people in adverts as tight as a ducks crack.

x in the city

has anyone sold anything (decent) on adverts?

got a galaxy s there now for a very respectable 200eu,. seems people got f**k all money.

many adds I see people put in stupid offers, or offer you a 25 yr old laptop in exchange.

Sykk

I'll give you a pun + three letters for your thread?

Logical Fallacy

I'd really like to see a 25 year old laptop.

I imagine it would be like hauling HAL around on a hand trolley.

PseudoFamous

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

I'd really like to see a 25 year old laptop.

I imagine it would be like hauling HAL around on a hand trolley.

Not Really.

Orando Broom

The stupid offers should warrant an instant ban.

Chavways

You should take any 25 year old laptop that comes your way. You could sell it on to a collector for big bucks

tallaghtmick

The blatent put downs in threads annoy me,someone comments "that car isnt worth that amount" or "I can get that for 50 less on another thread"

epgc3fyqirnbsx

The worst thing I saw there recently was someone selling a weekend ticket for EP for cost price and they wouldn't budge. They were willing to waive the cost of the booking fee however which was incredibly generous

W.Shakes-Beer

Aw stop, adverts is a joke.

I had a car up for €2500 and had people offering all sorts of things: a set of alloys, €1000, some shíte ball of a Ford Focus.

saywhatyousee

The real question should be why do people look for unrealistic prices when trying to sell things on adverts.200 for a second hand PS3 these people should be checked into a mental hospital you can buy them new for 250.Done-deal is your friend.

Bipolar Joe

I recently bought a nearly brand new violin on there for sixty Euro. I think the offer before I snatched it up was half that. Maybe I'm just a soft touch, but haggling in these dark times seems skeevy to me.

Orando Broom

saywhatyousee wrote: »

The real question should be why do people look for unrealistic prices when trying to sell things on adverts.200 for a second hand PS3 these people should be checked into a mental hospital you can buy them new for 250.Done-deal is your friend.

Check out Carzone for unrealistic prices....

Example...

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Honda/Accord/1.8-SPOR/201130203622816/advert?channel=CARS

Clean it may be but €2,400!!! He'd be lucky to get €1,400 for it.

tallaghtmick

Orando Broom wrote: »

Check out Carzone for unrealistic prices....

Example...

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Honda/Accord/1.8-SPOR/201130203622816/advert?channel=CARS

Clean it may be but €2,400!!! He'd be lucky to get €1,400 for it.

Dealers over price everything though.

7sr2z3fely84g5

People have the cash,the rot setted in when some sellers gave up quick to the below asking price offers,just stick to what you think its worth selling for.

Wertz

Some of the prices people look for a lot of stuff on adverts is delusionary.
No-one said you had to sell to (or even acknowledge) stupidly low offers...price it at 20-25% more then you want for it and take any offer that comes in at 20-30% of that price. the unfortunate reality of things is that it's a buyer's market...but there are a lot of dreamers and chancers out there.

I've picked up some stuff for good money the past while, I've sold things for a reasonable return in the past. Bottomline; it's up to you to accept the offer or keep the item.

x in the city

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

I recently bought a nearly brand new violin on there for sixty Euro. I think the offer before I snatched it up was half that. Maybe I'm just a soft touch, but haggling in these dark times seems skeevy to me.

haggle away but your not getting my galaxy s for less than 200euro.

some items certainly have haggle potential..but there is a fine line

Orando Broom

tallaghtmick wrote: »

Dealers over price everything though.

Of course, If I was selling I would over price, but by the couple of hundred I'd expect to lose.

I ring that guy I say I want to buy that car tomorrow. €1,400 cash. He'll say absolutely not, he's completely deluded. his car should be valued at €1,700 and I say €1,400 he says nay we reach a middle ground, say 1,500/1,550, both win.

Irish people cannot haggle or bargain. They can't even set a price.

we are a nation of people who think we know the price of everything (we don't) but we also don't know the value of anything. Our economy and the mechanisms that got us here prove that.

seamus

Orando Broom wrote: »

we are a nation of people who think we know the price of everything (we don't) but we also don't know the value of anything.

I think our problem is that we're incapable of valuing anything objectively. The value we put on a second-hand item is usually linked to what we want to get for it or it's inflated because it holds sentimental value.

Some people don't seem to understand that sentimentality is worthless and something is only worth what others want to pay, not what you want to get.

Zamboni

Adverts is a superb marketplace.

Buyer and seller agree a price - Sale takes place
Buyer and seller don't agree a price - No sale

Stop whinging. It's called, a market.

reprazant

x in the city wrote: »

haggle away but your not getting my galaxy s for less than 200euro.

some items certainly have haggle potential..but there is a fine line

Since you are not willing to budge on your price, there is a fair chance that will you get to keep your €200 galaxy s.

This is probably due to the fact that the people who are thinking of buying it don't value it at the same price.

Orando Broom

Zamboni wrote: »

Adverts is a superb marketplace.

Buyer and seller agree a price - Sale takes place
Buyer and seller don't agree a price - No sale

Stop whinging. It's called, a market.

Zamboni has say, Gibson flying V for sale, €900 (massively inflated price by seller, but hey)

Offer Dean Vx flying V and Peavy practice amp and €150 cash...

This is not how ANY market works.

Zamboni has Gibson Flying v for sale. €700.

Offer €550

Rejected

Offer €600

Rejected

Offer €630

Accepted. Done deal.

That is how it should work, it does not happen near enough for Adverts to have credibility. A great forum for trade, absolutely but far too many fück-starts on it. Adverts is just full of mental trolls.

Muckie

Don't forget, the Trolls/Arseholes love to slag what ever it is you happening to sell and make stupid offers.
Would never advertise on it again. Go with donedeal.

Like previous posters have said. Example selling a car for €1000 euro,
bit of haggling sells for €750. No offers of €250! Everyone is happy.

Zamboni

Orando Broom wrote: »

That is how it should work, it does not happen near enough for Adverts to have credibility. A great forum for trade, absolutely but far too many fück-starts on it. Adverts is just full of mental trolls.

I don't see the problem.
Just ignore barter offers.
If somebody is being a dick on your ad report them.
Life is full of mental trolls. You get used to it.

foxyboxer

Offer €1 for this thread.

I've bought stuff on there. No moderation there at all. Should have a report option for blatant trolls.

mfceiling

I had a brand new iphone for sale on it a few months ago.
Cost €500 but as an upgrade was free for me.
Put it in at €380...no swops.
First reply...was way off, then swops then offer of €100 because its an old phone!!
Fcuk off...

ToxicPaddy

There are one or two people on there who just seem love causing problems for genuine sellers, offering ridiculously low amounts for something and then starting problems in the advert when their offer is rejected.

I had one guy do that to me, offered 20% of what I was asking for an item I was selling, I rejected his offer and then he started spamming me with pm's wondering why I wouldnt take his offer!! :rolleyes:

In the end I removed the item and sold it elsewhere, just wasn't worth the hassle.

Granted some sellers are off on another planet looking for prices that are completely unrealistic.

tallaghtmick

foxyboxer wrote: »

Offer €1 for this thread.

I've bought stuff on there. No moderation there at all. Should have a report option for blatant trolls.

Oh there are mods there id like to say what I think of them but ill prob get a ban.

example:I was selling a car and changed the price and the mod accuses me of bumping the ad and that he will bin it,so I link him to an ad that actually has the words "bump" on it at least 5 times......what does he do.....nothing.

The only good thing about the mods there is the resolution threads,they do work their best for those.

Sky King

There's a 'bump' button though?

jd83

I only use it for selling low price items. Any thing expensive I try and sell I just get a load of stupid replies and requests to swap for something stupid. Then i end up withdrawing the item and posting it on ebay. Even worse is when you get someone who agrees to buy and they dont turn up to meet you to collect the item.

Sky King

I recently advertised a mixer for sale for €85.

A guy comes along and offers me €1 and then asks me for my best price, which I told him was (to the best of my memory) €84.78.

I then sold it for €80 to him. WTF is with the €1 offer?

tallaghtmick

Sky King wrote: »

There's a 'bump' button though?

Pre bump days

gubbie

Wertz wrote: »

Some of the prices people look for a lot of stuff on adverts is delusionary.
No-one said you had to sell to (or even acknowledge) stupidly low offers...price it at 20-25% more then you want for it and take any offer that comes in at 20-30% of that price. the unfortunate reality of things is that it's a buyer's market...but there are a lot of dreamers and chancers out there.

I've picked up some stuff for good money the past while, I've sold things for a reasonable return in the past. Bottomline; it's up to you to accept the offer or keep the item.

I agree with this. There's someone looking for €60 for an original game boy (unboxed, no games)

Testament1

Adverts is full of c*nts, tried selling a set of alloys on there a good while back, the first reply I got was this

"96 vw vento 1.9 diesel no tax or test
springs cut so on the deck black roof the car is silver front lip
needs a little work,swap for wheels?"

How are people supposed to have confidence in selling something on there if you're only going to get sh*t replies like that. Ended up selling them on DoneDeal without any hassle and havent put anything up on Adverts since.

7sr2z3fely84g5

maybe if there where bans been issued it might cut down on them sort of offers?.

RasTa

Weren't you too tight to pay back a bet made on the forum X?

Wibbs

Alexia Ancient Stem wrote: »

maybe if there where bans been issued it might cut down on them sort of offers?.

Hard one to mod though. The mod would have to have some knowledge of the general value of every item. IE guy offers I dunno a stereo for 800 quid. He's a bit of an eejit and it's actual market is nearer 150. Genuine non windowlicker offers 130 and he looks like one of the usual dribblers when he's not.

Some lowball offers are obviously daft though. Or when a seller writes in block capitals NO SWAPS and the first offer is some crosseyed moron who can't even bother to read the actual ad and comes back with "will you swap for my playstation?". The guy repeats the NO SWAPS line and the very next chimp comes back with "Swap for my ad?". Smetimes its even the same crosseyed moron who ups his swap with "Ill add cash to the deal".

Reading Adverts can be really depressing at times as you do realise there are an awful lot of slow people out there. Like seamus noted earlier in the thread a lot of Irish people have no idea of the value of things. They're stuck without a pricetag in a shop window.

LighterGuy

I bleeding hate adverts :mad:
People are a bunch of hungry gits.

I could list something up for a reasonable 200 euro price tag. Not over priced. Not under priced. Sure everything is open to negotiation. But these people think its nothing to offer 60 euro for something that would cost 200 euro.

7sr2z3fely84g5

Wibbs wrote: »

Hard one to mod though. The mod would have to have some knowledge of the general value of every item. IE guy offers I dunno a stereo for 800 quid. He's a bit of an eejit and it's actual market is nearer 150. Genuine non windowlicker offers 130 and he looks like one of the usual dribblers when he's not.

Some lowball offers are obviously daft though. Or when a seller writes in block capitals NO SWAPS and the first offer is some crosseyed moron who can't even bother to read the actual ad and comes back with "will you swap for my playstation?". The guy repeats the NO SWAPS line and the very next chimp comes back with "Swap for my ad?". Smetimes its even the same crosseyed moron who ups his swap with "Ill add cash to the deal".

Reading Adverts can be really depressing at times as you do realise there are an awful lot of slow people out there. Like seamus noted earlier in the thread a lot of Irish people have no idea of the value of things. They're stuck without a pricetag in a shop window.

I agree,but in fairness i think donedeal does suffer from the same scenario.

michael keaney

Bought a Blood Pressure Monitor on City Deals (groupons) site for £59.99 when I went to claim it was told that the company (firstaidwarehouse ) do not post to Ireland even when I said I would pay extra. When I try to contact city deals Customers Support I am just left waiting.

Has anyone else encountered this problem.

When I made my purchsse their was no mention of not been able to receive it in ireland.

LighterGuy

I have an old NES, two controllers, 22 games, a zapper, 3 arcade sticks and a multiplayer tap. Off the top of my head I should easily get 150-200 for that.

If I put that up I would get people offering something like 60 quid. Like yes everything is up for negotiation but dont take the pi*s. I might be willing to let it go for 130. Not obviously 60 euro.

I think alot of people just throw out any low figure hoping some fool would say ok deal!

Keith186

michael keaney wrote: »

Bought a Blood Pressure Monitor on City Deals (groupons) site for £59.99 when I went to claim it was told that the company (firstaidwarehouse ) do not post to Ireland even when I said I would pay extra. When I try to contact city deals Customers Support I am just left waiting.

Has anyone else encountered this problem.

When I made my purchsse their was no mention of not been able to receive it in ireland.

Ah sure you'd get one of them on Adverts for a tenner anyway, just make an offer

Gummy Panda

I remember when adverts was just a little tool for boardsies to sell unwanted games, PC parts, guitars, etc

The people you sold to where posters who saw on threads around boards. Now it's full of people who barely know what boards is.

I remember I was selling a MacBook on it, some tard offered me 200euro. I said no so he starts thread spoiling with links to budget window laptops. I eventually sold it to someone who understood it's secondhand value.

Wibbs

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I remember when adverts was just a little tool for boardsies to sell unwanted games, PC parts, guitars, etc

The people you sold to where posters who saw on threads around boards. Now it's full of people who barely know what boards is.

Yea it's a bit sad really. Victim of its own success I guess. Which is cool and I really hope they do well out of it, but I'd prefer to give and spend money on an Irish site rather than eprey but I'd be reluctant to on adverts. I'd much prefer to sell to other Boardsies.

x in the city

reprazant wrote: »

Since you are not willing to budge on your price, there is a fair chance that will you get to keep your €200 galaxy s.

This is probably due to the fact that the people who are thinking of buying it don't value it at the same price.

let them buy it elsewhere so,

simples.

x in the city

Zamboni wrote: »

Adverts is a superb marketplace.

Buyer and seller agree a price - Sale takes place
Buyer and seller don't agree a price - No sale

Stop whinging. It's called, a market.

adverts is bollocks,

hardly anything of value is sold.

Sky King

Wasn't there something about if you advertised on adverts that you couldnt advertise elsewhere simultaneously?

That still in force? Cause if it is I mightn't bother with adverts like.

x in the city

RasTa wrote: »

Weren't you too tight to pay back a bet made on the forum X?

no, as to the very best of my 25+ years of footballing knowledge the fernando torres waster DID leave pool.

at the very best it would have been void.

the lads sprouting crap on the soccer forum seem to have multiple orgasams telling everyone about it.

they need a reality check.

i have earmarked at least a dozen saddos over there.

Ghost Train

Used it a few times recently, no problems. See a lot of ads with no comments, I'd say it's a hard place to sell unless you're lucky to find that one person looking to buy... Or you keep the price realistic and low you might find a buyer looking for a bargain

hdowney

it isn't just the buyers on adverts who need a slap.

was in the market for a car. found one in my town. asking of 600. i didn't have 600. offered. 500, not quite. so offered 550 on inspection. accepted. grand job. moved to pm for detail exchange. no bothers. seller texts me and we arrange meet up for next day. next day i text to confirm time of meet up. yer wan tells me she wants 600 for the car. i say you agreed on 550. she says yea but the boyf wants 600 no less. i say but you are selling the car not him. yes but it is his car she say. so how can you sell it i say. so she says it is her car, but he has done everything on it cos she doesn't know cars. WTF!!! and insult to injury i knew where she kept the car (outdoors) so drove up for a little shufty from the outside, car would NEVER have passed nct, which was out that month, different size wheels, problems with lights, and that was what could be seen.

newho, i reported to adverts, damn add is STILL up, people still bidding on it, and she not answering anyone. mind car isn't where she had it anymore so...

Fighting Irish

Orando Broom wrote: »

The stupid offers should warrant an instant ban.

Not really, it's pretty much the same as people selling something with an overpriced price.

I think adverts does great and doesn't need much help from mods etc
If a seller/buyer agree a price then adverts has done it's job!

Wibbs

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Not really, it's pretty much the same as people selling something with an overpriced price.

Agreed, but from my experience of the place, both lurking with the thought of buying and actually buying a couple of times, there's an awful lot of low bid/will you swap/I'll gi ye a tenner for it boss windowlickers.

I think adverts does great and doesn't need much help from mods etc
If a seller/buyer agree a price then adverts has done it's job!

Yes and no. It could do it's job better. There's a problem with the signal to noise ratio. There can be a lot of noise to wade through. That said I'm not sure how the mods could do it. Other than having an IQ and reading ability test as part of the signup process. I would start with increasing the awareness of low ball morons and encourage users to report them and then actually act on said reports. Item = 1000 quid. Low ball moron bid = 20 quid. Ban the latter for a week on general principle for being a fcukwit. Ditto the fcukwit looking for a thousand quid for an iPhone(though the latter is easier to ignore). I'd add a one day ban for anyone posting "will you swap for..." when the seller clearly states "NO SWAPS". Make it the Adverts equivalent of breaking the "don't be a dick" rule here.