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We're all going on a summer holiday...
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/14258532...
"part-converted"!
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/14258532...
"part-converted"!
Dave2P said:
We're all going on a summer holiday...
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/14258532...
"part-converted"!
Translation:https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/14258532...
"part-converted"!
Bought this because I thought it was a bargain for metal/glass vs. price. Realised 8-14 mpg on a good run isn't affordable. Can't park it anywhere. Can't turn it around anywhere. Ran out of money because of the acres of wood needed to convert it and miles of wiring to make it work.
vikingaero said:
Dave2P said:
We're all going on a summer holiday...
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/14258532...
"part-converted"!
Translation:https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/14258532...
"part-converted"!
Bought this because I thought it was a bargain for metal/glass vs. price. Realised 8-14 mpg on a good run isn't affordable. Can't park it anywhere. Can't turn it around anywhere. Ran out of money because of the acres of wood needed to convert it and miles of wiring to make it work.
DavieW said:
I've got 16 concrete blocks to get rid of that were under my old shed. Thinking of popping them on FB Marketplace free to collect but not sure I can be bothered with the numpties that'll contact me.
For stuff like that I’d imagine putting it on a local village page “free xyz outside number 52 xyz, please help yourselves, I am out this afternoon, first come first served” Then just don’t respond to requests / knocks, update once they have gone
Only problem with this is you have to let people know where you live
The Gauge said:
Came across this advert which I thought has a strange photo, girl selling her outfit and post a photo that looks like she's in the toilet with a weird looking guy stood behind her..
I think the idea is, you join her and bowl haircut weirdo for some 'fun'? Similar to those scantily clad girls advertising beds for sale....But my mind may be running away with me?
Timothy Bucktu said:
The Gauge said:
Came across this advert which I thought has a strange photo, girl selling her outfit and post a photo that looks like she's in the toilet with a weird looking guy stood behind her..
I think the idea is, you join her and bowl haircut weirdo for some 'fun'? Similar to those scantily clad girls advertising beds for sale....But my mind may be running away with me?
I’ve had a great run on marketplace recently, sold my F31 335d Beemer to a lovely local lad (following calls from half a dozen residents of Birmingham all offering half what it was advertised for).
A set of race dampers for a CSR Caterham to a lad oop North who had a leaky one and needed them for a trackday that weekend.
Oh, and managed to buy an Aero B6 flying jacket at a very reasonable price, but I’m too fat to wear it
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A set of race dampers for a CSR Caterham to a lad oop North who had a leaky one and needed them for a trackday that weekend.
Oh, and managed to buy an Aero B6 flying jacket at a very reasonable price, but I’m too fat to wear it
!I've bought and sold quite a bit, 2 of the most amusing stories are...
Selling an IKEA wardrobe, I had already dismantled it and made it flat pack again. A young lad turns up from an hour away in a Fiat Punto, I laughed and said you'll never fit that in there. Turns out he worked for a local charity and was collecting it for less fortunate folk, it was his own car and said he does it all the time. Anyway he folds the front seat down and lays one edge on the dash as far as it would go, touching the windscreen and once we'd loaded it up the boot just closed, it was a perfect fit. I was so impressed and as I was only asking £20 I let him have it for free.
The other one was during lockdown doing some garden renovations and there was around a ton of pea gravel to get rid of so I offered it up for free. The same day someone turns up from the other side of Leeds around 50 minutes away in a Citroen Picasso and starts loading up. I left him to it with social distancing etc and when I checked to see how he was getting on he'd pretty much taken the lot! It was in the boot, in the passenger footwells, bags of it everywhere he could fit it! His car was so badly overloaded I was concerned he was going to cause some horrific accident on the M62. As English was not his first language I had to try to explain to him it was a bad idea and he begrudgingly left a few bags behind. Still it was badly overloaded and would most likely get a pull if any police or highways saw it, but at least I'd tried to reason with him so my conscience was slightly clearer. It was quite funny watching him driving away down the road scraping the floor over the speed bumps, crazy guy.
Selling an IKEA wardrobe, I had already dismantled it and made it flat pack again. A young lad turns up from an hour away in a Fiat Punto, I laughed and said you'll never fit that in there. Turns out he worked for a local charity and was collecting it for less fortunate folk, it was his own car and said he does it all the time. Anyway he folds the front seat down and lays one edge on the dash as far as it would go, touching the windscreen and once we'd loaded it up the boot just closed, it was a perfect fit. I was so impressed and as I was only asking £20 I let him have it for free.
The other one was during lockdown doing some garden renovations and there was around a ton of pea gravel to get rid of so I offered it up for free. The same day someone turns up from the other side of Leeds around 50 minutes away in a Citroen Picasso and starts loading up. I left him to it with social distancing etc and when I checked to see how he was getting on he'd pretty much taken the lot! It was in the boot, in the passenger footwells, bags of it everywhere he could fit it! His car was so badly overloaded I was concerned he was going to cause some horrific accident on the M62. As English was not his first language I had to try to explain to him it was a bad idea and he begrudgingly left a few bags behind. Still it was badly overloaded and would most likely get a pull if any police or highways saw it, but at least I'd tried to reason with him so my conscience was slightly clearer. It was quite funny watching him driving away down the road scraping the floor over the speed bumps, crazy guy.
JQ said:
vikingaero said:
Dave2P said:
We're all going on a summer holiday...
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/14258532...
"part-converted"!
Translation:https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/14258532...
"part-converted"!
Bought this because I thought it was a bargain for metal/glass vs. price. Realised 8-14 mpg on a good run isn't affordable. Can't park it anywhere. Can't turn it around anywhere. Ran out of money because of the acres of wood needed to convert it and miles of wiring to make it work.
couzens said:
How do people sell cars with an advert like this?
3 pictures total, 2 with a child in, which I presume isn't part of the sale.
And a discription that tells you absolutely nothing apart from it comes with a full service history, perhaps.
No mileage, no interior pictures.
That will be the day they got the car or similar
If they are too lazy to get proper pics,they are probably too lazy to investigate that burning smell, that grinding noise etc
I usually avoid people like this, although you can sometimes get a great bargain
Berg Childs pedal carts for example
A lazy chav might be selling one as “kid car”, hasn’t done their research and don’t know what they have
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