Reply With QuoteMy sympathies are with you. I would rather take the hit and use wbac than deal with the special types you have to put up with selling privately.
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Does any one else sell on these two I have never encountered such a bunch of morons
I am trying to sell my old car for £500 I put in the ads any offers less than £450 will not be responded to and it will be available from the 1st Nov the phone has been going off all day with messages saying £200 and I will collect tonight, I had someone want to view it and he didn't even know how much I wanted for it.
Another from Scotland who sounded vaguely normal wanted answers to countless questions and I had to take a load more photos then when he was finally happy he wanted me to save the car for a week and a half without a deposit.
I finally had someone offer me £300 and I asked him if he had actually read the ad and he said he thought he should have the extra money off cos he would have to come from London, I haven't tried to sell a car privetley for years and now I can see why garages get away with derisory px offers when you have to deal with these half wits
My sympathies are with you. I would rather take the hit and use wbac than deal with the special types you have to put up with selling privately.
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Good if you want to buy a lawnmower, storage shed etc........
Just ignore anything high priced, as it is most useful to sellers who don’t want the cost or complexity of Ebay etc
Oddly enough tried it only last week, sold some building equipment easily.
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https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...7395335469933/
I have sold cars years ago when you put ads in the paper autotrader and local rags although it was never a wholesome experience it wasn't this bad, I didn't bother with wbac as I thought it would be nice to pass on a really good car to someone who would use it.
I know you can't judge a book by its cover but I wouldn't want most of the people that I saw on Facebook coming near my house
Don't know if she's right but my Mrs thought the pond life spend all day going through car ads low balling people to see if they get a bite then sell the cars off at a profit ?
I was selling a new Sypder Pinnacle ski jacket and was asking £400 which was cheapest online by a long shot, RRP £900+.
Someone emailed saying he could go as high as £100.
However i have sold some other bits of furniture and clothing , without any problems.
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We've used Marketplace to buy quite a few things over the last two years and occasionally sell something, never had a problem with either.
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I've never used gumtree but my one experience of Facebook's Marketplace convinced me to never list anythning there again. Lots of requests for meaningless information from people who had no intention of buying; they were ignored.
I tend to stick to buying only, wouldn't sell anything of any real value on there as you're basically opening yourself up to people who can find a hell of a lot about you and you know nothing of them in reality.
An amusing anecdote.
I rcently sold my Escort van on Gumtree. I asked £600. The first contact was from a guy with a Scottish accent, who said he would have it. No questions, he'll have it. He will collect it on his way home from work. OK, said I. Nutter.
10 minutes later, the phone went again. "It's Paul again, about the Escort; I will be at your house about midnight".
He works at Hinckley Point, got the train to Manchester, taxi to my house, rocks up at midnight, pays the £600 and disappears into the night Edinburgh-bound.
He's got balls, I'll give him that!
I am 100% certain she is right. Have loads of these "del boy" traders in my area. Too many people do sell to them, so it's a circle, that just keeps getting biggerOriginally Posted by Michael 38
My mates mrs got conned she was selling a pushchair and she got a sob story from some woman saying she was single mother no money etc etc so she sold it her cheap then the woman had it up on Facebook the day after for £200 more when she messaged her she said it was hers to do what she wanted with he was not impressed
Of course. You get the same on Ebay - you just need to ignore those twats.
but - if you have some old kettle/lawnmower/shed - don’t waste money on seller fees - fire it on gumtree or Facebook.
Apparently Facebook posting traffic doubled just after Jeremy Kyle went off the air.
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The only time I've used Gumtree was to buy a G Shock. When delivered it was obvious it was fake and not the watch pictured in the advert. Used PayPal so got my money back, have never been on Gumtree since🙄
Only sell on pages I'm a member of( mostly clothing) but have sold household items with not to much bother on there, you do get chances with silly offers as you do on ebay
If you want a real good laugh check out Shpock... it’s so bad it’s hilarious!
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But of course. If you can imagine it, someone is doing it.
Invite them all to SC. ;-)
Maybe it's something about cars? I sold my £500 trailer in minutes and could have done so many times over.
Have bought two brilliant Bromptons from there (lightweight ones). One from Derbyshire, one from Wiltshire. Some genuine sellers.
Personally I think it's a great marketplace.
I've not bought anything off Facebook marketplace but sold about a dozen very varied items so far with no problems. I have a couple of things on there now and I wonder, why do people message to ask if an item is available, you tell them it is, and you hear nothing more? Is asking questions about things you don't want to buy a new lockdown pastime?
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Last edited by Ruggertech; 26th May 2020 at 15:11.
Gumtree is sometimes a waste of time.
However, it’s dead easy to place an advert.
Plus it’s free.
In the last year I have sold the following on there.
Saxophone. £2600
Clarinet. £550.
Mouthpieces. £200.
Motorbike. £1700.
Plus the buyers were all nice people.
It’s been a bit slow recently. But worth a try.
Won’t accept PayPal for fear of being scammed.
I would only buy or sell on local Marketplace groups, I browse them quite often, you can get some genuine bargains, a awful lot of cak though, some of the listings do make me laugh.
Cheers..
Jase
I’’ve an iPad gen 1 on now and all I’’ve had is idiots messaging me, offering half the price. I just block them.
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Apparently the new scam is rock up to see a car, one guy puts something in the exhaust while the other distracts you, then they ask you to start the car. Smoke comes out, the “mechanic” says what’s wrong with the car and how much it’ll cost to fix, then that offer a low ball.
Just had someone ask me is it a fake and how much would delivery be to the Midlands? Told him it is definitely genuine and delivery to the Midlands is included in the price. Nothing back from him. What other answers would have sufficed?
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Never bought off Facebook Marketplace but sold twice via it. Got full asking price for a set of bike wheels and very close to asking price for a Brompton.
Both sales were hassle free.
On the topic of cars, only ever sold one privately and that was a hassle. Used WBAC once and sold them my Ford Mustang. They messed up and paid me several grand more than it was worth (according to other listings and the Mustang Owners Club of Great Britain).
Saw it up for sale 6 months at a dealership for substantially less.
I’ve sold stuff on Gumtree and have purchased stuff on FB. Purchased a desktop DDR4 memory stick off FB just last week.
Gumtree is full of idiots, standard message of is it available then never reply to my reply. So if that winds you up then avoid.
For either of the above if buying then make sure it’s local where you can meet and make the purchase. Recent events make this difficult so agree the distancing from the outset.
Bad experiences with both.
Gumtree is bargain basement and full of time wasters, this being said, it is free so perhaps hard to expect too much. Facebook marketplace has produced bad results for my family, with shell companies failing to ship goods.
Funny enough I have just posted my coffee machine on both thinking as long as I stay off the bay I should be alright with the nutters, oh well it’s only been a day roll on the questions lol
I am not sure about Cars or Watches, but for small items I think it's great. My wife was all over Facebook market place buying next to new kids books and toys for example and other things for our youngsters. Likewise we have ust sold our cot (We are two and done) on there (1st sale) with minimum hassle and fuss.
I am clearing out some musical instruments, and we have used FB market place for the first time as I have given up on Ebay.
Three out of three - baby grand piano sold within an hour, with three on the waiting list, and was collected by specialist movers the next day.
Yamaha Clavinova - sold within 24 hours and collected a day later.
Upright piano - sold within 72 hours, being collected tonight.
It has suprised me how good it seems to be, and there are none of ebay's absurd fees either.
So clever my foot fell off.
For small items that we just want gone, my wife uses a local FB market place, but has recently seen more non locals also using the same platform. This in itself is not a problem, but what does happen is that collections are delayed and or often cancelled. When it was local, items would be picked up same day.
Just sold an old desktop on gumtree, if you price it right then they will come, I’m in NW London and the guy came from near Slough to pick it up.
I tried to sell a PlayStation on Facebook market place and gumtree before. Never again. "You only have one controller I need two, I don't want the games can I have it for less, how much for just the controller? Would you take 50% less for cash? The power lead for mine broke can I buy yours?"
I found FB market place to be a nightmare too. I was selling a kids bouncy castle. It was immaculate, not a mark on it. They retail at £100 and I was asking £30. People were STILL offering me half that or asking if I’ll deliver it. I ended up selling it to a guy who lives in the next street for my asking price.
You do get idiots, on Gumtree the fav seems to be to ask if it’s still available within seconds of posting the ad.
I tend to reply with quick short replies to these as the serious buyer will engage.
Over the lockdown period I’ve sold all my old desktops and laptops, so 3 laptops and 3 desktops, that my kids used at uni which were just sat there gathering dust. Checked prices on FB, eBay and Gumtree and priced the stuff £20 lower. Some did ask for a reduction so I knocked off a tenner but most people just paid asking.
For Gumtree all I did was take the ad down after a week and repost a new one to get it back to the top.
I gave away stuff while I reconfigured the home office - good stuff for free:
"Give me a tenner and I'll take it"
"Will you take it back if in a couple of weeks I don't like it?"
I have just sold a broken angle grinder on Facebook almost wished I hadn’t within half an hour of posting I had 25 reply’s Which I had to reply to I put in big words spares or repair doesn’t switch on had one muppet turn up at 10 at night with the cash I asked if he knew It didn’t work, He said he thought it was fully working so I asked if he had read the advert.
in the end someone came and bought it not sure it was worth the hassle though
There are some weird folks around. Last year I sold a laptop on Gumtree and the opening sentence from a potential buyer was that I was a scammer.
After a few emails back and forth he eventually decided to buy it, even paid me up front by BT and I posted it out to him.
He did have a laugh about it afterwards and did apologise but said that he really wanted the laptop as it was keenly priced which made him suspicious.
I had the opposite experience when selling a rather expensive grand piano on eBay. I received questions that seemed so basic, and the grammar/ spelling was let's say rushed, that I called him out as a scammer. Valuable life lesson for me, the chap turned out to be a lovely farmer, genuine and extremely affluent as far as I could tell. He bought the piano and hopefully is still enjoying it.
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