New to Facebook

[cliffords]

Just joined after saying I never would. I joined as I want to sell some stuff. I have two questions.
Why are there lots of cars advertised with good pictures and basic descriptions for half market price or less. How can this scam work for the advertiser .

Question two is why do I get lots of videos of Asian men and women? I have given nil detail in my profile. I am using a tablet not a mobile phone .I have no friends . Why does I think I want to see these?

I have only searched local buy and sell sites . Much as they are not offensive videos they don't relate to any of my interests.

[the-norseman]

Welcome to the joys on Facebook.

Pretty sure the cars scam, is they ask you to send a deposit to hold the car which you will never get back.

[Pit Pony]

Like the OP I joined Facebook recently, in order to buy a second hand golf club set, for £50.
Then I attempted to sell some wheels for an omega.
I guess they think I'm a scammer as my profile is so empty.

[the-norseman]

Yeh that doesn't help at all.

[Hoofy]

the-norseman said:

Welcome to the joys on Facebook.

Pretty sure the cars scam, is they ask you to send a deposit to hold the car which you will never get back.

Yep, I've seen this scam. Sadly, it must work or they wouldn't bother.

[the-norseman]

Hoofy said:

Yep, I've seen this scam. Sadly, it must work or they wouldn't bother.

Course it does, then the person goes to the paper with their best compo face.

I saw on TV the other night a young girl who had a phone call of her banks fraud department, they asked her to make a payment to another account, that payment was her savings of 24,000. turns out it wasn't her bank and now she wants the bank to refund her... the answer was no.

[Hoofy]

Pit Pony said:

Like the OP I joined Facebook recently, in order to buy a second hand golf club set, for £50.
Then I attempted to sell some wheels for an omega.
I guess they think I'm a scammer as my profile is so empty.

Well... yep. That said, most people won't look at your profile so you should be fine.

Also, I think there's a buyer/seller feedback thing but I'm not sure how it works. I don't even know my own rating and I've used FB Marketplace quite a bit!

[vikingaero]

The half price car scam is: Lots of stupid people think they can have a car for half price. No such car ever exists. Sometimes they steal photos of existing cars for sale from Autotrader etc. Stupid buyer messages the seller saying they are interested. Seller states he has lots of people interested but you can reserve it/leave a deposit for £250/£500/whatever. 20 stupid people send £500 each by bank transfer. The seller goes incommunicado, has set up a fake profile or hijacked/bought someone elses profile. Police not interested. Stupid people too embarrassed to raise it. Lots of stupid people out there wanting a BMW M3 for Focus money.

[cobra kid]

Hoofy said:

Well... yep. That said, most people won't look at your profile so you should be fine.

Also, I think there's a buyer/seller feedback thing but I'm not sure how it works. I don't even know my own rating and I've used FB Marketplace quite a bit!

Most people DO look at your profile to see if it's a new blank one like in this case. I wouldn't touch the OP with a bargepole if he was selling. And yes, people have to start with a blank one but a few friends and posts wouldn't do any harm.

[Hoofy]

the-norseman said:

Hoofy said:

Yep, I've seen this scam. Sadly, it must work or they wouldn't bother.

Course it does, then the person goes to the paper with their best compo face.

I saw on TV the other night a young girl who had a phone call of her banks fraud department, they asked her to make a payment to another account, that payment was her savings of 24,000. turns out it wasn't her bank and now she wants the bank to refund her... the answer was no.

Ouch. I don't know why people aren't more aware of scams. That one's been around a while now.

[Hoofy]

cobra kid said:

Hoofy said:

Well... yep. That said, most people won't look at your profile so you should be fine.

Also, I think there's a buyer/seller feedback thing but I'm not sure how it works. I don't even know my own rating and I've used FB Marketplace quite a bit!

Most people DO look at your profile to see if it's a new blank one like in this case. I wouldn't touch the OP with a bargepole if he was selling. And yes, people have to start with a blank one but a few friends and posts wouldn't do any harm.

I've bought a st ton on FB Marketplace over the years and haven't really looked at profiles. Oops.

You can quickly work out if they're a scammer by the way they say stuff.

[cliffords]

Well I joined on Sunday and deleted my account today. A few days of insight into this world and it's not for me. I had no idea what I was missing, wish I had kept it that way.

[LuS1fer]

I reported a seller after they put on about 10 desirable cars for a third of their value. Probably a hijacked account. They haven't got back to me but I think the ads disappeared.

[cobra kid]

cliffords said:

Well I joined on Sunday and deleted my account today. A few days of insight into this world and it's not for me. I had no idea what I was missing, wish I had kept it that way.

Lots of flashing lights and modern things?

[cliffords]

No mainly inane thick comments from people who clearly have lower intelligence than my dog. Bizarre videos of quite unpleasant stuff, all West Indian and African people. I have no objection to them it was the content that was disturbing. Adverts that are clearly criminals trying to extort money, and the final straw were the responses I got from my adverts. All furniture from my mums house much of it very high quality and old. Advert clearly written and absolutely not read or understood by any one single moron that replied to me. I would rather give it away than deal with stupid people.

Edited by cliffords on Thursday 17th August 13:14

[audi321]

Another one who just joined for the marketplace stuff. Quickly worked out its rubbish with people listing stuff as 'free' which clearly aren't.

Won't be using again.

[the-norseman]

I look at profiles if I am buying. A guy was selling some motorbike parts the other day, profile had been set up during the last 3 days, turns out the bloke that lives in Birmingham is using American pictures as his profile and had stolen some pictures from other people for the items he was selling.

[GliderRider]

Hoofy said:

cobra kid said:

Hoofy said:

Well... yep. That said, most people won't look at your profile so you should be fine.

Also, I think there's a buyer/seller feedback thing but I'm not sure how it works. I don't even know my own rating and I've used FB Marketplace quite a bit!

Most people DO look at your profile to see if it's a new blank one like in this case. I wouldn't touch the OP with a bargepole if he was selling. And yes, people have to start with a blank one but a few friends and posts wouldn't do any harm.

I've bought a st ton on FB Marketplace over the years and haven't really looked at profiles. Oops.

You can quickly work out if they're a scammer by the way they say stuff.

I always look at the profile of anyone who wants to buy from me. It tells you a heck of a lot about them before you meet.

[Condi]

FB market place is really scammy, one of the worst places IMO. There is good stuff on there, but you have to trawl through a lot of nonsense to find it, and from a sellers POV you get a lot of messages which are nonsense, either "best price m8?" or "I want to buy but am abroad, please send me your address and I will send a courier with the cash" crap.

Better off using eBay or Gumtree.

[V8covin]

Facebook marketplace is the pits for buying and selling,Gumtree is much better,fewer time wasters and prices just as good