“Maybe he thought he was doing you a favor and took you saying you were thinking of selling too literally? Or he's scamming people. Either way, he's going too far.”

Sometimes, you have to put your foot down because of the principle of the matter and not because of details. This Redditor had been selling numerous household items on Marketplace only to repeatedly be taken advantage of by potential online buyers. The pattern was common. The two would message back and forth, a specific price would be agreed upon, and when they finally met up to exchange the item(s) for the agreed-upon price, suddenly the buyer did not have sufficient funds. The Redditor would…

Dive into the world of the hilarious Facebook marketplace fails! If you're familiar with the platform, you know that most of the listings consist of typical furniture items and clothing, you know, normal things you'd find at a second-hand store. But it's also Facebook. So you have to be prepared for the random one-off listings that you can't tell if the seller is serious or just trying to make a joke. Either way, it keeps you entertained for long enough until you find yourself doom-scrolling...

Setting prices as high as you like and hoping that someone will be naive enough to purchase what you are offering is what's so fantastic about the free-market system. However, you might also set an absurdly low price in order to get rid of the item and absolve yourself of any liability in the unlikely event that something goes wrong after the transaction. The parent who purchased a children's suitcase from an online retailer is described in the story below. ahead of an anticipated family holida…

If you're interested in a cheap couch or a new tee shirt, you can always count on online sellers to have what you need. It's a risk you take each time: is the item going to arrive on time, as advertised, and will it be clean? Two out of three ain't bad when it comes to buying things from people online . A lot of the stuff for sale isn't something any reasonable person would want. People who really need some cash will throw any old item up on these sites and see if they can catch a buyer . You n…

One has to wonder if this entitled choosing beggar felt like this odyssey was worth it in the end. This Redditor was selling tires that were originally sold at $2K for $1K on Marketplace when he started to get a barrage of messages from our story's choosing beggar demanding to have the tires for $250. At first, the original poster (OP) rejected the offer and blocked the guy because it seemed like he wouldn't quit. Well, he didn't. Instead, he messaged OP from a second and third account and refu…

It's always a risk when you're buying something from Marketplace. Like anything you purchase, you have to do your due diligence and assess the product carefully before going for it and making the purchase. Sometimes, we're overwhelmed and we forget to be careful when we buy products that appear to be perfectly fine. This Redditor certainly acknowledges his own part in that when he bought a broken ottoman. That being said, when he tried to return said item, it became clear that the previous owne…

How does one photograph a mirror? It's not hard if you use your imagination, like these folks did. Maybe you're thinking to yourself, “Ha! How hard could it be to photograph a mirror? Just point your phone or camera and snap away.” Mmm sure, in theory that can work. But go ahead and try to photograph the nearest mirror to you, and see how well you do at the task.

This person is completely confused after a second-hand sale gone wrong. I'm on this person's side… but commenters agree with the seller. Buying second-hand items is a great way to save money and recycle. These days, it's a great way to get reliable clothing, since clothes from past decades last longer than the current brands of fast fashion. For people who are just getting started in their first apartments, it's a great way to get some nice furniture at a cheap price. And others use it to spruc…

Playground logic persists in adulthood in many ways. There's always a king of the hill, some kid with glasses getting annihilated on the dodgeball court, and a snarky class clown running around screaming ‘nana-nana-boo-boo’! When you're at odds with another ‘kid’ on the blacktop, the mature thing to do is walk away and let it go. But in a world that's not so different from Lord of the Flies, sometimes the only way to get proper payback is to stoop down to your bully's level

When we were kids, bratty kids on the playground would claim that their dad, uncle, or other random family member worked for Nintendo. They'd always be spouting some bogus insider information or rumors as if they were undeniable facts, all in the name of getting much-needed attention and clout. These were the days when the internet was just getting started, so it was never really possible to prove their audacious claims to be false, but there certainly were some heated 'uh-uh's' and 'yeah-huh's…

You can buy and sell just about anything on the internet, but don't take my word for it. These people showed that you can list anything for sale, from pilfered sneakers to a pita chip that looks like it has a face. If you've ever had a craving for one packet of Chick Fil A sauce and want to pay the low low price of just over $4 million, I have a listing to show you. Some listings are certainly more serious than others---lots of people really think they have valuable junk laying around their hou…

If there's one takeaway from this guy's experience, it's never give something away for free. Sure, you might be doing it out of the kindness of your heart and goodwill for mankind (plus a healthy dose of not being bothered moving it yourself), but all the word “free” does is dredge up the worst sorts of people. If you post something for free on an online marketplace you're just going to be bombarded with entitled people looking to take advantage of your goodwill. Getting that single item that y…

Save the planet by buying all your cursed objects secondhand. Reduce, reuse, recycle, revenant. While I've never experienced a haunting, I want to believe in ghosts. I'm afraid if I don't believe in spirits, they'll try to prove me wrong. I've watched enough horror movies to have some hubris about these things. If my home ever does become haunted, I might not ever know, because my earbuds block out noise pretty well. A ghost would have to start slamming doors or knocking over belongings to get…

Major props to these people who tried to make creative DIY projects and got some interesting results, to say the least.

You can't just ask for free things and then throw a fit when you don't get what you wanted! But no one told that to this weeks' “choosing beggars,”