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Is selling on adverts.ie a joke?

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  • #52
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    It's pretty much a cast iron rule of thumb that people offering swaps on ads don't actually have anything worth swapping, or at least not to the value of the item they're trying to buy. If you're selling a new iPhone & someone offers "swap for anything in my ads" invariably their listings will be something like an iron, a few romance novels, a cheap internet router & a collection of Kylie Minogue cassettes. How tempting!


  • #53
    Flippyfloppy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭Flippyfloppy


    When people on donedeal think they're on adverts
    Item €500
    Time waster: hi is this still available
    Seller: Yes still here
    Time waster: my budget is €50
    Seller: Backs away slowly .....


  • #54
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    'I can take if you can meet in galway'
    I'll buy if you meet at this obscure service station at the edge of Dublin, or an empty car park at midnight'


  • #55
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    "€5 offered. You pay postage."

    Its a fcking lawnmower you div!!


  • #56
    TrustedApple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭TrustedApple


    Adverts you never get sick of people on it with what ever your i
    Selling

    My best was for a iPhone I was selling a few years back swap you a ninja sword set. Then another offer was I will swap you a grow kit for growing the magic grass ha ha.

    But the best is when you offer people the ture valve of what there selling they go nuts at you. Say a game up for 25 it'd worth about 20 at best so offer them 18 + post. They go nuts at you call you a time waster and block you. Then you see there still selling the same game 6 months later for 15 now ......

    The one guy who I refused to meet as he txt me 20 times and 4 phone calls in 2 hours over something for 15 euros. I told him I fell unconferable selling you the game and got bad feed back for that ?. WTF people ha ha


  • #57
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,121 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I'm selling a S5 on adverts at the moment for 250e.

    I get 3 offers to swap. My mistake - I never put "NO SWAPS" in the description, so I hastily amend my advert to say so.

    first "offer" is

    Bidder - "what would be your last price - it takes 30e to unlock"

    My reply - I'm not bidding against myself. Make me a genuine offer

    Bidder - 150e.

    My reply - I will take €220

    Bidder - Way high - can't afford that much.

    My reply (Having checked his other posts) - If its too much, why are you commenting on another advert for a S5 where is says 280e and no less? Why are you commenting on mine offering about half the price?


    Christ :confused:


  • #58
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    I get stuff new online for cheaper than what some dreamers put their second hand items up for. Just because you spent €1,000 5 years ago, doesn't mean it's worth €850 now... Somehow. People overpriced their crap.


  • #59
    martyc5674
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,521 ✭✭✭martyc5674


    Ive bought and sold quite a bit on it...mixed results...its good for buying.
    But the amount of people,sellers included who wont take paypal is ridiculous...they expect you to go to the inconvenience of a bank transfer for something worth a fiver"so they dont have to pay 20cent to paypal.
    "check my feedback bud"
    Its typical irish, being short sighted...I wont give paypal anything!!...but theyll be stuck with there mills and boons novels trying to sell them for 20 years clogging up adverts.ie

    adverts.ie ...listen up!!...Insist on sellers accepting paypal...start charging people a small fee for listsings...it will get rid of the crud of which there is way too much.
    I love pressing the nearby button to see whats for sale nearby but 90% of it is rubbish that will never sell.


  • #60
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    Item for sale in galway,lad comments from Dublin at 11.30 pm, "whats your best price tonite? "


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  • #61
    eamonnq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    A guy is selling an 'old school' 44 in TV for and is looking for 380! You could buy a new 42" for around that price.


  • #62
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    In fairness he probably has it at that price because he knows people will offer him a fraction of whatever price he puts on it, regardless of how reasonable it is. If it's worth say €100 they'll offer €20 so by putting it at €380 he might actually end up getting a decent offer.


  • #63
    FobleAsNuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭FobleAsNuck


    martyc5674 wrote: »
    But the amount of people,sellers included who wont take paypal is ridiculous...they expect you to go to the inconvenience of a bank transfer for something worth a fiver"so they dont have to pay 20cent to paypal.
    "check my feedback bud"
    Its typical irish, being short sighted...I wont give paypal anything!!...but theyll be stuck with there mills and boons novels trying to sell them for 20 years clogging up adverts.ie

    I don't allow to pay for my stuff using paypal, ever. This is after I was screwed by a buyer when after number of weeks he filed a chargeback with paypal saying the item "wasn't as described" despite having no issues with it. Obviously paypal ruled in his favor as they always do. Rule of thumb - use PP for buying, don't use for selling, especially when bank transfer is just as easy with online banking these days.


  • #64
    Aongus Von Heisenberg
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭Aongus Von Heisenberg


    Incomprehensibly poorly written hard-luck stories after a sale is agreed is another thing to endure.

    I got this months ago a week after a sale, price, place and time were all agreed and still haven't deciphered on earth what your man was on about:

    "Hi,I am interested in buying tires but my car is broken and the services it will pick up on Monday. Please have the opportunity I bring their tires. If so much advice I have paid transportation to Cavan. I'll pay for tires and transport € 100."


  • #65
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    timmy880 wrote: »
    I sold off my retro games console collection on adverts last year...... The aggressiveness of the responses was ridiculous. And people take it as a personal insult if you don't accept their "€50 can collect today, accept now" for items that were worth triple that.
    "Sure it's only a 8 bit console!!.........FFS.......":D


  • #66
    Xcellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Xcellor


    Put washer/dryer online. Brand new, retails for 500. Get an offer for 350. Ask can she go closer to 400, she says no so I agree to meet her at 350 and accept offer... Says she will get back to me to arrange someone to pick it up. Hear nothing. Follow up today and get a reply

    "Hi apoligies i cant get someone to pick it up unfortunatley. Thanks anyway."

    Do people not realize that if they offer to buy something they really should have how they are going to collect it sorted out BEFOREHAND.

    It's really putting me off using adverts.ie


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  • #67
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,121 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Xcellor wrote: »
    Put washer/dryer online. Brand new, retails for 500. Get an offer for 350. Ask can she go closer to 400, she says no so I agree to meet her at 350 and accept offer... Says she will get back to me to arrange someone to pick it up. Hear nothing. Follow up today and get a reply

    "Hi apoligies i cant get someone to pick it up unfortunatley. Thanks anyway."

    Do people not realize that if they offer to buy something they really should have how they are going to collect it sorted out BEFOREHAND.

    It's really putting me off using adverts.ie

    with the added effect that you've now knocked 150e off your asking price for nothing. Pain in the ass. I always check for the bidders' other posts/feedback rating to see if they are a timewaster


  • #68
    eeguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    FobleAsNuck wrote: »
    I don't allow to pay for my stuff using paypal, ever. This is after I was screwed by a buyer when after number of weeks he filed a chargeback with paypal saying the item "wasn't as described" despite having no issues with it. Obviously paypal ruled in his favor as they always do. Rule of thumb - use PP for buying, don't use for selling, especially when bank transfer is just as easy with online banking these days.

    I like to get paid with Amazon vouchers.

    No extra charges, no fees, no refunds and I buy on Amazon all the time.

    I might switch to Ryanair vouchers and put them towards a holiday.

    Anyways, my issue, people who love to haggle.

    €5 asking price.
    "I'll offer you €4.50"
    "Offer €4.75"

    Seriously, you're gonna draw out a transaction for the sake of a few cent? Some people think they're doing you a favour by bidding.


  • #69
    Xcellor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Xcellor


    everlast75 wrote: »
    with the added effect that you've now knocked 150e off your asking price for nothing. Pain in the ass. I always check for the bidders' other posts/feedback rating to see if they are a timewaster

    Yeah and now I cannot expect anyone to offer more than 350! It should be a sanctionable offense. If you make an offer and don't follow through your account is locked for xxx amount of time, then it would make people think before just low balling and then going "sorry".


  • #70
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Are you ever in XXXX when you've specified that it's collection only in your ad.


  • #71
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I've no particular issues with Adverts, but then I always meet in person, deal in cash and just ignore the idiot comments on my stuff for sale.
    Tbh donedeal eejits does my head in more.


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  • #72
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    Xcellor wrote: »
    Yeah and now I cannot expect anyone to offer more than 350! It should be a sanctionable offense. If you make an offer and don't follow through your account is locked for xxx amount of time, then it would make people think before just low balling and then going "sorry".
    Yes you can and you should. Take it down and relist at your original selling price.


  • #73
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    I use it for buying and I generally pay what the seller asks. No faffing about. But I do find sellers could help themselves by putting more info into the adverts.
    I do think there are lots of timewasters on there too and donedeal it's like they expect things for nothing.


  • #74
    esforum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭esforum


    vultures taking the free stuff and when you check their ads they have the same stuff for sale!

    "OH me, i really need this TV for my children"

    -32" TV in their ads for 50 euro!!!

    or ads that have obviously been sold and are now being ignored but still live


  • #75
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    i sold my ps4 on there to a lovely lass i forgot to give her eh a good endorsement thingy on it now when i think about it ehh... feck


  • #76
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    esforum wrote: »
    vultures taking the free stuff and when you check their ads they have the same stuff for sale!

    "OH me, i really need this TV for my children"

    -32" TV in their ads for 50 euro!!!

    or ads that have obviously been sold and are now being ignored but still live

    3 quid charge though :( I mean if adverts was a really good service I wouldn't mind paying for it but it's ****, so I do.


  • #77
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Adverts.ie is quite frankly the worst medium a seller can use.


  • #78
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Adverts could be useful with a few common sense tweaks.

    My account sits idle though, as life's too short to be dealing with eejits of that calibre.


  • #79
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    There is a "suggestions for adverts" thread here
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055771871

    Last update is from 2012, I suppose everyone are happy with adverts since then :D


  • #80
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    biko wrote: »
    There is a "suggestions for adverts" thread here
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055771871

    Last update is from 2012, I suppose everyone are happy with adverts since then :D

    or....the forum is closed. ;)


  • #81
    eamonnq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    Wonder if we could have a thread where we can post the worst of them ?


    Guy selling a phone because he got a new one states in his ad ' and I do not need 2 phones '

    First comment "Trade for white note 4 Sim free Verizon model"


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  • #82
    dodzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    martyc5674 wrote: »
    Ive bought and sold quite a bit on it...mixed results...its good for buying.
    But the amount of people,sellers included who wont take paypal is ridiculous...they expect you to go to the inconvenience of a bank transfer for something worth a fiver"so they dont have to pay 20cent to paypal.
    "check my feedback bud"
    Its typical irish, being short sighted...I wont give paypal anything!!...but theyll be stuck with there mills and boons novels trying to sell them for 20 years clogging up adverts.ie

    adverts.ie ...listen up!!...Insist on sellers accepting paypal...start charging people a small fee for listsings...it will get rid of the crud of which there is way too much.
    I love pressing the nearby button to see whats for sale nearby but 90% of it is rubbish that will never sell.
    +1. Clear out the ar5eholes who put up the BASIC add, sell the bloody thing and then hit the WITHDRAWN button, or worse still, leave the blasted add in limbo.



    Can't beat these old chestnuts....

    Description

    iPhone 5s for sale works perfect just locked on iCloud - €70


  • #83
    mickoneill31
    Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭mickoneill31


    I find Adverts OK. I've a few rules that I follow though.

    1: I put "no swaps" in my ads.
    2: I put a price a few percent more than I'm looking for.
    3: When somebody makes a decent offer I see from their history if they're a timewaster or not and treat accordingly.
    4: If I accept an offer the buyer has a day to get the ball rolling.

    The next ones are important.

    5: I ignore anybody who says they'll swap for X, Y or Z.
    6: I ignore the mental offers e.g. less than 50% of what I'm looking for.
    7: You only get my phone number when you've made an offer that I've accepted.

    I've a mate who doesn't have rule 5, 6 & 7 and ends up dealing with some nut jobs who seem to have nothing else to do except send on pointless questions. He seems to get stressed by them. I just don't deal with them at all. They can post messages to themselves all day on the ad if they want.


  • #84
    mickoneill31
    Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭mickoneill31


    eamonnq wrote: »
    Wonder if we could have a thread where we can post the worst of them ?


    Guy selling a phone because he got a new one states in his ad ' and I do not need 2 phones '

    First comment "Trade for white note 4 Sim free Verizon model"

    Or the ones where you're selling a newish enough Android and somebody posts "swap for my 3 year old iPhone" because you know, an old iPhone is worth more than a new Android. :rolleyes:

    Edited: I'm not talking about crappy android phones.
    e.g. For sale. Galaxy S6, 6 months old.
    "Would you swap it for an iPhone 5?"


  • #85
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    mickoneill31 wrote: »
    Or the ones where you're selling a newish enough Android and somebody posts "swap for my 3 year old iPhone" because you know, an old iPhone is worth more than a new Android. :rolleyes:

    Depending on the Android phone in question it might well be. There's a huge range of manufacturers using the Android OS, including some decidedly crappy ones.


  • #86
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Sorry, just being pedantic, don't mind me :o


  • #87
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,135 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Selling laptop - 350 euro

    Offer 250 - no thanks
    Offer 270 - no thanks

    Price drop - 300 euro

    Offer 220 - no thanks
    Offer 250 - no thanks

    Now I'm thinking I'll never get 270, and I need a quick sale...

    Price drop - 275

    Offer 200 - ...


    GOD DAMN IT


  • #88
    Paulzx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,978 ✭✭✭Paulzx


    Some of the crazy stuff put up for free baffles me

    http://www.adverts.ie/crazy-random-stuff/tea/10162291



    ................and they'll even feckin post it:D


  • #89
    esforum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭esforum


    Blatantly stolen stuff as well, The same people selling iphone after iphone, all 'locked' for an obvious and innocent reason. yeah right!

    I find the mods a little contrary at times too. Had something for free before and stated straight up that I was giving to a good home, not a vulture. THe same vulture kept asking and asking and asking, must have reported the ad cause it got removed as and I quote "I wasnt responding to requests" despite having agreed to give it to someone already. On the flip side, I reported a guy for selling something thats illegal. Ad stayed up, told to call the Gardai. Yep, cause theres a somewhere in Ireland online only branch waiting to pounce!


  • #90
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    esforum wrote: »
    Blatantly stolen stuff as well, The same people selling iphone after iphone, all 'locked' for an obvious and innocent reason. yeah right!

    I find the mods a little contrary at times too. Had something for free before and stated straight up that I was giving to a good home, not a vulture. THe same vulture kept asking and asking and asking, must have reported the ad cause it got removed as and I quote "I wasnt responding to requests" despite having agreed to give it to someone already. On the flip side, I reported a guy for selling something thats illegal. Ad stayed up, told to call the Gardai. Yep, cause theres a somewhere in Ireland online only branch waiting to pounce!

    This is true. And the mods do nothing.


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  • #91
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    For selling, adverts is more suited to smaller value items. I had a mobile home on adverts for over a year and in that time had more than half a dozen people come to view it. Most to them seemed to just want to see what a mobile home was like inside and hadnt a notion of buying it. Thought I'd give donedeal a try, the thing was gone out of my yard inside a fortnight, first person who came to view, bought it.


  • #92
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Agricola wrote: »
    For selling, adverts is more suited to smaller value items.

    Realistically it's more suited to shite you couldn't care less about and just want to off load.


  • #93
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    This is true. And the mods do nothing.
    esforum wrote: »
    Blatantly stolen stuff as well, The same people selling iphone after iphone, all 'locked' for an obvious and innocent reason. yeah right!

    I find the mods a little contrary at times too. Had something for free before and stated straight up that I was giving to a good home, not a vulture. THe same vulture kept asking and asking and asking, must have reported the ad cause it got removed as and I quote "I wasnt responding to requests" despite having agreed to give it to someone already. On the flip side, I reported a guy for selling something thats illegal. Ad stayed up, told to call the Gardai. Yep, cause theres a somewhere in Ireland online only branch waiting to pounce!

    After Hours is not the place to discuss the moderation of Adverts.


  • #94
    One More Toy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,813 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    smash wrote: »
    Realistically it's more suited to shite you couldn't care less about and just want to off load.

    Exactly what im using it for - a spring clean!


  • #95
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    adverts is excellent

    seller reviews and transparent interaction are invaluable for buyers


  • #96
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    smash wrote: »
    Realistically it's more suited to shite you couldn't care less about and just want to off load.

    one man's sh!te is another man's treasure


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  • #97
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    lawred2 wrote: »
    one man's sh!te is another man's treasure

    You should check out Craigslist instead :D


  • #98
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    smash wrote: »
    Adverts.ie is quite frankly the worst medium a seller can use.

    I think you are spot on.

    But I am just looking at it now and think it has gotten worse. The amount of low-ballers is unreal. We all know the deal everything is up for negotiation. But the kicker is that after a seller agrees to a low-ball offer (wants to get rid of it etc) all too often the buyer will "change their mind"


  • #99
    Custardpi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    I think you are spot on.

    But I am just looking at it now and think it has gotten worse. The amount of low-ballers is unreal. We all know the deal everything is up for negotiation. But the kicker is that after a seller agrees to a low-ball offer (wants to get rid of it etc) all too often the buyer will "change their mind"

    At which point more low ballers will enter, offering a fraction of the original low ball price.


  • #100
    Cathy.C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Cathy.C


    Love Adverts. Have over 200+ Positive Feedback there and have always found their support fast and efficient. Cheap items I can sell for free and you don't need to pay to advertise more expensive items unless you have a successful sale.

    I use DoneDone for selling stuff the odd time also but I stopped buying items on the site as I had so many bad experiences. Without Feedback you really might as well be buying items down the pub and even then you'd most likely know more about the seller than you would when you buy on DoneDeal. Course, same goes on Adverts I suppose if you are willing to buy from someone with zero feedback.

    Not to say I haven't got sting on Adverts the odd time, I have, was one of those that bought concert tickets from the pube headed English chap a few years back. A long line of people would queue to him a kick in the nuts. I believe he went on to get arrested in the UK for selling fake iPhones in the end.

    Someone above mentioned that when you accept an offer and the person reneges, that you are then stuck with the ad being spoiled. Well, a little trick I do is cancel the acceptance of the offer and in the pop-up write 'No thanks' or 'Sorry, looking for closing to the asking price'. Then it will just appear as if the user place an offer and you declined. Be sure and block them also.


  • #101
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Cathy.C wrote: »
    Love Adverts. Have over 200+ Positive Feedback there and have always found their support fast and efficient. Cheap items I can sell for free and you don't need to pay to advertise more expensive items unless you have a successful sale.

    Sell.... For free....


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