To think people really are CFers when it comes to second hand items?

[TheIckabog]

I am selling an item on a local selling page. It cost me £280 which included the main item plus some extras. The item is in ‘as new’ condition, all original box etc, in fact I think I only used it a handful of times. These items don’t come up very often as they are expensive but they are desirable.

Anyway, I’ve had lots of interest in this item and have had at least four people agree to purchase it, right down to arranging to meet up. Each one of them have then said they won’t take it unless I lower the price! Someone wanted to pay £80 and said they could get it for £200 new. When I refused to lower the price I got a load of abuse!

AIBU to think this is CF-ery to the highest degree? I’m not about to practically give it away and it’s unlikely that they would be able to get this item in such a excellent condition for any less.

I sell a lot second hand on local pages so I know about pricing items at a reasonable price to sell however I think that given it was £280 new and I’m asking £150 it’s a bit cheeky to then try and undercut by another £70!

I had something up for sale for £20. A woman asked if she could have it for a tenner. Just wanting it gone, I said fine. She then sent me her address where to deliver it!!!
So I moved on to the next offer.

It was agreed for the full £20 asking price but she was very polite and asked if I would ever be passing her way (town 30 miles away) because she wasn't sure when her friend would be able to drive her to me. Reluctantly I agreed to get DH to drop it off as he worked in that town. Organised the day, time and price. £20 firm and free delivery. I messaged her as DH was driving to hers and she confirmed she was in. She opened the door and handed him a fiver, said that was all she had and put her hand out for the item. He handed her fiver back. She was ever so put out as she'd assumed he would just accept a quarter of the price because he had already come all that way. Nope. He told her it was £20 or it was going back home. She went and borrowed £15 off a neighbour and bought it. CFing cow.

Retail worker here the amount of removed tags found stuffed into pockets of other garments is astonishing. Websites like wish sell detaggers .

People are real CFs at times! I’ve put some stuff on sites for free and have been asked if I’ll pay for postage!! I’ve dropped the things into a charity shop instead!

Not any better in Germany: have had some many rude entitled replies, people demanding delivery, or just to have item “because I need it”. Thankfully also some nice folk who turn up to pick up a freebie with some chocolate, wine or home made jam as a thank you.

Because I need it. 😂😂😂. What is up with some people?

Is this what spoilt children grow up to be like? Imagine thinking "because I want it/need it" is a good enough reason for a complete stranger to out themselves out for you!

Collection only from X

Can you deliver? Nope collection only. And a please would be nice

I don't drive But you know someone who does and you don't know me so ask them to collect

Where are you? X is the name of a small village but sure here's the postcode

Sorry too far Which part of X village would it have needed to be to NOT be too far??

On a more positive note I gave away a cot that had been gifted to me and the lady brought a dozen eggs from her chickens. Very happy!

I sold a horsebox not so long ago.
I wanted £5k for it which is cheap for what it was but obviously was an older lorry so had history. It had 12 months MOT and a full inspection of work completed, I had just spent £1000 on it the week before getting it sale ready.

Man comes, kicks about a bit. Test drove it, went around it a few more times. Got his friend to come, they checked it out some more. All in all he spent about 2 hours messing around with it. He saw photos of it in use over the past few years, viewed every receipt it had ever had- the full inspection of every little thing. He drove it on lanes, motorways, started and ran it for ages. The lorry never missed a beat. He also opened everything, went through the horse areas checking floors and walls as to be expected but very thoroughly.

Eventually he said he would go for a drive to get the money but he wanted it, at which I messaged the other interested people and said it was sold.

He returned an hour with £2000 and a list of mechanical issues it had, none of which my own mechanic had picked up the week before.

I was so annoyed and told him to sod off but he could not understand why I wouldn’t knock £3k off the price for him. What a waste of a day

@Crummyfunnymummy

I was giving away for FREE my fridge freezer. It was only about 6 years old. We remodelled the kitchen and went for a different style. Giving away for that reason. Not coz it was broken or ugly or crap! Anyway I had lots of interest but I was astounded when a woman contacted me and asked if I would pay to have it delivered to her!!!!

I replied. “No. Its free”

All I can think of is that the reasoning behind that is that if she has to pay for delivery it isn't free any more.

You LIED to her!

Hoe COULD you?!

MONSTER!!!

I think a lot of sellers overestimate what their item is worth secondhand. For me, unless the saving is massive I'd rather buy new for convenience.
I've recently given away lots of baby stuff on marketplace as I couldn't be arsed with CFs and no shows for what the items were worth but don't like throwing stuff away.

This boils me. I advertised a bike on a Facebook sales site for £60, cost me £300 from new, and was like new. I got the usual 'is this still available' message and replied yes - buyer came back with 'will you take £50'? Hadn't even seen it, just didn't want to give me £60. I gave it away to a friend in the end, couldn't be bothered to haggle with people.

Could someone tell me what CF stands for please? Clown Face?

@ChesterDrawsDoesntExist

I had something up for sale for £20. A woman asked if she could have it for a tenner. Just wanting it gone, I said fine. She then sent me her address where to deliver it!!! So I moved on to the next offer.

It was agreed for the full £20 asking price but she was very polite and asked if I would ever be passing her way (town 30 miles away) because she wasn't sure when her friend would be able to drive her to me. Reluctantly I agreed to get DH to drop it off as he worked in that town. Organised the day, time and price. £20 firm and free delivery. I messaged her as DH was driving to hers and she confirmed she was in. She opened the door and handed him a fiver, said that was all she had and put her hand out for the item. He handed her fiver back. She was ever so put out as she'd assumed he would just accept a quarter of the price because he had already come all that way. Nope. He told her it was £20 or it was going back home. She went and borrowed £15 off a neighbour and bought it. CFing cow.

It would have been even better if he'd thanked her for the fiver and told her that it would just about cover his petrol

Some cheeky beggers will try anything on, won't they.?

SuitedandBooted

Any item is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it.
You don’t want it. So throw it away if you don’t want to sell it at the price offered

Don't be ridiculous. An item is worth what somebody is prepared to pay for it, and what the owner is prepared to accept

Sorry SuitedandBooted, but I have to disagree. It doesn’t matter what price you put on something you want to sell. If no one wants to buy it - it’s of no financial worth.

Sorry SuitedandBooted, but I have to disagree. It doesn’t matter what price you put on something you want to sell. If no one wants to buy it - it’s of no financial worth.

That's by the by when you're talking about a potential sale, though. If you had a homemade, handwritten birthday card from your child saying "I rAely luv u mumMy luv Chole" that she gave you when she was 3, anybody who doesn't know you would adjudge it of no financial worth whatsoever - but would you sell it to them for £10, even if they asked? And if they 'informed' you that it was worthless and thus demanded that you put it in their scrap paper bin for recycling, would you do it?

Stranger has item for sale that you consider valueless and would never want, therefore you don't bother making contact with stranger about said item in the first place. How difficult is that for some of these people to comprehend?

I did wonder what one woman was thinking once. She was selling anything and everything. A used bathe pouffe for 50p. Who the hell is going to go to someone's house for something (not even) worth 50p?! She also had numerous kids jigsaws for sale for £1.50 each. But in the listing it said, "Some pieces missing" why would anyone want those either?!?! Crazy.

Another lady went mad that I privately and politely pointed out that her Lego set she was selling is only half that price brand new. It wasn't out of stock or a highly desired hard to find item either. She'd just popped a massive price on and expected to get that. Only told her because she was selling on the sales page I ran and I was trying to help.

Bergerdog

For somebody as cheeky as that, I'm surprised he didn't try to bill you for HIS 'wasted' day. There's nothing wrong with trying to negotiate a deal (preferably without taking hours to make up lies and gaslight you), but the whole idea of negotiating is that BOTH parties are happy to agree. You don't get to negotiate for both sides on your own!! It's the basic 'consent' principle, but for stuff: both people agree or it doesn't happen, however many reasons or justifications one of them might try to give.

I gave something away on freecycle recently.
One person that enquired got snotty when I said I wasn't going to reimburse them £15 for congestion charge.

I did wonder what one woman was thinking once. She was selling anything and everything. A used bathe pouffe for 50p. Who the hell is going to go to someone's house for something (not even) worth 50p?! She also had numerous kids jigsaws for sale for £1.50 each. But in the listing it said, "Some pieces missing" why would anyone want those either?!?! Crazy.

Likely one of these:
A. Extremely desperate and impoverished with urgent bills to pay/food to buy;
B. Has quite serious learning difficulties;
C. Total CF;
D. Total CF pretending to be A.

Sad to say, unless she was D and a master psychologist, the fact that she openly admitted the missing jigsaw pieces upfront rather than just relying on nobody bothering to come back or bare-faced lying when they did come back, I'd say there's a very good chance that she was A or B.

@SockYarn

We've got rid of a lot of stuff recently. Some we've sold, some of the stuff not worth a lot we've just offered as free to collect.

An ancient pine chest of drawers, which we'd painted. Free to collect. First three replies asked if we'd deliver to the other side of Glasgow. No we fucking wouldn't. Because it's a fucking freebie and my name isn't Ikea.

Oh, aye, and IKEA charges to deliver (do they know, I dunna ken)? Even if you say 'NO delivery! Buyer must collect!' 'Can you deliver?' 'Can you fuck off?'

I gave something away on freecycle recently.
One person that enquired got snotty when I said I wasn't going to reimburse them £15 for congestion charge.

I'd say that a sizeable minority of FreeCyclers genuinely believe that you're getting rid of useless old rubbish and are trying to palm it off on somebody rather than take it to the tip. Oddly enough, they never seem to ask themselves why your 'useless old rubbish' just happens to be something that they find really desirable.

Some are just outright CFs trying to take you for everything they can possibly get (do you know for a fact that they actually incurred the CC?), but a lot really do think that they're doing you a massive favour and only benefitting themselves by dint of a pure outside fluke.

I had a man turn up at my house expecting to pick up my late parrot's Cage. When I questioned him he told me he was the man from freecycle and had come to collect. I want a member of freecycle though! He was very, very insistent and seemed mad at being "messed around"

It turned out later it had been my mum's friend who had answered a man's request, knowing my parrot had passed away. She had no right and I don't know if my mum had given her the okay or what even though she too would have had no right to give my (her adult daughter's) stuff away from my own home!

And I'm at thoroughly ashamed to say, I was so taken aback and don't know what was going on that I let him take it. I was on my own and it was standing right there next to me in my open garage when the man had approached (I was tidying up the garage).
Just good timing for him. I guess he thought I was getting it out for him.

I still think back to that day and slap my forehead at me not being the least bit assertive. I mean, I never got another parrot but still...

I had a man turn up at my house expecting to pick up my late parrot's Cage.

I was SOOOO hoping that was going to end with you sending him away empty-handed and pining for the fjords

Sorry if that came across as uncaring in any way - it did sound incredibly frustrating, even more so after the event when you think back to it.