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Stupidest offer you got on adverts

  • 27-06-2011 6:42pm
    #1
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭


    Whats the most stupidest offer you got on adverts?.


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  • #2
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Selling something for someone (not me) for €450 - got PM'ed an offer for €100.
    Despite saying clearly, the price cannot be lowered.
    There is some plonkers around.


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    As adverts.ie is a sister site to boards.ie I ask:
    do not link to adverts in this thread as it would point out specific users for ridicule, which isn't allowed.


  • #4
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,822 ✭✭✭stimpson


    7 grand for a brand new Avensis "for my father who is a pensioner".

    Oh okay, if he's a pensioner...


  • #5
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,927 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Selling a brand new digital camera for €150 (unwanted gift, was €200 in shops) advert had been up for an hour and got an offer of €50 :rolleyes:


  • #6
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Laptop for sale, Apple macbook and I had my eye on it at a good price of €350. Seller stated no swaps and had four offers of swapping different mobile phones

    Nothing but chancers over there

    Even if you state no swaps multiple times in your ad you'll still get these offers


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  • #7
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    I got offered a boat as payment for a car. Not much use to me here in Laois, the most landlocked county in Ireland :P


  • #8
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    Rothmans wrote: »
    Laois, the most landlocked county in Ireland :P

    Pfft, Offaly ftw.


  • #9
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Tipperary is the most landlocked county.
    The largest and surrounded by the most counties

    That's not something to be proud of though


  • #10
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    mikemac wrote: »
    Tipperary is the most landlocked county.
    The largest and surrounded by the most counties

    That's not something to be proud of though

    Tipperary can't be the most landlocked, where do you explain all their water they sell? :p


  • #11
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    Bonavox wrote: »
    Pfft, Offaly ftw.
    mikemac wrote: »
    Tipperary is the most landlocked county.
    The largest and surrounded by the most counties

    That's not something to be proud of though


    Ah, but Laoise is the only county surrounded by counties which don't touch the sea.


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  • #12
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    Rothmans wrote: »
    Ah, but Laoise is the only county surrounded by counties which don't touch the sea.

    Ah now Kilkenny is letting you down there:

    http://www.vousden.name/images/ireland-counties.jpg


  • #13
    ball
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭ball


    Rothmans wrote: »
    Ah, but Laoise is the only county surrounded by counties which don't touch the sea.
    Tell me you're not from there


  • #14
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Had a moped I'd restored for sale, repainted it completely, fixed all the electrics and running issues, had it up for butttons. I got PM's non stop asking if I'd swap for DVD collections, broken XBoxes, you name it. All I was short getting offered was someone's used toilet paper collection.


  • #15
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    Bonavox wrote: »
    Ah now Kilkenny is letting you down there:

    http://www.vousden.name/images/ireland-counties.jpg

    Ah Christ, I've been lied to all throughout primary school.
    ball wrote: »
    Tell me you're not from there

    I claim to be from Kildare. But technically, I live just inside the Laoise border :(


  • #16
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Bonavox wrote: »
    Ah now Kilkenny is letting you down there:

    http://www.vousden.name/images/ireland-counties.jpg

    Kilkenny doesn't touch the sea:confused:


  • #17
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    Kilkenny doesn't touch the sea:confused:

    Yeah actually, it doesn't touch the sea in this here map


  • #18
    Forest Master
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Forest Master


    Rothmans wrote: »
    I claim to be from Kildare. But technically, I live just inside the Laoise border :(

    Jesus man; then you need to learn how to spell it! It's Laois, FFS!

    Never been made a stupid offer, but the stupidest thing I ever saw on Adverts was a guy selling a Cigar Cutter from a Xmas cracker. It was the EXACT same one that comes in those "swanky" Xmas crackers. I pointed it out and he took it down. :P


  • #19
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    Forest Master wrote: »
    Jesus man; then you need to learn how to spell it! It's Laois, FFS!

    They are both equally correct.


  • #20
    Forest Master
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Forest Master


    Rothmans wrote: »
    They are both equally correct.
    No they're not.

    Laois is the county. Laoise is a girl's name.

    http://www.laois.ie/
    http://laoise.net/

    You may be confusing it with Portlaoise.


  • #21
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    Kilkenny doesn't touch the sea:confused:

    Seen some satellite images that show the coast jutting inwards and forming some of Kilkenny's coast as well, not sure to be fair.


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  • #22
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    There's some right prats on adverts...people offering the asking price and then vanishing off the face of the earth and not replying to PMs.

    I reckon anybody doing that should be banned from adverts,its pure time-wasting.


  • #23
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    Forest Master wrote: »
    No they're not.

    Laois is the county. Laoise is a girl's name.

    http://www.laois.ie/
    http://laoise.net/

    You may be confusing it with Portlaoise.

    Well I've always seen it spelt both ways :confused:

    EDIT: According to wiki, Laoise is how its spelt as Gaeilge. That must be the reason behind it.


  • #24
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Any offer is better than none. I've a printer for sale atm which cost me 400 euro a couple of years ago and there's been no offers made =(

    PS. Make me an offer :pac:


  • #25
    ball
    Registered Users Posts: 479 ✭✭ball


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Any offer is better than none. I've a printer for sale atm which cost me 400 euro a couple of years ago and there's been no offers made =(

    PS. Make me an offer :pac:
    I'll swap you for a broken X-Box 360


  • #26
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Bonavox wrote: »
    Seen some satellite images that show the coast jutting inwards and forming some of Kilkenny's coast as well, not sure to be fair.

    There is no such thing as Kilkenny coast :confused:,is it near the town?


  • #27
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Any offer is better than none. I've a printer for sale atm which cost me 400 euro a couple of years ago and there's been no offers made =(

    PS. Make me an offer :pac:

    Awwww and your the only person who made a comment on it :)


  • #28
    Bonavox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Bonavox


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    There is no such thing as Kilkenny coast :confused:,is it near the town?

    I have no idea :p I'm just basing this off what I was told in Geography a few years back. :D


  • #29
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Bonavox wrote: »
    I have no idea :p I'm just basing this off what I was told in Geography a few years back. :D

    Ah thats alright,believe it or not some people actually think Kilkenny is a city!


  • #30
    Krusader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Krusader


    Rothmans wrote: »
    They are both equally correct.

    Laois = laois

    laoise = of laois


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  • #31
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    Ah thats alright,believe it or not some people actually think Kilkenny is a city!

    And some people actually think Waterford isn't a kip;)


  • #32
    wild_cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    Seen a guy offering a crack for a piece of software....

    The ad was for a must have at the time computer hardware.


  • #33
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Rothmans wrote: »
    Ah Christ, I've been lied to all throughout primary school.



    I claim to be from Kildare. But technically, I live just inside the Laoise border :(

    laois ..kildare...is there a difference


  • #34
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    And some people actually think Waterford isn't a kip;)

    Been a while since you crossed the bridge id say :)


  • #35
    Forest Master
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Forest Master


    LOL - I just looked at teh topic title again and it's about stupid offers on Adverts.ie - WTF? The last 2 pages have been about counties that do or don't border the sea!
    :D


  • #36
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    mattjack wrote: »
    laois ..kildare...is there a difference

    One is East, one is Midlands.


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  • #37
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Rothmans wrote: »
    One is East, one is Midlands.

    I cant believe you answered me....


  • #38
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I can't stand those desperate people on adverts that are selling the most utterly useless things, and constantly offer them to offers as swaps even though it's inevitably going to be declined. I don't understand the desperation. Like, there'll be a guy selling an iPad for example, and some pathetic individual will ask...swap for anything on my ads? Subsequent viewing of ads includes 10 old dvds, maybe a battered Nintendo DS (right speaker not working), an ancient mobile phone, a solitary xbox controller, and so on...


  • #39
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    mattjack wrote: »
    I cant believe you answered me....

    Well, you did ask a question, it would be rude not answer.


  • #40
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Rothmans wrote: »
    Well, you did ask a question, it would be rude not answer.

    fair enough


  • #41
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    Been a while since you crossed the bridge id say :)
    nah waterford is a kip,kilkenny is a field you both lose.


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  • #42
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    nah waterford is a kip,kilkenny is a field you both lose.

    They're both lovely cites.
    Or one of them is a lovely city, and one is a lovely town :P


  • #43
    Tubsandtiles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Tubsandtiles


    Ford ka for a table saw :)


  • #44
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Tubsandtiles wrote: »
    Ford ka for a table saw :)

    That's a bloody fair swap.


  • #45
    RVN10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭RVN10


    Half a buck :)


  • #46
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    For Sale: One can of 7up Free, in it's orginal packaging,kept in a cold area, for optimal temperature, is brand new, willing to accept offers

    Alternatively willing to swap for one packet of Haribo ( not the small ones for you chancers out there), orginals, which must have loads of rings and cola bottles, not loads of those ****ty eggs.

    ( I would of taken a picture, but I reckon for the calories involved, it's just not worth it, am legit)


  • #47
    EDDIE WATERS
    Registered Users Posts: 853 ✭✭✭EDDIE WATERS


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    For Sale: One can of 7up Free, in it's orginal packaging,kept in a cold area, for optimal temperature, is brand new, willing to accept offers

    Alternatively willing to swap for one packet of Haribo ( not the small ones for you chancers out there), orginals, which must have loads of rings and cola bottles, not loads of those ****ty eggs.

    ( I would of taken a picture, but I reckon for the calories involved, it's just not worth it, am legit)

    The funniest thing I have seen on a website was someone offering Kerry water for free


  • #48
    Tubsandtiles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Tubsandtiles


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    That's a bloody fair swap.
    The table saw was worth nearly €1500 and the Ford Ka €400 at most :D


  • #49
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    I've genuine BMW alloys with new tyres (cost €120 a corner) and the whole lot cost well over €1k and I'd them up €800 or so and some fella offered €100!


  • #50
    jimthemental
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    Kilkenny doesn't touch the sea!

    I was made an offer for an amp, accepted and then got no further contact from this individual. Amp is up on done deal now instead, adverts was a pain in the arse nearly everyone wanted to swap for stuff and offered low money when they did. Done deal has worked better for me.


  • #51
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Some guy offered me weed for iPod nano. Others offered a €100 more than once after saying I wouldn't accept that offer from two other people


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