Facebook buy and sell groups

[DirtyComanche]

I'm at the point that I think these are worse than Craigslist/Kijiji.

 

90% of the time people don't reply to basic questions, regardless if you post in the ad or PM them or both.

 

Even just telling some guy that I would take what he had and to message me so we could meet up, and *crickets*

 

And I posted a WTB for some specific wheels, and I've got a guy arguing with me that I should buy the set he's selling that aren't the same style or size even...

 

Anyone else having better luck?

[87Chief]

Some people out there are just plain stupid.. A bunch of guys that are idiots. I post a few things on the sites as well and get some of the same stuff. "you need to buy mine, it's better, it's not what you want, but it's better." It's like they don't have a brain...

[Minuit]

I was in a couple Jeep related FB groups but I got out of all of them except for the Jeep Comanche group. I couldn't handle the stupid and people would argue with me constantly when I tried to correct them (2dr XJ rear flares DO NOT FIT on an MJ!    :fs1:  :fs1: )

 

Facebook is the absolute last place I'd look for a straight answer, except there's a few recognizable names from CC like Pete and Adam that go around setting things straight.

[johnny quest]

there are a TON of local groups, and 95% of them are populated by the same people. so you get one guy trying to sell something, and theyll post the same add in every single group within 45 seconds. kind of annoying.

[87Warrior]

You get what you pay for the service.

 

I really don't like how the world is gearing everything for Facebook and the like. My biggest gripe is the lack of organization. But hey, if you want a free marketplace it's an option at the right price.

[DirtyComanche]

The lack of organization and searchability of Facebook is appalling.  With Kijiji here it makes you fill out year/make/model and a few other things, you can just select 'other' for all of them, but it's easier to just select the reasonably correct info.  So normally it's close.  With Facebook I'm searching a stupid amount of terms, and still not confident I covered what I wanted.  And it organizes things in a very odd manner, it's not really chronological, so even if I browse through a whole group worth of listings I can't be sure if I saw all of them.

 

BTW, buddy that was trying to sell me the wheels that I didn't want, well he's still lighting up my ad with a serious case of anal inflammation, but I'm quite satisfied.  Somebody else messaged me and sold me the wheels I want for way less. :rotf:

[daking]

I was selling some items on the book of faces awhile back. I was expecting people to ask questions by replying to the post. But most sent message requests, and apparently I never saw em. I eventually figured it out, months later. When I was browsing the other buttons on the book of faces. So I missed out due to poor design of site.   

 

I was able to sell some items though

[DirtyComanche]

I have had a couple people tell me that they had 'lost their ad' when I finally manage to get a hold of them.

 

Another good one was a young woman (and not bad looking at that) with an ad for an XJ part out.  I need a window regulator, asked 'her' if it was okay or not.  Yup, tried it, it goes up and down.  Perfect, get an address and go over there with my drill and bag of basic tools.  Turns out it's a skiddy looking guy selling the stuff, he uses his GF's Facebook (what the hell is she doing with him anyways :dunno: ) because he's got too bad of a rep and is a 'contractor' (that probably burned tons of people), so he can't post things under his own Facebook.  The window regulator clearly didn't work when I tried it.  I got the hell out of there in a hurry. :doh:

[Knucklehead97]

I can't stand the buy sell pages around here but I kind of deal with the crap from them just because I have found some good deals thanks to them. Like this Comanche I'm picking up Monday. But most of the time they're trash. I was in a page for a while called "jeep cherokees for all" or something like that and it was GREAT at first but then people constantly would post stupid things bashing other car makers or "rear end" jokes with pictures of girls. Then there was one guy named John that would cuss out anyone that disagreed with him. Just couldn't handle the ignorance of it. I actually didn't want to post on anything in that page due to the fellow named John supposedly knowing more and correcting me.

[MancheKid86]

i've had great success in the Okanagan buy n sell's, off-road/tire-rim/jeep/misc.

i know most of the people, or have ran into them on trail. if i don't know them, my friends do

 

you have to pick your battles for sure.

everyone out there is looking at their best interests

there are definitely some stupid people out there, trying to sell tires past legal wear bars for $700 "good for one more season"

or over priced used parts, where you can buy new for $20 more, or even less then what they want. or even people who call Trucks Cars.... just as an example

 

 

there are a few mass posters between the groups, who copy paste. then delete and repost when the get called out on their garbage.

 

i just take the bad with the good, sort it out and deal with it.

but i have alot of patience, other wise i'd go off the deep end for sure

 

 

it seems the dumber people get with more technology out there. they have to think less, which is why we have threads like this.

educated people dealing with people that should know better

[cruiser54]

Gee, someone suggested to me the other day that I should start selling my parts on FB. I'm not a member and you guys have convinced me to skip it!!!!

[DirtyComanche]

It may not help that the buy and sell group I use most is called "Billbilly motor swap".  As the name would imply, having teeth is not a requirement to join.