
I just chuck it unless someone wants it then and there. I won't store stuff now cos someone may want it in the future.

I’ve had great success selling things on FB marketplace. It’s been brilliant for me. But I think it depends on what you’re selling and the price you are hoping to achieve.
In my experience, eBay can be faffier (takes a while to create a listing, the messing around with postage, the occasional bad apple bidder etc) but I’ve achieved higher prices for items that I know are worth a fair bit. For example designer shoes that were BNiB I sold for 80% of RRP recently.
FB marketplace I find is better for household items or baby/child items that aren’t worth loads but you want them gone quickly. Recently sold some bulky kitchen items (bread maker and mixer) that were collected and paid for in cash within 2 hours of posting the listing. Would probably have got more for them on eBay but loads more hassle. Have also sold tons of baby stuff in the past in big bulk bags which undoubtedly earned me less than if I’d eBayed it all, but it was so much less work for me.
My big tip on Facebook is to just be tough with people. My friend got in a big mess on FB when she tried to sell some stuff and kept promising to reserve things for people on the back of an enquiry. Then they’d not bother getting back to her and she would have to wait before she could offer it to anyone else. I never reserve things. If someone actually tells me they are coming to collect then I will reserve it until the agreed collection time but if they don’t show up then I offer it to the next person who asked. I don’t mark the listing as “sold” until it’s actually paid for and collected.

I get asked where am I located- despite me putting the village, town and postcode in the listing! People just don't read, drives me mad. I have started writing please do not ask my location, it is written above.

I have found the best way is to find small local groups that are not completely focussed on selling but things are sold occasionally - the general buy and sell groups are just full of timewasters

I'm in a fairly niche collectors item group, which is fine. The person are reasonable and it's quite a small group.
The general marketplace is dreadful.

Marketplace and shpock are crap. I've had the most success on Gumtree.

And if they do turn up, they never bring the right change. Do I have change? Well, am I a shop? (Obvs I scrabble around, raid piggy banks and find change).

I find Facebook okay for buying or selling. Selling works out easier than Ebay etc., and if the listing is clear it's not normally a problem. We don't sell a lot though and try and remove the posts as soon as its sold. I think it depends what you're selling, some are more cf territory than other things.

I try not to be a bad buyer, I make it clear when I'm free and agree a time to collect that I do my best to stick to, and I make sure I read the full post.

I have a habit though of not completely checking where someone is, especially if I'm on the marketplace not a for sale group...I've never messaged someone miles away but have came close to asking about items 40 miles before I realised I'm not going that far for crap I don't need cheap homewares.

I do get annoyed with furniture posts where they only post the stock image from argos, not their 2 year used one. Or don't bother to put the dimensions so you have no idea how big it is. Or tell you there is damage, but don't actually show the damage at all, or in context, so no idea whether the scratch is all across the top or just the back corner.

I've given up trying to sell on ebay, people are so entitled and rude.

Last year I was selling a large 6ft rabbit hutch, my rabbit had chewed it in the past, I'd repaired it but in doing so it meant the hutch could no longer be taken apart, so I advertised the hutch. I explained it couldn't be dismantled in the description and asked for a stupidly low payment.

One woman messaged me.
"Was it still available?" Yes.
"Could it be dismantled?" No
"I'll let my husband be the judge of that, we'll come at 6 this evening to look at it"
I don't think so, cheeky mare, I didn't even bother responding. I still have the hutch. It's currently home to a hibernating hedgehog, all is good :-)

YANBU!

I tend to just give away stuff to charity shops or when they do collections with the charity bags.

My local groups where people sell items, the numbers of posts where sellers/buyers have had a dispute, everyone piles in to give their opinions!

It all just seems like a total fucking pain in the arse

And yes that's true, the most complaints are about when people give stuff away for free and that's when the real cheeky fuckers come out to play.

Just the other day on my local FB group, one seller had given away a large item in good faith that it would help a fellow local mum. That mum the apparently went straight back onto the group and put it up for sale.

Kind of dumb if you ask me, she should've at least made the effort to post in another group, lazy cow.

Anyhow, the comments have been entertaining to say the least!

Sold some logs on FB, the buyer was quite insistent on collecting the following day but we had to be at work in another town and would be gone all day. Wasn't really happy about giving out our address if we weren't going to be there as the logs were stacked at the side of the house and the buyer could just come and take them without paying. So we agreed that he could come but ONLY if he could collect before 10am. He agreed this would not be a problem.

True to form the buyer didn't turn up. We waited until nearly 10:30 but as he had our address we threw the logs in the shed and locked it. Couldn't hang around and be late for work. Two hours later he turned up and started banging on the door yelling at us to get out of bed (according to the neighbours). As we had another car in the driveway presumably he assumed we were in. Then had a nosey round the side of the house, saw the logs gone and sent a stream of abusive text messages saying how we had had wasted his petrol and his time and we should have told him we had already sold the logs to someone else.

Sent a screenshot of our previous discussion where he had agreed to come before 10am then blocked him. Clearly no point in reasoning with someone who had already made a load of wildly inaccurate assumptions and expected us to put our working lives on hold to accommodate his poor time keeping. Glad we put the logs in the shed now as he probably WOULD have taken them without paying.

Eventually sold the logs on FB to a lovely couple that we still keep in touch with.

I've been pretty lucky buying and selling, but there are certainly some funny folk out there. I was trying to give away a sofa cover free - large amount of good fabric but ripped at base by puppy. Woman told me she wanted it to lay on her armchair arms as she smoked and kept burning the chair and would I bring it round as it was raining...I didn't want the responsibility of her setting light to herself! On the other hand, I bought a daybed, which turned out not to fit in my car (dismantled) and the lovely chap not only brought it round but assembled it for me too!