Wine -o'-clock Gumtree punters

mbe

Late one night.....

"Hi, is the guitar still for sale? I'm very interested in it."

"Hi, yes the guitar is still for sale."

**End of conversation**

  

Kittyfrisk

People are weird...

guitargeek62

I may or may not have done this in the past...   



I've also woken up to find I've bought a bass on eBay once that I didn't even like the look of.... I also didn't (at the time) play bass.

octatonic

I have a copy/paste response that says
'Yes it is still available, but it is late and I'm heading to bed soon. Contact me again tomorrow and we can discuss it.'.

I almost never hear back from them.

munckee

I've had that a few times.

My best ever gumtree sale was my acoustic I put on and someone emailed me within 20 minutes asking if they could pick it straight up, thinking they obviously knew a cracking deal when they saw it I met them an hour later - the guy didn't play guitar bought it as a gift, it was the first one that came up on gumtree and was on his way home from work.

lovestrat74

It wouldn't be gumtree if you didn't have at least one of these per item

BeardyAndy

Doesn't take much to say "Thanks for that, I'm looking at a few but may get back to you" does it?  

I guess the flip side is to gas over something for a few days only for them to tell you it's sold and they forgot to end the listing!

CloudNine

mbe said:

Late one night.....

"Hi, is the guitar still for sale? I'm very interested in it."

"Hi, yes the guitar is still for sale."

**End of conversation**

  

Sorry fella, I fell asleep after sending the message. Like you say, few glasses of wine and all that....

Anyway, wondering if you would be interested in trading it for a set of garden furniture, barely used?

Funkfingers

BeardyAndy said:

Doesn't take much to say, "Thanks for that. I'm looking at a few but may get back to you", does it?  

In this day and age, the attitude of many punters is that Gumtree is a service. Thus, by extension, you are a service provider. These oafs think that they own you. 

Perhaps, there should be a small charge for making enquiries, fully refundable upon purchase? 

BRISTOL86

Last year I listed something up on Gumtree. One day I had a text message from an unknown number and the entire content of the message was:

”30”

It transpired after some investigative work that he was offering me £30 for the item I had for sale. No money changed hands, but he received a completely free lesson on the art of the English language. 

professorben

BRISTOL86 said:

Last year I listed something up on Gumtree. One day I had a text message from an unknown number and the entire content of the message was:

”30”

It transpired after some investigative work that he was offering me £30 for the item I had for sale. No money changed hands, but he received a completely free lesson on the art of the English language. 

35

Funkfingers

BRISTOL86 said:

he received a completely free lesson on the art of the English language. 

LOL + Wiz = Wow! 

professorben said:

35

Forty two.

chrisj1602

BRISTOL86 said:

Last year I listed something up on Gumtree. One day I had a text message from an unknown number and the entire content of the message was:

”30”

It transpired after some investigative work that he was offering me £30 for the item I had for sale. No money changed hands, but he received a completely free lesson on the art of the English language. 

I’ve had similar, for a custom shop Gibson Les Paul...

”1300”

p_jay78

The other day I had the generic Gumtree spam when selling a Stratocaster

'Is your item still for sale, please tell me your best price and I will arrange a courier'. The English was more broken but I digress...

Naturally I replied

'Yes the giraffe is still for sale, still has a limp though'.

They replied asking for my Paypal address. Classic Gumtree.  

midiman1962

I think you get used to Gumtree (and facebook marketplace for that matter) after a while. If the question is 30 i would just reply "nope" and leave it there. Sometimes i respond to "is it still for sale" with "yes it is , i'm in Derby , where are you coming from" as a way of determining level of interest.
FB has a very useful feature of just swiping left to delete a Marketplace conversation which i only noticed recently.

Modellista

Weird, isn't it.  More weird are sellers that don't really want to sell.  

Me: "Hi, would you trade for a Mex Fender Telecaster?"
Him: "Great Telecaster but I already have one, thanks for the offer."
Me: "No probs, what sort of trade are you looking for? I've got Fender, Squier, Vintage, Ibanez, Washburn for trade"

[no reply]

Me: "Let me know what sort of thing you'd be interested in as a trade and perhaps cash your way"

[no reply]

Ad was still up for weeks after.  I was really interested in the guitar too!

KrisGee

He's not replied to you cuz he's also already had Fender, Squier, Vintage, Ibanez and Washburn. 

brooom

mbe said:

Late one night.....

"Hi, is the guitar still for sale? I'm very interested in it."

"Hi, yes the guitar is still for sale."

**End of conversation**

  

I'd say you're doing quite alright if that's where the conversation ended. Usually it's followed by... I really want to buy it for my son who lives in the UK, but I like in country X. Can you send me a message with the bank details, description, you contact, etc... in this exact form.

So you can guess where it goes from there.

brojangles

There's an automatic button on Gumtree for sending a generic "Hi, is your item still available? I am interested" message, and it's quite easy to mash it with your finger by mistake if you're looking at Gumtree on your phone when a bit pissed, and then think fuck it, it must be fate, and hit send, and regret it in the morning - or so I'm told by, er, a friend.

CasperCaster

I once had a late night Gumtree conversation with someone about an air guitar. I tried to convince them to buy my air plectrums, air amp and air lead to go with it... 

brooom

And you received some air for it.