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11/17/2021 8:29 PM  #1


People have lost their minds....

Posted items for sale on Facebook marketplace today......I've come to the realization marketplace is fast becoming like craigslist.

People don't, can't or won't read the detailed add. They ask a plethora of stupid questions. Don't respond when I answer their legit question then, get all pissy when I mark it sold because that rare "normal" buyer came along and closed the deal.

Anyone else have similar experiences???  (hope not)

 

11/17/2021 8:57 PM  #2


Re: People have lost their minds....

Yeah.  Marketplace is a disaster.  Tons of bot like responses from people.  Responses are not organized in chronological order once you start responding.  Only positive thing is you can view profiles.

It has gotten to a point where I will only sell on forums or eBay.  Everything else gets donated or given away to friends.  It just isn’t worth the hassle to deal with a bunch of random folks who may or may not be literate, truthful, drunk or on drugs.

 

11/17/2021 8:58 PM  #3


Re: People have lost their minds....

Another famous quote by one of my friends can explain this.

“Stupid people shouldn’t breathe”

Hey, I resemble that remark! 😜

Kinda like…”do you still want cheese on your plain cheeseburger?”

Last edited by Nos681 (11/17/2021 9:00 PM)

 

11/17/2021 9:03 PM  #4


Re: People have lost their minds....

Nos681 wrote:

Another famous quote by one of my friends can explain this.

“Stupid people shouldn’t breathe”

Hey, I resemble that remark! 😜

Kinda like…”do you still want cheese on your plain cheeseburger?”

 
Or it's like when you order a coffee at Starbucks and tell them, black..no room and they ask if you want creamer ...smh

     Thread Starter
 

11/18/2021 5:39 AM  #5


Re: People have lost their minds....

You can't fix stupid. 

 

11/18/2021 7:25 AM  #6


Re: People have lost their minds....

Multiple generations of the NEA and PTA requiring that kids be taught no responsibility, no accountability, everything has to be FAIR, and someone else should do everything.
This is what you get with human nature and no discipline.   Don't like it?  Well then stop putting the same idiots in charge,

EOR
 


"you get what you pay for, good work isn't cheap, and there are NO free lunches...PERIOD!"
 

11/18/2021 8:35 AM  #7


Re: People have lost their minds....

My retirement plan was to sell off the stuff collected over the last 30 yrs from dismantled stangs. A lot of work went into cleaning and sandblast and whatever else was needed.

I just can't deal with the people and the problems that comes along with them. This pass summer I crushed a pickup load of it, and when we get back home in the spring there will be more.



 

 

11/18/2021 8:42 AM  #8


Re: People have lost their minds....

Oh man I would NEVER use FB Marketplace. I am like Bentworker and will only sell to groups of people who have the same interest (this forum for example or a Lightning group).

 

11/18/2021 11:35 AM  #9


Re: People have lost their minds....

My favorite is Will you take $xxx for it? (Significantly less than posted price).   See, I'm driving all the way from (insert long distance city) and gas so much money!  My husband really needs this!


I was down in my garage this morning going through my old tool box.  This tool box contains some of the oldest and cheapest tools I own.  I put all my old stuff in it over the years.  It was the place I headed when someone knocked on the door to borrow a tool.  Which really doesn't happen anymore.  I've been really thinking by about downsizing and getting rid of most of it.   I used to do a lot of work on the side of the road so to speak and things to help people out.   When you do that, you wind up acquiring cheap tools, like Sams choice wrenches,  helpless person bought, and things like Great neck channel lock pliers I bought when I was like 12.   After many years, it really adds up, if your a packrat and never get rid of things.   Hec, there's a set of really really old Pittsburgh impact sockets in there, in the metal case.  I don't even remember how I got those, I'm sure they came from the era they were mail order only.  I know I once used the stuffing out of them.  I was just admiring just how thick the wall sides are. 

Anyways, now I think I'd rather just let it sit there, than deal with the tweakers from facebook.

Last edited by Greg B (11/18/2021 11:37 AM)


If multiple things can go wrong, the one that will go wrong will be the one that causes the most damage.
 

11/18/2021 11:36 AM  #10


Re: People have lost their minds....

red351 wrote:

My retirement plan was to sell off the stuff collected over the last 30 yrs from dismantled stangs. A lot of work went into cleaning and sandblast and whatever else was needed.

Could you post (on here) a few pieces of what you have?
6s6
 


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11/18/2021 5:14 PM  #11


Re: People have lost their minds....

Bullet Bob wrote:

Multiple generations of the NEA and PTA requiring that kids be taught no responsibility, no accountability, everything has to be FAIR, and someone else should do everything.
This is what you get with human nature and no discipline.   Don't like it?  Well then stop putting the same idiots in charge,

EOR
 

No one accepts responsibility nowadays. There was a reason for whippings or a thwack to the head with a ruler while in school. I managed to get many of both.
 


Gary Zilik - Pine Junction, Colorado - 67 Coupe, 289-4V, T5
 

11/18/2021 6:07 PM  #12


Re: People have lost their minds....

I had a young person ask me at Arby’s,

“Do you want your shake for here or to go?”

After realizing there wasn’t a difference.
We both laughed about it.

As I walked away, I could other coworkers in the back laughing too.

 

11/18/2021 6:27 PM  #13


Re: People have lost their minds....

I also love when they say "I have cash".  Yeah, because I was going to take a check from you...

If you're coming to pick something up you're paying in cash, so no, I won't take half what its worth if you pay the only way I was ever going to accept anyway.
 

 

11/19/2021 12:17 AM  #14


Re: People have lost their minds....

Nos681 wrote:

Another famous quote by one of my friends can explain this.

“Stupid people shouldn’t breathe”

Hey, I resemble that remark! 😜

I like this quote and Dan, you shouldn't be so hard on yourself. 

 


John  -- 67 Mustang Coupe 390 5 speed
 

11/19/2021 12:25 AM  #15


Re: People have lost their minds....

I have sold several items through Facebook Market place and had pretty good luck listing the adds in groups that where more specific to what I was dealing with. The winner was the first one that could send me money electronically. 

On a side note, I don't know that I ever saw one of my adds as I scrolled through the for sale stuff. All of the messaging was one on one. Other than me the the potential buyer, I don't know if anyone else saw the dialogue. 


John  -- 67 Mustang Coupe 390 5 speed
 

11/24/2021 8:51 AM  #16


Re: People have lost their minds....

I have had multiple experiences on FB Marketplace and some have been good, most have been incredibly aggravating to deal with.  I don't even go on Craigslist anymore.  It's almost a complete waste of time.


Owner of MustangSteve - 1967 Mustang Coupe 302, 2005 Mustang GT
 

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