Gumtree Idiots
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Spare tyre said:
The “is it still available” is caused by two things
1 there is a button in the app that sends that message
2 I have enquired about stuff only to be ignored or told it sold weeks ago
So you get lazy soda who don’t delete their ad when stuff sells
Footnote:1 there is a button in the app that sends that message
2 I have enquired about stuff only to be ignored or told it sold weeks ago
So you get lazy soda who don’t delete their ad when stuff sells
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I've had almost all good experiences with Gumtree. Sold bad bought a load of different things when we moved house and when we had a baby and pretty much all have been nice people who've turned up, handed over cash and been gone again in under 5 mins.
Had plenty of "is this still available" and then no response when you reply but don't find that a big problem.
Best time to sell was when all the new Uni students started. They were all super keen and polite, never haggled or questioned the price (Bristol students so they're loaded with parents money) and always came on time as they have nothing better to do.
Had plenty of "is this still available" and then no response when you reply but don't find that a big problem.
Best time to sell was when all the new Uni students started. They were all super keen and polite, never haggled or questioned the price (Bristol students so they're loaded with parents money) and always came on time as they have nothing better to do.
bmwmike said:
Ive got a bunch of new e46 bits ive been trying to get rid of for years. I advertise them on and off on gumtree. Last time i advertised the discs which are for a 323i / 320d and i get an email asking location and condition (new,boxed) etc. Agrees to buy. Then asks to meet in a motorway services station half way which is over 100 miles away. i only wanted 30 quid.
ive given up trying to flog the osf steering arm, rear droplinks, alternator (recond), couple of bushes etc. All new too good to tip and not giving em away so whats a chap to do.
You gotta use the right platform for what you’re selling. Those should be on eBay.ive given up trying to flog the osf steering arm, rear droplinks, alternator (recond), couple of bushes etc. All new too good to tip and not giving em away so whats a chap to do.
hyphen said:
EarlofDrift said:
Not Gumtree but an eBay d
head.
Did he have any previous? As you do have some (limited) blocking ablity on who bidshead.https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/image/serverpage/i...
Here is the latest message from this morning, I refuse to respond to this sort of abuse. I think he believes eBay can't see his messages, I'll be phoning them tomorrow morning. He clearly has some issues getting mad because I posted an item a day after it sold and he's calling me a liar because it didn't arrive within two day but arrived the third day (shock horror), he paid for 2nd class signed for and never messaged me once. So first he wanted a refund because it didn't arrive after 48 hours, then he said it wasn't the right size (never ask about size before bidding) now he's accusing me of selling a fake bag, who the f
k counterfeits a camping bag for a grill.
I put a little green plastic shed thing on FB marketplace, it was a bit scruffy but possibly of use to someone so offered it free to anyone who could collect, they get a shed, and I dont have to cart it to the tip.
It went mad, free stuff, but nobody who wanted it had any transport and they wanted it delivering for free, one was an 90 mile round trip, so would have to dismantle it, it was pretty old (metal and corrugated plastic) and then put it in my car, drive 90 miles, so probably three gallons of fuel and four hours of my time.
Had one dick head who called himself "Prince Lipsy", was coming to collect it, definitely be there by four, didnt arrive, will be there about seven, didnt arrive, was fking annoying as was going to the pub, i was going to bin it off, leave it on the path and let him take it but the missus was like "You cant come out the man about the shed is coming", then the knob doesnt turn up.
Easier to just tip stuff sometimes, or smash it up and drip feed it into the wheelie bin over a few weeks
Most people are alright, second hand Iphones attract bellends, and certain models of cars, trying to sell a Big Mercedes was a trial by idiot until a PHer bought it, cheapest out there by some margin at 6 grand, get offered 4 grand "For cash", as opposed to what ? Cowrie Shells, Green Shield Stamps ?
It went mad, free stuff, but nobody who wanted it had any transport and they wanted it delivering for free, one was an 90 mile round trip, so would have to dismantle it, it was pretty old (metal and corrugated plastic) and then put it in my car, drive 90 miles, so probably three gallons of fuel and four hours of my time.
Had one dick head who called himself "Prince Lipsy", was coming to collect it, definitely be there by four, didnt arrive, will be there about seven, didnt arrive, was f
king annoying as was going to the pub, i was going to bin it off, leave it on the path and let him take it but the missus was like "You cant come out the man about the shed is coming", then the knob doesnt turn up.Easier to just tip stuff sometimes, or smash it up and drip feed it into the wheelie bin over a few weeks
Most people are alright, second hand Iphones attract bellends, and certain models of cars, trying to sell a Big Mercedes was a trial by idiot until a PHer bought it, cheapest out there by some margin at 6 grand, get offered 4 grand "For cash", as opposed to what ? Cowrie Shells, Green Shield Stamps ?
J4CKO said:
I put a little green plastic shed thing on FB marketplace, it was a bit scruffy but possibly of use to someone so offered it free to anyone who could collect, they get a shed, and I dont have to cart it to the tip.
It went mad, free stuff, but nobody who wanted it had any transport and they wanted it delivering for free, one was an 90 mile round trip, so would have to dismantle it, it was pretty old (metal and corrugated plastic) and then put it in my car, drive 90 miles, so probably three gallons of fuel and four hours of my time.
Had one dick head who called himself "Prince Lipsy", was coming to collect it, definitely be there by four, didnt arrive, will be there about seven, didnt arrive, was fking annoying as was going to the pub, i was going to bin it off, leave it on the path and let him take it but the missus was like "You cant come out the man about the shed is coming", then the knob doesnt turn up.
Easier to just tip stuff sometimes, or smash it up and drip feed it into the wheelie bin over a few weeks
Most people are alright, second hand Iphones attract bellends, and certain models of cars, trying to sell a Big Mercedes was a trial by idiot until a PHer bought it, cheapest out there by some margin at 6 grand, get offered 4 grand "For cash", as opposed to what ? Cowrie Shells, Green Shield Stamps ?
The only item that attract more knobbers than cars is alloy wheels. Your selling decent wheels and tyres for a Jaguar 200 quid and you get messages like It went mad, free stuff, but nobody who wanted it had any transport and they wanted it delivering for free, one was an 90 mile round trip, so would have to dismantle it, it was pretty old (metal and corrugated plastic) and then put it in my car, drive 90 miles, so probably three gallons of fuel and four hours of my time.
Had one dick head who called himself "Prince Lipsy", was coming to collect it, definitely be there by four, didnt arrive, will be there about seven, didnt arrive, was f
king annoying as was going to the pub, i was going to bin it off, leave it on the path and let him take it but the missus was like "You cant come out the man about the shed is coming", then the knob doesnt turn up.Easier to just tip stuff sometimes, or smash it up and drip feed it into the wheelie bin over a few weeks
Most people are alright, second hand Iphones attract bellends, and certain models of cars, trying to sell a Big Mercedes was a trial by idiot until a PHer bought it, cheapest out there by some margin at 6 grand, get offered 4 grand "For cash", as opposed to what ? Cowrie Shells, Green Shield Stamps ?
"what tyres are on them?"
"will they fit a VW Bora?"
"do they come with spacers?"
and of course you always get
"tk 50 cash cn cllt tunite m8?"
EarlofDrift said:
The only item that attract more knobbers than cars is alloy wheels. Your selling decent wheels and tyres for a Jaguar 200 quid and you get messages like
"what tyres are on them?"
"will they fit a VW Bora?"
"do they come with spacers?"
and of course you always get
"tk 50 cash cn cllt tunite m8?"
Seems to be a reasonable question if you have not specified them."what tyres are on them?"
"will they fit a VW Bora?"
"do they come with spacers?"
and of course you always get
"tk 50 cash cn cllt tunite m8?"
EarlofDrift said:
hyphen said:
EarlofDrift said:
Not Gumtree but an eBay dhead.
Did he have any previous? As you do have some (limited) blocking ablity on who bidshead.https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/image/serverpage/i...
Here is the latest message from this morning, I refuse to respond to this sort of abuse. I think he believes eBay can't see his messages, I'll be phoning them tomorrow morning. He clearly has some issues getting mad because I posted an item a day after it sold and he's calling me a liar because it didn't arrive within two day but arrived the third day (shock horror), he paid for 2nd class signed for and never messaged me once. So first he wanted a refund because it didn't arrive after 48 hours, then he said it wasn't the right size (never ask about size before bidding) now he's accusing me of selling a fake bag, who the f
k counterfeits a camping bag for a grill.
EarlofDrift said:
hyphen said:
EarlofDrift said:
Not Gumtree but an eBay dhead.
Did he have any previous? As you do have some (limited) blocking ablity on who bidshead.https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/image/serverpage/i...
Here is the latest message from this morning, I refuse to respond to this sort of abuse. I think he believes eBay can't see his messages, I'll be phoning them tomorrow morning. He clearly has some issues getting mad because I posted an item a day after it sold and he's calling me a liar because it didn't arrive within two day but arrived the third day (shock horror), he paid for 2nd class signed for and never messaged me once. So first he wanted a refund because it didn't arrive after 48 hours, then he said it wasn't the right size (never ask about size before bidding) now he's accusing me of selling a fake bag, who the f
k counterfeits a camping bag for a grill.I have had mostly good experience with both Gumtree and eBay, buying and selling. Last week was really mixed; feeling a need to change my car, I advertised it on Gumtree for £6k, which produced four responses:
1) A request from "very interested" for more photos, and a video of the engine running (which it does perfectly); fair enough if someone's coming from some distance. Duly sent, but not a word of reply, not even "Thanks, I've looked at them, but no thanks.".
2) A "Will you accept £4k?"; literate at least, to which I did not respond.
3) A lengthy phone call, asking all the right questions. Chap indicates that he will get a lift the following day to view and provided it's as good as it sounds, pay the asking price and drive it away. Very promising.
4) Almost as I put the phone down on # 3), another call, local this time, drove straight over, looked at it, asked me to demonstrate the car as he didn't have "driving other cars" on his own policy, paid, drove away, returned with his wife to collect, presumably having organised insurance. A pretty smooth sale, one might think. I sent Mr # 3 a message to say that the car had gone. And immediately began to miss it on the drive.
A few hours later, Mr # 4 called, telling me that his wife hates it, asking if I would take it back, keeping £500 for my trouble.
1) A request from "very interested" for more photos, and a video of the engine running (which it does perfectly); fair enough if someone's coming from some distance. Duly sent, but not a word of reply, not even "Thanks, I've looked at them, but no thanks.".
2) A "Will you accept £4k?"; literate at least, to which I did not respond.
3) A lengthy phone call, asking all the right questions. Chap indicates that he will get a lift the following day to view and provided it's as good as it sounds, pay the asking price and drive it away. Very promising.
4) Almost as I put the phone down on # 3), another call, local this time, drove straight over, looked at it, asked me to demonstrate the car as he didn't have "driving other cars" on his own policy, paid, drove away, returned with his wife to collect, presumably having organised insurance. A pretty smooth sale, one might think. I sent Mr # 3 a message to say that the car had gone. And immediately began to miss it on the drive.
A few hours later, Mr # 4 called, telling me that his wife hates it, asking if I would take it back, keeping £500 for my trouble.
John Locke said:
I have had mostly good experience with both Gumtree and eBay, buying and selling. Last week was really mixed; feeling a need to change my car, I advertised it on Gumtree for £6k, which produced four responses:
1) A request from "very interested" for more photos, and a video of the engine running (which it does perfectly); fair enough if someone's coming from some distance. Duly sent, but not a word of reply, not even "Thanks, I've looked at them, but no thanks.".
2) A "Will you accept £4k?"; literate at least, to which I did not respond.
3) A lengthy phone call, asking all the right questions. Chap indicates that he will get a lift the following day to view and provided it's as good as it sounds, pay the asking price and drive it away. Very promising.
4) Almost as I put the phone down on # 3), another call, local this time, drove straight over, looked at it, asked me to demonstrate the car as he didn't have "driving other cars" on his own policy, paid, drove away, returned with his wife to collect, presumably having organised insurance. A pretty smooth sale, one might think. I sent Mr # 3 a message to say that the car had gone. And immediately began to miss it on the drive.
A few hours later, Mr # 4 called, telling me that his wife hates it, asking if I would take it back, keeping £500 for my trouble.
You can’t leave us like that.1) A request from "very interested" for more photos, and a video of the engine running (which it does perfectly); fair enough if someone's coming from some distance. Duly sent, but not a word of reply, not even "Thanks, I've looked at them, but no thanks.".
2) A "Will you accept £4k?"; literate at least, to which I did not respond.
3) A lengthy phone call, asking all the right questions. Chap indicates that he will get a lift the following day to view and provided it's as good as it sounds, pay the asking price and drive it away. Very promising.
4) Almost as I put the phone down on # 3), another call, local this time, drove straight over, looked at it, asked me to demonstrate the car as he didn't have "driving other cars" on his own policy, paid, drove away, returned with his wife to collect, presumably having organised insurance. A pretty smooth sale, one might think. I sent Mr # 3 a message to say that the car had gone. And immediately began to miss it on the drive.
A few hours later, Mr # 4 called, telling me that his wife hates it, asking if I would take it back, keeping £500 for my trouble.
Did you take it back?
Recently sold my Nikon DSLR on ebay with the kit lens and an extra 35mm Prime.Shutter count less than 3000. 99p no reserve.
I had a few genuine questions, Why am I selling it etc.
There was one chancer. I'll give you £100 and collect today (day one of auction), she assumed that because she could collect that she was doing me a favour. I pointed out that the cheapest BIN price was over £400, without an extra prime lens.
"YEAH BUT I CAN COLLECT TODAY"
Let the auction run, sold it for close to £500.
I had a few genuine questions, Why am I selling it etc.
There was one chancer. I'll give you £100 and collect today (day one of auction), she assumed that because she could collect that she was doing me a favour. I pointed out that the cheapest BIN price was over £400, without an extra prime lens.
"YEAH BUT I CAN COLLECT TODAY"
Let the auction run, sold it for close to £500.
EarlofDrift said:
I sell a lot on eBay, and regularly block non payers over the past 15 years I must have over 100 numpties on the block list.
Here is the latest message from this morning, I refuse to respond to this sort of abuse. I think he believes eBay can't see his messages, I'll be phoning them tomorrow morning. He clearly has some issues getting mad because I posted an item a day after it sold and he's calling me a liar because it didn't arrive within two day but arrived the third day (shock horror), he paid for 2nd class signed for and never messaged me once. So first he wanted a refund because it didn't arrive after 48 hours, then he said it wasn't the right size (never ask about size before bidding) now he's accusing me of selling a fake bag, who the fk counterfeits a camping bag for a grill.
Sounds like a PH member!Here is the latest message from this morning, I refuse to respond to this sort of abuse. I think he believes eBay can't see his messages, I'll be phoning them tomorrow morning. He clearly has some issues getting mad because I posted an item a day after it sold and he's calling me a liar because it didn't arrive within two day but arrived the third day (shock horror), he paid for 2nd class signed for and never messaged me once. So first he wanted a refund because it didn't arrive after 48 hours, then he said it wasn't the right size (never ask about size before bidding) now he's accusing me of selling a fake bag, who the f
k counterfeits a camping bag for a grill.Bowen86 said:
Recently sold my Nikon DSLR on ebay with the kit lens and an extra 35mm Prime.Shutter count less than 3000. 99p no reserve.
I had a few genuine questions, Why am I selling it etc.
There was one chancer. I'll give you £100 and collect today (day one of auction), she assumed that because she could collect that she was doing me a favour. I pointed out that the cheapest BIN price was over £400, without an extra prime lens.
"YEAH BUT I CAN COLLECT TODAY"
Let the auction run, sold it for close to £500.
Whilst asking for that amount of discount won't get you very far, offering to pick up and pay cash for discount with me works every time, especially with big and fragile items.I had a few genuine questions, Why am I selling it etc.
There was one chancer. I'll give you £100 and collect today (day one of auction), she assumed that because she could collect that she was doing me a favour. I pointed out that the cheapest BIN price was over £400, without an extra prime lens.
"YEAH BUT I CAN COLLECT TODAY"
Let the auction run, sold it for close to £500.
I send stuff out globally so know what a nightmare and how expensive it is. Your £500 camera will have cost approx £30 to send insured so you either charged that and got away with it, or sent it without insurance and took a risk.
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