Gumtree Idiots

[Smitters]

My personal favourites are a French guy definitely coming to buy my car, from France. A £600 MG. Astonishingly, he didn't.

I also tried to give away a cabin bed, free, well used, covered in stickers and second hand when i got it. Had a lengthy exchange with one lady, asking for the nth level of details, over and over. In the end I found one for sale for £99 and said "Its exactly like this, but free.". No reply to that, strangely.

[hyphen]

Hard-Drive said:

It's not all bad. I advertised a single speed mountain bike, got no interest at all (it was probably over-priced). A bloke enquired from Germany, would I sell just the frame and forks and would I ship. I said it's not ideal, and I'd only consider doing it if I had no UK interest, and he would have to buy the whole bike.

To cut a long story short, he waited a week, I'd not sold it, so he arranged the courier, paid for the bike on friends and family upfront for a price I was more than happy with, and sent me photos of the received bike with a few mods he'd made...he was delighted with it.

So there's some decent people out there!

Brtish brand?

A lot of demand from Europe for British brands, always worth opening any ebay auction for stuff like British Hi-fi to international buyers.

[J4CKO]

As a contrast, sold a telly on eBay. bloke pays, apologises for using Paypal as didnt feel any other option, arrived bang when he said he would and was thrilled with the condition. I said its fine, take it, any problems, bring it back for a full refund.

Got a message saying he is thrilled with it and it works perfectly.

[Big Rig]

ruggedscotty said:

i tried to sell a bike - found facebook was good, it went pretty quick, however gumtree....

Hi you have the bike for sale

Yes

it is an adults bike - depends on the size of the adult

would it fit me

what size are you,

Im 24

you taking the piss....?

no

well how high are you ?

the bike is a teen / young adult

ok what bus route are you on...
or could you deliver ?

i can deliver

Ok thats good

delivery is £25

what, the bike is up for sale for £50 thats half the cost of the bike..

You wanted delivery its not free...

Ill come out and see it when will you be in

in in all day

so i wait, sure enough the chap turns up, get on the bike tries it likes it, I want to buy it, ok i said im selling it.

Ill give you 40 quid for it, im asking £70 for it, you said in the advert it was £50, you offered 40 for it, so obviously you didnt see the price.
its 75 now if you want it or not.

Your a #unt he said. I just laughed. Bike back in the garage and told him to foxtrot oscar.

meanwhile 2nd person turns up, saw it on facebook show him the bike he pulls out £50 gives me the money and bike is away. 1st person is a bit confused. looks at him and says ye had yer chance, if you hadnt ducked about you would have been on your way home on a bike... maybe next time you wont be the #unt will ye...

facebook seems to work better than gumtree these days, lots of buying groups if you can fend off the karens and the chancers lol

This didn’t happen.

[Hard-Drive]

hyphen said:

Hard-Drive said:

It's not all bad. I advertised a single speed mountain bike, got no interest at all (it was probably over-priced). A bloke enquired from Germany, would I sell just the frame and forks and would I ship. I said it's not ideal, and I'd only consider doing it if I had no UK interest, and he would have to buy the whole bike.

To cut a long story short, he waited a week, I'd not sold it, so he arranged the courier, paid for the bike on friends and family upfront for a price I was more than happy with, and sent me photos of the received bike with a few mods he'd made...he was delighted with it.

So there's some decent people out there!

Brtish brand?

A lot of demand from Europe for British brands, always worth opening any ebay auction for stuff like British Hi-fi to international buyers.

Yes, a candy apple red steel On-One Inbred. I did do a video call with the guy prior to boxing it up, obviously totally legit, he said there was one for sale in Germany, but it was white and he didn't want a white one! In fairness, my bike had hardly been ridden and was in superb condition...however it was quite "old" in mountain bike terms, old style 26" wheels for a start.

[anonymous-user]

I don’t sell anything

If an item is worth something I give it to family members to sell (they get the hassle & can keep the money) unless anyone I know wants it for free to use etc

[Shuvi McTupya]

Currently selling an iphone 4 Presented very well for £50.





Lady messages me and offers £45. I accept.

Then she messages me back, Would you take £40?

I tell her if we are still negotiating, how about £47.50?

"But you already agreed to £45!!"

That's right, i did.

Then at about 6:30pm she asks if she can come over right now , which i agree too.

8:30 rolls round and i get another message.

Can i come right now? I will be 20 mins.

It is now 9:30pm and I have heard nothing else.

Bloody glad i had no plans to go out..

[V40TC]

Other than the many "is it still for sale" messages
Gumtree has been good of late selling unwanted bike/party tent.
the party tent had the most interest and 3 people wanted it in the end
1st to appear took it at advertised price.

Now I only send address on the day when they are on the way, to minimize the time spent waiting for people.
anyone need a ladies cycle?

[evil len]

I was trying to figure out there for a while how a tent could double for both the purposes of a bike and for parties ...

[Japveesix]

evil len said:

I was trying to figure out there for a while how a tent could double for both the purposes of a bike and for parties ...

I quote like the idea of the Party Tent Bike. Whizz across the countryside on your bike, stop where you like and unfold the bike into a tent and instant partaaay.

Party anywhere, anytime, with anyone with the Party Tent Bike!

[tobinen]

Dear dragons, here I present the ultimate outside mobile bike party tent....

[Supercilious Sid]

Please check out the fkwits on FB Buy & Sell Group on Facebook

[V40TC]

tobinen said:

Dear dragons, here I present the ultimate outside mobile bike party tent....

and for my encore
I present
Ladies bike/rocking chair/wood burner

it appears we have amassed a large amount of goods we no longer have use for.

[Shuvi McTupya]

Supercilious Sid said:

Please check out the fkwits on FB Buy & Sell Group on Facebook

My favourite thing about the group is the moderation style.

Don't like it here? Then do one, we don't want to hear your complaints!

[konark]

tobinen said:

Dear dragons, here I present the ultimate outside mobile bike party tent....

I'm ooot!

[daddy cool]

Listed a bunch of PC parts on Gumtree over the weekend. All the adverts state the price, that its strictly cash on collection, and my postcode (Bracknell - or about 24 miles from this innit chancer). The convo so far, though im *this close* to just smashing everything up and setting fire to it.

[Condi]

I've seen a lot worse. He's just negotiating and trying to get a bit of a discount.

[eldar]

Condi said:

I've seen a lot worse. He's just negotiating and trying to get a bit of a discount.

True. Hasn't got to swap for weed, dag, stolen moped stage yet.

[Condi]

If anyone can make sense of this advert, they're doing better than me.

Be sure to look through the pictures for full enjoyment.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/boats-kayaks-jet-skis/na...

[FunkyNige]

Condi said:

If anyone can make sense of this advert, they're doing better than me.

Be sure to look through the pictures for full enjoyment.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/boats-kayaks-jet-skis/na...

Looks fine with a couple of txt spk words? Photos are odd, I assume he was a bit trigger happy with the uploading!