Facebook Marketplace sales

[kingtreelo]

So i have purchased a fair bit of stuff from FBM over the years, but i think you always get a bit of a "feeling" about the sellers, i've had lots of pickups from peoples homes and even had a few people drop stuff off for when they have been travelling by

You obviously get the "i'll send a courier to pick it up with an envelope of cash" type of scams, but this was a new one on me today...

Person sent me a postcode...i always do a quick google maps of it to make sure im going to an actual address


I know my way round Manchester a little bit and this is the back of beyond, with carparks and no residential addresses at all....

 

[Georgian2]

I did meet in parking lots too a few times. Some people don't want random strangers from the internet in theyr homes.
I find nothing wrong about it. Just don't carry big amounts of cash with you.wrong

 

[kingtreelo]

im 46 this year, have been selling stuff for over 25 years, never once met anyone in a car park to buy or sell anything(other than car boot sale stuff)

very very odd behaviour IMO, ive been to a few homes from sellers on here as well in the few years i have been active

 

[funk]

It's probably innocent @kingtreelo but I don't blame you for the caution on this one.

I had this a few years back picking up some cheap stuff meeting "at Sainsbury's" turned out to be two 14 year old kids, still thought I was going to get battered, but that's PTSD for you 🙄

The one i felt most uncomfortable with was a pickup from a women who was on her tod and obviously distressed clearing stuff of the other halves out, one of those awkward situations where you don't know what to do or say, I wish I'd asked if she was alright in hindsight, but I thought it'd be odd too.

 

[kingtreelo]

i dont mind a neutral meet up, but the postcode given is literally a car park at the back of beyond, and i was going to get my son(21) to pick it up for me

 

[Phils Arcade]

It's when they direct you to a remote forested area at night and you get there, only to find a load more people in cars have beat you to it, all flashing their lights at each other, I guess in anger. Just had to leave before anything happened.

 

[TheDaddy]

My advise , if in doubt walk away.

If i had listened to myself i would not have lost 100's recently to a facebook scam.

Good luck !

Dave.

 

[Bods]

I met one of the guys off here in Supermarket carpark one weekend, was all fine he does jobs at them

Best I had was when I sold Vhs Recorder, asked if I could deliver it, only 6 miles and I paid work £30 a month and could use as much private miles fuel as I wanted, the good old days, So I said yeah no problem, got there and it was a door to upstairs above shop, Massage Parlour, she came to the door in stockings etc , nearly said forget the money and popped in

 

[TheDaddy]

I was suppose to meet a guy called George Michael outside a toilet near a car park.

I walked away , if i had met him , i bet i couldn't ! Lol.

Sorry in advance for my poor taste.

Dave.

 

[neo-geo-mvs]

Corrected 😉

So I said yeah no problem, got there and it was a door to upstairs above shop, Massage Parlour, she came to the door in stockings etc , nearly said forget the money and slipped in

 

[qjuk]

im 46 this year, have been selling stuff for over 25 years, never once met anyone in a car park to buy or sell anything(other than car boot sale stuff)

I have, at a motorway service station to buy a TV from the back boot of a car.

The couple selling it turned out to be really lovely. Both were mute so they couldn’t speak, the transaction was done using gestures and lip reading.

This was about 8 years ago now, the TV is still working great.

 

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[CMYKhazi-Dan]

I was suppose to meet a guy called George Michael outside a toilet near a car park.

I walked away , if i had met him , i bet i couldn't ! Lol.

Sorry in advance for my poor taste.

Dave.

Was that last Christmas?

 

[Bods]

I have, at a motorway service station to buy a TV from the back boot of a car.

The couple selling it turned out to be really lovely. Both were mute so they couldn’t speak, the transaction was done using gestures and lip reading.

This was about 8 years ago now, the TV is still working great.

I have met people that were collecting from me at services on M1 a few times, make it easier for them than trying to find mine, saves some another 20 mins and getting lost

Depends what it is really

 

[Vorbis]

Send the missus

 

[Ace`]

My metcal sp200 came from meeting up with the seller in a Tesco carpark.

 

[Akira99]

Was that last Christmas?

An did you go 'Outside'?

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

An did you go 'Outside'?

Hope he did. Nobody gonna admit to that weird pregnancy 😆

 

[Akira99]

Hope he did. Nobody gonna admit to that weird pregnancy 😆

Well if he turned a 'Different Corner' who knows what would have happened

 

[digweed]

I met one of the guys off here in Supermarket carpark one weekend, was all fine he does jobs at them

Best I had was when I sold Vhs Recorder, asked if I could deliver it, only 6 miles and I paid work £30 a month and could use as much private miles fuel as I wanted, the good old days, So I said yeah no problem, got there and it was a door to upstairs above shop, Massage Parlour, she came to the door in stockings etc , nearly said forget the money and popped in

What's the address? Asking for a friend....