Facebook Marketplace Annoyances. They are BU!

[naechunce]

I like selling stuff on marketplace, it's great to make spare cash.

But. The most annoying things are:

'Bundle of girls clothes. Don't have time to take pics. Alongside pic of black rubbish bag'. Who would buy this?

'Don't want the money, just looking for penny's for daughters piggy bank'. Sure.

'No time wasters' as if someone is going to think, 'oh I would like to comment but better not as I'm a time waster'!

God yes! I gave up selling on there but I've now got some decent stuff to get rid of that I could make a few quid on but the sheer idiocy of people is putting me off.

Put it on gumtree instead. The shit I got on fb when trying to sell a massive good quality pine wardrobe and also the kids 2 story playhouse 🙄 put them on gumtree and got full price and picked up within a day. It's a different clientele 😁

"Boot's for sale size 5 but they done fit me just want what I payed for them £180" plus one blurry picture.

Why would anyone buy some 'boot's' from a random online for the same price one could buy online with full consumer rights?

I gave away a tumble dryer recently cue loads of inboxes sob stories can you hold for my mate please NO!

I got a bbq on there 4 years ago for free. It was old and battered but perfect for the couple of bbqs we had over summer. This year, I bought dh a new bbq for his birthday and we again listed the old for free. It had a lot of interest, even though it had seen much better days and the first person who messaged us collected it. Next day, we saw it on marketplace by him for £25! You can buy the exact one new for £50. I'm all for people making a bit of money where they can but it was in awful condition and honestly worth nothing.

Oh another pet hate when selling.... just dealt with this - advert title says: “Wardrobe. Collection from (first part of postcode)” Main body of text repeats this, along with size, condition, colour and the fact it was purchased from IKEA less than a year ago.

First message from potential buyer: Still available? How big is it?

Reply with size; maybe they’ve missed that.

PB: It’s in gud condition yeah?

Reply confirming it is.

Lots of back and forth messaging asking about taking apart and will it fit in an estate car? Am I around tomorrow? Is it suitable for a baby (it’s a fucking wardrobe...)?

Message from PB: Whereabouts are you?

Reply with location, which is clearly stated in title abs description, plus Facebook out that useful little map thing.

PB: Too far sorry!

Drives me bloody crazy! Read the goddamn advert

Yeah @40somethingJBJ ! We live in the country and I always make it clear that we're a bit further out. Someone messaged me recently. 'Postcode?' So I reply with postcode and they said 'you must deliver as that's too far and I don't drive' 😂

I’ve put stuff on marketplace for free and on two occasions had people message me to patronisingly explain how much money I could get for said free item. Like I’d only said it was free because I was too stupid to realise I could ask for money. 🙄

Also when the listing for collection only says where we are, and I clearly state where we are, and someone from 80 miles away makes an offer and when I politely inquire how they are planning to pick it up the reply is “oh gosh that’s way too far for me to drive! Can you drop it off?”

🙄🙄

@40somethingJBJ

Oh another pet hate when selling.... just dealt with this - advert title says: “Wardrobe. Collection from (first part of postcode)” Main body of text repeats this, along with size, condition, colour and the fact it was purchased from IKEA less than a year ago.

First message from potential buyer: Still available? How big is it?

Reply with size; maybe they’ve missed that.

PB: It’s in gud condition yeah?

Reply confirming it is.

Lots of back and forth messaging asking about taking apart and will it fit in an estate car? Am I around tomorrow? Is it suitable for a baby (it’s a fucking wardrobe...)?

Message from PB: Whereabouts are you?

Reply with location, which is clearly stated in title abs description, plus Facebook out that useful little map thing.

PB: Too far sorry!

Drives me bloody crazy! Read the goddamn advert

Yes! All of this! Drives me batshit. 😂

I put something on FB and someone asked for delivery - I said no. They came back again asking for delivery - I just said “sorry I don’t drive” (a lie but thought it was easiest).

They then came back with “I looked at your photos - you obviously do drive”. Yep they’d gone through my actual profile pics!

I saw one this week...2 very large, filthy dirty cheap looking sofas "free to anyone who can collect from my third floor flat. You'll need 2 people as they are very heavy to get down the stairs". She was basically looking for free rubbish removal!

The other week someone posted a gingerbread man shaped cookie jar with "needs gone by Saturday". I'm not going to comment on the grammar, but what harm could this poor little biscuit tin possibly have done if he was still there on Sunday? I can understand how large pieces of furniture etc could "need gone" by a certain date, but a cute little biscuit tin? I felt so sorry for it being unwanted I nearly bought it!

I recently advertised an old TV on marketplace. One woman wanted it, but could only collect at times I was at work. She couldn't understand why I would go to work when she wanted my TV?
She then started the emotional blackmail in that I have ruined her child's Christmas as she had promised MY TV and I was unreasonable??
I blocked her!

Our marketplace is full of people 'looking for x' 'wanting y' 'need cheap z'

And then always, always, ALWAYS

'Cash waiting'

Arghhhhh

I’ve used it for the first time this week. Think the price may have been too low as had about 40 enquiries. After a no show it was collected yesterday. I tried to do the right thing and keep for the first responder but with other stuff can I just say first come first served (as in offer to person who can collect first-not actually race to my house). The new item has already been delivered and my house isn’t that big.

I think ‘no timewasters’ is referring to people who have wasted their time before. I’m on a children’s clothes selling page and that is what the phrase is used for.

Needs a clean, 'Could do with a wipe' .... well then bloody wipe it. Makes me think they are hiding the real issue under the dirt

Cannot stand this! Even if I was giving something away for free I would still clean it. If you expect someone to pay you for something the very least you should do is clean it.

If I’m selling something I have it there, ready, in the hallway waiting to hand over to the buyer in the shortest time possible. The last thing I bought from someone, I went to collect and the item was still shoved in a corner, covered in dust and with stuff piled on it that I had to wait for them to move.

What I also hate is that rather than use marketplace, people clutter up local Facebook residents pages offering free stuff because they can’t be arsed to pay for rubbish removal or go to the tip. Stuff like nasty old decking with nails sticking out of it or a pile of rubble!

I particularly hate “msg for prices”.

I also hate 'needs gone today' - sounds so entitled and stupid. It announces the seller as in a weaker negotiating position - not that I see online selling like that, but it grates.

Also people wanting what they paid for something. No, that's not how it works.

So many of these!
The needs a clean, want gone, buyer to dismantle ones are terribly bad.

There's a man on ours at the moment who has £50 worth of those love to shop gift vouchers that he is selling for £50 "no offers"

A woman posted a few weeks ago, claiming to be a charity worker, about a young (18) lady unexpectedly finding out about being pregnant late on, due imminently, no money so needs everything for a baby free or cheap but must be gender neutral as they wanted it to be a surprise. Someone offered a baby bath for free but was turned down as it was blue.
This week she posted again saying needing cheap or free things for a girl for her daughter who is 20 weeks pregnant and wants a "good branded" pram and needs pretty much everything.
Lots of -suckers- people have given stuff and she is selling it all on at a different facebook page. It's bloody bonkers!

I tried selling some baby things on there (usually donate to the charity shop but had some big not easily transportable things and didn't have a car at the time) as collection only.
One was an ikea chair with the cushion you can get separately for £5 and some lass asked for it to be delivered as she was heavily pregnant and wouldn't be able to get it on the bus. As she was the first one I offered to hold it for a bit to see if she could get a lift, she could get a taxi to mine and wanted it for free as she needed the fiver to pay for the taxi. Er no!

I saw someone the other day asking for some sought after and sold out Christmas toy saying 'just in case anyone has bought two of them by accident'. I know Christmas shopping can leave you a bit frazzled but you're not going to accidentally buy two toys that are almost impossible to get and then only think of selling one because someone prompted you on Facebook. Anyone who has bought two of something has done it precisely because they're wanting to sell the second one at a huge markup, not at a discount because they don't know what to do with it.

A personal highlight from this week.

No one is going to buy this!

What’s sad is cheeky people are grabby and annoying but the people who need things for free or cheap don’t say. We gave away some baby items for free and the girl that collected them casually made a comment as she was leaving that she had left her home due to domestic violence - had I known before she turned up I would have got a lot more stuff together for her but I guess she didn’t want to say

Pisses me off that you sell something reasonable price then person who brought it puts it back on fb for more money

@Londonnight

I recently advertised an old TV on marketplace. One woman wanted it, but could only collect at times I was at work. She couldn't understand why I would go to work when she wanted my TV? She then started the emotional blackmail in that I have ruined her child's Christmas as she had promised MY TV and I was unreasonable?? I blocked her!

I've had similar. I was selling a DVD player and lowered the price for a man who wanted it for his daughter who was over for her visitation to his new flat and he didn't have a lot of films. I even threw in a few kids dvds for free that I was going to take to the charity shop (pre having my ds). I even offered to deliver it at my my dhs request as he "didn't want random weirdos coming here". So this had gone from a £10 DVD player collection only to a delivery of A dvd player and five dvds for only £5 to be delivered.

Got there at agreed time and he didn't answer door, tried to call no answer. So went home. He messaged later (almost midnight) said he fell asleep and when could i go back, he spent his money but could pay me another time . But he really needed it as he promised his daughter it and I was letting her down and it's only £5 So what's my problem.
He called me a time waster when I refused his 'offer.

Item for sale at £100. No offers.
First message...I'll give you £50.