The sense of entitlement on Facebook marketplace.

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I don't sell much as I can't deal with it all. But occasionally still use it, a little bit lately as trying to have a sort out before Christmas.

Recently I listed something probably worth £100 altogether new for £30. Someone messaged me and offered me £5. I apologised and said no. I was given abusive message saying she could get it for new cheaper than £30. She couldn't. It was a whole range of VTech toot toot stuff. Loads of it. I said I'd take £25 but she insisted £5. The cars alone are quite expensive.

Another time some thing was sold pending pick up. I hadn't had chance to list it as sold yet (sometimes I don't until actually physically gone) and someone had asked for it. I told them it was sold pending pick up but would let them know otherwise. I was given abusive messages about now I hadn't lost it as sold yet - literally posted the item half hour before and someone I knew had said they would have had it. It just didn't occur to me tbh.

Another time someone repeatedly messaging me asking if I would take a couple quid for something I listed for £20, worth a lot more.

Then asking if I can deliver, asking is fine. But I said no as couldn't for whatever reason. Left with abusive message again.

I've listed free stuff and they ask if you can deliver!

Does anyone else have these issues? Is it just a sense of entitlement some people have 😅

Oh it’s horrific - I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole but Vinted is pretty good. I’ve made several £100 and had no abuse.

This is why I just give stuff to charity now! I can’t be arsed with it.

I listed a large item the other day, and made it very clear COLLECTION ONLY. Price was less than £50.

I was asked if I could hire a van & drive it to Brighton.

I live in Devon.

I’ve experienced a lot of time wasters but no abuse.

I recently listed a fish tank with sump for a tenner, would have been happy to give away as just needed it out the way, but I find putting a small fee often weeds out the idiots with it not being free.

I had a bloke, probably late 20s, message asking for it and saying he could pick up that evening. He then went on to send a stream of messages saying he wondered if I would make him a cuppa followed by several wondering if I could take his ten inch length and wondering why I was ignoring him as he was ready to leave (I had been answering other messages for other items)

He was promptly blocked after I reported him to FB. People are weird.

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Yep people are morons. That’s why I donate everything to the local church rather than deal with idiots. Not worth the hassle.

I also donate. Not worth the effort trying to sell to horrible people. I would rather give away to a nice person that really needs it or donate to a charity to sell.

Thanks all. I do donate as much as possible, donated loads lately but Ds has wanted to sell some of his old stuff for his money box!

Someone from gumtree was meant to be buying my phone. Agreed the price in messages. He turns up and tries to get another tenner off and I tell him no. He turned to my husband and said it was up to him (!) he laughed and said no it's not. He said he needed the tenner off as he'd got a taxi. I asked him why he thought that was my problem.
The thing is, if he'd haggled the price in messages beforehand then I probably would have taken the tenner off but turning up at my door and being a CF meant it was a wasted trip for him.

YABU to use the word 'entitlement' in that way. It means to have a right to. The behaviour you're reporting is presumptuousness or arrogance.

Wow! I can’t believe some of these!!! I always sell loads on Adverts.ie and never had to deal with anything like that. I sold a few bits on FB and if someone messed around with me I’d tell them to fuck off and would block straight away. I must have been lucky to deal with normal serious people only

Yup, I’ve been trying to do a house clearance by listing high quality furniture etc on Fb marketplace and it’s been utter hell. The time wasters, please saying they want things by a certain time/day, wanting delivery etc. My reaction was to yell I’M NOT A FUCKING SHOP! If you want a certain made/model of dishwasher with free delivery, go to fucking curry’s, not search for a £20 model on FB!

Yes I’ve experienced this. Often they will put in an offer and I mark it as sold and then say their boyfriend/ partner/ whatever has told them they aren’t allowed to buy it for £x and will I take £y instead. I sold a push chair to someone who did this once and accepted the lower offer. She came to view it before taking it. Texted me the next day asking me if it was meant to have a wobbly handle whatever that was supposed to mean. I can’t be bothered with the hassle of it now and usually give most things away to friends or charity shops.

There was one occasion where I sold a nice pair of Jojo trousers for £2. They actually had the charm to ask if I would drive into town to give them to her. I said no

I was swindled into accepting a ridiculously low price for an electrical appliance. I rationalised it by saying it was a donation to someone who couldn't afford it new.

Few days later discovered they'd put it on eBay.

On the flip side however I have got some good secondhand clothes and toys that I would have struggled to get on current income. Really appreciate it and hope the few idiots don't put people off selling.
I also hunt in charity shops but there's never anything good in there- i think they probably put stuff in demand on eBay now.

I'm not on Facebook so never done the marketplace thing, but I used to be on Freecycle or whatever it's called now, and stopped listing due to complete timewasters.

I think you should sell things for a bit more, rather than all bargains. It helps to weed out the losers.

I just had this. Offered a DS and Tom's of games for free but they wanted them delivered! I said I was happy to post bit had to pay postage..

I had a weird one. This young guy messaged me for days after paying £50 for a bike I was selling on FB.
He said it had a puncture when he got it home and kept messaging about how much it was costing to fix it. There was this whole saga about buying a puncture repair kit and it not working so he had to get another one and then insisted the tyres were faulty.
He was very obviously leading up to demanding money so I told him he could bring it back for a full refund if he liked. He never did.

I've had good luck selling within some very closed groups (cloth nappies, local NCT). But I've had cheeky fuckers too.

The worst are the sob stories. A few years ago, I listed a huge bundle of maternity clothes for a fair price. Entire gently used wardrobe for less than the price of one item new. Middle aged lady messages me with a story about how she's looking for maternity clothes for a young lassie who's "got nothin xx". I say right, we'll, it's this price and collection only, so when would you like to come round? Her response:

"She's got nothin xx"

She basically wanted me to drive an hour north and drop off the clothes for free. I sold them for the asking price the next day, but there's always a chancer.

There are also those that ask if you can post then are shocked when you change the price to include postage…. Duh

I despise marketplace. Every time I sell anything on it I wonder why I bother.

Had one a couple of weeks ago - I’m selling something pretty much brand new for £20 (RRP £50). Guy messages me saying he wants it, but doesn’t live nearby so “he’ll let me know when he’s in the area to collect”. Fair enough.

A few days later, to my surprise, he actually follows up and says he’s driving past and can he collect. So I say sure, and give him our address.

He replies “I’ll give you £10 for it”.

I told him not to bother then, and I got a load of abuse in return. I’m still twitchy about the fact that this person now has our address.

I’ve mostly only had good experiences - I think our local Marketplace must be an exception - but I agree that it’s worst of you’re offering something for free. I’ve managed to sell things quickly for decent prices on there, to lovely people with no messing about; but the few free things I’ve put on largely got total time wasters! Once, I put on a set of new fairy lights for free - lovely and worked fine but wrong colour and I couldn’t be bothered asking for money for them.

God, I couldn’t get rid of those fucking fairy lights. There must have been more than twenty-five people say they wanted them and then never turn up. I took to leaving the things outside wrapped in plastic and just sending people the address, and it took weeks for someone to actually bother picking them up! Every day I came home from work and they were still there I died a little more inside 🤣

I've had someone ask me to deliver some football boots to him at his local pub... err... no!! and more recently at 7am last sunday someone enquiring about some lego I was selling and when I didn't reply immediately I got a series of angry question marks.. its 7am on a fucking Sunday!! And don't be so rude!!

Complete CFs! My friend had someone who'd arranged to collect an item. He then wanted her phone number. She said no - and he asked how she'd know he was at the door to give him the item? She replied because he'd obviously ring the bell and she'd answer..... he wouldn't come unless her had her phone number. Really weird.

I very rarely sell stuff but if an idiot gets in touch I just don't bother replying

Why waste your time interacting with people like that? The last thing you want is them coming to your house