Facebook marketplace
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Dog Star said:
I think FB is great ir awful depending what you are selling.
Victorian fire surround? Stack of slate tiles? Calligraphy pens. No problem - they’re not things chavs want.
Off road motorcycle - well any motorcycle? Audi? Mobile phone? You’re f
ked. Proper fked. And it’s not just on FB.
I’ve currently got two motorbikes to sell - one an enduro bike and the other a 1000cc sports bike. I’m currently stuck in a sort of paralysis as to what to do and how to sell them and where. I’m genuinely bricking it about the enduro bike - these things attract the wrong type worse than just about any other item you can sell, I reckon, and I’m simply asking for a stolen transit van full of feral rat boys to arrive at 2am and rob my garage for it.
This is absolutely true, but is does depend on where you live to a certain extent.Victorian fire surround? Stack of slate tiles? Calligraphy pens. No problem - they’re not things chavs want.
Off road motorcycle - well any motorcycle? Audi? Mobile phone? You’re f
ked. Proper fked. And it’s not just on FB. I’ve currently got two motorbikes to sell - one an enduro bike and the other a 1000cc sports bike. I’m currently stuck in a sort of paralysis as to what to do and how to sell them and where. I’m genuinely bricking it about the enduro bike - these things attract the wrong type worse than just about any other item you can sell, I reckon, and I’m simply asking for a stolen transit van full of feral rat boys to arrive at 2am and rob my garage for it.
But as an example of what you are saying, I recently wanted to buy a couple of Suzuki LT50 kids quad bikes for my nephew and my little boy. As some will know the LT50, and the LTA50 is pretty much as good as it gets for children quads, despite. They were made throughout the 80'a and 90's, and are bomb proof and pretty sought after.
Before we started looking for them, I explicitly warned my brother that there will only be two types of people selling these things. Farmers or chavs/criminals on council estates. This is because very few other people have the land to use them on. Farmers have fields, and chavs have their streets, estates, and local parks which on they will ride around illegally without a single care in the world, encouraging their kids to do the same.
I am lucky in that our parents own fields around their house so plenty of space to use these things.
After a bit of browsing around Facebook marketplace, where most are for sale, and a few messages to sellers, I found a really nice fully restored one for sale within about a 1 hour drive, and surprise surprise, it was for sale on a council estate. A proper flat roofed council estate. I couldn't help but laugh as I noticed in one of the photos a small rag was casually draped over part of the quad to partially obscure the chassis number.
We went to see it, and it was a great clean and tidy little machine. The bloke was nice enough, but christ on a bike, his house was an absolute state, his clothes looked like he hadn't washed in weeks, and went we went inside his kitchen/livingroom area to count the money out and pay, there were 5 other blokes just sat in there, slumped in sofas smoking roll ups, drinking cans and watching daytime TV.
When we come to sell the quads, these are the sort of people that will be coming to either buy it or steal it.
Lord Marylebone said:
This is absolutely true, but is does depend on where you live to a certain extent.
Not if you’re selling them - thieves do have cars and vans, you know. I know it’s off-topic but just to underline just how bad the situation is with MC bikes, quads and agricultural machinery …
One of my best mates had a small bike dealership, and stuck a kids April’s MC bike in the front window. I was helping out doing pdis and stuff for him so I saw how this panned out; kiddie MC bikes are like crack to scripted, even worse than normal ones (and they’re bad). The new mover of dodgy flat roof pub characters coming in went through the roof. Stuff getting stolen (including his car keys and car). Eventually the place got ram raided for it - the entire front of his shop gone. How the front didn’t collapse I’ll never know.
Another friend owned the local trials bike shop. His insurance had a specific exclusion on having kids off-road bikes on the premises. He also didn’t and wouldn’t stock parts for Chinese “pit bikes”; again these just attracted “customers” that he just didn’t want.
And coincidentally just yesterday when I was dropping Mrs DSs car off for new springs the chap that works down the local big dealership (sold me my MV and R1) was dropping his car off, and I was telling him about this dread I was having selling the KTM. He was saying that they’ve an over a million quids worth of sports and adventure bikes in the place, no problem. But they wouldn’t dare have a ratty old off road bike worth £1k on the premises - just too much hassle and attracts boatloads of scrotes.
grumpy52 said:
I had noticed a person always advertising high end mens watches from a nearby town . I happened to mention it to a friend whose family are jewellers who on viewing the various adverts declared them to be fakes . I didn't think anymore of it until I received a message from my mate saying that the local police and trading standards had done their thing and nabbed a ring of people flogging fakes via internet sites .
We used to have loads of people selling tobacco and cigarettes pre COVID but a few visits from Customs and the closing of borders put a halt to that lot .
I think those sorts possibly moved on to selling Puppies during COVID.We used to have loads of people selling tobacco and cigarettes pre COVID but a few visits from Customs and the closing of borders put a halt to that lot .
Three recent buys from Marketplace:
1. Big-wheel scooter for grandson. When I told the lady who it was for, and it was to be kept at our house for his visits from 150 miles away, she said "Oo, what a lovely idea. You can have it for £10 less" £25 paid.
2. Spares for my recently-acquired Kymco Maxi-scooter. Advertised 20 weeks ago as a box of assorted spares for £40, I sent a cheeky message offering £30. Accepted immediately; on collection I was presented with a large box of bits (much more than in advert) and on getting home, totted this load of brand-new OEM bits up to ~£425.
3. Oxford Tail-pack motorcycle luggage advertised locally. New price £145, deal done for this as-new kit for £15
All lovely people to deal with, especially no. 2 whose missus invited me & missus in for a coffee!
1. Big-wheel scooter for grandson. When I told the lady who it was for, and it was to be kept at our house for his visits from 150 miles away, she said "Oo, what a lovely idea. You can have it for £10 less" £25 paid.
2. Spares for my recently-acquired Kymco Maxi-scooter. Advertised 20 weeks ago as a box of assorted spares for £40, I sent a cheeky message offering £30. Accepted immediately; on collection I was presented with a large box of bits (much more than in advert) and on getting home, totted this load of brand-new OEM bits up to ~£425.
3. Oxford Tail-pack motorcycle luggage advertised locally. New price £145, deal done for this as-new kit for £15
All lovely people to deal with, especially no. 2 whose missus invited me & missus in for a coffee!
littleredrooster said:
Three recent buys from Marketplace:
1. Big-wheel scooter for grandson. When I told the lady who it was for, and it was to be kept at our house for his visits from 150 miles away, she said "Oo, what a lovely idea. You can have it for £10 less" £25 paid.
2. Spares for my recently-acquired Kymco Maxi-scooter. Advertised 20 weeks ago as a box of assorted spares for £40, I sent a cheeky message offering £30. Accepted immediately; on collection I was presented with a large box of bits (much more than in advert) and on getting home, totted this load of brand-new OEM bits up to ~£425.
3. Oxford Tail-pack motorcycle luggage advertised locally. New price £145, deal done for this as-new kit for £15
All lovely people to deal with, especially no. 2 whose missus invited me & missus in for a coffee!
That part needs a separate thread you naughty dog 1. Big-wheel scooter for grandson. When I told the lady who it was for, and it was to be kept at our house for his visits from 150 miles away, she said "Oo, what a lovely idea. You can have it for £10 less" £25 paid.
2. Spares for my recently-acquired Kymco Maxi-scooter. Advertised 20 weeks ago as a box of assorted spares for £40, I sent a cheeky message offering £30. Accepted immediately; on collection I was presented with a large box of bits (much more than in advert) and on getting home, totted this load of brand-new OEM bits up to ~£425.
3. Oxford Tail-pack motorcycle luggage advertised locally. New price £145, deal done for this as-new kit for £15
All lovely people to deal with, especially no. 2 whose missus invited me & missus in for a coffee!
Big Stevie said:
littleredrooster said:
Three recent buys from Marketplace:
1. Big-wheel scooter for grandson. When I told the lady who it was for, and it was to be kept at our house for his visits from 150 miles away, she said "Oo, what a lovely idea. You can have it for £10 less" £25 paid.
2. Spares for my recently-acquired Kymco Maxi-scooter. Advertised 20 weeks ago as a box of assorted spares for £40, I sent a cheeky message offering £30. Accepted immediately; on collection I was presented with a large box of bits (much more than in advert) and on getting home, totted this load of brand-new OEM bits up to ~£425.
3. Oxford Tail-pack motorcycle luggage advertised locally. New price £145, deal done for this as-new kit for £15
All lovely people to deal with, especially no. 2 whose missus invited me & missus in for a coffee!
That part needs a separate thread you naughty dog 1. Big-wheel scooter for grandson. When I told the lady who it was for, and it was to be kept at our house for his visits from 150 miles away, she said "Oo, what a lovely idea. You can have it for £10 less" £25 paid.
2. Spares for my recently-acquired Kymco Maxi-scooter. Advertised 20 weeks ago as a box of assorted spares for £40, I sent a cheeky message offering £30. Accepted immediately; on collection I was presented with a large box of bits (much more than in advert) and on getting home, totted this load of brand-new OEM bits up to ~£425.
3. Oxford Tail-pack motorcycle luggage advertised locally. New price £145, deal done for this as-new kit for £15
All lovely people to deal with, especially no. 2 whose missus invited me & missus in for a coffee!
Hopefully had a result from the Marketplace today .
I had been looking out for a load cover for my Volvo 850T5 . One popped up on Market place via a Volvo group. Problem was it's way up in Scotland and I'm down near Dover.
Messages exchanged and he would parcel it up if I arranged my own courier/parcel company.
Fun and games trying to find a parcel company willing to do a 170cm package and to collect from a private address. ( If you think dealing with automated phone systems is frustrating today I discovered the joys of automated WhatsApp! )
Opened an account with FedEx and did it all online, they are collecting it tomorrow pm and hopefully it should arrive to me on Friday
What could go wrong ?
I had been looking out for a load cover for my Volvo 850T5 . One popped up on Market place via a Volvo group. Problem was it's way up in Scotland and I'm down near Dover.
Messages exchanged and he would parcel it up if I arranged my own courier/parcel company.
Fun and games trying to find a parcel company willing to do a 170cm package and to collect from a private address. ( If you think dealing with automated phone systems is frustrating today I discovered the joys of automated WhatsApp! )
Opened an account with FedEx and did it all online, they are collecting it tomorrow pm and hopefully it should arrive to me on Friday
What could go wrong ?
I happened to see a Facebook Marketplace advert for a pair of Nike Jordans in my size (13), which don't come up very often, and at a decent price, they turned out to be a good deal. I used Evri parcel drop off system today to post a 10kg item, really impressed with their app and post/returns procedure.
Big Stevie said:
I happened to see a Facebook Marketplace advert for a pair of Nike Jordans in my size (13), which don't come up very often, and at a decent price, they turned out to be a good deal. I used Evri parcel drop off system today to post a 10kg item, really impressed with their app and post/returns procedure.
They're fake...100% fake.Timothy Bucktu said:
Big Stevie said:
I happened to see a Facebook Marketplace advert for a pair of Nike Jordans in my size (13), which don't come up very often, and at a decent price, they turned out to be a good deal. I used Evri parcel drop off system today to post a 10kg item, really impressed with their app and post/returns procedure.
They're fake...100% fake.Been clearing out some stuff following my mum moving house and having all my accumulated stuff that never got moved out finally ending up at mine!
Surprisingly enough got two bicycles sold with zero drama, as well as a leaf blower and various other bits and pieces.
Hoping to get a few old car stereo amplifiers shifted the next couple days, but despite a few timewasters and folk not turning up when they say they will, it's been productive at least.
Edit: forgot I also bought my nissan cube from marketplace as well, a good honest seller on that and been happy with the car since. I think it's a bit of screening required either way, but it's been working for me generally.
Surprisingly enough got two bicycles sold with zero drama, as well as a leaf blower and various other bits and pieces.
Hoping to get a few old car stereo amplifiers shifted the next couple days, but despite a few timewasters and folk not turning up when they say they will, it's been productive at least.
Edit: forgot I also bought my nissan cube from marketplace as well, a good honest seller on that and been happy with the car since. I think it's a bit of screening required either way, but it's been working for me generally.
Edited by Ian974 on Tuesday 7th March 00:09
I sold a pit bike that had been hanging around without use for a few years.
Said in the advert that it started ok but needed a bit of TLC as it had been stood for years.
3 lads came for it and set off home with it hanging out of the boot of a presumably borrowed 72 plate audi.
I then got a call of someone who said he was the buyers brother saying it was a piece of st and now it won't start so he was bringing it back and throwing it through my window!
I said it was nice of him to warn me, told him that the call was recorded and reminded him that he was on camera from the minute he turned into my drive.
Honestly. £200.
Said in the advert that it started ok but needed a bit of TLC as it had been stood for years.
3 lads came for it and set off home with it hanging out of the boot of a presumably borrowed 72 plate audi.
I then got a call of someone who said he was the buyers brother saying it was a piece of s
t and now it won't start so he was bringing it back and throwing it through my window!I said it was nice of him to warn me, told him that the call was recorded and reminded him that he was on camera from the minute he turned into my drive.
Honestly. £200.
grumpy52 said:
Hopefully had a result from the Marketplace today .
I had been looking out for a load cover for my Volvo 850T5 . One popped up on Market place via a Volvo group. Problem was it's way up in Scotland and I'm down near Dover.
Messages exchanged and he would parcel it up if I arranged my own courier/parcel company.
Fun and games trying to find a parcel company willing to do a 170cm package and to collect from a private address. ( If you think dealing with automated phone systems is frustrating today I discovered the joys of automated WhatsApp! )
Opened an account with FedEx and did it all online, they are collecting it tomorrow pm and hopefully it should arrive to me on Friday
What could go wrong ?
Parcel company failed to collect followed by the frustration of dealing with their customer service! I had been looking out for a load cover for my Volvo 850T5 . One popped up on Market place via a Volvo group. Problem was it's way up in Scotland and I'm down near Dover.
Messages exchanged and he would parcel it up if I arranged my own courier/parcel company.
Fun and games trying to find a parcel company willing to do a 170cm package and to collect from a private address. ( If you think dealing with automated phone systems is frustrating today I discovered the joys of automated WhatsApp! )
Opened an account with FedEx and did it all online, they are collecting it tomorrow pm and hopefully it should arrive to me on Friday
What could go wrong ?
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