[Closed] Aaaaaaargh! Blimming time-wasting non-buyers . Why? Why?

A tenner ? 😆

Too much? It's in good nick.

I'm on a couple of groups and I must admit I flout the dibs rules a bit. I make it pretty clear if I want something I'm only round the corner and can pop round now or as soon as they like. When selling I'll wait on the first response that seems keen rather than saving it for first responder. Can't be dealing with the time wasters. Had a few where people reply "I think I want this/my friend might want this. Can you hold it for me?". I'm posting because I want it gone!

I have had similar selling on eBay..
It has made me realise how many people have no clue what they want and don't realise that the seller may have other things to do with their time.

I think these people need a flow chart to guide them through this sort of transaction.
It would save lots of people a lot of time..

Selling a car is the worst. Loads of interest from people who don't want it. AND part time 'home based' dealers expecting it for nothing.

Yeah it's a small village. Most transactions tend go more like this:

Can I have this?
Yes.
Okay I'll be round in ten minutes.

😀

But we do seem to attract the occasional nutter.
Recently a friend was giving away a kids Vtech laptop for free. Her "buyer" said she didn't have a car so could it be delivered - to a village ten miles away. 😕

I'll have it.

But can you clarify the wattage for me?

Go postal with a kalashnikov, walking through the village, shooting people indiscriminately, then go on the run into the mountains. Chances are you'll get 'em. And if not you might at least get Gazza to bring you a KFC

If you rub your penis on it, I'll give you £15.

(Just video it. I already have a microwave.)

But can you clarify the wattage for me?

When she asked that I was soooooo tempted to tell her: "its still 800 watts"

Go postal with a kalashnikov, walking through the village, shooting people indiscriminately

Nah she's clearly an outsider from the big toon.

If you rub your penis on it, I'll give you £15.

Hmmm.. okay - but only on the Defrost setting.

Must get an upgrade to defrost on my penis. Or is that a willy wave?

Remember to wrap it in foil first - helps protect it.

I'm still using a 4.2" CRT penis. No point in upgrading yet, it still works fine.

That's MASSIVE!

My missus is so glad we upgraded to a widescreen.

Is it still available ?

What wattage is it ?

( questions for the OP only!)

I was hoping for a classified rant Realman stylee 🙁

Sitting here waiting for the person who was definitely coming to see my car at 7pm tonight - nowt, nada, absolutely nothing to say they aren't coming or are coming late. ****s

My missus is so glad we upgraded to a widescreen.

[i]Curved[/i] is where it's at. Just ask the ladies 😉

The OP is describing what happens to me every time I use Gumtree. Get all excited thinking I've sold something and start having visions of bike bling and then no response from the initial query. I'm starting to think it's one person, slowly building an accurate picture of the contents of my house. I'll come home one day and will have been robbed of all the stuff I've listed!

Yep.... I've been trying to give away a greenhouse on Spock and Gumtree for 3 months now. Fourteen people now saying they definitely want it. All pics and dimensions are online along with rough location.

They're so keen! So far the number of people actually turned up... zero. I'm keeping it online now as a sort of social experiment.

[b]Me:[/b] Hi J, we are at [b][our street address][/b]. I'm off for the Easter holidays at the moment so you are welcome to pick up daytime or evening this week. Just let us know.
*no reply*

There's your problem. You want to write your actual address there instead of just 'our street address'.
She probably couldn't find you.

Is it still available ?
What wattage is it ?

Yes. Probably only about 765 watt now that it has a thin patina of smegma on it.

Who cares, it's a tenner microwave. Put it in the bin!

It's so much more than just a microwave now.

Sitting here waiting for the person who was definitely coming to see my car at 7pm tonight - nowt, nada, absolutely nothing to say they aren't coming or are coming late. ****s

GrahamS - readvertise as a SMEG microwave, for 20 quid and I bet she'll have it in a flash

Can I have 80 watts for a quid ?

Where are you.. Can you deliver.

Is it sold?

Who cares, it's a tenner microwave. Put it in the bin!

That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid.

I don't really care about the money, a tenner isn't going to make much odds is it? But it's a decent 800 watt Kenwood microwave, basically as new with the box and manual.

I have enough moral trouble binning things that are broken, never mind things in perfect nick that someone could use.

Oh, Kenwood is it?

How the other half live... 🙂

can i have 2 of them for 15?

or how about a swap for 34 pictures ( black and white ) of me masturbating in to newhaven harbour in an album? ( will not separate, i've tried ).

How the other half live...

I know I try to forget my life before I got my Miele appliances, it was just so unfulfilled.

How much does it weigh?

If Miele is where life's fulfilment lies - I pity that life.

Can I reproof my goretex in it?

Ha.. maybe youve just been had....

http://dontevenreply.com/

**Warning (You will now waste the next hour reading some of the email exchanges on this site)

If Miele is where life's fulfilment lies - I pity that life.

Says a man who obviously doesn't have Miele appliances, once you have experienced the one true way that is Miele, there is no going back.

More pity needed.

Del,
Do you have any other locations?
I have a [b][u]Miele[/u][/b] that I would gladly swap for a series of seagulling shots from tall buildings or possibly goat bukkake if it's classy

Leave it on the street in a council estate. It'll find a new home of its own

Del,
Do you have any other locations?
I have a Miele that I would gladly swap for a series of seagulling shots from tall buildings or possibly goat bukkake if it's classy

Ha.. maybe youve just been had....
http://dontevenreply.com/

That is awesome. Morning wasted!

Leave it on the street in a council estate. It'll find a new home of its own

Right - so assuage my desperate middle-class need to be environmentally responsible by simply fly-tipping it somewhere poor? 😆

What rating is it?

xxx

Is it the only one in the village ?

How many lumens does it have?

I'm really into night cooking.

possibly goat bukkake if it's classy

Careful googling that, you'll end up with loads of pictures of kids.

Right - so assuage my desperate middle-class need to be environmentally responsible by simply fly-tipping it somewhere poor?

May I recommend the cycleway 72 just near the Scotswood bridge?

Although I saw a lost pheasant there a few weeks ago so maybe it's still not poor enough.

If it's a lost pheasant then it could still be a poor area. It's the areas with at-home pheasants you want to avoid.

Nah, then the poor Sustrans Volunteer Ranger for that stretch would need to deal with it... oh wait... 🙂

is it collection only?

I'd definitely take it if you're prepared to box it up and wait in from 9-5 between now and Friday for my courier to collect.

I'll be round in ten minutes.

Let's face it... unless I get the comfort eating under control i'll be round for the rest of my life.

Clearly the manly thing to do is to salvage the transformer, replace the secondary winding and turn it into a spot welder:

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Spot-Welder-From-Microwave/

"[i]I'd definitely take it if you're prepared to box it up and wait in from 9-5 between now and Friday for my courier to collect.[/i]"

OMG, this, a lot.

Pretty much every time I list something on ebay for collection only, I will get questions about this, or worse, someone wins and [b]tells me[/b] they will send a courier. Then goes quiet and ignores the communications from ebay about cancelling the transaction. Meanwhile ebay have charged me the final fee value and I'm out of pocket until the request times out and I get a credit three weeks later.

I even had someone tell me it's fine, that they'll arrange the postage and all I need to do is wrap it up, attach a label and drop it off at a collection point five miles away. That is literally about 98% of what would be involved if I offered postage from the outset, do they really think it's the two minutes typing in an address that is the issue here ? T**ts.

Next time I'll specify that a courier is fine as long as they provide all the packing materials, wrap the item, label it, and can guarantee to pick up at 19:40 next Thursday.

And I bet I'll still get idiotic questions.

list collection only and then a large price to courier it

Seems to stop all but the most stupid

You can then just go - yes postage is fine for £50 but collection is free.

That's been the good thing about the Facebook sale groups: they are local groups for local people. Half the time we end up exchanging smaller things while dropping the kids at school.

(The other good thing is that they are free)

"[i]yes postage is fine for £50 but collection is free.yes postage is fine for £50 but collection is free.[/i]"

They will just argue that if their courier collects it, that's collection, and is free ! Just chancers. They can't really be that stupid.

I gave up on our local free to a good home FB group. The feedback from the folk that were interested was rubbish.

Equally, tried to offload a sofa locally on Gumtree. "I'll come round Tuesday am" says first response.
OK, I respond and agree that she'll need transport.
Nothing that day - message them, "are you still wanting this sofa".
"No, couldn't get transport". Ah, ok, so its ok for me to wait in all morning.. Tosser.

Sold to the next guy on the list, top bloke, who'd had same treatment in reverse when he'd tried to buy something - so completely understood 🙂

One presumes that this is some form of oik rayburn?

Been there, done that.

Once left an item outside every day for over two weeks and kept asking them when they were picking up, they kept saying tomorrow so I kept leaving it outside. Eventually I gave up and gave it to someone else so then they sent me a snotty message saying they had come round and it wasn't there.

[b]Update[/b]

That's more like it. I re-listed it. Bloke said he wanted it and he came round fifteen minutes later to pick it up. 😀

yossarian - Member
How much does it weigh?

[strava]trying to calculate a power curve?[/strava]

Is it still available ?