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

I quit posting in CL free section because of all the jack asses who think it's funny to set up a pickup time and never show up. Or, ask me to deliver something I am giving away.
 
Last summer I helped dad sell his Goldwing on facespace. Not a lot of intrest because, well Goldwing. Dad priced it fairly reasonable, and wasnt looking to negotiate. Finally got a guy who wanted it, liked the price and all that. I think the ad said cash only in it, I know for sure the words were said. Genius shows up, just before 5pm, says oh damn I forgot my cash envelope, can we do a direct transfer? Turns out between the 3 of us, and dads bank on the phone, we were all too retarded to make that happen... Cue paypal, he pays me friends and family, they take a cut, we get the dumbass out of the yard happy he and the bike are gone. Basically, its like he talked us down $50, but still paid full price, so everybody but PP got fucked. :shaking:
Then he messages me an hour later, hes stuck at a gas station and cant get it to turn back on. Turns out he hit the kill switch when he shut it down and never flipped it back :homer:
 
My best one was a kid that showed up for a motorcycle, didn't even have his door closed yet, and hollered to me it was worth full asking price all day long. He never heard it run. Never even sat on it. Handed me a wad of cash but had no way of getting it home. I drove the hour one way to his place. Made a decent amount on that one.
 
woods said:
My best one was a kid that showed up for a motorcycle, didn't even have his door closed yet, and hollered to me it was worth full asking price all day long. He never heard it run. Never even sat on it. Handed me a wad of cash but had no way of getting it home. I drove the hour one way to his place. Made a decent amount on that one.
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That's how I sold my van. Lady showed up, said she loved it, test drove it, didn't have a way to get it back. Said she'd come back in a few days with cash, told her I'd deliver it if she'd pay right them.

Called my wife and told her to pick me up about an hour away
 
Exactly, I don't mind helping out if they seem like a decent person.

All these Billy badass responses are funny though :laughing:

"we meet at a secure location, phones are dropped in a lock box, only then will I lead them down the back way to my property" :flipoff2:
 
lagunaMS said:
I just don't want people I don't know at my damn house. I'll gladly drive 15 mins even if it doesn't work out. At least then I won't worry about some meth head coming back when I'm not home and stealing shit. If it's only worth $100 I'll set up a meeting for when I'm already going to be in town, but I'll make a special trip for a truck or soemthing big. But no way in hell someone is coming to my house for shit if I don't know them
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I have left shit on my porch and told people to put the cash under a rock or in my truck, never been burned yet.
Have left my car at the carpool pickup ( cracker barrel) and left stuff in there and had cash in there after work a couple times too.
 
lagunaMS said:
I'll be the first to admit I'm overly paranoid. I've gotten into arguments with people buying/selling stuff before and I would worry constantly about them coming back to my house to retaliate. It's just peace of mind for me. It would certainly make things easier and I've had people over to buy stuff plenty of times before and nothing bad happened, but I lived in a busy neighborhood then and now that I'm more rural I put an extreme importance on maintaining privacy. I'm sure nothing would happen but I worry a lot, especially if I'm not home and my wife is.
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How long do you think it is before you cause yourself to stroke out? :flipoff2:
 
I did sell something to a chick last year, glad she wanted to meet at a gas station, she seemed a bit crazy.
 
woods said:
I got one asking what my cash price is. ehm, it says the price and no trades right in the listing. :confused:
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This question makes me irrationally angry. Especially when it's something under $1k. My response is "I'll only accept cash, and the price is listed".
 
lagunaMS said:
I just don't want people I don't know at my damn house. I'll gladly drive 15 mins even if it doesn't work out. At least then I won't worry about some meth head coming back when I'm not home and stealing shit. If it's only worth $100 I'll set up a meeting for when I'm already going to be in town, but I'll make a special trip for a truck or soemthing big. But no way in hell someone is coming to my house for shit if I don't know them
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A few years ago I was selling a Honda Foreman in really good shape. We lived in a very remote area and it was just simpler to have people come to the house to look at it.

A group of 4 messicans showed up one day to buy it. They were trying their best to scam me, and when I wasn't going along with their plan they kept trying to circle around me and get one of them behind my back. I had my hand on my sp101 in my front hoodie pocket and kept moving, finally telling them to get the fuck out and don't come back. This all happened on the gravel road in front of my house. When they left I looked in my driveway and my oldest son was standing there ready to jump in if necessary, and my wife was inside the house watching out the window with our bedroom gun ready to go. They both had noticed right away what was going on.

After that, I never let anyone I don't personally know come to our house to buy anything. Every meeting with a stranger is in the local bank parking lot which is on main street and covered by a couple cameras.
 
YotaAtieToo said:
Exactly, I don't mind helping out if they seem like a decent person.

All these Billy badass responses are funny though :laughing:

"we meet at a secure location, phones are dropped in a lock box, only then will I lead them down the back way to my property" :flipoff2:
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I typically meet at the Quik Trip. I had 1 person over to my house last year to buy a vehicle. It was a family and they were real nice. I also drove a couple vehicles to work to sell and had my wife pick me up. Nice people as well.
Here was the real interesting one...
Dude contacts me on facebook marketplace. Wants to buy my square body. He's in the military and over in Kuwait. I'm not interested in waiting 6 month for him to get back stateside. Soooo he says his wife will fly-in from Brazil and pick it up in a few weeks. At this point, I believe its a scam so I ask him to have his wife call me. Sure as shit, his wife calls from Brazil that night. She's flying back at the end of summer from Brazil with 2 kids. She plans on flying in on Saturday and driving with her 2 small kids to Fort Riley. Well the time comes, she's tired and waits till Sunday. Then she is having problems getting cash and I don't take Venmo. So she decides to wait till Monday and the kids will miss the their 1st day of school. At this point I'm feeling really bad. A brazilian chick driving a 7 & 3 year old from Kansas City to Fort Riley KS in a 1984 C10 with 250 straight 6/3 speed auto in the summer with no AC, no tags, no insurance, no child seats and going to miss their 1st day of school....So I do the responsible things and grab a trailer and load up the C10. Then picked her and the kids up at the hotel and head to Fort Riley. Half way thru the trip she realizes I'm a fairly normal person :laughing: and starts talking. Turns out their are good people. Plus she was easy on the eyes.:cool2:
 
Ransil said:
I have left shit on my porch and told people to put the cash under a rock or in my truck, never been burned yet.
Have left my car at the carpool pickup ( cracker barrel) and left stuff in there and had cash in there after work a couple times too.
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Ive done this for shit idc about. I got pissed one time thinking dude jacked it because he didnt put the money where i instructed and it wasnt in the other obvious places.
 
i dont meet people at my home either but to be fair youre more likely to get ambushed not at home
 
Kwille said:
Dude contacts me on facebook marketplace. Wants to buy my square body. He's in the military and over in Kuwait. I'm not interested in waiting 6 month for him to get back stateside. Soooo he says his wife will fly-in from Brazil and pick it up in a few weeks. At this point, I believe its a scam so I ask him to have his wife call me. Sure as shit, his wife calls from Brazil that night. She's flying back at the end of summer from Brazil with 2 kids. She plans on flying in on Saturday and driving with her 2 small kids to Fort Riley. Well the time comes, she's tired and waits till Sunday. Then she is having problems getting cash and I don't take Venmo. So she decides to wait till Monday and the kids will miss the their 1st day of school. At this point I'm feeling really bad. A brazilian chick driving a 7 & 3 year old from Kansas City to Fort Riley KS in a 1984 C10 with 250 straight 6/3 speed auto in the summer with no AC, no tags, no insurance, no child seats and going to miss their 1st day of school....So I do the responsible things and grab a trailer and load up the C10. Then picked her and the kids up at the hotel and head to Fort Riley. Half way thru the trip she realizes I'm a fairly normal person :laughing: and starts talking. Turns out their are good people. Plus she was easy on the eyes.:cool2:
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1) Pics of MILF? C'mon, man!

2) I also thought this was an elaborate scam, right up until you picked them up. "I loaded up the C10, and never heard from them again.."
 
rockyota83 said:
i dont meet people at my home either but to be fair youre more likely to get ambushed not at home
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I've been a little scetched out buy stuff before. Especially if it's for a decent amount.

My father in law bought a 24' enclosed for like $13k cash. He asked me to roll with him. It was at a storage place in kind of a shitty area and dude was in a rape van. We turned like 3 corners through this place and both pretty much said at the same time, "this trailer better be around the next corner"

Luckily we didn't get killed, robbed or raped. :laughing:
 
YotaAtieToo said:
I've been a little scetched out buy stuff before. Especially if it's for a decent amount.

My father in law bought a 24' enclosed for like $13k cash. He asked me to roll with him. It was at a storage place in kind of a shitty area and dude was in a rape van. We turned like 3 corners through this place and both pretty much said at the same time, "this trailer better be around the next corner"

Luckily we didn't get killed, robbed or raped. :laughing:
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sounds like something fencedude encounters weekly :laughing:
 
My wife buys and sells kids stuff by leaving money under the doormat. She hasn't been burned yet, but it is mostly under 100.

I have been piecing together LS stuff. A couple weeks ago I was going to pick up some heads. Agreed on price, location and time. I specifically told the guy I need to meet before x time so I can get back before my wife needs to go to work. Message when I'm leaving(1.5 hours away), again when I'm 30 minutes away. Both times he says all is good. Message when I get there and nothing. I wait for 15 minutes then leave. The guy messages me 20 minutes later asking where I am. Told him heading home. He gets all pissed saying he said he had to work until 530. He was the one who agreed to meet at 5. Fuck that guy.

Most of the people who I have dealt with have been fine.
 
While i understand your frustation, guys like me that dont have a bitch job with a consistant punch out time get fucked on both sides of the deal. And it never fails when we make a plan shit hits the fan. In my case i have to stay till shits fixed.
 
A few weeks ago i made a trip from home to weaverville to just short of chico for a 205 that was miss represented to chico to get no showed by that guy. Should have just went home and saved 200+ miles.
 
total newb said:
While i understand your frustation, guys like me that dont have a bitch job with a consistant punch out time get fucked on both sides of the deal. And it never fails when we make a plan shit hits the fan. In my case i have to stay till shits fixed.
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That's on you. Send the guy a damn message and let him know.

"Hey, sorry, shits gone sideways at work, gotta stay late, apologies. If you still want it we can try again tomorrow, or alternate arrangements."



I leave stuff out front, and tell people to put the money in the immovable 4runner in the driveway. Inevitably they ring the doorbell, or wander around the house, or ask the mailman if they know me, or the neighbour...
 
I've got a couple good ones.

First one wasa CL ad for a 73 scout II I was selling....

I get a text in the middle 1130pm of the night from a random, but local area code number (I have a wildly different area code cell)

"Hey bud, I'm broke down by the highway and I need you to come get me."

So I respond, with the are you ok? I don't mean to be rude, but your number isn't in my phone, who is this? Thinking it's a friend that got a new number.

It goes back and forth about every 20 minutes, I'm at this location etc, I'm almost out of battery.. then I really need to stay at your place....

Dude is fucking up my nights sleep. He finally says I saw you had a big truck for sale on Craigslist, figured you could tow me to your place and I could crash.

Wtf? Seriously. Who does something like that.

The next one was setting up an appointment to drive to long Beach (about 2.5/3 hrs) took at a car. I get to this sketchy neighborhood, dude says he'll be out with the car in a minute. 10, 15, 20 minutes goes by and I'm getting the heebies. Sketchie guys eyeballing us, figuring we were about to get robbed. I noped out. Started driving and dude starts messaging me immediately. Where did you go, thought we were going to make a deal. Etc. Hewaswatching the setup. I was packing because large amounts of cash. But shitty fucking people man.
 
(first question is asking me if its available)

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dude's from Dorchester MA. His account is full of pictures of him in South America.

Iunno. Setup a meeting time with this guy? like, preferably two hours away in a well lit area full of people? :laughing:
 
woods said:
(first question is asking me if its available)

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dude's from Dorchester MA. His account is full of pictures of him in South America.

Iunno. Setup a meeting time with this guy? like, preferably two hours away in a well lit area full of people? :laughing:
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You're getting robbed.

"I would like to put knife and bullet in you in a romantic manner. Will you allow me to do this?"
 
woods said:
My best one was a kid that showed up for a motorcycle, didn't even have his door closed yet, and hollered to me it was worth full asking price all day long. He never heard it run. Never even sat on it. Handed me a wad of cash but had no way of getting it home. I drove the hour one way to his place. Made a decent amount on that one.
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When I bought my 03 tundra and 06 F250 (that needed a motor) they were priced so low that I just about hurt myself getting the full asking price and handing it over. Priced so low I would have been embarrassed to haggle.
 
45acp said:
You're getting robbed.

"I would like to put knife and bullet in you in a romantic manner. Will you allow me to do this?"
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ya, I'm thinking hard pass. I blocked him.
 
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