Gumtree rant

Psycho Sonny said:
He looked over the machine and said it looks in good nick. It was pristine. He the .asked me for my best price to which I just smiled back. He then said would £80 do and I agreed just to get rid of it and then he handed the cash over.

I then let them take it away. But I was carrying the inlet pipe on it's own and watched them struggle from maybe 2-3 feet away. As soon as they moved it 2 metres they put it down in the snow. Then struggled to move a few metres before putting it down again and again. He then got tired and told his mate to go get the car and bring it closer. Whilst his mate brought the car he pushed it in the snow a few feet.

They lifted it into the car and I then showed them all the snow inside it and then placed the pipe beside it.
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sounds like a rocket...can't tell with people but he's maybe just so daft he doesn't realise he's probably damaged it by treating it like a sleigh
 
Always sell stuff as spares or repair. Ask the buyer not to waste your time by haggling on the day of pick up - the price is the price. If they show up and try to haggle ask them not to embarrass themselves and be prepared to walk away. Don't let them in your house or use the facilities keep them outside.

Demo it working. Give them a written receipt for the cash. Sold as seen, demoed working buyer to transport get them to sign it too.

Make some written notes when clowns pick it up in the manner you described.

When the buyer calls to say it doesn't work don't be a pushover. Firmy state that you demoed it working, sold it as spares and your concern was they way they collected and you wonder if wetting the internals has something to do with it.

As said earlier. It is a case of personal responsibility. Their responsibility.
 
TJM said:
I've had various Gumtree buyers try to haggle in my house after having already agreed a price or pretend to be a tenner short. 'We agreed £X' followed by a few seconds of silence will make them cough up.
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I had this trying to sell a table and 4 chairs for £50 with good pictures and dimensions. "can I take a look?" etc... No you can come round to buy or you can look at photos :p

I think gumtree is full of cheap time wasters
 
To be fair I’d never buy anything from just the pictures esp furniture. Until you see it in real life pictures and dimensions mean nothing.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
The police won't be much help if he decides to rock up one night and put a brick through my window or my car's, etc. They would want evidence of which there would be none.

So it's a lot more complicated than just call the police. As for handling it myself there is a good chance that would end up with me in jail, jobless then homeless. So again not exactly something I would like to do. But I imagine all the keyboard warrior's on here always take that stance on the internet, in real life not so much.
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The police would help. A crime would have been committed and they would investigate. They need evidence to charge someone with a crime and they need a reasonable belief that a crime may have been committed to investigate but its their job to find the evidence required for charging someone, not yours. Of course how much resources they dedicate to that investigation and whether they'd manage to find sufficient evidence to secure a conviction is a different matter, and probably more pertinent to your worries.

If you took it back and refunded him, would you be able to find a scrap merchant or similar who'd take it off your hands for a small fee, thus reducing your losses? I know around here there's always folks looking for washing machines etc, working or not.
 
Didn't think of that. My washing machine is in my garage.

Look I just think up the ideas. It is for other people to make them work. :p
 
the space cadet hasn't been in touch since the day after he picked it up. so i think he has come round to the fact it's his fault. there is a good chance it started working again tbh if he dried it out properly rather than a quick once over with a rag that's if he hadn't damaged it by abusing it like he did.

i think we can put this one to bed. just thought i would give an update.
 
To be honest you are lucky he even turned up. I've had no end of issues with people just not bothering to show up after talking about something at length. I've text some up to an hour before they are meant to show up and they say "yeah I'll be there at X" only for them not to show up and cease all communication. People are just ***** on gumtree and don't have the common decency to be honest or not waste your time.
 
If he saw it working at the time of sale, then it's his fault.

I wouldn't refund him a penny.

I sold a monitor to a guy last year in June, provided all my warranty info etc, told him to contact Asus should anything go wrong as Amazon couldn't replace it, only refund it due to having 0 stock.

I get a call while I'm on holiday saying the monitor had packed up and that I need to speak to Amazon to confirm the return etc. I told him they'd be refunding me, and yet he was adamant they'd replace it. I got text after text asking and asking for months (different numbers).
 
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