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'!

The one that makes me seethe is ‘need gone or else will take to the tip in 45 mins’. The amount of times I’ve messaged suggesting they donate the items or even put them outside the house with a ‘free’ sign. But no, they’re often absolutely determined to stick perfectly food stuff in landfill.

Drives me crackers.

“£50 or will exchange for a chainsaw.”

For some reason I initially read that as a threat.

lBest one I’ve seen is someone selling an item, I think it was a floor lamp. Needs gone, £20 or going to the tip tomorrow! Why not give it away for free

Because they have no intention of taking it to the tip. ‘£20 or goes to the tip’ means ‘Don’t bother offering me £15 or waiting around - I want the cash now’. They’re hoping anyone who’s thinking ‘I’ll wait a few days and then offer £15’ will panic and offer full price.

I gave away my child's highchair to someone 'in need'

She then messaged me 4 days later, she didn't want it as it was yellow, apparently her baby didn't like the colour 🙄

I was giving a sofa away for free but it needed to be collected - or I could deliver on a certain day (as I was hiring a van) but was charging £20 delivery.
One lady was desperate for the free sofa - I said that's fine, it's free if you collect.
She couldn't collect, she had no one to help her at all. I said, that's fine, I can deliver for £20.
She didn't have £20, she was going to see if someone would "borrow her the money" (hate that phrase!)
Meanwhile another lady was also desperate for the free sofa and was happy to collect it that night! I let her have it.
I told the first lady that it had gone and she was piling on the guilt trip that she had no sofa. But all I could envision was me having to load the sofa to the van, delivering it to her then having to unload & assemble at her house for her to say she only had a tenner or less for the delivery etc.
The person that collected was no fuss whatsoever and so grateful and even sent me a photo of it all set up.

@40somethingJBJ

I figured out the issue with the "is this still available" thing. Facebook made a change to how listings displayed when you opened it and it is really easy for people to hit the send on the automated message when scrolling to read the description.

I have done it a few times myself and had to message the person to apologise.

Now when I send that message I edit it so the seller knows I meant to send it. And when I receive it I reply and if the buyer doesnt respond I just move on.

To give some positive on selling.

I had an item up for sale. Woman messages and very polite agrees to come the next day. I ask if they can message on the day to confirm and get the address. She did just that. Also asked if I had the£5 change of the note, unfortunately cause of covid I have little cash now so could only get £4.50.

She turned up exactly on time and was fine to have 50p less.

There are decent buyers and sellers but I have also experienced what everyone else has and some people are just cocks

Posted a washing machine for free. The ad stated clearly it was free but would need to be collected and was heavy so would need two people (I was pregnant and dh had pulled his shoulder so neither of us could lift it).

Cue a number of messages along lines of 'I'll take it but will need it delivered' and one which said they'd collect but they'd need someone to go home with them in their car to help them carry it in the other side.

F off! You're not doing me a favour by taking it, the scrappy would take it for free if need be!

Love this thread.

Now feeling bad that I offered DS's Tassimo coffee maker for free but 'needs a clean'!

It wasn't really dirty but I'd want to open it up and clean out the water chamber, and scrub the internal bits etc if I was going to use it. Not doing that to give away!

@whiteroseredrose I think it's perfectly acceptable to say 'needs a clean' if you're giving it away for free! It's the people who want £50 but can't be arsed cleaning something that annoy me!

I hate 'needs a clean'. How rude to sell dirty stuff!
And 'I paid £...'. Irrelevant. You have used it for years and don't want it anymore.

Also - I want this to go to someone in genuine need. Who decides how genuine and needy? Why not to someone who wants your old shit and is willing to take it off your hands. It's not like we are queuing!

Oh god the pink paint

Someone posted that she needed some pink paint-I had almost a full tin as I’d just painted my sons room pink (he was going through a pink phase)

We agreed to meet in town-she also told me she was dating my cousin(I didn’t even know this guy existed but ok)

I lugged it into town,on a boiling hot day-she didn’t show

She messaged back to say ‘sorry I forgot’

We agreed I’d drop it off to her flat on my way to to college-she was rowing with her boyfriend and didn’t answer the door-and I had to carry 5 litres of paint round with me all day

She then got in touch about a week later to say she would meet me at the end of my road with it-I gave her the name of two streets along to me

A prize for who guesses she didn’t show up

So I ended up getting rid of this paint at the tip-they have a table for people to drop off,and for others to pick it up

I forgot about it until she got back in touch about 3 weeks later to say she was ready to pick it up-I said it had gone

That was it!

She went mental!

Didn’t I know she was shagging my cousin?

Didn’t I know she’d lost a baby to cot death?

Screaming at me all over fb about how she was going to ‘get me’ and that she had ‘rights’ and ‘how I’d messed her about’

She was going to the police and was going to press charges-I’d never met her-only spoken to her on messenger (I didn’t hear anything from them)

I blocked her-so she went all over fb slagging me off as a time waster and fraud

I ignored her and left the groups

It calmed down until about 6 months later when she bought a jumparoo from a friend,broke it then demanded her money back

My mate was telling me about her and mentioned her name-I told her what had happened to me and to just block her

Within half an hour she’d made a new account and was screaming at me that ‘you don’t have a grandad!id have known all about him!’(my grandad had died of dementia years earlier and I’d put up a post about what a cruel illness it was)and ‘how dare you blacken my good name!’

I ended up having to phone 101 for them to have words to leave me alone which worked until she found out my address and was banging randomly on my door

I did get rid of her in the end-but what a load of stress-for a tin of cheap paint

I refuse to buy or sell on there ever again-there are some lovely people about but some nutters

@naechunce

'What's the lowest you'd take?'

Yes !! 😂

The lowest I'll take is what I've bloody advertised it for!

Recently went to pick up something my mum bought as I live loads closer, she had arranged the collection time with them and gave me the address.

Got to the difficult to find place within the agreed 30 minute time slot, it was on a big farm and they didn’t give my mum any details of where to go on arrival so try calling them a few times but no answer, so drive around a bit. Get to where it looks like there may be people living and pull up and 2 angry Rottweilers surround my car so I can’t get out.

Try calling them again and get an answer after about 10 minutes, woman doesn’t know what I am there to collect even after describing the item to her she sold to my mum the day before, then suddenly remembers and says oh yes a lot of people have been interested in this.

Tells me over the phone to get out the car and go to a shed that her husband is in, doesn’t say which shed and there’s about 12 of them, angry dogs still surrounded my car and she can see this out of her caravan and does nothing.

Eventually dogs back off so I can reverse enough to not run them over, have to then find shed containing clueless husband who also doesn’t know what I am collecting.

Woman on messenger the day before “these are very in demand so make sure you turn up at the agreed time” - twat!

We have tried to give decent stuff away to People, they don't turn up, ever!
If you make it a tenner they turn up but expect it to be brand new even though it's second hand. Needs a wipe comment is often people who have cleaned stuff but never up to peoples standards! Even poor People have very high standards and turn freebies down. If just rather bin stuff now it's not worth the hastle half the time. I don't even care if someone gets it for free and sells it. To me if that's what they need to do then why not. Could have sold it myself but didn't, but people get so angry about that

However I gave away some toys to a woman who needed them. Whatever hastle and none collections in the past, completely worth it when she sent me a photo of her young grandson playing with it. Even if it's that one time, so appreciative and completely worth doing a nice thing!!!

I flip cars and use Facebook mostly. My most annoying ones are:

'What's your lowest?' At least view the fucking car first.

'Would you swap for a Samsung S10?' Would you??

'Would you take half of what you're asking because I've got to come a long way' not really my problem mate.

Boils my piss.

I remember a while back someone on our local group was selling a handbag she’d had as a birthday present and didn’t want. She said it usually retailed for £100, but was on sale at the moment for £60, so she’d listen to offers over £40.

First reply: ‘Why not give it away for free? YOU didn’t pay anything for it’.

Fucking cheek!!

Last night, I went to the trouble of taking measurements etc for a Marketplacer, who was interested in what I had to sell.
Then they get in touch to say that they're miles away.
Well, my location was on the ad, you bloody fool!

@bloodyhairy

Last night, I went to the trouble of taking measurements etc for a Marketplacer, who was interested in what I had to sell. Then they get in touch to say that they're miles away. Well, my location was on the ad, you bloody fool!

People who don’t put measurements in the ad are on my annoying marketplace list!

Ha love this thread!

When I had ds1 I bought a second hand oyster pram from the charity shop..

I couldn't get a new hood so emailed the company who makes oyster prams. They told me the new seat would fit the chassis so I paid £100 for brand new seat, fabrics, hood, cosy toes etc..

Anyway within about 9 months I was 6 months pregnant with DS2 and bought a double as would have 2 under 2.

Put the pram on marketplace for £60 and a lady wanted it. I explained the seat was new but the chassis was the older one. Sent plenty photos.

She came to collect, came into the house, tried her daughter with it and was thrilled.

About a fortnight later I got a message from her saying the pram was "covered in mould, stinking,and had ruined all her daughters clothes" and she wanted her money back!! I was FURIOUS! The fabrics were immaculate and she had also been in to see it and also seen my house!! I refused and told her it was sold as seen and that it must have been an issue with her as the pram was spotless when she came to view it weeks before!

I saw it on marketplace a few days later "in immaculate condition" cheeky cow.

I've given away a few things and the begging messages you get always make me cringe a bit...

Most people are great tbf but I often buy only off certain groups now.

My favourite ever is totally manky old Clarks shoes that people put up for a tenner... "genuine Clarks toddler shoes-still life left in them".

@Wavey123

I take your point, but the item was very easily googled to be fair!

Saw a few posts on Christmas Day, 'brand new' 'unwanted gift'.

At least wait until Boxing Day 😂

I saw one earlier
Balance bike, free to collector

First comment
I'll take it. Please can you deliver to address 5 miles away.

I listed an iPhone 6s on marketplace. Got loads of idiots messaging, but the best one was will you take a iPhone 5 plus a tenner! Of course I would love the hassle of trying to sell an even older phone I know nothing about!