What scam method is this? (FB market)

Droolinggimp said:
Not sure whether or not to feel sorry for that person or not. Thats pretty much the same as selling something for cash.

scammer: I forgot to withdraw the £300, Ill come back in 5 days with it.

It may be just me, but I can't see how anyone would fall for that. Then again I do see people prying on the elderly and they can be quite forgiving and will fall for silly things. ******* scumbags these scammers.
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I think there a lot of people out there. Some are genuinely just thick and don't interpret it as a scam, as you say some elderly and potentially early dementia etc, some having a disability of some kind, or just someone who's really stressed / sleep deprived and not thinking straight.

The thing is, this person I know who got taken for £200 - well, it only needs one person a day to fall for it and you're earning a lot more than minimum wage. I expect a decent scammer could be contacting hundreds of people each day.
 
A lot of people are greedy too. See it a fair few times in a few groups I'm in.
The seller (scammer) is selling something that's obviously too cheap. Like 1/2 Rrp.

And some twonk buys it.

I have sympathy for the vulnerable. But not the greedy.
 
Let me tell you about my niece

She agrees to buy this push chair/trike thing from FB… and I do feel sorry for the bloke who is selling it.. lol

Firstly she tells him that her dad, my brother was coming to collect it. My brother doesn’t like going anywhere by himself and wanted me to go along with him but after an afternoon of looking at cars for my other brother, I had enough and just wanted to go home. So that was one miss collection…

Roll on Tuesday… she wanted me to collect it as it was nearer to me than anyone else, so I said yes… I could make it part of the way home from work, but I have you (her) paid for it? As I don’t have any cash on me nor cash card with me… obviously the seller wouldn’t accept a bank transfer, so I had to ask the few people I knew if anyone had cash on them, so I could do a transfer to their account and have their cash… it was a big fact no… she was like.. “why don’t anyone at your place have cash!?” we work on a secure cashless site in the middle of nowhere, no one carries something that they don’t need! So that was another miss collection.

Roll on Thursday, I said to her I can collect it after I gone to the gym… well she wouldn’t get off the phone with me all morning telling me how I should check the item for faults, delaying my gym time so she kept messaging the poor seller telling him that I would be late.

Come today, I discovered that her hubby is off today.. I was like, you could have sent him today!! Rather than bug everyone else.. “oh no, he’s looking after the kids so I can get some alone time”… “well he could look after the kids and you could have your alone time in the car to pickup your darn shopping!”

Not everyone is a con artist.. some people are just irately disorganised!!

And this pram/trike thing she’s purchased has more moving parts that a triple changer transformer. weighs an ton, so no kid that could fit in it would be able to muster the strength to pedal it… no wonder it’s new, yet it’s all the range with the yuppy mummies.
 
slinxy said:
Let me tell you about my niece

She agrees to buy this push chair/trike thing from FB… and I do feel sorry for the bloke who is selling it.. lol

Firstly she tells him that her dad, my brother was coming to collect it. My brother doesn’t like going anywhere by himself and wanted me to go along with him but after an afternoon of looking at cars for my other brother, I had enough and just wanted to go home. So that was one miss collection…

Roll on Tuesday… she wanted me to collect it as it was nearer to me than anyone else, so I said yes… I could make it part of the way home from work, but I have you (her) paid for it? As I don’t have any cash on me nor cash card with me… obviously the seller wouldn’t accept a bank transfer, so I had to ask the few people I knew if anyone had cash on them, so I could do a transfer to their account and have their cash… it was a big fact no… she was like.. “why don’t anyone at your place have cash!?” we work on a secure cashless site in the middle of nowhere, no one carries something that they don’t need! So that was another miss collection.

Roll on Thursday, I said to her I can collect it after I gone to the gym… well she wouldn’t get off the phone with me all morning telling me how I should check the item for faults, delaying my gym time so she kept messaging the poor seller telling him that I would be late.

Come today, I discovered that her hubby is off today.. I was like, you could have sent him today!! Rather than bug everyone else.. “oh no, he’s looking after the kids so I can get some alone time”… “well he could look after the kids and you could have your alone time in the car to pickup your darn shopping!”

Not everyone is a con artist.. some people are just irately disorganised!!

And this pram/trike thing she’s purchased has more moving parts that a triple changer transformer. weighs an ton, so no kid that could fit in it would be able to muster the strength to pedal it… no wonder it’s new, yet it’s all the range with the yuppy mummies.
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There is all kinds of very weird dysfunction in here.
 
I had someone try this on me, after I had said cash only. Item i was selling was a few hundred pounds.

Assumed it was a scam, and told them it was cash only on collection. They never replied.

I guess people just take their "payment was sent, hasn't cleared yet" on trust, and hand over the item?
 
potatolord said:
I had someone try this on me, after I had said cash only. Item i was selling was a few hundred pounds.

Assumed it was a scam, and told them it was cash only on collection. They never replied.

I guess people just take their "payment was sent, hasn't cleared yet" on trust, and hand over the item?
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I often do BT because I have no natural points in my life to withdraw cash - so anything more than what I keep in my wallet is really annoying. Some people prefer it. Guess it depends on your vibestats.
 
slinxy said:
Let me tell you about my niece

She agrees to buy this push chair/trike thing from FB… and I do feel sorry for the bloke who is selling it.. lol

Firstly she tells him that her dad, my brother was coming to collect it. My brother doesn’t like going anywhere by himself and wanted me to go along with him but after an afternoon of looking at cars for my other brother, I had enough and just wanted to go home. So that was one miss collection…

Roll on Tuesday… she wanted me to collect it as it was nearer to me than anyone else, so I said yes… I could make it part of the way home from work, but I have you (her) paid for it? As I don’t have any cash on me nor cash card with me… obviously the seller wouldn’t accept a bank transfer, so I had to ask the few people I knew if anyone had cash on them, so I could do a transfer to their account and have their cash… it was a big fact no… she was like.. “why don’t anyone at your place have cash!?” we work on a secure cashless site in the middle of nowhere, no one carries something that they don’t need! So that was another miss collection.

Roll on Thursday, I said to her I can collect it after I gone to the gym… well she wouldn’t get off the phone with me all morning telling me how I should check the item for faults, delaying my gym time so she kept messaging the poor seller telling him that I would be late.

Come today, I discovered that her hubby is off today.. I was like, you could have sent him today!! Rather than bug everyone else.. “oh no, he’s looking after the kids so I can get some alone time”… “well he could look after the kids and you could have your alone time in the car to pickup your darn shopping!”

Not everyone is a con artist.. some people are just irately disorganised!!

And this pram/trike thing she’s purchased has more moving parts that a triple changer transformer. weighs an ton, so no kid that could fit in it would be able to muster the strength to pedal it… no wonder it’s new, yet it’s all the range with the yuppy mummies.
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I wonder if it’s one of these - https://doona.shop/products/doona-l...gfM25jLHnWhFLBzq2q2olmmuSfosd49EaAtxDEALw_wcB

I just had to pick one up from someone selling one from fb.
 
My missus put a cotbed on Facebook marketplace. Think it was for like 100 quid or something. The chancers were even sniffing round that. She nearly fell for it,i told her to reply cash on collection only. As soon as she did its the inevitable radio silence.
 
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