Facebook Selling - how long to leave it before moving to next buyer?

[shitinmyhandsandclap]

I am selling a fair bit on stuff on Facebook due to relationship breakdown and moving out of the house, I've had a fair few no shows which is really annoying and was wondering how long you leave it before going to the next potential buyer.

One of the items I put up last night was jumped on immediately by 3 people, I obviously contacted the 1st one first, he was very keen, told him I'd forward my address this morning if he was still interested, and he told me he'd like to come and pick it up at 12. I've PM'd him asking if he's still interested but no response, should I move on or wait until 12?

Does he have your address? Or did he not reply so you didn’t send it? If he has the address I think I’d personally wait until 12 as it’s not that far away. But if he’s not there by 12, message him and say you haven’t heard from him so you’ll be moving onto the next interested party if you don’t hear from him by say 12.30.

If you haven’t sent the address yet I’d message him saying you hadn’t heard so assumed he wasn’t keen and will be moving onto the next person as you need it gone.

But it’s up to you of course!

It also might help to add a caveat into the listings if you haven’t yet - something like if you don’t respond after engaging or don’t pick up at the arranged time, then you’ll be re-listing as you’ve had a few time wasters.

He might not notice a pm if it's the first one; if you're not friends they don't show up without going looking for them, so it's a good idea to reply to the post saying "I've sent you a pm with my address" as well. For those who don't use messenger, any message is a bit trickier on a phone - I usually only access messages from my laptop, so I can be slower responding than some people expect.

You'll probably find he or someone in his close family has been taken suddenly ill and he's in A&E. It seems to be a staggering side effect of Facebook Marketplace and one that really should be studied.

Meanwhile, block and next.

I give people 15 minutes after the agreed pick up time. If they don't turn up by then or message to say they're running late I move on to the next buyer and message them to say the item has been sold. I used to be much more flexible but there are so many time wasters out there I don't bother anymore!

Well he messaged me at 11.45 saying he was on his way and could he have my address, he'd be here by 12.10

Still waiting

And what's with the people who respond to your advert with 'is this still available', you tell them yes and then you never hear from them again.

Blummin' timewasters

@AmuckAmuckAmuck

You'll probably find he or someone in his close family has been taken suddenly ill and he's in A&E. It seems to be a staggering side effect of Facebook Marketplace and one that really should be studied.

Meanwhile, block and next.

Lol, I've seen a few of those when I used ebay which I stopped using because of idiots wanting refunds etc. and ebay always siding with them.

This is a local FB group, not Marketplace, I won't put stuff on there - you just get bombarded

@shitinmyhandsandclap I must admit that my hand has slipped and accidentally sent one of those 'is this still available' messages. I think it's easily done.

That said , I've done a lot of ebay and gumtree selling, but got sick of fb very quickly as there are so many timewasters. Shpock is just as bad.

If it's large item try Gumtree instead.

Have they showed up now? We had a cheeky sod buy a guitar off Facebook that DH was selling a couple of weeks ago, said they were local and leaving to collect it. 4 HOURS later they still hadn't arrived, I was seriously annoyed as our Sunday became dominated by waiting in but as it was for a decent sum of money DH didn't want to just cancel it. They eventually showed up, turned out they'd visited their daughter en route but didn't think to tell us and they actually lived 40 miles away and had illegally travelled from their part of Wales to ours (both being in local lockdown). I was not happy!!

How rude mummabubs I wouldn't dream of doing something like that.

He's just been, apologised profusely, lovely retired chap who has the same car as me, had a nice little chat. All good.

Now let's see if my 2pm buyer turns up