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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To think my friend has taken me for a mug?

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PenAndPaperback · 02/02/2021 19:02

Back in December, I made an online listing for my 2018 MacBook on Facebook marketplace and received a ton of 'lowball' offers or people asking me to drive an hour plus to deliver it to their place. A friend of mine messaged me, telling me that her current laptop had broken down and that she's having trouble finding work because of that (she's a freelancer).

She asked if I could 'sell' it to her first and that she'd pay it back in instalments after paying off her kids' stuff etc, before telling me that she would get back to me because she had to calculate everything. She eventually came up with a payment plan that lasted almost 2 years and I told her that I'd just give it to her as I didn't need the money and that if I were to bring it in for 'trade-in' I was told that I'd get basically nothing for it anyway.

So I dropped it off in her mailbox, and I thought that that was that. Fast forward to last week, she was sending me screenshots on her computer, and it was on a Windows laptop! I asked her in a semi-joking way, oh, did the MacBook spoil and she said that no, she's just using her old laptop and that she's using the one I sent her for 'storage'. If I had known she didn't really need it I definitely wouldn't have given it to her!

I'm not going to ask for it back, of course. But AIBU to be a bit miffed off by all this?

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PoppyFleur · 02/02/2021 22:49

Facebook Market place is not ideal for laptops, eBay is better. You will still get chancers looking to lower the price but you will also get an audience of techies that now the value.

sally067 · 02/02/2021 22:51

You can have a look at sold listings filtering with a certain time frame and location using the advanced search feature if you want to have nose.

www.ebay.co.uk/sch/ebayadvsearch

niveacreme · 02/02/2021 22:53

@PenAndPaperback

She couldn't have sold it off that quickly though, could she? I dropped it off around New Year's, and mid Jan she was still asking me about some error with the Big Sur update. So that leaves her with about 2 weeks from that and the screenshot thing? I had mine up on Facebook Marketplace for a week and a half and didn't receive one good offer!

She could have!

toocold54 · 02/02/2021 23:02

She could have given to someone as a late Xmas present even.

Also I’m sure you can download Remote Desktop to use windows on a Mac so she could have done that (or not have accepted it) if she doesn’t get on with macs.

FedUp1984 · 02/02/2021 23:04

She's absolutely sold it.

LouiseBelchersBunnyEars · 02/02/2021 23:04

@PenAndPaperback

OK I just sent her a message asking if I could 'borrow' it for a while as my mum could use it for FaceTime till she gets an iPad. It's kind of true so that's that.

I reckon she’ll either blue tick you, or come up with some random outlandish reason why she couldn’t possibly get it to you etc etc

rawalpindithelabrador · 02/02/2021 23:05

@PenAndPaperback

Sure she could have! Plenty of time. It's gone.

Dontjumptoconclusions · 02/02/2021 23:05

I don't agree with the cheeky comments here. She wanted to buy it and what she chooses to do with it after that is her business. I appreciate you wouldn't have given it to her if you knew she wasn't going to use it the way you expected her to. But I think if the plan was to always use it for storage, then whether it was paid for, or free, it's now her property.

Let's see if she has sold it or not. I mean, it's cheeky but there you go.

CaterpillarMilkshake · 02/02/2021 23:08

Of course it’s cheeky, when the way she got it from the OP was to blatantly lie:

A friend of mine messaged me, telling me that her current laptop had broken down and that she's having trouble finding work because of that (she's a freelancer).

DahliaRoses · 02/02/2021 23:13

She’s either sold it or given it to one of her kids as a gift and played you by using some freelance desperation story

Bluntness100 · 02/02/2021 23:15

I’m curious to see if she says yes and hands it over, or makes an excuse.because she’s sold it,

truthisalie · 02/02/2021 23:17

Just tell her that as she is still able to use her old computer you want your back. Please insist, don't be proud and don't be a mug.

truthisalie · 02/02/2021 23:18

*yours

truthisalie · 02/02/2021 23:20

I have just read that you have asked for it back for your mum. Good and please get it back "whatever it takes".

Derbee · 02/02/2021 23:23

Definitely sold. You won’t see it again.

Dasher789 · 02/02/2021 23:28

Following to see if matchbook returned.

Riv12345 · 02/02/2021 23:28

Let us know what she come back with op

I'm intrigued

Dasher789 · 02/02/2021 23:28

Mac

bellropes · 02/02/2021 23:28

Expect her to message back claiming her auntie's goldfish's dog is using it for their dissertation so she can't get it back to you at the moment.

tobytoes1403 · 02/02/2021 23:40

@bellropes

Expect her to message back claiming her auntie's goldfish's dog is using it for their dissertation so she can't get it back to you at the moment.

Fatas · 02/02/2021 23:55

Of course, you’ll just get ‘blue ticked’ again. BTW never even knew blue ticking was a thing! 🤣

bloodyhairy · 02/02/2021 23:55

2 year payment plan. Cheeky cow!

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PenAndPaperback · 03/02/2021 00:02

Another blue-tick plus she just commented on someone else's Facebook profile so she's clearly awake and online.

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bloodyhairy · 03/02/2021 00:02

You're very, very kind though OP

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PenAndPaperback · 03/02/2021 00:03

Sent another message asking 'Is everything OK?' I know 3 messages is a row is 'bad' but oh well.

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