My favorite selling personal stuff story. It wasnt on gumtree, although parts of it involved a Eucalyptus obliqua so I reckon thats close enough.
A tree lopper came around to my joint about 5 years ago to trim some tree’s that were growing too close to the power lines.
He noticed my old work vehicle that had been sitting in the back yard for quite a few years gathering dust. An FJ62 landcruiser.
After some friendly banter regarding what great cars the fj series is, I got the feeling he was going to offer me some cash for it. Great…I was close to sending it to the tip anyway. Im thinking, 500 bucks its his. He poked and prodded it…let out a sigh and said…I will give you a grand. Done, say’s I. Pay me when you pick it up.
No way, say’s he. I will transfer the money right now. Which he did.
That was 5 years ago, and I never saw him again. His phone number is dissconnected and the company he worked for havn’t seen him either for years.
Of course there’s exactly 1 question for the first 9 days, 23 hours, then 6 questions in the last hour
The obligatory “what does “as is” mean?”
The obligatory asking something that’s stated very, very clearly in the description, and the title, and shown in2 separate photos.
And yet they all bid on it anyway
The “why haven’t you posted it?”, before they’ve paid.
Put something on Gumtree recently. As I’m on the outer fringe of the metro area I said I’d be prepared to meet up closer to the buyer if it helped. Bloke from 40km away contacts me and asks if I can travel anywhere nearer to him . I happily confirm I’m actually going to be right in his area in two days. Crickets chirping for a week. Gets back to me. “Sorry mate, missed your message. Can you travel to me again?” Sometimes I think there’s actually people who just go on that site to fark with you…
We had our thermomix up there as we were getting a brand new one for free, due to the burning scandal, and when we bought ours the new model was released like a week later.
so anyway sold for like $500 which was $200 less than most others on marketplace, albeit was missing a the little cup. And the person who was getting a great deal then tried to talk the price down before announcing that it was only for their shack anyway.
Works both ways - i contacted a few sellers about an item and they don’t bother responding. Really a ■■■■ experience -be reluctant to deal with gumtree again.
Love Gumtree. Buy all my camera gear through it. Bargains to be had. Lots of people shifting near-new impulse buys that didn’t make them a better photographer.
Not gumtree but we were giving away a double bed mattress away through a Facebook group. First I get questions like “what are the measurements?” ahh it’s a double bed mattress. Then they rock up with a smallish hatchback to pick it up - the mattress was wider than the car. Seriously.