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The sublemmy for "Old People Facebook" is a curated space showcasing the charming, confusing, and often hilarious social media endeavors of the older generation. From accidental memes and cryptic status updates to endearing attempts at using modern technology, this sublemmy celebrates the unique ways seniors engage with the digital world.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I haven't sold anything online for years, but back when I'd try to sell something on Craigslist this was exactly the kind of thing I would get.

And if it wasn't them, it was the serial hagglers.

I could be selling a brand new porche for $1 and I'd get someone trying to negotiate down to $0.90

One dude agreed to buy something, then told me I had to drive 2 hours to sell it to him because he was 4 hours away. It was a $50 item

Edit: it was weird that about half the time when someone would agree to buy something they'd stop replying or just send back "don't need it" or something.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Imma put this here

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"You are fat and ugly anyway, it's not like I would've even wanted to date you!!!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Right? FWIW I ended up giving it to my parents for free lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, exactly!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

My best story and I think it's long lost to time is I tried to transfer a lease on a car. Had some dude tell me he would pay the lease but I could keep the car under my name and insurance. No amount of back and forth was explaining to him why that was utterly insane for me to do.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 5 points 1 year ago

"purchase this product" heh.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sold a treadmill online - the woman gave me the money, then started ignoring me. It took her 3 weeks to come pick it up.

[–] SpaceNoodle 13 points 1 year ago

Next time, just sell it again.

[–] weeeeum 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My work sells a lot of stuff on FB marketplace and it's so infuriating . 80% of messages are bots and just spam you to get your phone or location. Another 10% are just people frankly as dumb as bricks. You can have in caps "NO TRADES" in the listings title and description and still get offered tons of playstations and xboxs (I dont know why it's these two 80% of the time if they want to trade). Another 5% are super low ballers and a huge pain in the ass.

Another 3% or try to guilt trip you into a lower price. I've had people say they are on vacation and need to pick it up that day and 50% off else they can't get it, which I don't know how that's supposed to convince me because it's not my problem. Sometimes it's moms trying to get something for their kids and say how sad and upset their children will be.

Oh and another category of people you will encounter all the time are people that go "I want half off, cash right now, I'll arrive today" and they NEVER show up. And finally the 1% of replies are normal people that will actually buy something

[–] KapiteinPoffertje 3 points 1 year ago

I would assume a lot of these game consoles are stolen and they are looking for a way to whitewash their income.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What the fuck?

[–] EdibleFriend 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably has a button you can press that automatically sends the words I'm interested like facebook does with that shit.

Boomer hit it accidently then went super saiyin boomer

[–] Omnificer 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exactly it. It's a feature meant for convenience that is way too easy to accidentally trigger.

And since most people don't regularly buy/sell on the marketplace, both have no idea what's going on with the automatic message.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boomer genocide when

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In 1-50 years probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

50 years

But I want to be around to se... wait

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can see op has the same response buttons. If both people just keep pressing the first auto response, the app will probably negotiate a sale all by itself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

AI really is taking jobs, hun?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dave's not here, man.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've always thought that was a comedy sketch, but apparently it was a dramatic story.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What the hell? No, man, I am Dave, man.

[–] NevermindNoMind 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you haven't seen this, your welcome https://youtu.be/OLmun1JEIw0

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thsnks

[–] NevermindNoMind 2 points 1 year ago

That's always been my favorite part lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want moar plz

[–] NevermindNoMind 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also partial to the 15,000 lbs horse https://youtu.be/_DZKwCVKneg

[–] canthidium 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can you get pregante?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I found the playlist. Enjoy/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Is this the crusty crab?