Is selling on adverts.ie a joke?

grogi

Zeek12 wrote: »

Why not arrange to meet the person? Somewhere local, but not your home.
Have done this a number of times when selling items on Adverts.

It saves all the hassle of posting items. The An Post fees are quite expensive and will put a lot of buyers "off" in my experience.

Just use parcel motel. It's slower, but their delivery charges are cheaper.

Robsweezie

think its important to do proper thorough vetting of who you're dealing with before agreeing a sale. not just feedback, check their comment history to see if they're typically lowballing or being arseholey in their replies to other ads,.might be a indicator of how they might be in person should you meet, especially if they're collecting from your address. namecalling/abuse to me is a red flag.

ive had people offer full price then haggle in person. item had no damage, nothing he wasnt told about. dont know how i feel about that carry on. i let him off a fiver less in the end. anyone had same?

grogi

Robsweezie wrote: »

think its important to do proper thorough vetting of who you're dealing with before agreeing a sale. not just feedback, check their comment history to see if they're typically lowballing or being arseholey in their replies to other ads,.might be a indicator of how they might be in person should you meet, especially if they're collecting from your address. namecalling/abuse to me is a red flag.

ive had people offer full price then haggle in person. item had no damage, nothing he wasnt told about. dont know how i feel about that carry on. i let him off a fiver less in the end. anyone had same?

I show them the door. Don't have time for such time wasters. Most will buy then for agreed price. At that time they are already invested - they had spent their effort and time - so are very unlikely to walk away.

Calahonda52

I meet them outside our 24 hr Garda Station.
One or 2 declined once they saw the venue.
I don't let anyone come near the house.

sweetie

I love adverts. If you give it some attention, it'll love you back.

Bikerman2019

It is not adverts that is the issue, it is the assholes using it.


Yesterday,
can I come and get,

OK, here is the eircode, home in half an hour.

Then nothing.


Two days ago, different item:

Item for sale, collect Tallaght
"Ever in Finglas"


So fecking what, it is collect in Tallaght.

grogi

Bikerman2019 wrote: »

It is not adverts that is the issue, it is the assholes using it.


Yesterday,
can I come and get,

OK, here is the eircode, home in half an hour.

Then nothing.


Two days ago, different item:

Item for sale, collect Tallaght
"Ever in Finglas"


So fecking what, it is collect in Tallaght.

Just switch on the ignore mode. Idiots are not worth your nerves.

BelovedAunt

Robsweezie wrote: »

ive had people offer full price then haggle in person. item had no damage, nothing he wasnt told about. dont know how i feel about that carry on. i let him off a fiver less in the end. anyone had same?

Only ever had two people haggle when meeting, both travellers funnily enough.

Rodney Bathgate

Robsweezie wrote: »

think its important to do proper thorough vetting of who you're dealing with before agreeing a sale. not just feedback, check their comment history to see if they're typically lowballing or being arseholey in their replies to other ads,.might be a indicator of how they might be in person should you meet, especially if they're collecting from your address. namecalling/abuse to me is a red flag.

ive had people offer full price then haggle in person. item had no damage, nothing he wasnt told about. dont know how i feel about that carry on. i let him off a fiver less in the end. anyone had same?

I had a guy with multiple negative feedback (time wasting etc), I politely turned down his asking price offer because of it. He waited until later that night (after midnight) and commented on every one of my items saying it was fake. The comments were removed once I reported them the next morning. I blocked him but I hope he was banned, should have been.

One More Toy

BelovedAunt wrote: »

Only ever had two people haggle when meeting, both travellers funnily enough.

That's why I shy away from giving my address and number

Muahahaha

Robsweezie wrote: »

ive had people offer full price then haggle in person. item had no damage, nothing he wasnt told about. dont know how i feel about that carry on. i let him off a fiver less in the end. anyone had same?

Never had anyone agree a price and then haggle upon arrival,if an item is as described and they tried to haggle I would run them. I did sell a mini drum shaped BBQ on Adverts a few years back, it was very small, it barely fitted two steaks at a time. So I was careful describing it as 'mini' and put up all measurements in cm and took a photo of it with a beer can beside it for perspective. Yet yer man still shows up moaning that 'its very small' as if I was trying to do him. He paid begrudgingly as if I was in the wrong when it was him who didnt read the ad properly.

Bikerman2019 wrote: »

It is not adverts that is the issue, it is the assholes using it.

Thats just the size of it really. The same assholes also exist on Donedeal too. Only difference is on Adverts theyre being an asshole by typing text publically for all to see whereas on DoneDeal its done in private or on the telephone

Iseedeadpixels

Really bugs me when people just watch your ad waiting for the first bid to come in....just make your first awful adverts.ie offer of half the price, get declined and negotiate to 10 or 20 euro off!

One More Toy

I've a tonne of decent items up on adverts at the moment, plenty of watchers but no activity in relation to offers

SureYWouldntYa

Iseedeadpixels wrote: »

Really bugs me when people just watch your ad waiting for the first bid to come in....just make your first awful adverts.ie offer of half the price, get declined and negotiate to 10 or 20 euro off!

I know I'd often see something and not want to pull the trigger, so put the ad on the watchlist if i still want it later

Ditto for when I'm looking at various ads to see which gives the best deals, I'd forget then to unwatch the ones I don't make an offer on

Feisar

Item for sale for €250, reasonable price I thought. Ad up for a while so some lad offers to take it away for me. Nah, I'll smash it up for firewood instead, thanks.

Del.Monte

Feisar wrote: »

Item for sale for €250, reasonable price I thought. Ad up for a while so some lad offers to take it away for me. Nah, I'll smash it up for firewood instead, thanks.

Pic?

Muahahaha

Muahahaha wrote: »

Never had anyone agree a price and then haggle upon arrival,if an item is as described and they tried to haggle I would run them. I did sell a mini drum shaped BBQ on Adverts a few years back, it was very small, it barely fitted two steaks at a time. So I was careful describing it as 'mini' and put up all measurements in cm and took a photo of it with a beer can beside it for perspective. Yet yer man still shows up moaning that 'its very small' as if I was trying to do him. He paid begrudgingly as if I was in the wrong when it was him who didnt read the ad properly.

Reminds me of the time I was selling some dumbbells ,
I think the were 5kg and 10kgs or something .
I drop them up the lad as he was down the road and he said
"ah jesus,I thought they were going to be heavier "
I didnt give him the chance to back out .

One More Toy

Feisar wrote: »

Item for sale for €250, reasonable price I thought. Ad up for a while so some lad offers to take it away for me. Nah, I'll smash it up for firewood instead, thanks.

Swap for my ad's and cash my way lad?

20/20

Feisar wrote: »

Item for sale for €250, reasonable price I thought. Ad up for a while so some lad offers to take it away for me. Nah, I'll smash it up for firewood instead, thanks.

I guess it wasnt a car then.

Could we see the advert ?

retalivity

Have a few old phones for sale that my parents wanted rid of, had some clown keep lowballing on one of them, eventually got to an agreed price if I wiped and unlocked the phone, which I did. After that, he decided to offer less again, and keeps posting every few days saying his offer still stands.
I've made a point of it now that I will sell to anyone else at what he's offering, and will just keep ignoring him. Such fcukaboutery over a 4yr old phone for €40

20/20

retalivity wrote: »

Have a few old phones for sale that my parents wanted rid of, had some clown keep lowballing on one of them, eventually got to an agreed price if I wiped and unlocked the phone, which I did. After that, he decided to offer less again, and keeps posting every few days saying his offer still stands.
I've made a point of it now that I will sell to anyone else at what he's offering, and will just keep ignoring him. Such fcukaboutery over a 4yr old phone for €40

Why not just block him, and then he cant post on any of your adverts.
I have left negative feedback for buyers that have made offers and not followed through with the sale. If you block them straight after you leave the negative feedback on their page, they cant leave any comments on your feedback record.

Church on Tuesday

I can't stand buyers that have to meet RIGHT NOW.

I'm just back from work/shops give me a chance ffs.

Bikerman2019

20/20 wrote: »

Why not just block him, and then he cant post on any of your adverts.
I have left negative feedback for buyers that have made offers and not followed through with the sale. If you block them straight after you leave the negative feedback on their page, they cant leave any comments on your feedback record.

Cannot do it anyway. Retaliatory feedback if left, is removed.

Too many ignore the feedback. I have refused to sell to people and give free stuff based on their history and told them that.

Free kids toys and some ****ing vulture trying to get them so he can flog later.

Lad with -6 feedback for being a dick, every single one of them he had answered insulting the other users. Yeah, I'm wasting my time with him!

20/20

Bikerman2019 wrote: »

Cannot do it anyway. Retaliatory feedback if left, is removed.

I have just checked and the last guy still has the negative feedback I left.
I know if he goes to Mods it could be removed, but most accept they have done wrong and dont think of reporting feedback.

RayCon

I once had a guy who agreed to buy a CD from me for €3 but wanted me to drive 70kms to meet up ... spanner.

dazberry

>Can you deliver
<No it's collection only
>Makes offer
<Accept offer
>I might get to you is a month or so, keep it up for sale and if it's not gone I'll collect

FFS

obi604

> Makes offer and says can pick up tonight or in next hour.
< accept offer and look at profile, discover the bid is from some lad 200km away
> now wait for them to realize
> They then realise that they are 200km away and withdraw offer.

can g0bsh1tes not check the location of a seller before making an offer

9935452

BelovedAunt wrote: »

Only ever had two people haggle when meeting, both travellers funnily enough.

I had a set of alloy wheels with bald tyres for sale and this was stated. A young lad offered 80 euros for them which i accepted.
He drove 40 miles to me. Then he was upset to find the tyres were bald and offered 60.
I left him off as he was wasting my time. The funny thing was if he offered 60 in the first place id have accepted it

Bikerman2019

20/20 wrote: »

I have just checked and the last guy still has the negative feedback I left.
I know if he goes to Mods it could be removed, but most accept they have done wrong and dont think of reporting feedback.

Could be, but only if it's not true