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'!

@NotImpossible

Oh, and I HATE the ones who say first commenter gets first refusal. Nope, I'll sell it to whoever I like. Not everyone sits on FB all day and I'm not going to deal with rude , pushy people like the one a PP described above.

Exactly, she seemed to think that there was some law that stopped me from selling my stuff to whoever I please. "I'll get you banned from this site" haha okay, you crack on love 😁

I listed an office chair for free as it was slightly tatty. Collection only, first person that can collect can have it.

First person: I'll have it you can drop it off to me next time you're passing

Me: sorry it's collection only

Person: but I don't drive

Me: I'm not offering delivery sorry

Person: but I'm disabled, I have a motability scooter

Me: it doesn't fit in my tiny car, and it's free, so it's collection only

Person: but I really want it. Can't you walk it to me? I'm only a few streets away

Me: no sorry you'll have to arrange for someone to collect it ASAP if you want it

Person: I can't. How are you going to get it to me?

Me: I'm not sorry

New person: I can collect in an hour, can I have it please?

First person: but I said first I was having it, it's mine!!

I private messaged the second person and took the post down!! Tbh if she'd asked nicely I'd probably have found a way to get it to her but the attitude pissed me right off.

My favourites adverts are the ones asking for “swaps”. They are always for completely random, like this guy wanting to swap a jet ski for a van. It baffles me that they try to sell the item they have and then buy what they want and instead ask people to do a swap.

Or the ones that ask for, say, bag of 2-3 boy's clothes, wanting to swap for 3-4. Yeah, cos that works.

Oh last week a young lady claimed they had sadly had there brand new 75 inch smart TVs pinched and wanted identical replacement for free, the couple are well known for not being honest. It attracted quite a few humorous comments before the add got deleted, proper cf

My marketplace gripe is the person being so enthusiastic and saying please can I collect tomorrow? Please don’t give it away then not turning up , I had 2 people do this for my saddle desperate to collect we arranged a time and then both didn’t turn up , when I messaged asking will they be attending anytime soon one lady said oh I changed my mind! Thanks for letting me know lady, man 2 I waited in all day and after readvertised he messaged appolagising saying il be there the next day, you can guess the rest but I’ve learned to keep my add up until it’s collected. It’s too stressful Facebook.

I've just remembered another one.
Our dining table was on its last legs and we were saving for a new one. Saw one on marketplace for £60. Thought that would be perfect to tide us over. Messaged the guy asking if it was available. He said, 'yes still available but just to let you know someone has offered me £200 for it'. Eh? If someone offered you £200 for something that you put on for £60 why on earth was it still available?! I didn't realise it was 'offers over' £60! Like buying a house!
He relished it the following week as it hadn't sold 🤷🏼‍♀️

There's one woman on my local group that always says she's looking for really expensive items but can only afford a ridiculously low price. Then gets really snarky if someone offers a cheaper alternative.

e.g. OP: I want to bulk buy really good quality art paper for my 5 year old who's really talented. Can't be more than £1 per 200 sheets

Someone: It's not techmically art paper but this brand of printer paper is actually really good quality I use it for painting all the time

OP: errr yeah in case you can't read I said good quality art paper not printer paper.

My hoover broke at the start of lockdown i bought a new one but it wasn't really coping with three occasionally four people shedding hair (my daughter is a uni student) and three cats so I bought a better one black Friday I wanted to sell the useless one I put it up for £35 it cost me £100 people kept asking me what my best was I said £35 its only a few months old? The snarky reply was if i really bought it a couple of months ago I could just "send it back" and I was clearly lying 🙄 i blocked her i will keep it for a spare

When people price something as free but when you read the information, you realise it's not actually free...

I also saw a woman offering a really random mix of food for free to whomever spent £14 on her other items. She'd obviously cleared out her cupboard of the crap that doesn't get used.

Is thing common practice now?

(@Catnuzzle did you see this, too?)

It's the people who mess around with collection times that really enrage me.

My town has a very popular Facebook group for giving things away for free. We cleaned our loft out and listed a huge amount of good quality items. Every single person apart from one kept faffing with collection times. You can drive from one side of our town to the other in about 10 minutes. Come round now or at 10am tomorrow, not sometime next week maybe.

So SO MANY.

People who want you to save an item and then ghost you. People who get shitty when you won't save items and they can't collect for 8 weeks due to a myriad of reasons.

Has anyone ever turned up to collect on time? Usually they're 1hr + late. On time buyers are marketplace gems.

Asking my location. I always put the general area in the ad. Then obviously it's too far away.

Not bringing correct change.

Needs a clean. Usually disgusting and fit for the bin. Clean it then fgs!

Collected a king size bed in a Ford KA.

We once had a bloke who collected a TV and rang us after to say it wasn't actually HD as we'd said. He wasn't using a HD source. Took a long time to explain that one slowly. Not sure he ever fully believed us.

Still, I generally find it a load less hassle than eBay.

@thetinselbadge I agree. I used to do a lot of eBay but I really don't feel it's worth the hassle after all the fees come off.
Marketplace much easier (when it goes smoothly!)

There's a guy on mine been trying to sell a huge amount of Lego for months. Started off at £200 for the lot, then £20 a bundle and now he's put it in sweetie cones for £5 each! Think I'd have given up and donated it to charity by now! Fair play to him for the effort though!

Gift voucher with a value of £20 on it, priced £20, cash only, must collect...

We have a local page that is for 'free items' and money cannot exchange hands, its full of posts from people who are getting their first flat etc after being homeless, or people who are struggling with basic necessities. It's infuriating when you see people offering all manner of stuff, like 3 piece suites, dining tables and chairs and so forth, only to be met with a "can u send a pic" or some other nonsensical crap. The amount of people asking for things and then saying 'must be delivered' etc, its is so cheeky. It's like some people treat it as their own personal Argos store.
The amount of people who never reply when you offer them something is also infuriating.

We have a page like that for our area too.
Someone asked for a blue Silvercross pram as she was a single mum and had nothing.
People were offering other prams that looked brand new and there was no response from the OP. Some people were questioning why it HAD to be Silvercross which then started arguments.
It was entertaining reading the comments at least!

@BornInAThunderstorm

‘Needs gone asap’ - as if someone must buy the big black sack of random clothes immediately to ensure the seller can be free of it

I love it when people say "Needs gone asap" and then ask for 95% of the value of the item brand new.

@Autumnwoman

I think "needs gone" ("needs done" too) is perfectly acceptable grammar in Scotland. Less so in the Home Counties.

What are you on about?

Not a gripe but it made me chuckle. I once saw an ad selling a wedding dress. The last line was “£50 or will exchange for a chainsaw.” It just seemed so incongruous!

Selling an iPad - got offered a random Xbox game

Selling our tv - £75 - it was older but high spec and basically wanted it gone / out the way - had very aggressive msg why was it priced so low etc etc - why bother???

That chair not envy - someone died in that and leaked out

"Brand new.
Only worn twice."

Not quite brand new then....😣

I bought a "Brand new" coat from eBay last week.

Had biscuit crumbs in the pockets.... 😡

Photos of items for same on filthy carpets covered in bits, maybe with an overflowing bin the the background or something. You can almost smell the picture.

The blunt, one-word-answer way of communicating. When people grunt like cavemen as they make the deal
“hm”
“5a”
“inbox”
Just write normally... what the fuck?

“Needs a wipe down”... it’s covered in what looks like literal shit.

People trying to sell hand made stuff where no skill is involved, like glueing 6 wispas into the shape of a bouquet and charging £25 quid for it. Then as if that’s not bad enough, the seller communicates in the completely charmless caveman grunt manner described above. How they do any business like this is a complete mystery.

I bought a cheap tablet once, wasn't quite right for what I needed. I'd only charged it a bit and switched it on to see what it was like. Probably half hour's use, if that.
Listed it as brand new - someone tried arguing with me that it wasn't brand new as I'd used it! I'd clearly explained what I had done in the listing, it was brand new, only switched it in etc. She didn't want it so no idea why she arguing with me 🙄 Someone else bought it the next day, no issues.