You know what makes me mad? You know what makes me want to list someone’s FB Profile on BANGshift and tell everyone to blast them into oblivion? You know what makes me want to contact people like this and waste as much of their time as humanly possible only to tell them that they are f*^&tards and should be beaten about the head and face? People that won’t just put a damn price on their Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist ads for cars and trucks!!! Instead of putting $1,234 on an ad, and then at the bottom of the description saying you want $10,000 for it, be a man and post the real price you stupid prick. Seriously. What the hell is so hard about this? I don’t understand. In fact, I can’t stand it when someone talks about how big a pain it is to sell something online. Sure, share the funny stories about idiots who reply to your ad, but to be genuinely angry about someone asking dumb questions, especially if you don’t put all the required information in a listing, is just a waste of time and energy.
That’s what pisses me off most about the shenanigans online. If sellers put the relevant information into ads, you know stuff like features, condition, price, application, title status, location, etc, then people wouldn’t ask a million questions about the product being sold. Imagine if SummitRacingEquipment had an intake manifold listed as Edelbrock Intake Manifold $129. Who the hell is going to know what that is for? They’d have ten calls, or maybe a hundred and ten calls or emails, per day asking what the application was and all the pertinent information so someone could actually buy it. And if they listed the price as $1 and then you called and said “Take my money!” but they said, “Oh sorry, that’s just what we did on the ad to get your attention. The price is $129.” You would lose your mind and never buy from them again.
So I think we ALL owe it to each other to train people to do it right. I think we SHOULD in fact blast people for putting misinformation on their ads. Either contact them and tell them to make it right, or report them to Facebook as a misleading ad. If you are too lazy or stupid to do it right, then sell your crap somewhere else.
Ah, I feel a little better.
But not as good as I am going to feel when I spend 5 minutes sitting on shitter blasting this fool on FB!!!!
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Sorry, couldn’t help it haha
“PM me an offer.”
It’s getting so a large percentage of advertisers do that, list $1 on the heading and the “real” price is hidden down in the copy…such a tactic automatically red-flags for me ’cause even if I don’t know what I’m looking at, I can guess they’re some-type squirrel. Unfortunately when you sell you may also get a special breed of idiot time-wasters…maybe one-in-five or worse is an actual legit buyer, the rest are just entertaining themselves on your time.
Here’s another one, the guys with literally 250+ lines of keywords so that if you’re looking for either any one of the last four Vegas for sale around L.A., or anything at all, you get Felix Auto Sales in Santa Paula’s ads for detailed-up garbage used cars. https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/ctd/d/santa-paula-2008-bmw-5-series-4dr-sdn/7071588283.html
How can we take these *-holes down?
The one I hate “Pending sale” what the hell? if its about to be sold are you trying to sell it to several people at once? why post it at all? I’ve seen some of those “Pending Sale” posts stay like that for months. Pending sale for the last year???
I’ve started repeatedly asking the price in the comments till they respond then I ask them why. People are idiots. Pisses me off.
Definitely report him for false advertising . If an ad is missing too much infos , I skip . Most of the time seller don’t know sh*t about mechanical stuff and is just a car flipper .
On Craigslist you can filter price from low to high. I always populate these boxes to avoid people fishing for best offers. I do like your idea Chad of posting the odd ad from some real pricks that the readers can bombard with fake offers.
How about stop using facebook? It’s not hard. Life is way better without that social media trash in it.
They do it on craigslist as well . Ticks me off
. The ones that really get me it is they bless you with the opportunity to make and offer on their car or whatever but don’t even give you as ball park of what they want . Surely they have an idea . You know like best offer over $3000 or whst ever but no they want you to make a cash offer or trade offer then say no low ballers or they don’t want to have to look at s trashy car trade offer by saying no junk and your looking at their car and you think , but its junk .Or if your offer is beneath them they’ll just ignore you .
Or , Just want to offer up my _____ don’t want to sell , I want to trade and see whats out there . And then say don’t waste my time .
Yes I think we should once a week do a poll on an add and just flood it . New one each week .
Recent ad on Aussie marketplace site – HQ 2 door Monaro, $5000, accompanied by a picture of a show quality unit. Dig into the ad and discover that for $5k old mate is actually selling an escapee from a crusher with no running gear, no glass, and minimal metal amongst the rust. ‘Disclaimer’ at the bottom of ad – “picture shows what this could become with a little time and money”. More like 10 years and six figures you muppet!
Oh – and do up an ex-taxi Commodore to look like a Brock unit. Don’t call it a “Replica”, call it a “Tribute Car” and it’s instantly worth another $20k….NOT!
The other thing…we all have phones that have better cameras in them than pro photographers had 10yrs ago, why can’t you people take some decent, in focus, well lit pictures of the shit you are trying to sell? And then get pissed when potential buyers ask for good pictures!….fucks sake!
These are the same people who “require” a dozen people to stage a car.
This may be a work-around for some sort of max price in Facebook Marketplace.
I typically set a minimum price at $100 to specifically filter out bozos who list items for $1. Too bad Facebook doesn’t have a filter to ignore all ads set at $1234.
Or maybe we need to put together a campaign of sending everyone who lists cars at $1234 a “Will you take $1230 for it?” set of messages.
I love the idiots that post up “testing the waters” ad…..
If you don’t want to sell it, don’t list it!!!
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BBC heads, peanut port, refreshed (see picture), ready to bolt on $250. 10 emails, 5 from one moron demanding the numbers off the head. Let’s see – $250 for a set of ready-to-bolt-on-heads. No, I’m not stooping over to look at the numbers, write those numbers down, march back up to my house to send those numbers to you….. HOWEVER, I will google the number for ZL1 heads, delete the picture of the oval port (gotta be thorough) and send that number to you – then post ‘sold’. 3904392
“Just a feeler ad” OR “Just seeing what’s out there” arghhhh