Facebook marketplace

[Hugo Stiglitz]

I'm selling Thule aeorbars, the whole assembly needed for a Abarth 595. It works amazingly and transforms a 595 for practicality. Obviously a very narrow market and I'd dropped my price down. Someone is interested and said £80. If it'd that niche and you need it your not going to let if go to argue over £20 extra are you....

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Tonberry said:

Bought my last motorcycle on FB. Seller lived about 5 miles away - decent bike - whole transaction wrapped up in an hour.

You are in the minority. I've bought most of my bikes privately and I'm selling one now. Motorbike buyers either want it virtually free or they run to a dealer to buy the same bike from a dealer for high APR and +2k on the price.

Madness.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

First heavy or gale force wind...

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Only asking what I paid for it?@@@!!!

[Hugo Stiglitz]

I keep them, as with various colour touch in pens etc you never know when you'll need it again.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

I've bought plenty from FB. Those that are looking for that hard to beleive bargain are being conned by their own inbuilt malice.

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Just leave it in your front garden or on the road and ask the council or housing officer to move it for you?

[Hugo Stiglitz]

crofty1984 said:

Zetec-S said:

Happens so many times, I do think there is a big section of the population who have nothing better/else to do than browse Facebook and ask pointless questions about items they have no intention of buying.


The other thing I find is that there's always someone who simply ignores the price you ask for and offers a swap for something. I've lost count of the number of times I've been offered an xbox in exchange for whatever item I've advertised. I bet if I stuck an advert for an xbox on there someone would offer me a bloody xbox in part exchange

I was selling a Berlingo with 90k miles on it and a year's MOT for £1100. A guy offered me a Berlingo with 115k miles, No MOT and some work needing to be done. I asked him to clarify, and the response was yes, it's a worse car, but I'd put some cash towards it.
I didn't bother to ask how much cash. Not unless it was £1000 and I'd make up the difference by taking his immediately to the scrappy.
In the end it sold to a nice lady who turned up when she said she would, drove it (with proof of insurance like I asked), made a fair offer then collected the next day.
I had a similar experience selling a motorbike. You have to sift through a lot of bks on the messages, but once you get an actual person it's usually alright.

I had NO messages on a 50kmiler 2012 Mondeo Titanium X in absolutely mint condition. Not a single scratch. Not a bite. Sold it to my BIL who sold it a week later for 2.5k more. Insane.