Trying to sell a cheap piece of crap on Facebook Marketplace.

Kerry Brown

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At the start of COVID I bought a Mann acoustic. It is a crappy made in Korea model. It had a broken tuner which I replaced. I was going to use it for outdoor jams during COVID. I never really did that so a couple of days ago I put it on Facebook Marketplace for $50. I honestly described it as a cheap beach/campfire guitar, made in Korea, all laminate. I've been inundated with buyers looking for a unicorn. They think it may be a MIJ gem. They want pictures of the label. The want to know the guitars history, year of manufacturer, etc. I patiently tell them to read the text of the ad. Some of them get quite rude. It is hilarious. One guy wanted to drive two hours to look at it. I told him I wouldn't drive a half hour for it. I wouldn't give him my address.
 
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Yargnad said:
I'll need to see more pics, but if I leave right now I can be there by Wednesday. Can you hold it for me?! :acoustic:
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It sold yesterday, sorry.

A nice fellow bought it for his girlfriend. He couldn’t have cared less where it was made or who made it. It was $50, played OK, and his girlfriend wanted a guitar. It was a pleasure doing business with him.
 
Reminds me of when I sold my Blues Junior. I got two messages around the same time, the other one was a 20-point questionnaire on the amp, the mods done to it, it's history, and some of them weren't really even questions.

One of the questions was whether it still sounds like a traditional Fender - something the BJr doesn't really even do to begin with...

The other guy asked "Can you bring it here, I don't have a car?"

Guess which one of them got the amp?
 
guitarweasel said:
Some people just have no sense. .
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GW I fixed it for you.



Kerry Brown said:
It sold yesterday, sorry.

A nice fellow bought it for his girlfriend. He couldn’t have cared less where it was made or who made it. It was $50, played OK, and his girlfriend wanted a guitar. It was a pleasure doing business with him.
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I did the same thing in reverse for a Banjo I bought. It was $50, I drove to Virginia to pick it up and it was an easy affair both ends.

I also was on the bad side of a more expensive Banjo I tried to get. It was up in Ohio and unless it was a scammer using an older lady's profile, I was almost going to drive the 10 hour round trip to pick it up because I did not want to trust shipping in the dead of winter plus during the month long trips USPS was taking to deliver something as close as 100-300 miles away. ( I shipped and or had items already shipped to Ohio that for some reason went to Florida first and of course spoiled because it took weeks to make a trip that should have taken 1 day before being out for delivery the next.

In the end the seller got snitty when I asked if she could keep it a little longer till the weather warmed up. In the end, a $50 one took it's place.
 
Kerry Brown said:
At the start of COVID I bought a Mann acoustic. It is a crappy made in Korea model. It had a broken tuner which I replaced. I was going to use it for outdoor jams during COVID. I never really did that so a couple of days ago I put it on Facebook Marketplace for $50. I honestly described it as a cheap beach/campfire guitar, made in Korea, all laminate. I've been inundated with buyers looking for a unicorn. They think it may be a MIJ gem. They want pictures of the label. The want to know the guitars history, year of manufacturer, etc. I patiently tell them to read the text of the ad. Some of them get quite rude. It is hilarious. One guy wanted to drive two hours to look at it. I told him I wouldn't drive a half hour for it. I wouldn't give him my address.
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YEP--- some of the craigslist ones are even worse! --

I average 15- 20 "do you still have it" emails-- I say "yes" and .......nothing from them ever again.

then you get the stories "my daughter plays and lost her gutiar in a house fire but I only have 50.00 will you take 10.00 for that 500.00 PRS??? " and so on .....
 
eSGEe said:
YEP--- some of the craigslist ones are even worse! --

I average 15- 20 "do you still have it" emails-- I say "yes" and .......nothing from them ever again.

then you get the stories "my daughter plays and lost her gutiar in a house fire but I only have 50.00 will you take 10.00 for that 500.00 PRS??? " and so on .....
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YUP. Adrian I also get the ones selling a good thing like a 30x40 Quonset for $1700 no demo needed.

I tell em "I want it" " I definitely want it," "I just need specs so I can tell what size trailer to bring", Oh and Do you have plans, specs etc? As I will possibly need that info to submit to county for a permit?" Then I get the cold shoulder and finally see they sold to someone else type conversations of Marketplace or Craigs.

Sucks to get hopes up and then lose a good building from a crappy seller.
 
I have an amp for sale. No shipping, local pickup only. People asked me to ship, so I stated that there was no shipping clearly in the text. Even still, I get at least 5 messages a week begging me to ship and proposing intricate plans to get me to do it.

I giess "No means no" is a tough message to get across in many contexts!
 
RVA said:
I have an amp for sale. No shipping, local pickup only. People asked me to ship, so I stated that there was no shipping clearly in the text. Even still, I get at least 5 messages a week begging me to ship and proposing intricate plans to get me to do it.

I giess "No means no" is a tough message to get across in many contexts!
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Well, Ray, I am guilty of the Can you ship anyway effort.

How freaking hard is it for someone to take an expensive widget whatever it is, to a shipping place and not even have to provide boxes, tape, bubble wrap or anything except the ride there? Not even your own ink to sign on the address label and check/credit card to pay for the shipping service?

I found some killer drums out in LA area that was not at the greatest price, but the Brand, the model, the finish and the sizes were all the right stuff to compliment the existing setup I already had. BUT NOOOOO the seller would not ship. I even thought of asking MItch, Robert, Chris, Sysco, DonO, Wav, gball to be my liason and retrieve em if the guy would work with me price wise since he had such an adamant stance on shipping. Only with one of our bro's picking it up would he sell to me. Let's just say, it didn't happen.

Hell, I even stressed that all the guy had to do was put the drums in his car or an uber or something and he would have a sale. The Pack n Ship place would do all the work. He just had to accept the payment, BUT NOOOOOOOO
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Well, Ray, I am guilty of the Can you ship anyway effort.

How freaking hard is it for someone to take an expensive widget whatever it is, to a shipping place and not even have to provide boxes, tape, bubble wrap or anything except the ride there? Not even your own ink to sign on the address label and check/credit card to pay for the shipping service?

I found some killer drums out in LA area that was not at the greatest price, but the Brand, the model, the finish and the sizes were all the right stuff to compliment the existing setup I already had. BUT NOOOOO the seller would not ship. I even thought of asking MItch, Robert, Chris, Sysco, DonO, Wav, gball to be my liason and retrieve em if the guy would work with me price wise since he had such an adamant stance on shipping. Only with one of our bro's picking it up would he sell to me. Let's just say, it didn't happen.

Hell, I even stressed that all the guy had to do was put the drums in his car or an uber or something and he would have a sale. The Pack n Ship place would do all the work. He just had to accept the payment, BUT NOOOOOOOO
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Not for tube amps. Too sensitive AND many folk like to tinker with tubes and cab matches without knowing what they are doing. Then they say I sent them an amp with a bad transformer, etc. Then I pay to ship it back and get an amp they damaged. Nope. No way.

I would do it for a trusted member here, and actually did do it once
 
This I understand, Ray. But If I shipped and AMP, that is a whole different story to something like drums.

The pack n ship place would know they were not crap or damaged, and thus it would be a simple UPS Fed Ex trip and if damage happened, the insurance should handle replacement. They could not argue on insufficient packaging either since a professional packer did the job.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
This I understand, Ray. But If I shipped and AMP, that is a whole different story to something like drums.

The pack n ship place would know they were not crap or damaged, and thus it would be a simple UPS Fed Ex trip and if damage happened, the insurance should handle replacement. They could not argue on insufficient packaging either since a professional packer did the job.
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Yes, much different
 
RVA said:
Not for tube amps. Too sensitive AND many folk like to tinker with tubes and cab matches without knowing what they are doing. Then they say I sent them an amp with a bad transformer, etc. Then I pay to ship it back and get an amp they damaged. Nope. No way.

I would do it for a trusted member here, and actually did do it once
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I did a trade once a Fryette tube amp from me for a custom built guitar. I wouldn't do it again. The trade went OK but I spent a lot of time worrying about it.
 
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