That takes me back, the cheapo section in autotrader. you could always find something interesting in there. Got my first car from it, 82 vw polo, £125 as it was a non starter, wire had come loose on the starter motor, put it back and it went all over europe without ever having a problem.
I agree as my first car was a 1993 Rover Metro I paid £350 for it in 2007 and there was nothing wrong with it , drove it to work and back saved up for a Bmw then crashed that and bought a cheap Citroen ZX turbo diesel for £500 , sadly nowadays you cant even buy an old banger cheap anymore.
@@paulie-Gualtieri. lol, you could buy a car run it for a year and scrap it for less than a bus pass. But loads of these cheap cars had plentyful supplies of parts cheap & easy to get hold of.
I looked at a car on FB MP for my granddaughter last year, it was a less than 3 years old, low mileage, Honda Jazz, priced at an impossibly low £900. Further questioning revealed the seller claimed to be in the armed forces medical services, and was about to be posted out of the country, therefore to buy this very cheap car sight unseen, we would have to pay for the car promptly, then collect it 3 days later from a military base in Northamptonshire. This improbable story led me to further investigate the seller, supposedly based in Manchester, but who in fact actually lived in Sierra Leone... Needless to say that was one transaction that wasn't going to go any further. Take care all you buyers on Marketplace! However we did buy a nice 06 reg Fiat Grande Punto from proper genuine people who lived near Rochdale Hospital a few days later.
Aww cmon now, you would've loved that GS550 😂 lol that was our Ryan I think messaging about the MG too. Forgot to kick any tyres on the 306, guess the rust-poking will have to suffice! Cheers for hanging around while we found the cash, hopefully have news on transporter next couple of days. Oh, and we're ALWAYS nice to cats, them & dogs are better people than most humans.
Well you know what they say - think of how thick and obnoxious the average person on Facebook Marketplace is, then cry when you realise that nearly 50% of the public are below that level...
Fair comment, Paul .👍. When I see an ad for the car I visit , evaluate the car before even discussing money, if the car is a wreck I walk away with the kind reply , sorry this car isn't for me mate . Simples.
The ‘Is it still available?’ button is useful to someone like me, because I overthink how to open up the conversation. My initial question is likely to be ‘Is this still available?’ rather than something like ‘Hello, I want to buy your car, please tell me about it?’ I appreciate your frustration getting 50 messages all saying the same thing but may I offer the hypothesis that it’s not the opening gambit that is the issue, more the nonsense that follows? I remember once selling a car, a Montego as it happens for £850, and three lads came to crawl all over it. Two of them got bored and one of the bored ones said ‘Just offer him £300 and let’s get out of here’. I told them they may as well all leave because it was £850 so they did. The next guy that came was one of those that pointed out all its faults. He mentioned the rust, I said yes, that’s why it was £850. He mentioned the red stripes in the bumper were faded. I said yes, that’s why it’s £850. He said there was a scratch on the bumper. I said yes, that’s why it’s £850. A six or seven year old car for £850, can you imagine a 2018 Mondeo or Insignia for that money? When he went back to telling me about the rust I was fully aware of again I had had enough so I locked the car up and went back in the house leaving this guy standing in the road with his mouth open. In the end I flogged it to a guy I went to school with for £500. One of the phrases I dislike in an advert is ‘No test pilots’. This implies that the seller is going to get arsey if I have a test drive but don’t want to buy immediately. I haven’t sold a car to another civilian in years and I don’t really want to do it again, do you think We Buy Any Car For Buttons have agents working on FBMP, eBay and wherever else people sell cars making the whole experience as miserable and as time wasty as it can possibly be to make their service look more appealing?
It’s a lack of respect which isn’t just marketplace. A few things I believe, manners maketh man, my word is my bond and if something I really would like is priced well, I won’t embarrass myself or the seller by bartering for a few quid.
interesting how common sense is lost in the world. And people are too stupid to read or can't be bothered and just want answers from yourself... giving details when the evidence is there in front of them, but yet they are too lazy! Well Said Mustard totally agree.
I've no problem with still available button. It''s always my first question as so many forget to remove their ad after selling. The problem is that 9 out of 10 asking the question lose interest after the "yes", as well as 24 of 25 messaging between 10pm-4am.
Good luck in your sales, just got rid of a caravan with work on it and glad it's gone. I'm not going to bother with much more than i can carry and use because emigration. I agree, the problem is also that there are a lot of people advertising cars out there saying it's well maintained but they are just plain lying and still asking too much money for it
I've not got the patience for selling on Facebook. It seems to attracts annoying people, who want to tell you how crappy your car is, without seeing it in person! Then those who offer a stupid price like £50!
Got lovely problem like yours selling a tt mk1 convertible with a blue canvas for step mum most saying it is lot of money but with a gentle 260hp map fsh split rims a great car just to many want for nothing kickers so may take it off till spring we are not in huge hurry to sell want to go enthusiast would ideally for it hope you have a great productive weekend 👍👍👍
100% agree about marketplace 95% of people ask pointless questions without any attempt of showing manners What’s your best price? is a favourite which doesn’t even warrant a reply.
Thing is with market place most people expect a perfect car for pennies they are not in touch with reality and think a few quid goes a long way which is clearly not the case in 2024 I wish you luck captain mustard
I can understand your frustration with these idiots, I stopped selling cars on there for the same reason, It mattered not to these people that it had a 12-month MOT, they still wanted them at scrap value prices. 😠 Try selling guitars on there, Holy sheet they're worse than tyre kickers. I've washed my hands of the whole selling/buying shebang & my peace of mind & patience is now in a better place.
I get the same grief on matketplace it attracts the worst of society lol. Cars listed for 1200 being offered scrap value for them. Strangely when i used gumtree there were fewer idiots than on marketplace.
It's total bollocks and beyond a pain in the arse. Same with gumtree, screw selling cheap cars on either platform. People are just kuntz in general now marra. Who would have thought we'd look back on the autotrader cheap section or the yellow ad paper with such happy memories, everything is going backwards.
It’s a pain in the arse. Now I always include in the description ‘please only message to arrange a viewing’. You can waste hours with people who just want a chat! I’ve never sold a car to a person who’s asked 100 questions.
Gone are the days of getting up at 5.30am and waiting at birch services to be early buying loot, Facebook is dreadful for aggressive buyers and scammers, they message you with the name Keith or Brian only to find out they are not "local lads" so they begin by lying which is never good
I've just come back to your channel as your ongoing space problem has raised it's head again. For some strange reason I unsubscribed some months ago, I really can't remember why, possibly I hit the wrong button when I was trying to clean up my many subscriptions. I do feel your pain though, I hate selling cars, love buying them and I still have 5, but selling them a nightmare. I remember once selling a great running, although not pretty Fiat Seicento for £75 on ebay. The guy turns up and seems happy with the car and off he goes. Then I remember that my parking permit for Woking (£100 for the year) is still on the screen. So I email/text him to ask if he could send it back and he answers yes of course. He never bothered and Woking council refused to accept my story when I wanted to transfer it to another new Seicento. Cost me another £75, I basically gave the car away. Woking said, "This permit might be used on another car!" I said to them that the car had gone to Essex so that was unlikely. This is were the average man is shafted all the time, if they'd checked with DVLA it would have shown this!!
Be careful on FB marketplace mate as i tried selling my 2013 Fiat 500 on it , someone offered me the £2500 i wanted but when they turned up , they turned out to be a dealer and were trying to haggle me down to £1600 ! so i politely told them to Foxtrot Oscar lol , In the end i decided to just keep it and spent the £180 to fix what needed doing as i already spent over £1000 fitting a new Gearbox and Clutch to the car and its a Lounge version the best version they did back in the day , anyway put the cars in an Auction i think thats the safest way to sell a car nowadays as then they cant haggle you down.
Much the same with Scumtree...is it still available? Yes...then no reply. What's your lowest price? Or offering less than half your asking price. A shower of chancers
I have used Facebook Marketplace quite often, especially for sort after bits for my MGF, I always ask, is it still for sale, because adverts don't get taken down, and sellers can always say yes, or no, how else is a buyer going to find out, if any item is actually still for sale, ? not all 50 are going to be timewasters, unless, its the seller being difficult, i remember a seller, offering something for sale, i asked the questions, they replied, agreed a price, then it went quite, i messaged a few days later, sorry its been sold, yes i agreed, to me, only to be told no we sold it before you enquired,
I'm not a fan of market place it's full of shiters. Recently against my better judges I bought a cheap Focus of that site. I was a bit desperate as I didnt have a vehicle and not much money the photos made it look like a bargin the guy offered to deliver it as only 10 miles away. When it arrived I realised I had made a mistake. I should have kept my powder dry. Unfortunately you are to far from me otherwise the MGZR would have been for me. I hope you carry on with cars but on a smaller scale. I always thought you were better of selling parts but hey what do I know.
hi bernard hear from cheshire its the same on every place you try to sell face book ebay autotrader you will of had this as well some one comes to look at what your selling they have good look round they say something like its not rearly what am looking for,,, mad i have had same as you for years not something new , good luck hope you find the one preson that will buy from you
Can I av it for nowt and will ya deliver it? I've had all that but recently sold my tourer in hours and picked up a set of four whitewalls on rims for next to nowt. Marketplace is Freeman's too.
Ah the murky waters of selling cars. Way back when it was Arthur Daley but have things changed that much? There is a lot of annoying spiel. Is this because people want to sound like they've been there and done that to make them sound more knowledge than you? So they use the tried and tested previously mentioned tyre kickers and test pilots. There are many more. People who say 'I know what it's worth' Just because everyone seems to be asking extortionate prices for often older cars due to a slightly low mileage- not infact always a good thing. Do they work for Zoopla? My favourite is 'never been smoked in'. The seller presumably knew the 7 previous owners personally! Something else I'm nnot sure about is when the seller says 'owned for 5 years' then when you check the MOT history it says last change of keeper 4 months ago.....
lol, you have no clue... i'd say 85% of items listed on fb mrkt pl have sold long ago, the issue is idiots on both sides, sellers dont remove ad's & buyers...who..well have 0 interest in buying. you see you are the older generation...like me, we buy things...anyone under 40 has the concept of buying in stages, they dont actually buy a car, they buy a finance package with a car attached, they dont buy music as we used to, they buy a subscription to a cloud server, actually having money to buy something outright is old, the idea of buying is old....of course not all youngsters are like this, but most are, girls are even worse as they expect someone else to pay for their subscription, to pay for their car loan....so as a result you get fb & all it brings😄
I'm afraid that's the way it's gone now can't trust anybody 😕 loads off scammers and messers. All you get is it still available.. what's your best price mate 🤔 I tried that in the pub the other day can you do the pint for a fiver cash 💸 😢 barman told me to jog on 😅
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It is typical of the state of everything in this country nowadays. The manners, politeness and decency of our past is sadly gone.
I miss the days of a physical copy of Autotrader and the bargain section, cars under £250 etc.
Or a deal in the pub
That takes me back, the cheapo section in autotrader. you could always find something interesting in there. Got my first car from it, 82 vw polo, £125 as it was a non starter, wire had come loose on the starter motor, put it back and it went all over europe without ever having a problem.
I agree as my first car was a 1993 Rover Metro I paid £350 for it in 2007 and there was nothing wrong with it , drove it to work and back saved up for a Bmw then crashed that and bought a cheap Citroen ZX turbo diesel for £500 , sadly nowadays you cant even buy an old banger cheap anymore.
@@paulie-Gualtieri. lol, you could buy a car run it for a year and scrap it for less than a bus pass. But loads of these cheap cars had plentyful supplies of parts cheap & easy to get hold of.
Oh yeah I remember that only around 20% of its total cars for sales was in this part..
There’s loads of people who don’t take things down when it’s sold of FB market place
So true. If all the information is on the advert then the only question should be is "Hi, when can i view the car please"
I looked at a car on FB MP for my granddaughter last year, it was a less than 3 years old, low mileage, Honda Jazz, priced at an impossibly low £900. Further questioning revealed the seller claimed to be in the armed forces medical services, and was about to be posted out of the country, therefore to buy this very cheap car sight unseen, we would have to pay for the car promptly, then collect it 3 days later from a military base in Northamptonshire. This improbable story led me to further investigate the seller, supposedly based in Manchester, but who in fact actually lived in Sierra Leone... Needless to say that was one transaction that wasn't going to go any further. Take care all you buyers on Marketplace! However we did buy a nice 06 reg Fiat Grande Punto from proper genuine people who lived near Rochdale Hospital a few days later.
The problem with cars at bargain basement prices is it attracts bargain basement people.
Aww cmon now, you would've loved that GS550 😂 lol that was our Ryan I think messaging about the MG too. Forgot to kick any tyres on the 306, guess the rust-poking will have to suffice! Cheers for hanging around while we found the cash, hopefully have news on transporter next couple of days. Oh, and we're ALWAYS nice to cats, them & dogs are better people than most humans.
Thank you 😆😆
yep. youve touched the sludge and disurbed the bottom feeders lol..
Well you know what they say - think of how thick and obnoxious the average person on Facebook Marketplace is, then cry when you realise that nearly 50% of the public are below that level...
When people ask whats best price I just say its in the ad. If someone makes low offer I reply "you only want part of it, what part?"
Fair comment, Paul .👍.
When I see an ad for the car I visit , evaluate the car before even discussing money, if the car is a wreck I walk away with the kind reply , sorry this car isn't for me mate .
Simples.
Surely your best price is £1000 more than its advertised for 😂
Was going to say that too 😂
If anyone opens with "best price" my reply is usually "thanks, I think it is too".
FB market place is a nightmare, full of scammers
The ‘Is it still available?’ button is useful to someone like me, because I overthink how to open up the conversation. My initial question is likely to be ‘Is this still available?’ rather than something like ‘Hello, I want to buy your car, please tell me about it?’ I appreciate your frustration getting 50 messages all saying the same thing but may I offer the hypothesis that it’s not the opening gambit that is the issue, more the nonsense that follows? I remember once selling a car, a Montego as it happens for £850, and three lads came to crawl all over it. Two of them got bored and one of the bored ones said ‘Just offer him £300 and let’s get out of here’. I told them they may as well all leave because it was £850 so they did. The next guy that came was one of those that pointed out all its faults. He mentioned the rust, I said yes, that’s why it was £850. He mentioned the red stripes in the bumper were faded. I said yes, that’s why it’s £850. He said there was a scratch on the bumper. I said yes, that’s why it’s £850. A six or seven year old car for £850, can you imagine a 2018 Mondeo or Insignia for that money? When he went back to telling me about the rust I was fully aware of again I had had enough so I locked the car up and went back in the house leaving this guy standing in the road with his mouth open. In the end I flogged it to a guy I went to school with for £500. One of the phrases I dislike in an advert is ‘No test pilots’. This implies that the seller is going to get arsey if I have a test drive but don’t want to buy immediately. I haven’t sold a car to another civilian in years and I don’t really want to do it again, do you think We Buy Any Car For Buttons have agents working on FBMP, eBay and wherever else people sell cars making the whole experience as miserable and as time wasty as it can possibly be to make their service look more appealing?
Says the guy who cant start a normal conversation and then writes a novel explaining why
The irony is thatyou're just about to have lots of potential customers come to the new containers
It’s a lack of respect which isn’t just marketplace. A few things I believe, manners maketh man, my word is my bond and if something I really would like is priced well, I won’t embarrass myself or the seller by bartering for a few quid.
Tyre kickers my friend. Same even with new cars. These people drove me nuts
Couldn’t agree more with this. That’s why I don’t sell cars on Facebook. Does my head in
interesting how common sense is lost in the world. And people are too stupid to read or can't be bothered and just want answers from yourself... giving details when the evidence is there in front of them, but yet they are too lazy! Well Said Mustard totally agree.
This is the reason I don't sell on Market place 😂😂
They are all as bad as each other. EBay, Autotrader. Tried em. Hate em all. It’s just people are idiots.
I've no problem with still available button. It''s always my first question as so many forget to remove their ad after selling. The problem is that 9 out of 10 asking the question lose interest after the "yes", as well as 24 of 25 messaging between 10pm-4am.
The trouble with just turn up, is you're likely to waste other people's time.
Good luck in your sales, just got rid of a caravan with work on it and glad it's gone. I'm not going to bother with much more than i can carry and use because emigration.
I agree, the problem is also that there are a lot of people advertising cars out there saying it's well maintained but they are just plain lying and still asking too much money for it
I've not got the patience for selling on Facebook. It seems to attracts annoying people, who want to tell you how crappy your car is, without seeing it in person! Then those who offer a stupid price like £50!
I thought it was just me! Total pain in the arse
I'm not on Facebook. But I have sold cars on Ebay. "How much for CASH ?" As opposed to what ? Camels ?
I find sellers on market place just as bad to be fair😂
Got lovely problem like yours selling a tt mk1 convertible with a blue canvas for step mum most saying it is lot of money but with a gentle 260hp map fsh split rims a great car just to many want for nothing kickers so may take it off till spring we are not in huge hurry to sell want to go enthusiast would ideally for it hope you have a great productive weekend 👍👍👍
Good video Paul 🚗🚙🚘👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏
100% agree about marketplace 95% of people ask pointless questions without any attempt of showing manners
What’s your best price? is a favourite
which doesn’t even warrant a reply.
Thing is with market place most people expect a perfect car for pennies they are not in touch with reality and think a few quid goes a long way which is clearly not the case in 2024 I wish you luck captain mustard
I can understand your frustration with these idiots, I stopped selling cars on there for the same reason, It mattered not to these people that it had a 12-month MOT, they still wanted them at scrap value prices. 😠
Try selling guitars on there, Holy sheet they're worse than tyre kickers. I've washed my hands of the whole selling/buying shebang & my peace of mind & patience is now in a better place.
I get the same grief on matketplace it attracts the worst of society lol. Cars listed for 1200 being offered scrap value for them. Strangely when i used gumtree there were fewer idiots than on marketplace.
The worst ones for doing this shit... Well everyone knows who they are
This is the problem selling cars people stealing your time just bad as being scammed.
It's total bollocks and beyond a pain in the arse. Same with gumtree, screw selling cheap cars on either platform. People are just kuntz in general now marra.
Who would have thought we'd look back on the autotrader cheap section or the yellow ad paper with such happy memories, everything is going backwards.
I asked a fella once if I could go and view his Ford Escort. 3 Days later he replied...No it sold ages ago...
Definitely the last couple of cars I have sold on Gumtree instead as got messed around stupidly
It’s a pain in the arse. Now I always include in the description ‘please only message to arrange a viewing’. You can waste hours with people who just want a chat!
I’ve never sold a car to a person who’s asked 100 questions.
That's how market place works my rule when selling a car is if 30 people message you 3 to 5 will look at it.
Gone are the days of getting up at 5.30am and waiting at birch services to be early buying loot, Facebook is dreadful for aggressive buyers and scammers, they message you with the name Keith or Brian only to find out they are not "local lads" so they begin by lying which is never good
spot on
I've just come back to your channel as your ongoing space problem has raised it's head again. For some strange reason I unsubscribed some months ago, I really can't remember why, possibly I hit the wrong button when I was trying to clean up my many subscriptions. I do feel your pain though, I hate selling cars, love buying them and I still have 5, but selling them a nightmare. I remember once selling a great running, although not pretty Fiat Seicento for £75 on ebay. The guy turns up and seems happy with the car and off he goes. Then I remember that my parking permit for Woking (£100 for the year) is still on the screen. So I email/text him to ask if he could send it back and he answers yes of course. He never bothered and Woking council refused to accept my story when I wanted to transfer it to another new Seicento. Cost me another £75, I basically gave the car away. Woking said, "This permit might be used on another car!"
I said to them that the car had gone to Essex so that was unlikely. This is were the average man is shafted all the time, if they'd checked with DVLA it would have shown this!!
Be careful on FB marketplace mate as i tried selling my 2013 Fiat 500 on it , someone offered me the £2500 i wanted but when they turned up , they turned out to be a dealer and were trying to haggle me down to £1600 ! so i politely told them to Foxtrot Oscar lol , In the end i decided to just keep it and spent the £180 to fix what needed doing as i already spent over £1000 fitting a new Gearbox and Clutch to the car and its a Lounge version the best version they did back in the day , anyway put the cars in an Auction i think thats the safest way to sell a car nowadays as then they cant haggle you down.
Much the same with Scumtree...is it still available? Yes...then no reply. What's your lowest price? Or offering less than half your asking price. A shower of chancers
best price - boils my piss!
I have used Facebook Marketplace quite often, especially for sort after bits for my MGF, I always ask, is it still for sale, because adverts don't get taken down, and sellers can always say yes, or no, how else is a buyer going to find out, if any item is actually still for sale, ? not all 50 are going to be timewasters, unless, its the seller being difficult, i remember a seller, offering something for sale, i asked the questions, they replied, agreed a price, then it went quite, i messaged a few days later, sorry its been sold, yes i agreed, to me, only to be told no we sold it before you enquired,
Okay but why in the world is the post still up if it's not for sale?
Ebay is just as bad
But what IS your best price?
Has your landlord not needed planning permission to remove all that Earth? Be fun over winter that....
Saw you today at Gordon Riggs didn’t want to mither you on a Sunday but Nigel was looking good 😃
I never mind anyone saying hello. Was it in the aquarium?
@@ProjectNigel yes that was it sounded like your daughter was keeping you busy 😃
Try selling anything 😂
I'm not a fan of market place it's full of shiters. Recently against my better judges I bought a cheap Focus of that site. I was a bit desperate as I didnt have a vehicle and not much money the photos made it look like a bargin the guy offered to deliver it as only 10 miles away. When it arrived I realised I had made a mistake. I should have kept my powder dry. Unfortunately you are to far from me otherwise the MGZR would have been for me.
I hope you carry on with cars but on a smaller scale. I always thought you were better of selling parts but hey what do I know.
Go on mate! Stick your aannddd owt 😂😂
hi bernard hear from cheshire its the same on every place you try to sell face book ebay autotrader you will of had this as well some one comes to look at what your selling they have good look round they say something like its not rearly what am looking for,,, mad i have had same as you for years not something new , good luck hope you find the one preson that will buy from you
Can I av it for nowt and will ya deliver it?
I've had all that but recently sold my tourer in hours and picked up a set of four whitewalls on rims for next to nowt.
Marketplace is Freeman's too.
What's death on that rover pmsl
Great video 👍🏻. I sometimes write in my ads ‘time wasters need not apply’.
ah ye😎😎
£350 bloody hell shame your so so far away . yer im in devon
Will you take £50?
Is it still available?
Mmmhhhhh
Ah the murky waters of selling cars. Way back when it was Arthur Daley but have things changed that much?
There is a lot of annoying spiel. Is this because people want to sound like they've been there and done that to make them sound more knowledge than you? So they use the tried and tested previously mentioned tyre kickers and test pilots. There are many more. People who say 'I know what it's worth' Just because everyone seems to be asking extortionate prices for often older cars due to a slightly low mileage- not infact always a good thing. Do they work for Zoopla?
My favourite is 'never been smoked in'. The seller presumably knew the 7 previous owners personally!
Something else I'm nnot sure about is when the seller says 'owned for 5 years' then when you check the MOT history it says last change of keeper 4 months ago.....
You think cars are bad, try selling laptops
Market place is a 3 question rule.
Is it available?
Where are you located?
When can I come?
Anything more than that is a time waster.
Thirst! 😁
I have a bottle of water for that
lol, you have no clue... i'd say 85% of items listed on fb mrkt pl have sold long ago, the issue is idiots on both sides, sellers dont remove ad's & buyers...who..well have 0 interest in buying. you see you are the older generation...like me, we buy things...anyone under 40 has the concept of buying in stages, they dont actually buy a car, they buy a finance package with a car attached, they dont buy music as we used to, they buy a subscription to a cloud server, actually having money to buy something outright is old, the idea of buying is old....of course not all youngsters are like this, but most are, girls are even worse as they expect someone else to pay for their subscription, to pay for their car loan....so as a result you get fb & all it brings😄
You will own nothing and be happy... nah, we'd rather own our money pits and be even happier 😂
I'm afraid that's the way it's gone now can't trust anybody 😕 loads off scammers and messers. All you get is it still available.. what's your best price mate 🤔 I tried that in the pub the other day can you do the pint for a fiver cash 💸 😢 barman told me to jog on 😅
A fiver for a pint? Under half that in my local.