Facebook marketplace nutters

[Wtfpeopleareweird]

3 things to sell on Facebook marketplace.

One I was happy to give away- brand new Aldi pushchair bought years ago for the grandparents but never used- bit grubby from storing in the garage but otherwise in great nick.

A strimmer, for a tenner

A baby swing, £150 new, again for a tenner as the vibrate function doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Lots of interest in the swing, lady came to collect 45 minutes before she said she would without warning- I’m still in my PJs but at least she came and went paying the tenner.

Free pushchair- first of all man goes to wrong postcode and insists he’s outside. 45 minutes later he arrives, after many messages and repetitions of the postcode with him claiming to be outside when he’s in the wrong street, has a look, is happy and leaves with the free pushchair. Suitably apologetic so I don’t begrudge him.

Then the strimmer. One person asks if I can deliver- it’s a 40 minute round trip so I ask for an additional fiver. She goes quiet. Next person says she can collect at 6ish today.

Great, all agreed. Then she says she might be “slightly early”. I say I’m out until around 5.30.

She messages to say she’s coming “in the next hour” at 4pm.

I’m going out, and I’m happy to take the risk so I say I’ll leave it behind the bins and she can put the money through the door.

She messages to say she’s here at 4.45. Then she messages to say she’s “only got £10 no change. It’s my fault I’ll have to leave it” Slightly confused, I reply to say I only want £10 for it.

I get home, strimmer is gone and there’s a fiver pushed through the letterbox.

I fully accept IABU for leaving it and taking the chance but Christ this has been hard work for £15!

So AIBU to think it’s not worth the effort and it all should have gone to the charity shop who have made decent money for it?

I sometimes wonder if people who are after the free stuff, are collecting it to sell themselves, like on a market stall, or ebay. And sometimes they decide (after promising to come get it) that it's not worth it after all.

I have given away some stuff - 9 or 10 different things - over the past 18 months. Not expensive things, but still would be around £12 to £25 if you bought them new. And I have had some 30 people contact me over past 18 months regarding the items.

At LEAST 10 of them have asked me to deliver it to them. Some of them have been 8-10 miles away, so a 20 mile round trip. The item is free, and they want ME to take it to them. Cheeky fuckery at its finest!

@Wtfpeopleareweird YANBU!!!

Giving things away for FREE on freecycle. Got messages from someone interested, gave more details about item, she wanted more pics of free item, organised time to collect. Then wants exact address. She then says I've wasted HER time, because its too far for her! The suburb and location is on the map on freecycle!

Sold my 100yr old nans washing machine on gumtree. It was only 5yrs old, worked fine and she barely did 1 wash a week. Left it hooked up so the woman could see it working, but she declined to see any demo. She'd paid a man with a trailer to come along and take it to hers. I'd advised beforehand that I didn't have the transport bolts, but gave her details of where to get some. Needless to say, she didn't get the bolts. I then got messages to say that I'd sold her a dud machine, reporting me to gumtree and calling the police! I eventually had to block her.

@Wtfpeopleareweird

Well now I feel bad… she has messaged saying she is really sorry, must have looked at a different one and was sure it was a fiver and she’s going to drop the rest of the money round… we’ll see if she does but she actually sounds genuinely upset!

Aww that's nice of her!

I recently got rid of a fridge and a table.

The guy who came for the fridge said he needed an extra one to store his wife’s lemonade in. Thought it was weird to like lemonade that much.

A guy later that day brought his adult son to get the table, and the boot of their car had about 15 2l bottles of lemonade rolling around in it (no link to mr lemonade wife)

So my takeaway is that market place folk drink a lot of lemonade.

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop That’s so funny 🤣🤣

I would never advertise anything for free again. The people who message you are the biggest time wasters. They never read the description, ask a lot of pointless questions and are generally unreliable.

I have had very few problems with stuff I want money for.

I’ve bought a fair bit from Marketplace recently as trying to save money not buying new. Some sellers are equally insane!

One woman agreed a time I’d pick up - luckily I messaged to let her know I was leaving and was due exactly the time we’d agreed for her to reply that someone else had already picked up. I was glad I messaged and saved the hour round trip.

This is the sort of shit I got when I tried to get rid of a bed.

It's not just you op! I find this as well - my pet hate is people messaging saying 'I'll take it' err no you're asking for it and I'll decide who it goes to

The number of people who've had "car accidents" or "medical/family emergencies" on the way to get stuff from me is shocking. :P Purchasing something on Facebook marketplace should be listed as a risk factor on insurance premiums. Someone was due to pick something up from me this morning. Said they were leaving. Then nothing until they sent a message saying they'd had an accident

@AnonymousCheerleader 🙄🙄🙄

I stopped falling for sob stories when DD was a toddler and someone posted that they desperately needed stuff for their little girl who was 1 as they'd left their boyfriends and were starting all over.

There were dozens of posts offering things from cots to clothes and I commented that she could have my DD's baby Walker, it cost £100 new and she didn't need it anymore. I posted a picture.

The reply: "No thanks as it's green, I want it for a girl"

My OH listed some office space on there. It's got its own kitchen and loo. Basically inundated with people who want to live in it....

@Wtfpeopleareweird

Well now I feel bad… she has messaged saying she is really sorry, must have looked at a different one and was sure it was a fiver and she’s going to drop the rest of the money round… we’ll see if she does but she actually sounds genuinely upset!

So she thought it was a fiver after messaging you when she arrived saying she only had a tenner.

She's upset she got caught out

vm.tiktok.com/ZMReyKrDB/ This Tiktok perfectly sums up the batshittery of selling things on Facebook marketplace

@AllAroundTheWorldYeah

Oh I don’t mean people that didn’t realise how long it would take them etc. I mean my post states it’s in ‘Liverpool’ for example and they live in a Bristol. They just didn’t bother reading where it is and arrange to buy it!

I’ve sold a broken washing machine, a broken dryer and a broken TV which very clearly say in the header FOR PARTS ONLY and I’ve had so many people message saying they want them, checking they work! Erm, no. It’s £5 because it’s broken, as stated! So I stated checking people had read the full description. One guy replied ‘yeah I can read luv’. Blocked.

I put a mirror up for sale and agreed a sale with the first respondent. All great until she said she couldn't collect until the following week. I was inundated with interest from other people and spent ages replying saying "it's sold but if they don't turn up I'll let you know".

She didn't turn up. Then messaged me 2 days later saying she'd forgotten and could she could now?

No!!

Ah yes. Was taking a big pile of dvds (100+) to the charity shop when DP says I’ll just put it on marketplace just to see if someone will take the lot for a tenner… sure worth a try. Someone messages very quickly saying they’re local and could they come and pick 4 for £1… annoying but whatever. Then DP says he says he’s coming within the hour why can’t he just tell us when (it was a Saturday evening) so waiting on tenterhooks and he arrives saying he didn’t know which 4 and could he look so he proceeded to look through all very very slowly. Talking about each one then only picked three but said “well I did say I’d give you £1”…. All this for a pound! I said to DP if someone wants to come and get the lot yes but no more individuals lol. Someone since messaged offering a tenner then asked where we were (it was on the listing obvious) then when DP replied, he just said “No” lol. I give up!

Oh and the guy who turned up to collect the broken washing machine, who expected me to help him carry it down the street and load it into his hatchback! As if you go to collect an item like that without someone to help you.

I actually quite like Facebook market place (undoubtedly jinxing myself now!) and not really had many weirdos contact me. I've sold a fair amount of stuff on there but have had people not show up, not reply to messages etc. But nothing crazy has happened. I usually mark the item as sold as soon as it's gone.
I never list anything for free. If someone willing to even pay £2 for something, they're more likely to turn up than the freebie hunting time wasters. I have just given stuff away when said person arrives to buy it. Think a low price just weeds out the time wasters some what.
On some stuff I have said, first person to collect gets it, and that did get a little bit of bother from one person who said 'well I'm not going to drive 20 mins if I'm not going to get it'.

so many crazy folks....

I had something listed recently, and we are out of the local town a little bit so I always say that, and collection only but still had them trying it on, then a woman messaged, arranged to come out an didn't even haggle all done and dusted within two hours

Having said that I once asked to buy something and got a message back to say it had already gone, aye right, a 70's wooden curly type coat rack and you just posted it up five minutes ago, but never mind
I said thanks anyway.

Over a week later he messaged to say was I still interested which I was, but it was a saturday evening and I'd had wine so said I would collect on the sunday to suit him and he said he was so sick of being messed around he'd deliver. So that was a win for me! He was on my doorstep half an hour later :o

Just remembered the time I posted a dining table and chairs for free, and I would deliver locally. A woman messages that she is pregnant and would love it for her family. No great hassle for me so I dismantled table and drove to her (not too far from me). So me and dd take table and chairs in my people carrier to her, in lift to her 4th floor flat, she is obviously very heavily pregnant, at the door to her flat I see that it is upstairs to her property from the front door. I apologise that I can’t lift it all up her stairs and she says “don’t worry, leave it on the landing and her dp is upstairs and will bring it up later!” I was fuming that a fully functioning man had left me and my 12yo dd to bring the table and 4 chairs from my vehicle to their 4th floor property!!!

Someone once reported me for selling a butchers block for £20 because it wasn't how he thought a butchers block should be.

Wasn't interested in buying it. Just making sure I knew what an absolute ruffian I was for advertising it as a butchers block when in his opinion it was NOT.

Yup to all of the above, so I no longer sell and it all goes to charity shop now which for some of the stuff I've got rid of is a crying shame.
My best one I have with regards to buying is a lady was selling a pool cover for £20 (they were £40 on Amazon) got in 1st and said I could come straight round. All was good, got to the house she handed me the cover I handed her £20
"Oh sorry, I can't take this it's an old one"
Me: "erm what sorry? it's still legal tender until next year???"
"Yeah but I can only use the shop over the road cause my son is autistic and the owner won't take old twenty's"
Me: "well you really need to put your foot down cause he can't do that"
She paused for a bit then asked if I wanted to go change it for a new one and come back 😱 erm no love that's just a complete waste of my time and fuel, here you keep the cover.
Got home to find she'd updated her post to say please no more time wasters please show up with the correct money. My comment back was as polite as I could be along the lines of maybe tell people you won't accept old 20s when they do show up with the correct money. She then had the audacity to msg me a few hours later saying she'd been let down a few more times and would I like to still come and collect the cover with a new 20 pound note 😂😂😂 jog on love!!!!

Was giving away a free mattress for a relative, when I had a wierdo asking if it's still available. When I told him yes, he asked whether there has been lots of sex activity on this mattress

@sociallydistained

You’ve just inspired me to put all our DVDs on there! Wish me luck

I have also now messaged the person meant to be collecting from me in the morning to confirm, as it was arranged a couple of days ago and I don’t want her to ‘forget’!!