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Don't we have a "bitch about idiots on CL or Marketplace" thread?

I accidentally hit it every now and then. If I realize it I say, sorry hit wrong button good luck with the sale. Work the same if they respond that it is available.
 
rockota said:
Posted the OBS yesterday.

Ad clearly says “no trades.” Got two trade offers today

Ad clearly says “will ignore ‘is this available?’ posts.” Got three

Ad is very detailed. A whole section on the front axle rebuild and specs
“2wd?” Was only thing in one response.

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That is my favorite part of selling something, I love to see the piles of trash that get offered. I simply reply with a 'no thankyou'
I love the Harleys, 'this thing is bad ass, it has a spiderweb gusset':laughing:
 
lagunaMS said:
And less retards to deal with.

I also hate the "is this available" responses I get because majority of the time even if I hit the one click response to say "yes it is" they don't respond anyway. So I just ignore them

But putting it in your ad that you'll ignore them is a waste because those people don't read the ad anyway. I've noticed boomers also putting "no scammmers! Don't send me any codes!" Like that's gonna make any difference to an automated scam message
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I ignore the Is this available. Used to do the automated response and realized that not a single item I sold started with the default message. So I just assume they either misclicked or are time wasters.

What gets my boomer level anger going is "Where are you" "How far are you from x". It has the city right in the ad, it has a little map right in the ad, you are clearly on a device capable of accessing google maps. Look it up yourself. Don't send a message about an item that's 2 hours away if you aren't willing to drive 2 hours.

But a lot of people that just don't read. Selling a pile of batteries. Put a picture of the date code, put the date code in the ad. Still got at least 3 people "How old are they"
 
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lagunaMS said:
And less retards to deal with.

I also hate the "is this available" responses I get because majority of the time even if I hit the one click response to say "yes it is" they don't respond anyway. So I just ignore them

But putting it in your ad that you'll ignore them is a waste because those people don't read the ad anyway. I've noticed boomers also putting "no scammmers! Don't send me any codes!" Like that's gonna make any difference to an automated scam message
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when I get the is it available i try to respond everyday until its sold.
 
Quite a few times my phone won't let me send anything other then the automated message.
I don't get the issue. If it's a good deal it's either already sold, or someone's on the way.
Not that hard to send the thumbs up back to all those.
 
kf4zht said:
I ignore the Is this available. Used to do the automated response and realized that not a single item I sold started with the default message. So I just assume they either misclicked or are time wasters.

What gets my boomer level anger going is "Where are you" "How far are you from x". It has the city right in the ad, it has a little map right in the ad, you are clearly on a device capable of accessing google maps. Look it up yourself. Don't send a message about an item that's 2 hours away if you aren't willing to drive 2 hours.

But a lot of people that just don't read. Selling a pile of batteries. Put a picture of the date code, put the date code in the ad. Still got at least 3 people "How old are they"
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In their defence the maps are usually just a general center of county or town deal as to where it drops the pin not an actual address. Depending on where you are sometimes saying you live in x county could mean you are 2 hours from me if on one end or 4 hours if on the other. Big difference between the two.
 
Benny said:
More importantly, why is it 1 accidental click to send that message? Surely they have had complaints and requests to change it.
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People send it and never respond.
It wastes your time.

Also, the ad is up, the vehicle is clearly for sale. Why ask a dumb, low effort question?
 
I just had a lady respond to ann and for an CR asking mileage. It’s in the ad twice. Should you really be driving a car?
 
Fuckbook messenger makes it way to easy for non-serious buyers to get that dopamine hit messaging about shit they want but arent going to buy.

I've had more serious hits off Craigslist lately for larger ticket items than fuckbook.
 
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Benny said:
More importantly, why is it 1 accidental click to send that message? Surely they have had complaints and requests to change it.
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I think it’s engineered to drive engagement. A way to easily instantly sent message in the middle of a touchscreen where you swipe right over it try to swipe the page away.
 
JR4X said:
I think it’s engineered to drive engagement. A way to easily instantly sent message in the middle of a touchscreen where you swipe right over it try to swipe the page away.
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yup, more "clicks"
 
89islandeer said:
Because there are fucksticks who will sell the item or say that someone is coming to get it, but don't mark the listing as pending or sold.
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These people are usually the same fucksticks who ask sky high prices causing shit to stick around for the ads to be old enough people have to ask, and then when they do have a buyer the buyer wants to lowball because the price is stupid.

If these people priced shit reasonably and weren't too incompetent to seal the deals then the accidental non-serious replies and the hagglers would represent a much lower proprotion of their conversations.
 
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89islandeer said:
Because there are fucksticks who will sell the item or say that someone is coming to get it, but don't mark the listing as pending or sold.
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I bet the "is it available" single-click inquiries out number the "forgot to mark it sold" by 100:1.
 
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arse_sidewards said:
These people are usually the same fucksticks who ask sky high prices causing shit to stick around for the ads to be old enough people have to ask, and then when they do have a buyer the buyer wants to lowball because the price is stupid.

If these people priced shit reasonably and weren't too incompetent to seal the deals then the accidental non-serious replies and the hagglers would represent a much lower proprotion of their conversations.
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We aren’t all selling ford aerostars.
 
89islandeer said:
Because there are fucksticks who will sell the item or say that someone is coming to get it, but don't mark the listing as pending or sold.
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If they are actually interested they can ask a real question that shows interest. When can I look at it?
 
DMG said:
If they are actually interested they can ask a real question that shows interest. When can I look at it?
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This...

If I'm interested, I'll take the 5 seconds to send a note stating that if it is still available, that I am interested... That 5 seconds gets passed all the BS... and frankly, is just common courtesy.
 
kf4zht said:
What gets my boomer level anger going is "Where are you" "How far are you from x". It has the city right in the ad, it has a little map right in the ad, you are clearly on a device capable of accessing google maps. Look it up yourself. Don't send a message about an item that's 2 hours away if you aren't willing to drive 2 hours.
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Except that map is worthless most of the time.
This weeks example:
The galaxy 500 that I posted in another thread that my buddy just bought took me probably close to 20 hours to locate over the last 6 months. Dickhead wouldn't respond to his ad. Pics had a prominent background feature so I went to sleuthing the Google Earth in the city he posted it in. Fucking nadda. Dug into dudes profile, some more googling, found he had an address 200 miles away. Dropped that into GE and VIOLA, found the damn cars in the street view.

Buddy jumped in his plane and flew down there and knocked on his door. :laughing:
 
Sceep said:
Except that map is worthless most of the time.
This weeks example:
The galaxy 500 that I posted in another thread that my buddy just bought took me probably close to 20 hours to locate over the last 6 months. Dickhead wouldn't respond to his ad. Pics had a prominent background feature so I went to sleuthing the Google Earth in the city he posted it in. Fucking nadda. Dug into dudes profile, some more googling, found he had an address 200 miles away. Dropped that into GE and VIOLA, found the damn cars in the street view.

Buddy jumped in his plane and flew down there and knocked on his door. :laughing:
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I am starting to put my zip code in the ad.


Question for other fbmp sellers? You know the people that ask a bunch of questions that are clearly answered in the ad text, have any of them bought the item?
 
If they ask question that is answered in the ad they get ignored.
 
DMG said:
We aren’t all selling ford aerostars.
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Nobody wants the CVT Altima you took on trade and slapped a reman in either. Would you rather it get lot rot while it clutters up the parking lot waiting for a sucker who'll pay top dollar. You'll make more money moving that shit fast for small wins than you will moving shit slow for big wins and the occasional big loss.

DMG said:
Question for other fbmp sellers? You know the people that ask a bunch of questions that are clearly answered in the ad text, have any of them bought the item?
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I've had people who are gonna drive a long way do that. Basically just confirming everything to make sure I'm not some shitbag trying to swindle somebody by playing the gray area between "yard drives" and "drives" or "works" and "works as one would expect"
 
DMG said:
I am starting to put my zip code in the ad.


Question for other fbmp sellers? You know the people that ask a bunch of questions that are clearly answered in the ad text, have any of them bought the item?
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I find that the more they ask the less likely they are to buy or even show up to look. Same goes for people who ask for a bunch of extra pictures.
 
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In some places that may be a straight forward answer. But here people love to list a county that that is huge and has 3 or 4 towns in it. That don't tell me shit about fuck.
 
When I see "I WILL NOT RESPOND TO IS IT AVALIABLE"
I quickly message them.... is it available?
I just want to see if they stick to their morals and ignore it.

Have fun with life!

All my ads say "$XXX money off if you can message me without asking is it available."
 
rockota said:
This...

If I'm interested, I'll take the 5 seconds to send a note stating that if it is still available, that I am interested... That 5 seconds gets passed all the BS... and frankly, is just common courtesy.
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I get that the messages are annoying…

But I don’t get why it needs to be explicitly written in the for sale ad. Just sounds like someone who’s gonna “I know what I got” me, and generally move on unless it’s especially enticing.

Maybe I missed out on the deal of a lifetime, but there are only so many straws this camel will hold, and that sentence is one of them. :flipoff2:
 
Rockwood said:
I get that the messages are annoying…

But I don’t get why it needs to be explicitly written in the for sale ad. Just sounds like someone who’s gonna “I know what I got” me, and generally move on unless it’s especially enticing.

Maybe I missed out on the deal of a lifetime, but there are only so many straws this camel will hold, and that sentence is one of them. :flipoff2:
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Because it's annoying AF... if the ad is up, it's available. Don't waste people's time with BS "is it available?" messages. It just wastes bandwidth. So people put it in the ad that they don't want to be annoyed by people who are not actually interested in the item listed.
 
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Seller posted a nice vise for sale for $50. A 6” York which is similar to a Wilton

I saved it and asked about picking it up and the price jumped to $200. The seller said they would not honour their posted price because they found out it was worth more.

Annoying but I didn’t really need another Vise
 
you guys bitching about instant messages, one click this, pictures instantly sent that

I used to flip my motorcycles as a teen by going to the store and getting the Trader, buying it, going home and reading it, find your item, find a phone that was actually hooked to a wall with a cord, having to wait to call when everyone was home from work, or they didn't answer, talking to a person, paying for the long distance charges, writing directions on a paper with a pen, getting on a car and driving using the Road Runner for directions (if you were lucky to have one) hoping that this guy didn't miss a land mark when he was telling you how to get there because if you did you had to wonder around to find a pay phone ......just to see the item in some other way tan a black and white newspaper quality picture

selling
you would have to buy film, take the picture with an actual camera, go to have it developed (if you were done with the roll) wait a week, they call you, you go back (hope they turned out) you buy the Trader (again) cut the advertisement page out, write (clearly) your advertisement, mail it in with a check, (snail mail)wait until the next issue printed, and you hoped that the editor didn't mess up and details.
Then you had to hang around the phone all day to hear the phone .......just to get to "Is this still available?"

Thankless fucks :laughing:
 
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