Re “Message seller for price” Facebook selling groups & Marketplace

[HappenstanceMarmite]

I mean just WHY?! Why don’t you put the price in the advert? Why? I just don’t get it. It annoys me to the point that, even if I was interested in the product, I would not message the seller for price if my life depended on it 🤬 I want to know upfront so I can decide whether it looks like a good deal, without the hassle of hanging around waiting for the seller to deign to respond.

So...can anyone give a rationale behind this irritating nonsense? Mostly ascribed to products of low worth so WTF?

I think it's because they think that if they publish the price they'll get flamed as they know it's too high

Instead, they have to reply to hundreds of DM's 😂

@mylittlesandwich

Another thing I gong very cheeky is in Scotland we can apply for a free baby box. It's got loads of great things in it but it's FREE. The number of times I've seen people trying to sell things from it.

We have this in England, except you have to watch a few videos on a website about parenting. But it's then free! I haven't seen anyone trying to sell one on yet though 😁

And when people list things for 90% of the price they paid for it because it's barely used. I'm not going to go out of my way to collect a used product that I can get new and delivered for not much more. Most products lose 50% of their value the moment they become second hand.

People who list things as Free, "not free DM for price".

On Shpock I've noticed lots of people including the delivery option in their listings and then saying "collection only please don't ask for delivery" in the description.

I despise those kind of people, I have a doozy it's not quite along the lines of message for price but yesterday DP was browsing marketplace for a little cheap car for himself for short journeys, he found one reasonably priced great on insurance and looked like it had been taken car of. The seller had said in the listing "message for more information and viewings welcome".
The listing couldn't have been more inaccurate, it took the seller an hour to respond to every question and when DP asked if he could have his address to come for a viewing seller replied with "NO" DP was like wtf how do you expect to sell anything if you won't let prospective buyers come and view it so seller replied with "MY CLIENT WILL MEET YOU AT THE CAR" 🤔🤔🤔 erm how's he supposed to know where to meet your "client" if you won't give out the address 🙄 needless to say dp got pissed off and set him a strongly wordered text back "time waster" "joke" etc. I don't see that car being sold at any point in the future 😂

@CasuallyFeminine I've seen a lot lately brand new in box being. "I only want what I paid for it". But if I buy something myself I usually get a guarantee and I can take it back easily if it doesn't work. Nobody wants to drive to your house to pay the same as a shop.

There’s one group I’m in which covers a large area and loads of people won’t post where they are. It’s on their profile so no reason to only dm it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yesterday 09:53 mylittlesandwich

@CasuallyFeminine I've seen a lot lately brand new in box being. "I only want what I paid for it". But if I buy something myself I usually get a guarantee and I can take it back easily if it doesn't work. Nobody wants to drive to your house to pay the same as a shop.

Exactly! Does my swede in too, this one 🤦🏽‍♀️

Anyone with this in their ad is an instant NO as is any ad that starts "here we have" WTF is that about?

Work on the “If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it” principle!

[quote mylittlesandwich]@CasuallyFeminine I've seen a lot lately brand new in box being. "I only want what I paid for it". But if I buy something myself I usually get a guarantee and I can take it back easily if it doesn't work. Nobody wants to drive to your house to pay the same as a shop.[/quote]
I paid the price on the box from a "friend" who wanted to sell me her DD's brand new boots that didn't fit to save her taking them back. She just "wanted what she'd paid". £16 and the boots were nice enough so I agreed.

Next day when opening the box I realised she'd left the receipt in ready to return them. Turns out she got them on sale and not for the price on the box. She paid £6!!! Cow actually ripped off her friend for a tenner! I didn't say anything but did pull back completely from the friendship.

When I pay full price for something I want it to be 100% new and with all the associated guarantees.

Yes to the the ‘only want what I paid’ sale posts! There seems to be an influx of these recently

Most CF one recently was a women selling a pair of evening type shoes ‘only worn once’ and ‘just want what I paid’ for £76

Someone pointed out these shoes were only £70 brand new to which seller commented that when she bought them she’d had to do it online as the shop was closed due to Covid (now open as normal) and therefore had included the delivery charge in her sale price! Completely deluded

It reminds me of a time when someone local put a piece of ercol furniture up on eBay with no reserve and I put the first bid on it.They messaged me constantly telling me it was 300pds and I needn't think I was getting it for a fiver.

I need a second hand 4ft fish tank. The amount of people who don't put the size on their advert. Very annoying.

Ooh generally if I'm giving anything away for free I'll advertise it 'msg for price' or 'make an offer' then when a person messages I say its free, I find it weeds out those who ask for all free stuff advertised who then go on to sell it

This drives me insane.....most people selling shoes rarely put the size on their ad. Drives mad!

The people who mark things as free when they aren't are equally bad.
They'll put £0 in the price box, some poor woman will post saying "Can I have this please, just checking it's really free" and will get loads of abuse from the seller, and sometimes her mates, for expecting the item for free.... Despite it having been marked as such. Bonkers.

I wish people would put measurements on eBay 2nd hand clothes listings. The amount of times I've wasted money recieving a too big/too small item as sizing is do random. Or people who sell items they claim are unisex. A man's medium is a lot different to a woman's medium.
Also agree with the pp who mentioned job adverts, when DH was made redundant he wasted so much time and money applying for jobs that didn't pay enough, salary to be discussed at interview etc. It's really pathetic.

I always think it's so they can eye up your profile and change the price accordingly... So if you look like you have a bit of money, add 50% to what they are asking for

They may not want a particular other person to know what the price is?

I deleted my Facebook last year and I REALLY miss Marketplace! It’s the one element of Facebook I wish I still had. Gumtree isn’t quite the same. Although I bought and sold a lot of (mainly kids) stuff on there and met some really nice people I do miss the deluded prices or ‘how much is this?’ ‘dm me hun’ conversations.

Not quite the same but I think my favourite was an man selling a VERY 80s/90s 3-piece-suite for £600....there was a very similar set for free in the next listing down. It was probably very expensive back in the day but people were giving away much nicer stuff for nothing. There was also a similar situation with a woman selling a used high chair for more than a new one was for sale in Argos - someone even copied her the link and she said she didn’t care and that the price was non-negotiable

My recent fb argument was over collection, I started with ‘I’m a bit far from you but I drive your way on Monday and Wednesday...’. She stated it was fine on Monday morning, tried to arrange a time the night before but no answer. Wednesday tried again for the few days leading up but she decided she was actually out all day (after dithering for two hours On Wednesday and Ignoring other messages the day before if she was), making me leave later than intended). Then she went batshit I wasn’t going to collect the item before the weekend when she needed it gone by. No other buyers interested, by then I was annoyed and said sell it to someone else but she bugged me for weeks for when I was coming.

@UncleBrynsPicasso I love FB marketplace for that. One woman was selling the most useless tatty old crap. One was a bath pouffe for 50p. Good god, who's going to go buy a second hand bath scrubber when they can walk into a shop and get a new one for the same price?! She also had children's jigsaws for £1.50 each. Not that bad until you read, "some pieces missing from each". She was selling pens, old toys and presumably whatever else she could put her hands on in her house.
I recall someone trying to sell a new Lego Friends set for £10 more than it was in the shops. I told her nicely via PM that she might not be able to sell it at the price she wanted (I was an admin and trying to be helpful) and got a gob full of abuse. So I simply posted links to it cheaper on her post.
Didn't want folk to get ripped off now did I?

@mylittlesandwich

The most annoying is it's listed as free then in the description in capital letters. THIS IS NOT FREE DM FOR PRICE. Just put the price on it. Make me an offer is another one. In the region of what? At least give me a clue.

This. It's click bait gah