95tigerbill
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elkduds
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Shopping used dining (not dinning) table and chairs. Asked seller to see hers, she agreed to a time later in the day we corresponded. Table is in a town 30 miles away. Next message from seller:
But you'll have to secure the set with a partial payment so that I can mark it as sold under your name now to anticipate other customers
Could you possibly do $50 now. Do you have zellle?
This warning from FB appeared right below the Zelle message from seller:
Do not use Zelle to pay people you don't know.
My reply to Zelle request:
No. We will bring cash and decide if we want it after inspecting it. If it sells before we get to it, please let us know.
Please confirm W. 22nd address and 5 pm meeting time by replying to this before 1 pm. Only coming if you reply. Thanks.
Never heard back from 'seller.'
But you'll have to secure the set with a partial payment so that I can mark it as sold under your name now to anticipate other customers
Could you possibly do $50 now. Do you have zellle?
This warning from FB appeared right below the Zelle message from seller:
Do not use Zelle to pay people you don't know.
My reply to Zelle request:
No. We will bring cash and decide if we want it after inspecting it. If it sells before we get to it, please let us know.
Please confirm W. 22nd address and 5 pm meeting time by replying to this before 1 pm. Only coming if you reply. Thanks.
Never heard back from 'seller.'
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shb
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Don't laugh too much. Looks easier than putting up a wall tent. And roomier.
Needs wood stove chimney holes.
Nick87
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Shut up and take my money....
np307
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Not necessarily gold but definitely a case study in Marketplace behavior. So the last hurdle to shutting the business down has been selling off the skid steer. I needed it to load a lot of the other equipment I sold but now its time has come. 230 hours on a 2020 machine, basically new. Plenty of attachments for it.
So a couple weeks go by with a few tire kickers but then I get a call from a guy who's very interested. He throws out a number for just the machine, I tell him tentatively it'll work but its in the range I need to call and get approval from the owner. She's good with the price. Call him back and he throws out a different price for the machine and all attachments. Repeat process. Deal approved. He wants to meet over the weekend.
Saturday comes and goes, nothing. Sunday comes, get to midday and ask if he's still coming. Finally get a call back that evening and he says he couldn't get finished with what he needed to, would Tuesday work. Sure thing. Talks some more details and wants to make sure a business check is fine. Pretty sure my initial conversation said certified only but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here. So I tell him no, certified check only and he says no problem.
Tuesday comes and I message him in the morning asking what time he's coming. No response. Call him at lunch and leave a message. No response. I figure he's flaked so I tell the owner that I'll make the listing available again the next day and start trying to show the machine again. I go hunting. He calls me as I'm walking in, fairly apologetic and swears he'll make the deal happen by the weekend. Friday comes and he texts me asking availability on Sunday. I respond and he never follows up. Sunday comes and around lunch he calls and asks if I'm good for Tuesday at 10. This is the first time he's actually given me a time so I'm hopeful it'll happen for real. He also had not sent me his business info for the bill of sale at this point and said he would get it sent over.
Tuesday rolls around. He's a couple hours away so I text him a few minutes before he should be leaving to give clarification on which driveway to use. He responds with the business info for the bill of sale. So maybe this is going to happen. Then he calls 20 minutes later and says its actually his dad who's going to make the pickup for him and his dad got the day confused so would Wednesday work instead? I'm irritated but tell him yes, both me and the owner have availability for 10 on Wednesday. Then he dropped the big bomb. "So yeah, my dad has the check and everything and once he gives me the okay I'll send a picture of my driver's license". I'm confused and tell him I shouldn't need that for a certified check to which he responds "oh, no he's got a business check." So now I'm really irritated. I tell him we already discussed it a week and a half ago to which he responds that he can get a certified check but he doesn't know how soon because he still banks with the small regional bank from where he grew up (like 10 hours away). Asks if I'm cool with a wire instead. I call the owner and explain and she doesn't want to do a wire for several reasons. None of them good in my opinion, the guy was willing to wire the money 24 hours before his dad could get the machine, but it was her decision. So I relay the info. Certified check or nothing.
So now he says his dad will still come look at the machine tomorrow but he wants to give the business check as a deposit. I tell him absolutely not, he's wasted 2 weeks at this point so I'm not getting involved with a deposit because I can't trust that he won't keep dragging his feet. Tell him its his own fault, he should've ordered the check when we talked about it. He relents and says he would order the check immediately and have his dad come look at the machine the next day. So we've got kind of a plan again. So I grab the boy and we go squirrel hunting.
On the way, he texts me that he wired his dad the money and his dad would have a certified check the next day so they can take the machine. But he wants a detailed pro forma bill of sale sent over because he's worried I'll sell it out from under him in the middle of the night I guess. So I get that taken care of still mamaged to kill a couple squirrels with my boy.
Next morning I'm on my way to the shop for the 10am meeting when I get a call about 940. "Hey, we weren't able to get the certified check yesterday so we're heading to the bank now to get it." He's 2:30 hours away. "So it'll be a little later than 10". Well no duh. Says he'll text when his dad is halfway. At 1215 I get a text that his dad is an hour and 15 minutes away. So I go ahead and go to the shop to get everything ready.
130 rolls by, nothing. 200 rolls by, still nothing. I call the guy and he says he doesn't know where his dad is, he should be there already. 215 and finally they roll in. Owner has to leave at 230 to go pick up her kids. So he does a quick walk-around and says all looks good. Gives her the check and they sign the bill of sale.
I spend the next hour and a half loading all the equipment and helping get it all secured and I dont know if I've ever breathed a bigger sigh of relief than when I saw that truck and trailer pull away.
Thankfully all the other deals I've done in closing the business down have been pretty smooth, but this one made up for pretty much all of those.
So a couple weeks go by with a few tire kickers but then I get a call from a guy who's very interested. He throws out a number for just the machine, I tell him tentatively it'll work but its in the range I need to call and get approval from the owner. She's good with the price. Call him back and he throws out a different price for the machine and all attachments. Repeat process. Deal approved. He wants to meet over the weekend.
Saturday comes and goes, nothing. Sunday comes, get to midday and ask if he's still coming. Finally get a call back that evening and he says he couldn't get finished with what he needed to, would Tuesday work. Sure thing. Talks some more details and wants to make sure a business check is fine. Pretty sure my initial conversation said certified only but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here. So I tell him no, certified check only and he says no problem.
Tuesday comes and I message him in the morning asking what time he's coming. No response. Call him at lunch and leave a message. No response. I figure he's flaked so I tell the owner that I'll make the listing available again the next day and start trying to show the machine again. I go hunting. He calls me as I'm walking in, fairly apologetic and swears he'll make the deal happen by the weekend. Friday comes and he texts me asking availability on Sunday. I respond and he never follows up. Sunday comes and around lunch he calls and asks if I'm good for Tuesday at 10. This is the first time he's actually given me a time so I'm hopeful it'll happen for real. He also had not sent me his business info for the bill of sale at this point and said he would get it sent over.
Tuesday rolls around. He's a couple hours away so I text him a few minutes before he should be leaving to give clarification on which driveway to use. He responds with the business info for the bill of sale. So maybe this is going to happen. Then he calls 20 minutes later and says its actually his dad who's going to make the pickup for him and his dad got the day confused so would Wednesday work instead? I'm irritated but tell him yes, both me and the owner have availability for 10 on Wednesday. Then he dropped the big bomb. "So yeah, my dad has the check and everything and once he gives me the okay I'll send a picture of my driver's license". I'm confused and tell him I shouldn't need that for a certified check to which he responds "oh, no he's got a business check." So now I'm really irritated. I tell him we already discussed it a week and a half ago to which he responds that he can get a certified check but he doesn't know how soon because he still banks with the small regional bank from where he grew up (like 10 hours away). Asks if I'm cool with a wire instead. I call the owner and explain and she doesn't want to do a wire for several reasons. None of them good in my opinion, the guy was willing to wire the money 24 hours before his dad could get the machine, but it was her decision. So I relay the info. Certified check or nothing.
So now he says his dad will still come look at the machine tomorrow but he wants to give the business check as a deposit. I tell him absolutely not, he's wasted 2 weeks at this point so I'm not getting involved with a deposit because I can't trust that he won't keep dragging his feet. Tell him its his own fault, he should've ordered the check when we talked about it. He relents and says he would order the check immediately and have his dad come look at the machine the next day. So we've got kind of a plan again. So I grab the boy and we go squirrel hunting.
On the way, he texts me that he wired his dad the money and his dad would have a certified check the next day so they can take the machine. But he wants a detailed pro forma bill of sale sent over because he's worried I'll sell it out from under him in the middle of the night I guess. So I get that taken care of still mamaged to kill a couple squirrels with my boy.
Next morning I'm on my way to the shop for the 10am meeting when I get a call about 940. "Hey, we weren't able to get the certified check yesterday so we're heading to the bank now to get it." He's 2:30 hours away. "So it'll be a little later than 10". Well no duh. Says he'll text when his dad is halfway. At 1215 I get a text that his dad is an hour and 15 minutes away. So I go ahead and go to the shop to get everything ready.
130 rolls by, nothing. 200 rolls by, still nothing. I call the guy and he says he doesn't know where his dad is, he should be there already. 215 and finally they roll in. Owner has to leave at 230 to go pick up her kids. So he does a quick walk-around and says all looks good. Gives her the check and they sign the bill of sale.
I spend the next hour and a half loading all the equipment and helping get it all secured and I dont know if I've ever breathed a bigger sigh of relief than when I saw that truck and trailer pull away.
Thankfully all the other deals I've done in closing the business down have been pretty smooth, but this one made up for pretty much all of those.
Gellar
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You are more patient than me. That listing would have been put back up as soon as he stood me up once.
np307
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Honestly I broke the rule that I had been sticking to the whole time, which was no listing ever gets pulled until cash is in hand. If I had stuck to my guns then it would've probably avoided all the headache.
Irrelevant
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Anyone who says FB marketplace is better than CL is full of it. I haven't had a single good interaction as a seller on FB
Addicting
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I use it quite a bit and it’s 50/50. I’ve gotten a lot of good deals and wasted some gas money as well.
We went and looked at a truck the other day. The parts alone were worth the asking price. It could have been parted out for a profit. The issue was I could t tell if it was a spray paint rebuild or actually rebuilt. There was so much half done it wasn’t worth the risk. There would be so many questions I couldn’t answer it would have been hard to flip.
44hunter45
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I get ghosted more often as a buyer on FB.
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Gellar
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This guy must have been using that electrical chord to charge his batteries.
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