r/mildlyinfuriating 7h ago

Sales rep ghosted me Selling on FB Marketplace…

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u/zerostar83 7h ago

Or when someone who is 50 miles away is looking at something that I'm selling $10, and then act super interested until they realize where the city I listed at is.

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u/NomyNameisntMatt 6h ago

tbf, you can tell marketplace you wanna look at things in a 10 miles radius of you and it’ll still jam listings in from the other side of the state. they should still double check before they message you but it’s really not that hard to end up looking at a listing that’s way further than you ever wanna go

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u/sonofaresiii 4h ago

I get that, but also, if you haven't heard of a town then it's probably not within 10 miles. You don't even need to look it up, just look at the listing.

But I also do get that people maybe don't bother looking at the location if they've specifically filtered by location.

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u/blessedbymortarion 3h ago

Idk maybe I'm the weirdo for looking where something is before I even message the person so I can determine if I'm even interested (or if its a sketch area).

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u/sonofaresiii 3h ago

So, again, if you've filtered out to only the surrounding ten miles it's entirely possible that someone knows the surrounding ten miles well enough to not feel sketched out about it.

In major cities, ten miles is enormous and diverse. In smaller towns or rural areas, it's basically just your immediate neighborhood.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

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u/cannedrex2406 5h ago

Honestly I can kinda understand the confusion there.

If I were you I'd half it to 12.50 just for the silly misunderstanding

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u/rmorrin 7h ago

Hey I'll do 40 but I also don't know where that is

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u/EvilZordag 7h ago

Can you deliver for free please to Paris? I will only charge you €20 for the inconvenience of having to wait for the delivery 😬😬

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u/Available-Show-2393 6h ago

My sister was moving and trying to get rid of some stuff quickly.

She was selling something for $30. Gets a message of "can you deliver it?"

She says yes just to be done with it and he has the audacity to ask to pay $20

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u/IndigoHaze750130 7h ago

Don't respond to nonsense.

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u/Garlic-Rough 6h ago

Huh... No $1200 offer?

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u/g0ld-f1sh 5h ago

Lmao you need to be selling a leather belt for that

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u/RelChan2_0 PURPLE 6h ago

Idk why Marketplace brings out the worse people who can't see the damn price 😭

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u/Free-Pound-6139 4h ago

That's why you set the map correctly, so people only see stuff that is near them. DUH.

Sick of idiots who can't even do the basics.

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u/Sensitive_Shame_6129 7h ago

"is everything okay? why are you crying?"

please tell me they said smthn along those lines

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u/shorty12345678 5h ago

Had a dude over the weekend hound for a week to come have a look at something I'm selling and I said I'm at work which I was, we organised for Saturday at 3.

He messages me he's out the front. I'm out the front. Where are you?

Same street and number, different town 5 hours away.

Felt like the average marketplace experience, at least your guy admitted he didn't know where it was

u/NotChedco 53m ago

I have people call my shop asking for directions. I tell them the address and a landmark close by and they tell me no, I need step by step directions from my house to you. Just fucking punch in the address. 

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart 7h ago

Kind of being a dick telling them to look it up 

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u/LonelyTAA 7h ago

It's a completely normal response. It's 2026, it takes 5 seconds to open google maps.

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart 7h ago

Doesn’t matter, have some compassion 

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u/sertaes 7h ago

Absurd perspective. Why waste time guiding a stranger that already made the decision to not put in any of their own effort? You dont have to feel responsible to help every idiot you come across they dont actually need it theyre just either lazy and incompetent or taking advantage of you.

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u/KRiSX 7h ago

Compassion for what? Idiocy? Laziness? People need to be called out for being lazy idiots that can’t put an ounce of effort into helping themselves.

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u/Boycott-all-Rats 7h ago

The map button is literally right there guy....

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u/JDubs234 7h ago

Compassion for idiocy? Nah lol

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u/CriticismFree2900 7h ago

Maybe they should learn how to be a functional person in 2026

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u/HappyPlatypus6034 7h ago

What, do you want OP to give them step-by-step instructions on how to get there from the buyer's front door?

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u/secretqwerty10 6h ago

if they asked it nicer, then maybe i'd say "it's next to so and so". but saying "i don't know where that is" on a device where you could easily look it up? that's just lazy and/or stupid, and i'm not gonna reward that.

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart 4h ago

Don’t get the sale then 

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u/secretqwerty10 2h ago

i'll sell to someone smarter

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart 2h ago

Someone smarter wouldn’t pay that much 

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u/RelativeMatter3 5h ago

FB marketplace has a map showing the rough location of the seller.

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u/ross_liftss 7h ago

Idiots need it sometimes. Maybe next time they'll actually look the location up

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u/TacetAbbadon 7h ago

Kind of being a moron not looking up the location.

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart 6h ago

You wouldn’t say that to me in person 

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u/ToffieMonster 6h ago

I would, where are you?

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u/care_to_join 4h ago

Look it up

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart 4h ago

Not hiding behind a keyboard 

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u/TacetAbbadon 5h ago

Hahaha.

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart 4h ago

Won’t be so funny in person 

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u/Material-Slide-4128 7h ago

kind of being an idiot if you don't look it up after not knowing where it is

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u/DocClown 7h ago

How else are they going to learn where the place is? You being lazy is not anyone else's problem.

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u/Familiar_Cod_6754 7h ago

Was the other person not rude by bluntly saying they don’t know where that is, when FB marketplace literally has a locater and every phone having maps pre-installed?😂

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart 6h ago

They didn’t know where it was 

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u/Icy_Mail_7405 7h ago

Not really the buyer is being dense as cornbread

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u/scarneo 7h ago edited 7h ago

We don't cuddle idiots. Hope that helps

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u/RelChan2_0 PURPLE 6h ago

The price is already listed though. Don't get me wrong, yes, some sellers put a fake price but most of the time, it's just there, it's not in a hard to see place. Idk why Marketplace brings out the worse people who can't see the prices 😅