DoneDeal headmelters

ted1 · 05-04-2020 11:22PM

Eric Cartman wrote: »

virgin/tesco/lyca. When selling anything I never answer 089 numbers , most of the time the cheapskates even try call you on WhatsApp audio. It really does make the odds in saving me time.

It’s also 48, your loss.

ted1 · 05-04-2020 11:25PM

Rows Grower wrote: »

That's no person's bill.

Hello?

Life of an international consultant..

Purple Mountain · 05-04-2020 11:26PM

I was selling something handmade and bespoke recently that I looking for a few hundred euro for.
I was willing to hold out for the asking price because I know the value of it.
It was a heavy and bulky item so needed collection from my house.
I had one man get stroppy with me because I wouldn't drop the price to cover the cost of him organising transport.
I was very tempted to explain that that was not how life or trade works but I just deleted his number.

Polo_Cluvie · 06-04-2020 12:34AM

I Was VB wrote: »

Recently had a car for sale on DoneDeal, I wouldn’t sell a lot of cars but every time i do I cringe to think of all the DoneDeal headmelts that I’m going to have to deal with, had the car up for €1450.

I’m paraphrasing but these are generally the gist of what lads were sending me;

“€600 cash today, can you meet me in clane?”

“Swap for a 02 Audi A4 fully kitted? And cash my way”

“800€ the best I can do because of high tax and insurance”

“I just want the engine I can do 700 CASH TONIGHT”

Add in a few similar phone calls from a 085 number and a few from a 089 number that I refused to answer my head was wreaked from lads melting me bracket, car eventually sold.

I know some lads on here buy and sell cars but how do you guys cope with the endless muppets on DoneDeal?

Im going through exactly the same. Absolute tossers. Anybody that makes an offer using dungdeal messenger is imo a timewaster or some smartass trying to take advantage during the pandemic

RCSATELLITES · 06-04-2020 12:48AM

ted1 wrote: »

I’m 089, work phone on three was Vodafone. My bill can be 900 a month. I don’t think that’s a poor persons bill.

No your just a muppet paying €900. You ringing the moon or what.

wotswattage · 06-04-2020 01:15AM

If I got €1 for every boxy starlet I've been offered as a swap there would be no need to sell my car at all!

ted1 · 06-04-2020 01:24AM

RCSATELLITES wrote: »

No your just a muppet paying €900. You ringing the moon or what.

I can charge it all back to the clients. But Irish operators don’t have roaming agreements with some African, Middle East , Asian or Caribbean countries.
A quick Skype meeting outside a WiFi zone. Or doing emails outside a WiFi zone can clock up fast. Especially if you do 4 places on a month.

Eric Cartman · 06-04-2020 01:26AM

ted1 wrote: »

It’s also 48, your loss.

The network for 18-22 year olds ? Is that still going

If I was selling weed to teenagers im sure id be missing out. Selling almost anything more expensive than an xbox and id be shocked if the person on the other end had the reddies to cough up.

I know number portability is a thing now, but with the exception of people who moved as adults here and price was the only thing they cared about with phone service, the vast majority of professionals or even just people over 30 would have an 083/6/7 number.

06-04-2020 01:32AM

ted1 wrote: »

I can charge it all back to the clients. But Irish operators don’t have roaming agreements with some African, Middle East , Asian or Caribbean countries.
A quick Skype meeting outside a WiFi zone. Or doing emails outside a WiFi zone can clock up fast. Especially if you do 4 places on a month.

that is just wasteful.

dual sim phone and use a local sim picked up at the airport in the other slot for local data.

ted1 · 06-04-2020 01:38AM

glasso wrote: »

that is just wasteful.

dual sim phone and use a local sim picked up at the airport in the other slot for local data.

I’ve dual sims phone I use in some places. But with many late night flights the places to pick up SIMs are closed and weekend can be Friday and Saturdays. And you be meeting either a client on a Friday morning while it’s a weekend somewhere else, And the WiFi in the hotel is dial up. You need to use a mobile. Some places are still backward. I can be in jungles , desserts or rain forests.

TheBoyConor · 06-04-2020 02:21AM

ted1 wrote: »

Life of an international consultant..

A consultant of what exactly?

Every jumped up gobshíte with an MBA is going around styling themselves as a "consultant" these days. Social media consultants and style consultants and Feng Shui consultants.
I hope you're not one of the ones devaluing the term. I suppose you're not though with your €900 phone bill.
Still, your €900 phone bill posts have a smell of "look at me, I'm coined" off of them. It's sickening and cringey. Reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket and her Mercedes, Sauna and room for a pony and all her other notions of grandeur.
And come here, if you're that much of a big man then what are you doing looking at the bottom of the barrel sub €1500 cars section on DD for?

06-04-2020 02:41AM

My number is 085

Marcusm · 06-04-2020 08:42AM

Eric Cartman wrote: »

The network for 18-22 year olds ? Is that still going

If I was selling weed to teenagers im sure id be missing out. Selling almost anything more expensive than an xbox and id be shocked if the person on the other end had the reddies to cough up.

I know number portability is a thing now, but with the exception of people who moved as adults here and price was the only thing they cared about with phone service, the vast majority of professionals or even just people over 30 would have an 083/6/7 number.

Number portability has been around since 2002 or thereabouts. I’m unsure that it’s sensible to try and gauge a network by the prefix. Realistically someone mid 30s might very well have a prepay Tesco/48/whatever number running on the most expensive plan for any established network.

California Dreamer · 06-04-2020 08:59AM

Well that read killed 20 mins. Thanks lads.

terrydel · 06-04-2020 09:07AM

I Was VB wrote: »

Recently had a car for sale on DoneDeal, I wouldn’t sell a lot of cars but every time i do I cringe to think of all the DoneDeal headmelts that I’m going to have to deal with, had the car up for €1450.

I’m paraphrasing but these are generally the gist of what lads were sending me;

“€600 cash today, can you meet me in clane?”

“Swap for a 02 Audi A4 fully kitted? And cash my way”

“800€ the best I can do because of high tax and insurance”

“I just want the engine I can do 700 CASH TONIGHT”

Add in a few similar phone calls from a 085 number and a few from a 089 number that I refused to answer my head was wreaked from lads melting me bracket, car eventually sold.

I know some lads on here buy and sell cars but how do you guys cope with the endless muppets on DoneDeal?

Painful. Out of interest, whats the issue with 085 and 089? Genuine qs.

ted1 · 06-04-2020 09:10AM

TheBoyConor wrote: »

A consultant of what exactly?

Every jumped up gobshíte with an MBA is going around styling themselves as a "consultant" these days. Social media consultants and style consultants and Feng Shui consultants.
I hope you're not one of the ones devaluing the term. I suppose you're not though with your €900 phone bill.
Still, your €900 phone bill posts have a smell of "look at me, I'm coined" off of them. It's sickening and cringey. Reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket and her Mercedes, Sauna and room for a pony and all her other notions of grandeur.
And come here, if you're that much of a big man then what are you doing looking at the bottom of the barrel sub €1500 cars section on DD for?

Some very judgemental stuff there. I’m actually a chartered engineer and an engineering consultant.

I mentioned my bill because some people where displaying prejudice to some prefixes. And I was shown them that they shouldn’t be.

Read these two lines from your post and tell me that they don’t contradict each other:

Reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket and her Mercedes, Sauna and room for a pony and all her other notions of grandeur.

And come here, if you're that much of a big man then what are you doing looking at the bottom of the barrel sub €1500 cars section on DD for

As it happens I prefer to cycle so have no interest in spending money on a car. My wife has the main family car.

terrydel · 06-04-2020 09:12AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

They're poor people prefixes.

Seriously? Have we reached that level of snobbery now?

California Dreamer · 06-04-2020 09:27AM

terrydel wrote: »

Seriously? Have we reached that level of snobbery now?

Now?

We reached that a long time ago!

California Dreamer · 06-04-2020 09:29AM

ted1 wrote: »

Some very judgemental stuff there. I’m actually a chartered engineer and an engineering consultant.

I mentioned my bill because some people where displaying prejudice to some prefixes. And I was shown them that they shouldn’t be.

Read these two lines from your post and tell me that they don’t contradict each other:

Reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket and her Mercedes, Sauna and room for a pony and all her other notions of grandeur.

And come here, if you're that much of a big man then what are you doing looking at the bottom of the barrel sub €1500 cars section on DD for

As it happens I prefer to cycle so have no interest in spending money on a car. My wife has the main family car.

As a charter surveyor and engineer you must be so pissed bored that you went on that big rant about your phone number!

I read it, I laughed. I moved on. Suggest you do the same.

nigeldaniel · 06-04-2020 09:34AM

Done deal can be an odd place in more ways than one!

terrydel · 06-04-2020 09:36AM

TheBoyConor wrote: »

A consultant of what exactly?

Every jumped up gobshíte with an MBA is going around styling themselves as a "consultant" these days. Social media consultants and style consultants and Feng Shui consultants.
I hope you're not one of the ones devaluing the term. I suppose you're not though with your €900 phone bill.
Still, your €900 phone bill posts have a smell of "look at me, I'm coined" off of them. It's sickening and cringey. Reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket and her Mercedes, Sauna and room for a pony and all her other notions of grandeur.
And come here, if you're that much of a big man then what are you doing looking at the bottom of the barrel sub €1500 cars section on DD for?

Brilliant, post of the year so far.

ted1 · 06-04-2020 09:39AM

California Dreamer wrote: »

As a charter surveyor and engineer you must be so pissed bored that you went on that big rant about your phone number!

I read it, I laughed. I moved on. Suggest you do the same.

Absolutely, lockdown has me tied to the home office as opposed to travelling !!

terrydel · 06-04-2020 09:41AM

ted1 wrote: »

Some very judgemental stuff there. I’m actually a chartered engineer and an engineering consultant.

I mentioned my bill because some people where displaying prejudice to some prefixes. And I was shown them that they shouldn’t be.

Read these two lines from your post and tell me that they don’t contradict each other:

Reminds me of Hyacinth Bucket and her Mercedes, Sauna and room for a pony and all her other notions of grandeur.

And come here, if you're that much of a big man then what are you doing looking at the bottom of the barrel sub €1500 cars section on DD for

As it happens I prefer to cycle so have no interest in spending money on a car. My wife has the main family car.

Ah ted, there is an awful bang of humble bragging off ya.

Working class heroes · 06-04-2020 09:43AM

I thought this was supposed to be the motoring forum?

ted1 · 06-04-2020 09:44AM

terrydel wrote: »

Ah ted, there is an awful bang of humble bragging off ya.

The part about cycling and not bothering spending much on a car ?

Montage of Feck · 06-04-2020 09:51AM

terrydel wrote: »

Painful. Out of interest, whats the issue with 085 and 089? Genuine qs.

089 was a sex line prefix used in the UK.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/089-a-hot-little-number-with-a-distinctly-sordid-past-26327626.html&ved=2ahUKEwjhm-PQtdPoAhW8VBUIHYRUCXMQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw38Qp6-1w7HJX3uTr8PdkI8&ampcf=1

CrankyHaus · 06-04-2020 09:55AM

California Dreamer wrote: »

Now?

We reached that a long time ago!

It's a fairly dated type of snobbery though, really for the middle aged and up. At this stage most people have been transferring the same number across networks for years, 087s on Three and 085s on VF, so it doesn't mean much. It did in the late 90s or early 2000s. You might as well be boasting about your Sony Trinitron and the chocolate fountain you had at your birthday party for all the relevance it has to Ireland in 2020.

kowloonkev · 06-04-2020 10:06AM

terrydel wrote: »

Seriously? Have we reached that level of snobbery now?

I can see why it would matter to a seller on donedeal. If they have a vodafone number then obviously they're well practiced in getting ripped off. Happy days.

TheBoyConor · 06-04-2020 10:13AM

Back to DD head wreckers, one that just confuses the fúck out of me is the apes who list a car and say something like "no bother about selling, just testing the waters"
What's the fúcking point of that then?

daheff · 06-04-2020 10:59AM

M7roadrunner wrote: »

I’m wondering if it works some of the time tho, why else would they do it?
Sold my car just before the sh*t hit the fan, it was on DoneDeal for a week and the first person who viewed it bought it, but it was up for €3,800 and got numerous DoneDeal messages and texts offering from €1,200 to €2500.
I ignored or blocked the messages but it got me thinking about their success rate.

They want to buy it cheap from you and resell at a higher price.

If 1 in 100 works they still make a few quid.... especially if they are doing this with hundreds of ads

DoneDeal headmelters

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